2015 World Fantasy Award Nominees

The World Fantasy Award nominees were announced recently, and the winners will be announced at the World Fantasy Convention in Saratoga Springs, New York November 5-8th. The convention will be held at the Saratoga Hilton. A big congratulations and good luck to all of the nominees. The voters will have a very difficult ballot to choose from.

Life Achievement Winners

• Ramsey Campbell
• Sheri S. Tepper

Novel

• Katherine Addison, The Goblin Emperor (Tor Books)
• Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Stairs (Broadway Books/Jo Fletcher Books)
• David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks (Random House/Sceptre UK)
• Jeff VanderMeer, Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy (Farrar, Straus and Giroux Originals)
• Jo Walton, My Real Children (Tor Books US/Corsair UK)

Novella

• Daryl Gregory, "We Are All Completely Fine" (Tachyon Publications)
• Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen, "Where the Trains Turn" (Tor.com, Nov. 19, 2014)
• Michael Libling, "Hollywood North" (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Nov./Dec. 2014)
• Mary Rickert, "The Mothers of Voorhisville" (Tor.com, Apr. 30, 2014)
• Rachel Swirsky, “Grand Jeté (The Great Leap)” (Subterranean Press magazine, Summer 2014)

Short Story

• Kelly Link, "I Can See Right Through You" (McSweeney's 48)
• Scott Nicolay, "Do You Like to Look at Monsters?" (Fedogan & Bremer, chapbook)
• Kaaron Warren, "Death's Door Café" (Shadows & Tall Trees 2014)
• Kai Ashante Wilson, "The Devil in America" (Tor.com, April 2, 2014)
• Alyssa Wong, "The Fisher Queen," (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May/June 2014)

Anthology

• Ellen Datlow, ed., Fearful Symmetries (ChiZine Publications)
• George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, eds., Rogues (Bantam Books/Titan Books)
• Rose Fox and Daniel José Older, eds., Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History (Crossed Genres)
• Michael Kelly, ed. Shadows & Tall Trees 2014 (Undertow Publications)
• Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant, eds., Monstrous Affections: An Anthology of Beastly Tales (Candlewick Press)

Collection

• Rebecca Lloyd, Mercy and Other Stories (Tartarus Press)
• Helen Marshall, Gifts for the One Who Comes After (ChiZine Publications)
• Robert Shearman, They Do the Same Things Different There (ChiZine Publications)
• Angela Slatter, The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings (Tartarus Press)
• Janeen Webb, Death at the Blue Elephant (Ticonderoga Publications)

Artist

• Samuel Araya
• Galen Dara
• Jeffrey Alan Love
• Erik Mohr
• John Picacio

Special Award—Professional

• John Joseph Adams, for editing anthologies and Nightmare and Lightspeed magazines
• Jeanne Cavelos, for Odyssey Writing workshops
• Sandra Kasturi and Brett Alexander Savory, for ChiZine Publications
• Gordon Van Gelder, for The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
• Jerad Walters, for Centipede Press

Special Award—Non-professional

• Scott H. Andrews, for Beneath Ceaseless Skies: Literary Adventure Fantasy
• Matt Cardin, for Born to Fear: Interviews with Thomas Ligotti (Subterranean Press)
• Stefan Fergus, for Civilian Reader
• Ray B. Russell and Rosalie Parker, for Tartarus Press
• Patrick Swenson, for Fairwood Press