Awards presented during the World Fantasy convention held November 1-4, 2018 in Baltimore, MD.
2018 Lifetime Achievement Awards
Charles de Lint
Elizabeth Wollheim
Nominees
Novel
- VictorE LaValle, The Changeling (Spiegel & Grau/Canongate Press UK) (winner – tie)
- Fonda Lee, Jade City (Orbit) (winner – tie)
- S. A. Chakraborty, The City of Brass (Harper Voyager)
- John Crowley, Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr (Saga Press)
- Theodora Goss, The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter (Saga Press)
- Daryl Gregory, Spoonbenders (Bond Street Books CA/Knopf US/riverrun UK)
Novella
- Ellen Klages, Passing Strange (Tor.com) (winner)
- Simon Avery, The Teardrop Method (TTA Press)
- Peter S. Beagle, In Calabria (Tachyon Publications)
- Stephen Graham Jones, Mapping the Interior (Tor.com)
- JY Yang, The Black Tides of Heaven (Tor.com)
Short Fiction
- Natalia Theodoridou, “The Birding: A Fairy Tale” (Strange Horizons, Dec. 18, 2017) (winner)
- Fonda Lee, “Old Souls” (Where the Stars Rise: Asian Science Fiction and Fantasy)
- Rebecca Roanhorse, “Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience™” (Apex Magazine, Aug. 2017)
- Fran Wilde, “Clearly Lettered in a Mostly Steady Hand” ( Uncanny Magazine, Sept.-Oct. 2017)
- Caroline Yoachim, “Carnival Nine” (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, May 11, 2017)
Anthology
- Peter S. Beagle & Jacob Weisman, eds. The New Voices of Fantasy (Tachyon Publications) (winner)
- Ellen Datlow, ed. Black Feathers: Dark Avian Tales (Pegasus Books)
- Gardner Dozois, ed. The Book of Swords (Bantam Books US/Harper Voyager UK)
- Mahvesh Murad & Jared Shurin, eds. The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories (Solaris)
- William Schafer, ed. The Best of Subterranean (Subterranean Press)
Collection
- Jane Yolen, The Emerald Circus (Tachyon Publications) (winner)
- Ellen Klages, Wicked Wonders (Tachyon Publications)
- Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties (Graywolf Press/Serpent’s Tail UK)
- Tim Powers, Down and Out in Purgatory: The Collected Stories of Tim Powers (Baen Books)
- Sofia Samatar, Tender (Small Beer Press)
Artist
Special Award – Professional
- Harry Brockway, Patrick McGrath, & Danel Olson Writing Madness (Centipede Press) (winner)
- C. C. Finlay for for F&SF editing
- Irene Gallo, for for Art Direction at Tor Books & Tor.com
- Greg Ketter, for DreamHaven Books
- Leslie Klinger, for The New Annotated Frankenstein (Liveright Publishing Corp.)
Special Award – Non-Professional
- Justina Ireland & Troy L. Wiggins, for FIYAH: Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction (winner)
- Scott H. Andrews for Beneath Ceaseless Skies: Literary Adventure Fantasy
- Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali & Jen R. Albert for PodCastle
- Ray B. Russell & Rosalie Parker, for Tartarus Press
- Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas, for Uncanny Magazine
The 2018 World Fantasy Award nominations came from two sources. Members of the current convention as well as the previous two were able to vote two nominations onto the final ballot. The remainder were nominated by the panel of judges: David Anthony Durham, Christopher Golden, Juliet E. McKenna, Charles Vess and Kaaron Warren.