World Fantasy Awards 2022
science fiction awards database
Winners announced: November 6, 2022
Convention: World Fantasy Convention
Where: New Orleans, LA
Eligibility Year: 2021
Judges: C. S. E. Cooney, Julie Crisp, Charles Coleman Finlay, Richard Kadrey, Misha Stone
Convention: World Fantasy Convention
Where: New Orleans, LA
Eligibility Year: 2021
Judges: C. S. E. Cooney, Julie Crisp, Charles Coleman Finlay, Richard Kadrey, Misha Stone
Life Achievement
- Winner: Samuel R. Delany
- Winner: Terri Windling
Novel
- Winner: The Jasmine Throne, Tasha Suri (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- Black Water Sister, Zen Cho (Ace; Macmillan)
- The City Beautiful, Aden Polydoros (Inkyard)
- The Last House on Needless Street, Catriona Ward (Nightfire; Viper UK)
- A Master of Djinn, P. Djèlí Clark (Tordotcom; Orbit UK)
Novella
- Winner: And What Can We Offer You Tonight, Premee Mohamed (Neon Hemlock)
- “A Canticle for Lost Girls”, Isabel Yap (Never Have I Ever)
- Finches, A. M. Muffaz (Vernacular)
- “For Sale by Owner”, Elizabeth Hand (When Things Get Dark)
- Nothing But Blackened Teeth, Cassandra Khaw (Nightfire)
Short Fiction
- Winner: “(emet)”, Lauren Ring (F&SF Jul/Aug 2021)
- “#Spring Love, #Pichal Pairi”, Usman T. Malik (Tor.com 3 Mar 2021)
- “The Demon Sage's Daughter”, Varsha Dinesh (Strange Horizons 8 Feb 2021)
- “The Failing Name”, Eugen Bacon & Seb Doubinsky (Fantasy Aug 2021)
- “If the Martians Have Magic”, P. Djèlí Clark (Uncanny Sep/Oct 2021)
- “Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather”, Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny Mar/Apr 2021)
Anthology
- Winner: The Year's Best African Speculative Fiction (2021), Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, ed. (Jembefola)
- Professor Charlatan Bardot's Travel Anthology to the Most (Fictional) Haunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World (2021 Edition), Charlatan Bardot & Eric J. Guignard, eds. (Dark Moon)
- Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology, Alex Hernandez, Matthew David Goodwin & Sarah Rafael García, eds. (Mad Creek)
- When Things Get Dark: Stories Inspired by Shirley Jackson, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Titan)
- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror Volume Two, Paula Guran, ed. (Pyr)
Collection
- Winner: Midnight Doorways: Fables from Pakistan, Usman T. Malik (Kitab)
- Big Dark Hole, Jeffrey Ford (Small Beer)
- The Ghost Sequences, A. C. Wise (Undertow)
- Never Have I Ever, Isabel Yap (Small Beer)
- Tales the Devil Told Me, Jen Fawkes (Press 53)
- The Tallow-Wife and Other Tales, Angela Slatter (Tartarus)
Artist
Special Award, Professional
- Winner: Marjorie Liu & Sana Takeda, for Monstress Volume Six: The Vow (Image Comics)
- Charlie Jane Anders, for Never Say You Can't Survive (Tordotcom)
- Cam Collins & Steve Shell, for Old Gods of Appalachia (podcast)
- Irene Gallo, for Tor.com
- William K. Schafer, for Subterranean Press
- Sheree Renée Thomas, for editing F&SF
Special Award, Non-professional
- Winner: Tonia Ransom, for Nightlight: A Horror Fiction Podcast
- Gautam Bhatia & Vanessa Rose Phin, for Strange Horizons
- Maria J. Pérez Cuervo, for Hellebore
- Michael Kelly, for Undertow Publications
- Arley Sorg & Christie Yant, for Fantasy
- Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas, for Uncanny
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