The winners of the 2023 British Fantasy Awards were announced at FantasyCon on September 16.

THE ROBERT HOLDSTOCK AWARD FOR BEST FANTASY NOVEL

• The Spear Cuts Through Water – Simon Jimenez (Del Rey)

THE AUGUST DERLETH AWARD FOR BEST HORROR NOVEL

• Just Like Home – Sarah Gailey (Hodder & Stoughton)

BEST NOVELLA

• The Queen of the High Fields – Rhiannon A. Grist (Luna Press Publishing)

BEST SHORT FICTION

• Morta – James Bennett (in The Book of Queer Saints, Medusa Publishing Haus)

BEST COLLECTION

• Under the Moon – E.M. Faulds (Ghost Moth Press)

BEST MAGAZINE/PERIODICAL

• Interzone

BEST AUDIO WORK

• The Stranger Times (C.K. McDonnell)

BEST INDEPENDENT PRESS

• Luna Press Publishing

BEST ARTIST

• Vince Haig

BEST ANTHOLOGY

• Someone in Time, ed. Jonathan Strahan (Solaris)

BEST NON-FICTION

• An Earnest Blackness – Eugen Bacon (Anti-Oedipus Press)

THE SYDNEY J. BOUNDS AWARD FOR BEST NEWCOMER

• Hiron Ennes, for Leech (Tor)

Also presented during the ceremony were the following awards.

THE LEGENDS OF FANTASYCON AWARD
(selected by the organisers of Fantasycon)

• Roy Gray from TTA press for his ongoing support of Fantasycon

THE KARL EDWARD WAGNER AWARD
(selected by the BFS committee)

• Ann Landmann