The World Fantasy Awards winners for works published in 2023 were presented during the 2024 World Fantasy Convention, held October 17-20, 2024 in Niagara Falls NY.
The Life Achievement Awards, presented annually to individuals who have demonstrated outstanding service to the fantasy field, went to Ginjer Buchanan and Jo Fletcher.
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT
Ginjer Buchanan
Jo Fletcher
NOVEL
Winner: The Reformatory by Tananarive Due (Saga Press/Titan UK)
The Reformatory by Tananarive Due (Saga Press/Titan UK)
The Possibilities by Yael Goldstein-Love (Random House)
Starling House by Alix E. Harrow (Tor Publishing Group/Tor UK)
Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon by Wole Talabi (DAW Books/Gollancz)
Looking Glass Sound by Catriona Ward (Tor Nightfire/Viper)
Witch King by Martha Wells (Tordotcom/Tor UK)
NOVELLA
Winner: “Half the House Is Haunted” by Josh Malerman (Spin a Black Yarn)
The Crane Husband by Kelly Barnhill (Tordotcom)
Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher (Tor Publishing Group/Titan Books)
“Prince Hat Underground” by Kelly Link (White Cat, Black Dog)
“Half the House Is Haunted” by Josh Malerman (Spin a Black Yarn)
A Season of Monstrous Conceptions by Lina Rather (Tordotcom)
Mammoths at the Gates by Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)
SHORT FICTION
Winner: “Silk and Cotton and Linen and Blood” by Nghi Vo (New Suns 2)
“How to Raise a Kraken in Your Bathtub” by P. Djèlí Clark (Uncanny Magazine #50)
“Once Upon a Time at The Oakmont” by P. A. Cornell (Fantasy Magazine, Oct. 2023)
“John Hollowback and the Witch” by Amal El-Mohtar (The Book of Witches)
“Waystation City” by A. T. Greenblatt (Uncanny Magazine #50)
“The Sound of Children Screaming” by Rachael K. Jones (Nightmare Magazine, Oct. 2023)
“Silk and Cotton and Linen and Blood” by Nghi Vo (New Suns 2)
ANTHOLOGY
Winner: The Book of Witches edited by Jonathan Strahan (Harper Voyager US/Harper Voyager UK)
Christmas and Other Horrors edited by Ellen Datlow (Titan UK)
Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume One edited by Stephen Kotowych (Ansible Press)
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023 edited by R. F. Kuang & John Joseph Adams ((Mariner Books)
Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror edited by Jordan Peele & John Joseph Adams (Random House/Picador)
The Book of Witches edited by Jonathan Strahan (Harper Voyager US/Harper Voyager UK)
COLLECTION
Winner: No One Will Come Back for Us and Other Stories by Premee Mohamed (Undertow Publications)
The Essential Peter S. Beagle Volumes 1 & 2 by Peter S. Beagle (Tachyon Publications)
The Fortunate Isles by Lisa L. Hannett (Egaeus Press)
White Cat, Black Dog by Kelly Link (Random House/Ad Astra)
No One Will Come Back for Us and Other Stories by Premee Mohamed (Undertow Publications)
Jackal, Jackal: Tales of the Dark and Fantastic by Tobi Ogundiran (Undertow Publications)
Jewel Box: Stories by E. Lily Yu (Erewhon Books)
ARTIST
Winner: Audrey Benjaminsen
Audrey Benjaminsen
Rovina Cai
Stefan Koidl
Charles Vess
Alyssa Winans
Special Award—Professional
Winner: Liza Groen Trombi, for Locus magazine
Bill Campbell for Rosarium Books E. M. Carroll, for A Guest in the House (First Second)
M. John Harrison, for Wish I Was Here: An Anti-Memoir (Saga Press/Serpent’s Tail)
Stephen Jones, The Weird Tales Boys (PS Publishing)
Liza Groen Trombi, for Locus magazine
Special Award—Non-Professional
Winner: Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, for Uncanny Magazine
Scott H. Andrews, for Beneath Ceaseless Skies
Trevor Kennedy, for Phantasmagoria
Brian J. Showers, for Swan River Press
Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, for Uncanny Magazine
Julian Yap and Fran Wilde, for The Sunday Morning Transport
This year’s judges were Douglas A. Anderson, Stephanie Feldman, Pat Murphy, Thomas Olde Heuvelt, and Angela Slatter.