British Fantasy Award


The British Fantasy Awards are awarded annually by the British Fantasy Society, first in 1976. Prior to that they were known as The August Derleth Fantasy Awards. First awarded in 1972 only for novels, the number of award categories increased and in 1976 the BFS renamed them collectively the British Fantasy Awards. The current award categories are Best Fantasy Novel, Best Horror Novel, Best Novella, Best Short Story, Best Independent Press, Best Artist, Best Anthology, Best Collection, Best Comic/Graphic Novel, Best Non-Fiction, and Best Newcomer, while the Karl Edward Wagner Award for "important contribution to the genre or the Society" is given at the discretion of the BFS committee. The membership of the BFS vote to determine the shortlists of the awards, the winners being decided by juries.

Nominees and winners

1999

August Derleth Award (Best Novel)

August Derleth Award (Best Novel)

The 2004 awards were presented at FantasyCon XXVIII held in 2004 at the Quality Hotel, Bentley, Walsall.

August Derleth Award (Best Novel)

The 2005 awards were presented at FantasyCon 2005, held 30 September–2 October 2005 at the Quality Hotel, Bentley Walsall.

August Derleth Fantasy Award (Best Novel)

The 2006 awards were presented at FantasyCon 2006 held 22–24 September 2006 at Britannia Hotel, Nottingham.

August Derleth Fantasy Award (Best Novel)

The 2007 awards were presented at FantasyCon XXXI held 21–23 September 2007 at Britannia Hotel, Nottingham.

August Derleth Fantasy Award (Best Novel)

The 2008 awards were presented at FantasyCon 2008 held at Britannia Hotel, Nottingham.

August Derleth Fantasy Award (Best Novel)

The 2009 awards were presented at FantasyCon 2009 held at Britannia Hotel, Nottingham.

August Derleth Fantasy Award (Best Novel)

The 2010 awards were presented at FantasyCon 2010 held 17–19 September 2010.

August Derleth Fantasy Award (Best Novel)

Karl Edward Wagner Special Award

August Derleth Award for best horror novel

August Derleth Award for best horror novel

August Derleth Award for best horror novel

The 2015 winners were presented on Oct 25, 2015 at FantasyCon 2015 in Nottingham.

August Derleth Award for best horror novel

The 2016 BFAs were awarded on 25 September 2016, at the FantasyCon 2016, "FantasyCon by the Sea", in the Grand Hotel, Scarborough.

Best anthology

Anthology: People of Colour Destroy Science Fiction ed., Nalo Hopkinson & Kristine Ong Muslim
Artist: Daniele Serra
Collection: Some Will Not Sleep, Adam L G Nevill
Comic/graphic novel: Monstress, Vol 1: Awakening, Marjorie Liu & Sana Takeda
Fantasy novel : The Tiger and the Wolf, Adrian Tchaikovsky
Film/television production: Arrival, Denis Villeneuve, Eric Heisserer & Ted Chiang
Horror novel : Disappearance at Devil's Rock, Paul Tremblay
Independent press: Grimbold Books
Magazine/periodical: Tor.com
Newcomer : Erica L Satifka, Stay Crazy
Non-fiction: The Geek Feminist Revolution, Kameron Huxley
Novella: The Ballad of Black Tom, Victor LaValle
Short fiction: “White Rabbit”, Georgina Bruce
The Special Award : Jan Edwards

2018

The 2018 awards were presented on 21 October 2018 at FantasyCon 2018, held at the Queen Hotel, Chester.

Best Anthology

Best Fantasy Novel (the [Robert Holdstock] Award)

In 2011, British writer Sam Stone won the British Fantasy Award but returned it three days later after editor and anthologist Stephen Jones posted a blog entry pointing out that three of the winning entries were published by Telos Publishing, a company owned by David Howe. At the time, Howe was also chair of the British Fantasy Society, British Fantasy Award coordinator, and partner of Stone.