2020 Lifetime Achievement Awards
Rowena Morrill
Karen Joy Fowler
* Winners in bold.
Nominees
Novel
- Queen of the Conquered, by Kacen Callender (Orbit)
- The Ten Thousand Doors of January, by Alix E. Harrow (Redhook Books/Orbit UK)
- The Raven Tower, by Ann Leckie (Orbit)
- Gideon the Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir (Tor.com)
- The Memory Police, by Yoko Ogawa (trans.Stephen Snyder) (Pantheon/Harvill Secker)
Novella
- “The Butcher’s Table”, by Nathan Ballingrud (Wounds: Six Stories From the Border of Hell)
- Desdemona and the Deep, by C.S.E. Cooney (Tor.com)
- In an Absent Dream, by Seanan McGuire (Tor.com)
- The Deep, by Rivers Solomon with Daveed Diggs, William Hutson and Jonathan Snipes (Saga Press/Hodder & Stoughton UK)
- Silver in the Wood, by Emily Tesh (Tor.com)
Short Fiction
- “For He Can Creep”, by Siobhan Carroll (Tor.com, July 10, 2019)
- “Read After Burning”, by Maria Dahvana Headley, (A People’s Future of the United States)
- “The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye”, by Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny Magazine, July-Aug. 2019)
- “Blood is Another Word For Hunger”, by Rivers Solomon (Tor.com, July 24, 2019)
- “Postlude to the Afternoon of a Faun”, by Jerome Stueart (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Mar./Apr. 2019)
- “Everyone Knows That They‘re Dead. Do You?”, by Genevieve Valentine (The Outcast Hours)
Anthology
- Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories, edited by Ellen Datlow (Saga Press)
- The Outcast Hours, edited by Mahvesh Murad & Jared Shurin (Solaris)
- The Mythic Dream, edited by Dominik Parisien & Navah Wolfe (Saga Press)
- New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color, edited by Nisi Shawl (Solaris)
- The Big Book of Classic Fantasy, edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (Vintage Books)
Collection
- Homesick: Stories, by Nino Cipri (Dzanc Books)
- Song For the Unraveling of the World: Stories, by Brian Evenson (Coffee House Press)
- Unforeseen, by Molly Gloss (Saga Press)
- A Lush and Seething Hell: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror, by John Hornor Jacobs (Harper Voyager)
- Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea: Stories by Sarah Pinsker (Small Beer Press)
Artist
Special Award – Professional
- C. C. Finlay, for F&SF editing
- Leslie Klinger, for The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft: Beyond Arkham (Liveright)
- Ellen Oh, for We Need Diverse Books
- Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, for The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games (New York University Press)
- Sheree Renée Thomas, for contributions to the genre
Special Award – Non-Professional
- Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay, Laura E. Goodin and Esko Suoranta, for Fafnir – Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research
- Michael Kelly, for Undertow Publications and The Year’s Best Weird Fiction
- Jonathan Strahan & Gary K. Wolfe, for the Coode Street Podcast
- Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, for Uncanny Magazine
- Terri Windling, for Myth & Moor
Judges: Gwenda Bond, Galen Dara, Michael Kelly, Victor LaValle, Adam Roberts