Nominees

Novel

• The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri (Orbit)
• Black Water Sister by Zen Cho (Ace, Macmillan)
• The City Beautiful by Aden Polydoros (Inkyard)
• The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward (Nightfire; Viper UK)
• A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark (Tordotcom/Orbit UK)

Novella

• “And What Can We Offer You Tonight” by Premee Mohamed (Neon Hemlock)
• “A Canticle for Lost Girls” by Isabel Yap (Never Have I Ever)
• Finches by A. M. Muffaz (Vernacular)
• “For Sale by Owner” by Elizabeth Hand (When Things Get Dark)
• Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw (Nightfire)

Short Fiction

• “(emet)” by Lauren Ring (F&SF Jul/Aug 2021)
• “#Spring Love, #Pichal Pairi” Usman T. Malik (Tor.com 3 Mar 2021)
• “The Demon Sage’s Daughter” by Varsha Dinesh (Strange Horizons 8 Feb 2021)
• “The Failing Name” by Eugen Bacon & Seb Doubinsky (Fantasy Aug 2021)
• “If the Martians Have Magic” by P. Djèlí Clark (Uncanny Sep/Oct 2021)
• “Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather” by Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny Mar/Apr 2021)

Anthology

• The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction (2021) by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, ed. (Jembefola)
• Professor Charlatan Bardot’s Travel Anthology to the Most (Fictional) Haunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World (2021 Edition), Charlatan Bardot & Eric J. Guignard, eds. (Dark Moon)
• Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology Alex Hernandez, Matthew David Goodwin & Sarah Rafael García, eds. (Mad Creek)
• When Things Get Dark: Stories Inspired by Shirley Jackson Ellen Datlow, ed. (Titan)
• The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror Volume Two Paula Guran, ed. (Pyr)

Collection

• Midnight Doorways: Fables from Pakistan, Usman T. Malik (Kitab)
• Big Dark Hole, Jeffrey Ford (Small Beer)
• The Ghost Sequences, A. C. Wise (Undertow)
• Never Have I Ever, Isabel Yap (Small Beer)
• Tales the Devil Told Me, Jen Fawkes (Press 53)
• The Tallow-Wife and Other Tales, Angela Slatter (Tartarus)

Artist

• Tran Nguyen
• Brom
• Odera Igbokwe
• Aleksandra Skiba
• Charles Vess

Special Award – Professional

• Marjorie Liu & Sana Takeda, for Monstress Volume Six: The Vow (Image Comics)
• Charlie Jane Anders, for Never Say You Can’t Survive (Tordotcom)
• Cam Collins & Steve Shell, for Old Gods of Appalachia (podcast)
• Irene Gallo, for Tor.com
• William K. Schafer, for Subterranean Press
• Sheree Renée Thomas, for editing F&SF

Special Award – Non-Professional

• Tonia Ransom, for Nightlight: A Horror Fiction Podcast
• Gautam Bhatia & Vanessa Rose Phin, for Strange Horizons
• Maria J. Pérez Cuervo, for Hellebore
• Michael Kelly, for Undertow Publications
• Arley Sorg & Christie Yant, for Fantasy
• Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas, for Uncanny

Judges: C. S. E. Cooney, Julie Crisp, Charles Coleman Finlay, Richard Kadrey, Misha Stone