World Fantasy Award Winners

It still does not seem real to me that this website, that I set up because I didn’t have any friends to talk to about the fantasy book I’d just finished, was in 2014 nominated for a World Fantasy Award…

A World Friggen Fantasy Award, people! 

To me, winning isn’t important. It never will be. Judges decide the winners of these things… people who sit on panels. Most often people I’ve never met. They have to be objective, look at the strengths and weaknesses of each candidate, how that nominee contributes to fantasy as a literary genre, etc, etc, etc. The nomination though, that means more than I can ever express in words.

I guess I should probably try though.

To be nominated for an award means that someone has enjoyed Fantasy-Faction so much that they’ve taken time out of their day to express and share their fondness of us. When I founded this website it was because I felt very alone in my love of Fantasy. I used to get up at 4am each morning to read Fantasy novels before work. Once I’d finished them I’d put them away and begin the next one. Sometimes this truly upset me. I wanted, perhaps even needed, someone to talk to about the worlds I’d visited, the incredible journeys I’d been on and the friends I wouldn’t be seeing again for a long, long time (perhaps ever again).

Fantasy-Faction has allowed me to promote the good books and good authors that have enriched my life. It has allowed me to have the kinds of conversations I needed to have: What kinds of powers will Arlen develop? Why didn’t Gandulf do more for Bilbo/Frodo? What did Kylar do after The Night Angel Trilogy’s finale? When will Winds of Winter be released? Will Fitz be OK? And most importantly, it has allowed me to make far more friends than I could ever hope to make in real life.

So, for each and every award we’ve been publicly nominated for: The Reddit Award (twice), The British Fantasy Award (twice), The Goodreads Blogger award and now The World Fantasy Award I want to say thank you so, so much to those who put us forward. Knowing that we have touched your life to the extent that you have put us forward for such highly recognised awards makes us all incredibly proud and we will continue to promote good books, good authors and give readers a place to make friends and have their conversations.

Here is the list of winners:

Life Achievement Winners

Ellen Datlow
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Novel

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

Novella

• Andy Duncan & Ellen Klages “Wakulla Springs” (Tor.com, 10/13)
• Caitlín R. Kiernan Black Helicopters (Subterranean Press)
• KJ Parker “The Sun and I” (Subterranean magazine, Summer 2013)
• Veronica Schanoes “Burning Girls” (Tor.com, 6/13)
• Catherynne M. Valente, Six-Gun Snow White (Subterranean Press)

Short Story

• Thomas Olde Heuvelt, “The Ink Readers of Doi Saket” (Tor.com, 4/13)
• Caitlín R. Kiernan, “The Prayer of Ninety Cats” (Subterranean magazine, Spring 2013)
• Yoon Ha Lee, “Effigy Nights” (Clarkesworld, 1/13)
• Sofia Samatar, “Selkie Stories Are for Losers” (Strange Horizons, 1/13)
• Rachel Swirsky, “If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love” (Apex Magazine, 3/13)

Anthology

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

Collection

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

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 – tied
• William K. Schafer, for Subterranean Press – tied
• Jeff VanderMeer & Jeremy Zerfoss, for Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction (Abrams Image)
• Jerad Walters, for Centipede Press

Special Award—Non-professional

• Scott H. Andrews, for Beneath Ceaseless Skies
• Marc Aplin, for Fantasy-Faction
• Kate Baker, Neil Clarke & Sean Wallace, for Clarkesworld
• Leslie Howle, for Clarion West administration
• Mieneke van der Salm, for A Fantastical Librarian

Congrats to all the winners! 🙂

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