World Fantasy Award Nominations

Today, I and Fantasy-Faction got nominated for a World Fantasy Award. This is a huge deal for me personally and for the community that we have built here, at Fantasy-Faction.

To see our name alongside George R.R. Martin, Gardner Dozois, Jonathan Oliver, K.J. Parker, Neil Gaiman, Helen Wecker, Gene Wolfe and so many more stars and legends is just incredible.

Although it is the name of the Editors on the award nomination, I hope you guys know that this is for each and every one of you too. This site is a community that has grown because of the amount of people who talk about us, retweet us, encourage us, comment on our articles, get involved in our forums, high-five us at conventions, post suggestions for books we need to read and even just visit us on a regular basis.

I don’t want to drone on for too long, but I will say one last thank you to each and every one of you, whether you voted or simply keep visiting the site; you continue to make doing what we do – writing and talking about the genre we love – so incredibly rewarding.

The World Fantasy Awards finalists are:

Novel:

• Dust Devil on a Quiet Street, Richard Bowes (Lethe)
• A Natural History of Dragons: A Memoir by Lady Trent, Marie Brennan (Tor)
• The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Neil Gaiman (Morrow; Headline Review)
• A Stranger in Olondria, Sofia Samatar (Small Beer)
• The Golem and the Jinni, Helene Wecker (Harper)
• The Land Across, Gene Wolfe (Tor)

Long Fiction:

• “Wakulla Springs”, Andy Duncan & Ellen Klages (Tor.com 10/2/13)
• Black Helicopters, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Subterranean)
• “The Sun and I”, K.J. Parker (Subterranean Summer ’13)
• “Burning Girls”, Veronica Schanoes (Tor.com 6/19/13)
• Six-Gun Snow White, Catherynne M. Valente (Subterranean)

Short Fiction:

• “The Ink Readers of Doi Saket”, Thomas Olde Heuvelt (Tor.com 4/24/13)
• “The Prayer of Ninety Cats”, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Subterranean Spring ’13)
• “Effigy Nights”, Yoon Ha Lee (Clarkesworld 1/13)
• “Selkie Stories Are for Losers”, Sofia Samatar (Strange Horizons 1/7/13)
• “If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love”, Rachel Swirsky (Apex 3/13)

Anthology:

• xo Orpheus: Fifty New Myths, Kate Bernheimer, ed. (Penguin)
• Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, eds. (Tor)
• Flotsam Fantastique: The Souvenir Book of World Fantasy Convention 2013, Stephen Jones, ed. (Smith & Jones/PS Publishing)
• Dangerous Women, George R.R. Martin & Gardner Dozois, eds. (Tor; Voyager)
• The End of the Road, Jonathan Oliver, ed. (Solaris US; Solaris UK)
• Fearsome Journeys: The New Solaris Book of Fantasy, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris US; Solaris UK)

Collection:

• North American Lake Monsters, Nathan Ballingrud (Small Beer)
• The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All and Other Stories, Laird Barron (Night Shade)
• The Ape’s Wife and Other Stories, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Subterranean)
• Flowers of the Sea, Reggie Oliver (Tartarus Press)
• How the World Became Quiet, Rachel Swirsky (Subterranean)

Artist:

• Galen Dara
• Zelda Devon
• Julie Dillon
• John Picacio
• Charles Vess

Special Award – Professional:

• John Joseph Adams, for magazine and anthology editing
• Ginjer Buchanan, for editing at Ace Books
• Irene Gallo, for art direction of Tor.com
• William K. Schafer, for Subterranean Press
• Jeff VanderMeer & Jeremy Zerfoss, for Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction (Abrams Image)

Special Award – Nonprofessional:

• Scott H. Andrews, for Beneath Ceaseless Skies
• Marc Aplin, Jennie Ivins & Paul Wiseall, for Fantasy-Faction
• Kate Baker, Neil Clarke & Sean Wallace, for Clarkesworld
• Leslie Howle, for Clarion West administration
• Jerad Walters, for Centipede Press

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For those unfamiliar with the award and how it works, former winner, Tartarus Press, writes:

“Literary Awards are curious things, but the ones we’ve always had the most respect for are the World Fantasy Awards, which are administered in conjunction with the World Fantasy Convention. Each year a different panel of five international judges (all professionals in the field of fantasy literature) consider work submitted in all the various fantasy genres.”

The above nominations are for works and projects published in 2013. The awards will be presented during the World Fantasy Convention, November 6-9, 2014 in Washington DC. The Lifetime Achievement Awards, presented annually to individuals who have demonstrated outstanding service to the fantasy field, will go to Ellen Datlow and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, and were announced earlier this month.

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