sfadb: British Fantasy Awards 2023 (original) (raw)

Winners announced: September 16, 2023
Convention: FantasyCon
Where: Birmingham, UK

Eligibility Year: 2022

Anthology

• Winner: Someone in Time, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris)
• Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction, Sheree Ren�e Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki & Zelda Knight, eds. (Tordotcom)
• The Book of Queer Saints, Mae Murray, ed. (Medusa)
• Great British Horror 7: Major Arcana, Steve J. Shaw, ed. (Black Shuck)
• Isolation: The Horror Anthology, Dan Coxon, ed. (Titan)
• Sky Breaker: Tales of the Wanderer, Lee C. Conley, H. L. Tinsley, J. E. Hannaford, David Green, Derek Power, C. Marry Hultman, Damien Larkin, C. F. Welburn (Nordic)

Collection

• Winner: Under the Moon, E. M. Faulds (Ghost Moth)
• Behind a Broken Smile, Penny Jones (Black Shuck)
• Breakable Things, Cassandra Khaw (Undertow)
• Candescent Blooms, Andrew Hook (Salt)

Novella

• Winner: The Queen of the High Fields, Rhiannon A. Grist (Luna)
• And Then I Woke Up, Malcolm Devlin (Tordotcom)
• The Entropy of Loss, Stewart Hotston (NewCon)
• Interference, Terry Grimwood (Elsewhen)
• Ogres, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Solaris)
• Pomegranates, Priya Sharma (PS Publishing)

Short Fiction

• Winner: “Morta”, James Bennett (The Book of Queer Saints)
• “The Call of El Tunche”, Shona Kinsella (Weird Horror Anthology)
• “A Moment of Zugzwang”, Neil Williamson (ParSec #4)
• “The Tails That Make You”, Eliza Chan (Fantasy Aug 2022)

Non-fiction

• Winner: An Earnest Blackness, Eugen Bacon (Anti-Oedipus Press)
• Fantasy: How It Works, Brian Attebery (Oxford University Press)
• The Full Lid, Alasdair Stuart & Marguerite Kenner, eds.
• My Life in Horror, Vol. 2, Kit Power (self-published)
• Outlander and the Real Jacobites, Shona Kinsella (Pen & Sword History)
• Terry Pratchett: A Life with Footnotes, Rob Wilkins (Doubleday)

Independent Press

• Winner: Luna
• Black Shuck
• Flame Tree
• NewCon

Magazine/periodical

• Winner: Interzone
• Ginger Nuts of Horror
• Shoreline of Infinity
• Strange Horizons

Artist

• Winner: Vince Haig
• Chris Baker (Fangorn)
• Ben Baldwin
• Jenni Coutts
• Dan Hillier

Audio

• Winner: The Stranger Times, C. K. McDonnell
• Breaking the Glass Slipper, Megan Leigh, Lucy Hounsom & Charlotte Bond
• The Painkiller Podcast, Bitter Pill Theater
• PodCastle, Escape Artists
• PseudoPod, Escape Artists
• The Secret of St. Kilda, Michael Ireland & Neomi Clarke

Karl Edward Wagner Award For Special Achievement

• Winner: Ann Landmann