World Fantasy Awards Nominees Announced

The nominees for the World Fantasy Awards have officially been announced! Established in 1975, the World Fantasy Awards are presented annually to writers, editors, or artists. The Award is known as one of the three most prestigious speculative fiction awards, alongside the Hugo and the Nebula.

This year’s nominees include some familiar faces, including Electric Literature contributor Jeff VanderMeer, Jo Walton, and Kelly Link, among others.

The full list of nominees is below:

WORLD FANTASY AWARDS NOMINEES

LIFE ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS

• Ramsey Campbell
• Sheri S. Tepper

NOVEL
• Katherine Addison, The Goblin Emperor (Tor Books)
• Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Stairs (Broadway Books/Jo Fletcher Books)
• David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks (Random House/Sceptre UK)
• Jeff VanderMeer, Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy (Farrar, Straus and Giroux Originals)
• Jo Walton, My Real Children (Tor Books US/Corsair UK)

NOVELLA
• Daryl Gregory, We Are All Completely Fine (Tachyon Publications)
• Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen, “Where the Trains Turn” (Tor.com, Nov. 19, 2014)
• Michael Libling, “Hollywood North” (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Nov./Dec. 2014)
• Mary Rickert, “The Mothers of Voorhisville” (Tor.com, Apr. 30, 2014)
• Rachel Swirsky, “Grand Jeté (The Great Leap)” (Subterranean Press magazine, Summer 2014)
• Kai Ashante Wilson, “The Devil in America” (Tor.com, April 2, 2014)

SHORT FICTION
• Kelly Link, “I Can See Right Through You” (McSweeney’s 48)
• Scott Nicolay, Do You Like to Look at Monsters? (Fedogan & Bremer, chapbook)
• Kaaron Warren, “Death’s Door Café” (Shadows & Tall Trees 2014)
• Alyssa Wong, “The Fisher Queen,” (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May/June 2014)

ANTHOLOGY
• Ellen Datlow, ed., Fearful Symmetries (ChiZine Publications)
• George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, eds., Rogues (Bantam Books/Titan Books)
• Rose Fox and Daniel José Older, eds., Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History (Crossed Genres)
• Michael Kelly, ed. Shadows & Tall Trees 2014 (Undertow Publications)
• Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant, eds., Monstrous Affections: An Anthology of Beastly Tales (Candlewick Press)

COLLECTION
• Rebecca Lloyd, Mercy and Other Stories (Tartarus Press)
• Helen Marshall, Gifts for the One Who Comes After (ChiZine Publications)
• Robert Shearman, They Do the Same Things Different There (ChiZine Publications)
• Angela Slatter, The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings (Tartarus Press)
• Janeen Webb, Death at the Blue Elephant (Ticonderoga Publications)

ARTIST
• Samuel Araya
• Galen Dara
• Jeffrey Alan Love
• Erik Mohr
• John Picacio

SPECIAL AWARD — -PROFESSIONAL
• John Joseph Adams, for editing anthologies and Lightspeed and Fantasy magazines
• Jeanne Cavelos, for Odyssey Writing workshops
• Sandra Kasturi and Brett Alexander Savory, for ChiZine Publications
• Gordon Van Gelder, for The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
• Jerad Walters, for Centipede Press

SPECIAL AWARD — -NON-PROFESSIONAL
• Scott H. Andrews, for Beneath Ceaseless Skies: Literary Adventure Fantasy
• Matt Cardin, for Born to Fear: Interviews with Thomas Ligotti (Subterranean Press)
• Stefan Fergus, for Civilian Reader
• Ray B. Russell and Rosalie Parker, for Tartarus Press
• Patrick Swenson, for Fairwood Press

The awards will be presented at the World Fantasy Convention Banquet on the Sunday afternoon.