2021 Lifetime Achievement Awards
Megan Lindholm
Howard Waldrop
* Winners in bold.
Nominees
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)
- 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)
- “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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Rovina Cai
- Jeffrey Alan Love
- Reiko Murakami
- Daniele Serra
- Charles Vess
- Clive Bloom, for The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Gothic (Palgrave Macmillan)
- 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)
- C.C. Finlay, for The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction editing
- 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