The World Fantasy Awards Association announced the final ballot for this year’s awards on July 21.

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT WINNERS

• Megan Lindholm
• Howard Waldrop

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2020 WORLD FANTASY AWARD FINALISTS

NOVEL

• Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury)
• Trouble the Saints by Alaya Dawn Johnson (Tor Books)
• The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones (Saga Press/Titan UK)
• Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey US/Jo Fletcher Books UK)
• The Midnight Bargain by C. L. Polk (Erewhon Books US/Orbit UK)

NOVELLA

• Ring Shout, or Hunting Ku Kluxes in the End Times by P. Djèlí Clark (Tordotcom)
• “Stepsister” by Leah Cypess (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May/June 2020)
• Flyaway by Kathleen Jennings (Tordotcom)
• The Four Profound Weaves by R. B. Lemberg  (Tachyon Publications)
• Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi (Tordotcom)

SHORT FICTION

• “Glass Bottle Dancer” by Celeste Rita Baker (Lightspeed, April 2020)
• “The Women Who Sing for Sklep” by Kay Chronister  (Thin Places)
• “The Nine Scents of Sorrow” by Jordan Taylor (Uncanny Magazine, July/Aug. 2020)
• “My Country Is a Ghost” by Eugenia Triantafyllou (Uncanny Magazine, January/February 2020)
• “Open House on Haunted Hill” by John Wiswell (Diabolical Plots, June 15 2020)

ANTHOLOGY

• Edited By, edited by Ellen Datlow (Subterranean Press)
• The Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories, Vol. 1, edited by James D. Jenkins and Ryan Cagle (Valancourt Books)
• Shadows & Tall Trees 8, edited by Michael Kelly (Undertow Publications)
• The Book of Dragons, edited by Jonathan Strahan (Harper Voyager)
• The Big Book of Modern Fantasy, edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (Vintage Books)

COLLECTION

• The Best of Jeffrey Ford by Jeffrey Ford  (PS Publishing)
• Velocities: Stories by Kathe Koja (Meerkat Press)
• Where the Wild Ladies Are by Aoka Matsuda, translated by Polly Barton (Soft Skull Press US/Tilted Axis UK)
• We All Hear Stories in the Dark by Robert Shearman (PS Publishing)
• Nine Bar Blues: Stories of an Ancient Future by Sheree Renée Thomas (Third Man Books)

ARTIST

• Rovina Cai
• Jeffrey Alan Love
• Reiko Murakami
• Daniele Serra
• Charles Vess

SPECIAL AWARD – PROFESSIONAL

• Clive Bloom, for The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Gothic (Palgrave Macmillan)
• C. C. Finlay, for The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fictionediting
• Jo Fletcher, for Jo Fletcher Books
• Maria Dahvana Headley, for Beowulf: A New Translation (MCD X FSG Originals  US/Scribe UK)
• Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, for The Monster Theory Reader (University of Minnesota Press)

SPECIAL AWARD – NON-PROFESSIONAL

• Scott H. Andrews, for Beneath Ceaseless Skies: Literary Adventure Fantasy
• Brian Attebery, for Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts
• Michael Kelly, for Undertow Publications
• Arley Sorg and Christie Yant, for Fantasy Magazine
• Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, for Uncanny Magazine

World Fantasy Award Administrator Peter Dennis Pautz thanked the judges and noted the difficulties of the past year: “Again, our tremendous appreciation to the judges: Tobias Buckell, Siobhan Carroll, Cecilia Dart-Thornton, Brian Evenson, and Patrick Swenson. The ongoing Covid-19 variants crisis has made this year a particularly daunting one for submissions and considerations, and these incredible people rose to the challenge like the consummate professionals they are.”

The awards will be presented at World Fantasy Convention 2021, to be held in Montreal, Canada from November 4-7.

[Thanks to Peter Dennis Pautz for the story.]