Award season may be over for most, but it’s just beginning for the British Fantasy Society. The annual British Fantasy Awards, which first started back in 1972, exists to promote and honour excellence within the fantasy (including science fiction, heroic, horror, supernatural and related fields) genre.
Following two rounds of nomination and voting from the members of the British Fantasy Society and FantasyCon 2017, the British Fantasy Awards has reached its jury stage. The winners will be announced on 21 October at Fantasycon.
You can read the full list of 2018 shortlisted entrants here:
Best Anthology
2084, ed. George Sandison (Unsung Stories)
Dark Satanic Mills: Great British Horror Book 2, ed. Steve Shaw (Black Shuck Books)
Imposter Syndrome, ed. James Everington & Dan Howarth (Dark Minds Press)
New Fears, ed. Mark Morris (Titan Books)
Pacific Monsters, ed. Margret Helgadottir (Fox Spirit)
Best Artist
Ben Baldwin
Jeffrey Alan Love
Victo Ngai
Daniele Sera
Sophie E Tallis
Sana Takeda
Best Audio
Anansi Boys (by Neil Gaiman, adapted by Dirk Maggs for Radio 4)
Brave New Words podcast (Ed Fortune and Starburst Magazine)
Breaking The Glass Slipper podcast (Lucy Hounsom, Charlotte Bond & Megan Leigh)
Ivory Towers (by Richard H Brooks, directed by Karim Kronfli for 11th Hour Audio Productions)
PseudoPod podcast (Alasdair Stuart and Escape Artists)
Tea & Jeopardy podcast (Emma & Peter Newman)
Best Collection
Norse Mythology, by Neil Gaiman (Bloomsbury)
Strange Weather, by Joe Hill (Gollancz)
Tanith By Choice, by Tanith Lee (Newcon Press)
Tender: Stories, by Sofia Samatar (Small Beer Press)
You Will Grow Into Them, by Malcolm Devlin (Unsung Stories)
Best Comic / Graphic Novel
Bitch Planet Vol 2: President Bitch, by Kelly Sue DeConnick, Taki Soma & Valentine de Landro (Image)
Grim & Bold, by Joshua Cornah (Kristell Ink)
Monstress, Vol. 2, by Marjorie Liu & Sana Takeda (Image)
Tomorrow, by Jack Lothian & Garry Mac (BHP Comics)
The Wicked + The Divine Vol 5: Imperial Phase Part 1, by Kieron Gillen & Jamie McKelvie (Image)
Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)
Age Of Assassins, by RJ Barker (Orbit)
The Court Of Broken Knives, by Anna Smith Spark (HarperVoyager)
The Ninth Rain, by Jen Williams (Headline)
Under the Pendulum Sun, by Jeanette Ng (Angry Robot)
Best Film / Television Production
Black Mirror, Series 4, by Charlie Brooker (Netflix)
Get Out, by Jordan Peele (Universal Pictures)
The Good Place, Season 1, by Michael Schur (Netflix)
Star Wars: The Last Jedi, by Rian Johnson (Lucasfilm)
Stranger Things, Season 2, by Matt & Ross Duffer (Netflix)
Twin Peaks: The Return, by Mark Frost & David Lynch (Sky Atlantic)
Wonder Woman, by Zack Snyder, Allan Heinberg & Jason Fuchs (Warner Bros.)
Best Horror Novel (the August Derleth Award)
Behind Her Eyes, by Sarah Pinborough (Harper Collins)
The Boy On The Bridge, by MR Carey (Orbit)
The Changeling, by Victor LaValle (Spiegel & Grau)
The Crow Garden, by Alison Littlewood (Jo Fletcher Books)
Relics, by Tim Lebbon (Titan Books)
Best Independent Press
Fox Spirit
Grimbold Books
Newcon Press
Salt Publishing
Unsung Stories
Best Magazine / Periodical
Black Static, ed. Andy Cox (TTA Press)
Gingernuts of Horror, ed. Jim Mcleod
Grimdark Magazine, ed. Adrian Collins
Interzone, ed. Andy Cox (TTA Press)
Shoreline of Infinity, ed. Noel Chidwick
Best Newcomer (the Sydney J Bounds Award)
RJ Barker, for Age Of Assassins (Orbit)
SA Chakraborty, for The City Of Brass (HarperVoyager)
Ed McDonald, for Blackwing (Orion)
Jeanette Ng, for Under The Pendulum Sun (Angry Robot)
Anna Smith Spark, for The Court Of Broken Knives (HarperVoyager)
Best Non-Fiction
Gender Identity And Sexuality In Science Fiction And Fantasy, ed. FT Barbini (Luna Press)
Gingernuts Of Horror, ed. Jim Mcleod
Luminescent Threads, ed. Alexandra Pierce & Mimi Mondal (12th Planet Press)
No Time To Spare: Thinking About What Matters, by Ursula K Le Guin (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Paperbacks From Hell: The Twisted History Of 70s And 80s Horror Fiction, by Grady Hendrix (Quirk)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, by Maura McHugh (Electric Dreamhouse Press)
Best Novella
Brother’s Ruin, by Emma Newman (Tor.com)
Cottingley, by Alison Littlewood (Newcon Press)
The Murders Of Molly Southbourne, by Tade Thompson (Tor.com)
Naming The Bones, by Laura Mauro (Dark Minds Press)
Passing Strange, by Ellen Klages (Tor.com)
A Pocketful Of Crows, by Joanne Harris (Gollancz)
Best Short Story
The Anniversary, by Ruth EJ Booth (in Black Static #61) (TTA Press)
Four Abstracts, by Nina Allan (in New Fears) (Titan Books)
Illumination, by Joanne Hall (in Book of Dragons) (Kristell Ink)
The Little Gift, by Stephen Volk (PS Publishing)
Looking For Laika, by Laura Mauro (in Interzone #273) (TTA Press)
Shepherd’s Business, by Stephen Gallagher (in New Fears) (Titan Books)
The Award winners for each category will be announced on 21st October at FantasyCon 2018.
