News World Fantasy Awards Here Are the 2024 World Fantasy Award Winners By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on October 24, 2024 Comment 0 Share New Share The winners of the 2024 World Fantasy Awards, which are given to works published in 2023, were announced at the World Fantasy Convention that took place last weekend in Niagara Falls, NY. Here are the winners in each category, as reported by Locus magazine. Best Novel WINNER: The Reformatory, Tananarive Due (Saga; Titan UK) The Possibilities, Yael Goldstein-Love (Random House) Starling House, Alix E. Harrow (Tor; Tor UK) Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon, Wole Talabi (DAW; Gollancz) Looking Glass Sound, Catriona Ward (Viper; Nightfire) Witch King, Martha Wells (Tordotcom) Best Novella WINNER: “Half the House Is Haunted,” Josh Malerman (Spin a Black Yarn) The Crane Husband, Kelly Barnhill (Tordotcom) Thornhedge, T. Kingfisher (Tor; Titan UK) “Prince Hat Underground,” Kelly Link (White Cat, Black Dog) A Season of Monstrous Conceptions, Lina Rather (Tordotcom) Mammoths at the Gates, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom) Best Short Fiction WINNER: “Silk and Cotton and Linen and Blood,” Nghi Vo (New Suns 2) “How to Raise a Kraken in Your Bathtub,” P. Djèlí Clark (Uncanny 1-2/23) “Once Upon a Time at The Oakmont,” P. A. Cornell (Fantasy 10/23) “John Hollowback and the Witch,” Amal El-Mohtar (The Book of Witches) “Waystation City,” A. T. Greenblatt (Uncanny 1-2/23) “The Sound of Children Screaming,” Rachael K. Jones (Nightmare 10/23) Best Anthology WINNER: The Book of Witches, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Harper Voyager US; Harper Voyager UK) Christmas and Other Horrors, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Titan UK) Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume One, Stephen Kotowych, ed. (Ansible) The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023, R.F. Kuang & John Joseph Adams, eds. (Mariner) Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror, Jordan Peele & John Joseph Adams, eds. (Random House; Picador) Best Collection WINNER: No One Will Come Back for Us and Other Stories, Premee Mohamed (Undertow) The Essential Peter S. Beagle, Volumes 1 & 2, Peter S. Beagle (Tachyon) The Fortunate Isles, Lisa L. Hannett (Egaeus) White Cat, Black Dog, Kelly Link (Random House; Ad Astra) Jackal, Jackal, Tobi Ogundiran (Undertow) Jewel Box, E. Lily Yu (Erewhon) Best Artist WINNER: Audrey Benjaminsen Rovina Cai Stefan Koidl Charles Vess Alyssa Winans Special Award – Professional WINNER: Liza Groen Trombi, for Locus Bill Campbell, for Rosarium Books E. M. Carroll, for A Guest in the House (First Second) M. John Harrison, for Wish I Was Here: An Anti-Memoir (Serpent’s Tail; Saga; 9/24) Stephen Jones, for The Weird Tales Boys (PS) Special Award – Non-Professional WINNER: Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas, for Uncanny Scott H. Andrews, for Beneath Ceaseless Skies Trevor Kennedy, for Phantasmagoria Brian J. Showers, for Swan River Press Julian Yap & Fran Wilde, for The Sunday Morning Transport [end-mark]  Ginjer Buchanan and Jo Fletcher also received Lifetime Achievement awards, which are given to those who have demonstrated outstanding service to the fantasy field. Congratulations to all the winners and finalists! [end-mark] The post Here Are the 2024 World Fantasy Award Winners appeared first on Reactor.