The 2020 British Fantasy Awards winners were announced February 22, as selected by the listed jurors.
Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)
Jury: Martha Bradley, Stewart Hotston, Hazel Impey, Edward Partridge, Abbi Shaw
- The Bone Ships – RJ Barker (Orbit)
Best Horror Novel (the August Derleth Award)
Jury: Ben Appleby-Dean, Gabino Iglesias, Siobhan O’Brien Holmes, Ross Warren, Susan York
- The Reddening – Adam Nevill (Ritual Limited)
Best Newcomer (the Sydney J Bounds Award)
Jury: Barbara Barrett, Danny Hussain, Steven Poore, Natalie Ross, João F Silva
- Ta-Nehisi Coates, for The Water Dancer (Penguin)
Best Novella
Jury: Rachel Aitken, Abigail Baumbach, Steve Howarth, Gagandeep Kaur, Mark West
- Ormeshadow – Priya Sharma (Tordotcom)
Best Short Fiction
Jury: G.V. Anderson, Charlotte Bhaskar, Niamh Brown, Peter Haynes, Devin Martin
- The Pain-Eater’s Daughter – Laura Mauro (Undertow)
Best Anthology
Jury: Rosemarie Cawkwell, Elaine Gallagher, Peter Green, Ian Hunter, Caroline Mersey,
- New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction for People of Color, ed. Nisi Shawl (Solaris)
Best Collection
Jury: Samantha Martin, Henrietta Rose-Inned, Kyle Tam, Heather Valentine, Neil Williamson
- Sing Your Sadness Deep – Laura Mauro (Undertow)
Best Non-Fiction
Jury: Lee Fletcher, Kat Kourbeti, Kevin McVeigh, Samuel Poots, Kelly Richards
- The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games – Ebony Elizabeth Thomas (New York University Press)
Best Independent Press
Jury: Dave Brzeski, Adri Joy, Kate Macdonald, Eleanor Pender, Alasdair Stuart
- Rebellion Publishing
Best Magazine / Periodical
Jury: Phoebe Barton, Louise Carey, Charles Christian, Lila Garrott, Yilin Wang
- Fiyah
Best Audio
Jury: Eunice Hung, Catherine Mann, Nemo Martin, Tam Moules, Lucy Whiteley
- PodCastle
Best Comic / Graphic Novel
Jury: Hannah Barton, Jay Faulkner, Sarah Hale, Christopher Napier, Jessica Steiner
- DIE – Kieron Gillen & Stephanie Hans (Image)
Best Artist
Jury: Amy Brennan, Amber Culley, Ana Miljani?, Babs Nienhuis, Christie Walsh
- Ben Baldwin
Best Film / Television Production
Jury: Ifeanyi Barbara Chidi, Jackie Fallis, James T Harding, Katherine Inskip, Aaron Jones
- Us – Jordan Peele (Monkeypaw Productions et al.)
Karl Edward Wagner Special Award
- Craig Lockley for his long, long service to the BFS
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