2019 World Fantasy Awards Winners
The World Fantasy Awards winners for works published in 2018 have been announced. The awards were presented November 3, 2019 during World Fantasy 2019 (WFC) at the Marriott Los Angeles Airport Hotel in Los Angeles CA.
The Lifetime Achievement Awards, presented annually to individuals who have demonstrated outstanding service to the fantasy field, went to Hayao Miyazaki and Jack Zipes.
The World Fantasy Awards winners are:
Best Novel
Witchmark, C.L. Polk (Tor.com Publishing)
Best Novella
“The Privilege of the Happy Ending“, Kij Johnson (Clarkesworld 8/18)
Best Short Fiction (tie)
“Ten Deals with the Indigo Snake”, Mel Kassel (Lightspeed 10/18)
“Like a River Loves the Sky”, Emma Törzs (Uncanny 3-4/18)
Best Anthology
Worlds Seen in Passing, Irene Gallo, ed. (Tor.com Publishing)
Best Collection
The Tangled Lands, Paolo Bacigalupi & Tobias S. Buckell (Saga)
Best Artist
Special Award – Professional
Huw Lewis-Jones for The Writer’s Map: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands (University of Chicago Press)
Special Award – Non-Professional
Scott H. Andrews, for Beneath Ceaseless Skies
This year’s judges were Nancy Holder, Kathleen Jennings, Garry Douglas Kilworth, Stephen Graham Jones, and Tod McCoy.