British Fantasy Award for Best Novella

Annual literary award for speculative fiction From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The British Fantasy Award for Best Novella is a literary award given annually as part of the British Fantasy Awards.

Awarded forWorks between 15,000 and 40,000 words
CountryUnited Kingdom
Presented byBritish Fantasy Society
First award2005; 21 years ago (2005)
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British Fantasy Award for Best Novella
Awarded forWorks between 15,000 and 40,000 words
CountryUnited Kingdom
Presented byBritish Fantasy Society
First award2005; 21 years ago (2005)
Most recent winnerThe Last to Drown by Lorraine Wilson
Websitebritishfantasysociety.org
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Winners and shortlist

  *   Winners

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Year Author Work Publisher Ref.
2005 Christopher Fowler* Breathe Telos [1]
Tim Lebbon Dead Man's Hand Necessary Evil Press [1]
Steve Lockley The Ice Maiden Pendragon [1]
Paul Lewis
Lisa Tuttle My Death PS Publishing [1]
Sean Wright The Twisted Root of Jaarfindor Crowswing Books [1]
2006 Stuart Young* The Mask Behind the Face The Mask Behind the Face and Other Stories [2]
Jeffrey Ford The Cosmology of the Wider World PS Publishing [2]
Sean Wright Dark Tales of Space and Time Crowswing Books [2]
Guy Adams Deadbeat Humdrumming [2]
Paul Meloy Dying in the Arms of Jean Harlow (The Coming of the Autoscopes) The Third Alternative, #39 [2]
Paul Kane Signs of Life Rainfall Books [2]
Joe Hill Voluntary Committal PS Publishing [2]
2007 Paul Finch* Kid Choices [3]
Ian McDonald The Djinn's Wife Asimov's Science Fiction, July 2006 [3]
Eric Brown The Memory of Joy Choices [3]
Gary McMahon Rough Cut Pendragon [3]
Simon Clark She Loves Monsters Necessary Evil Press [3]
2008 Conrad Williams* The Scalding Rooms PS Publishing [4]
Tim Lebbon After the War Subterranean Press [4]
Gary McMahon All Your Gods Are Dead Humdrumming [4]
Del Stone Jr. Black Tide Telos [4]
Conrad Williams Rain Gray Friar [4]
Eric Brown Starship Summer PS Publishing [4]
2009 Tim Lebbon* The Reach of Children Humdrumming [5]
Simon Clark Cold Stone Calling Tasmaniac Publications [5]
Joe Hill Gunpowder PS Publishing [5]
Gary McMahon Heads We Fade To Grey [5]
Simon Bestwick The Narrows We Fade To Grey [5]
2010 Sarah Pinborough* The Language of Dying PS Publishing [6]
Joel Lane The Witnesses Are Gone PS Publishing [6]
Rob Shearman Roadkill Love Songs for the Shy and Cynical [6]
Stephen Volk Vardoger Gray Friar [6]
Rio Youers Old Man Scratch PS Publishing [6]
2011 Simon Clark* Humpty's Bones Telos [7]
Stephen King 1922 Full Dark, No Stars [7]
Andrew Hook Ponthe Oldenguine Atomic Fez [7]
Paul Finch Sparrowhawk Pendragon [7]
Tim Lebbon The Thief of Broken Toys ChiZine [7]
2012 Lavie Tidhar* Gorel and the Pot Bellied God PS Publishing [8]
James Cooper Terra Damnata PS Publishing [8]
Peter Crowther Ghosts with Teeth A Book of Horrors [8]
Elizabeth Hand Near Zennor A Book of Horrors [8]
John Ajvide Lindqvist The Music of Bengt Karlsson, Murderer A Book of Horrors [8]
Robert Shearman Alice Through the Plastic Sheet A Book of Horrors [8]
2013 John Llewellyn Probert* The Nine Deaths of Dr Valentine Spectral [9]
Gary Fry The Respectable Face of Tyranny Spectral [9]
Michael Moorcock Curaré Zenith Lives! [9]
Mike O'Driscoll Eyepennies TTA [9]
2014 Sarah Pinborough* Beauty Gollancz [10]
Nina Allan Spin TTA [10]
Nina Allan Vivian Guppy and the Brighton Belle Rustblind and Silverbright [10]
Paul Meloy Dogs With Their Eyes Shut PS Publishing [10]
Stephen Volk Whitstable Spectral [10]
2015 Stephen Volk* Newspaper Heart The Spectral Book of Horror Stories [11]
Ray Cluley Water for Drowning This is Horror [11]
Carole Johnstone Cold Turkey TTA [11]
Mark West Drive Pendragon [11]
2016 Usman T. Malik* The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn Tordotcom [12]
Paul Cornell Witches of Lychford Tordotcom [12]
Cate Gardner The Bureau of Them Spectral [12]
Mark Morris Albion Fay Spectral [12]
Nnedi Okorafor Binti Tordotcom [12]
2017 Victor LaValle* The Ballad of Black Tom Tordotcom [13]
Aliya Whiteley Arrival of Missives Unsung Stories [13]
VH Leslie Bodies of Water Tordotcom [13]
Seanan McGuire Every Heart a Doorway Tordotcom [13]
Gary McMahon The Grieving Stones Horrific Tales Publishing [13]
Cassandra Khaw Hammers on Bone Tordotcom [13]
2018 Ellen Klages* Passing Strange Tordotcom [14]
Emma Newman Brother's Ruin Tordotcom [14]
Alison Littlewood Cottingley NewCon [14]
Tade Thompson The Murders of Molly Southbourne Tordotcom [14]
Laura Mauro Naming the Bones Dark Minds Press [14]
Joanne Harris A Pocketful of Crows Gollancz [14]
2019 Aliette de Bodard* The Tea Master and the Detective Subterranean Press [15]
Nnedi Okorafor Binti: The Night Masquerade Tordotcom [15]
Simon Bestwick Breakwater Tor Books [15]
Hal Duncan The Land of Somewhere Safe NewCon [15]
John Llewellyn Probert The Last Temptation of Dr Valentine Black Shuck [15]
Brooke Bolander The Only Harmless Great Thing Tordotcom [15]
2020 Priya Sharma* Ormeshadow Tordotcom [16]
Neon Yang The Ascent to Godhood Tordotcom [16]
Nathan Ballingrud Butcher's Table Gallery/Saga Press [16]
Rivers Solomon[a] The Deep Gallery/Saga Press [16]
Gareth L. Powell Ragged Alice Tordotcom [16]
Tade Thompson The Survival of Molly Southbourne Tordotcom [16]
2021 P. Djèlí Clark* Ring Shout Tordotcom [17]
Shona Kinsella The Flame and the Flood Fox Spirit [17]
Georgina Bruce Honeybones TTA [17]
Zen Cho The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water Tordotcom [17]
Kit Power A Song for the End Horrific Tales [17]
Stark Holborn Triggernometry Rattleback [17]
2022 Nino Cipri* Defekt Tordotcom [18]
Shingai Njeri Kagunda & This is How to Stay Alive Neon Hemlock [18]
Penny Jones Matryoshka Hersham Horror [18]
Alix E. Harrow A Spindle Splintered Tordotcom [18]
Premee Mohamed These Lifeless Things Solaris Books [18]
Alan Garner Treacle Walker 4th Estate [18]
2023 Rhiannon A. Grist* The Queen of the High Fields Luna Press [19]
Malcolm Devlin And Then I Woke Up Tordotcom [19]
Stewart Hotston The Entropy of Loss NewCon [19]
Terry Grimwood Interference Elsewhen [19]
Adrian Tchaikovsky Ogres Solaris Books [19]
Priya Sharma Pomegranates PS Publishing [19]
2024 Indra Das* The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar Subterranean Press [20]
David Green The Darkness in the Pines Eerie River Publishing [20]
Tim Lebbon The Last Day and the First PS Publishing [20]
Tracy Fahey They Shut Me Up PS Publishing [20]
T. Kingfisher Thornhedge Titan Books [20]
Fonda Lee Untethered Sky Tordotcom [20]
2025 Lorraine Wilson* The Last to Drown Luna Press [21]
Neil Williamson Charlie Says Black Shuck Books [21]
T. Kingfisher What Feasts at Night Titan Books [21]
Kit Power Millionaires Day French Press [21]
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Notes

  1. [a]
    With Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, and Jonathan Snipes

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