World Fantasy Awards

Critical Mass News

The World Fantasy Awards 2020 were announced in a virtual ceremony by World Fantasy Con 2020 on November 1. The winners are —

NOVEL

  • Queen of the Conquered, by Kacen Callender (Orbit)

NOVELLA

  • Silver in the Wood, by Emily Tesh (Tor.com)

SHORT FICTION

  • “Read After Burning,” by Maria Dahvana Headley, (A People’s Future of the United States)

ANTHOLOGY

  • New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color, edited by Nisi Shawl (Solaris)

COLLECTION

  • Song For the Unraveling of the World: Stories, by Brian Evenson (Coffee House Press)

ARTIST

  • Kathleen Jennings

SPECIAL AWARD – PROFESSIONAL

  • Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, for The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games (New York University Press)

SPECIAL AWARD – NON-PROFESSIONAL

  • Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay, Laura E. Goodin and Esko Suoranta, for Fafnir – Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT

  • Rowena Morrill
  • Karen Joy Fowler

Info from Mike Glyer, File770