The judges for the Red and Golden Tentacles, for novels and debut novels, are Kate Griffin, Will Hill, Annabel Wright, Anab Jain and Nick Harkaway. The Inky Tentacle, for cover art, will be judged by Craig Kennedy, Sarah Anne Langton, Barry Nugent, Hazel Thompson and Emma Vieceli.

Award Director Jared Shurin adds, “As with previous years, there’s no fee to submit to The Kitschies. And, as of this year, we’re happy to accept ebooks in lieu of physical copies – making it even easier for small and independent publishers to submit their work. We want to make sure that that our judges see all the great work that’s coming out of the UK.”

Please see http://www.thekitschies.com/submissions.html for more details.

More detail about the judges can be found at: http://www.thekitschies.com/judges.html

In 2012, The Kitschies received a record 211 submissions from 40 publishers and imprints. Submissions are now open for 2013 titles and close on 1 December 2013.

The main jury
Esther Sherman
Matthew Hughes
Neil Williamson
Pauline Morgan
Ros Jackson

The non-fiction jury
Djibril al-Ayad
Jason Arnopp
Roz Kaveney

The artist jury
Daniele Serra
Jimmy Broxton
P.M. Buchan
Rachel Kendall
Rhian Bowley

The small press jury
Elaine Hillson
Elloise Hopkins
Dave Brzeski
Rachel Kendall
Rhian Bowley

The newcomer jury
Adele Wearing
Alison Littlewood
Jim Steel
Lizzie Barrett
Peter Tennant

Over the next month or so the juries will decide whether to add any “egregious omissions” to the shortlists produced by the voting of the British Fantasy Society and the attendees of FantasyCon 2012. The shortlists will then be announced, and the juries will go on to decide the winners, which will be announced at an awards ceremony held at the World Fantasy Convention 2013, which runs from October 31 to November 3 in Brighton.

The jury members were selected by the British Fantasy Awards Administrator, Stephen Theaker (bfsawards@britishfantasysociety.org), and approved by the committee of the British Fantasy Society.

The shortlist are, in surname order:

The Unspoken Death of the Amazing Flying Boy by Jean Burdett

Bloodline by Sophie Constable

The Hive by Alexander Maskill

The Way Through the Woods by Robin Pearson

A Kill in the Morning by Graeme Shimmin

The Shadows of Annwn by Catherine Whittle

The six shortlisted books cover a breadth of topics and sub genres, imagination and alternate worlds. Each shortlisted entry was chosen for their skilful writing, vast imaginative powers and ability to tell a good story!

The winner will be judged by Sir Terry Pratchett, Rob Wilkins, Alex Veasey from Forbidden Planet, Simon Taylor, Editorial Director at Transworld Publishers and Lynsey Dalladay Sir Terry Pratchett’s Publicist. The winner will be announced on the 31^st May 2013.

Sir Terry Pratchett and Transworld Publishers would like to thank everyone who submitted an entry to the prize.

Every vote matters! In every category!

If there is nothing you wish to vote for this year, even empty voting forms will be gratefully received, just so we know we reached you.

VOTE HERE!

The Kitschies

This year’s shortlisted books are narrowed down from 211 submissions, coming from over 40 publishers that range from literary stalwarts Granta to pulp imprint Angry Robot.

The Red Tentacle (Novel), judged by Rebecca Levene, Patrick Ness and Jared Shurin:

• Jesse Bullington, The Folly of the World (Orbit)
• Nick Harkaway, Angelmaker (William Heinemann)
• Frances Hardinge, A Face Like Glass (Macmillan Children’s)
• Adam Roberts, Jack Glass (Gollancz)
• Julie Zeh (translated by Sally-Ann Spencer), The Method (Harvill Secker)

The Golden Tentacle (Debut):

• Madeline Ashby, vN (Angry Robot)
• Jenni Fagan, The Panopticon (William Heinemann)
• Rachel Hartman, Seraphina (Doubleday)
• Karen Lord, Redemption in Indigo (Jo Fletcher Books)
• Tom Pollock, The City’s Son (Jo Fletcher Books)

The Inky Tentacle (Cover Art), judged by Lauren O’Farrell, Gary Northfield and Ed Warren:

• Tom Gauld, Costume Not Included by Matthew Hughes (Angry Robot)
• Oliver Jeffers, The Terrible Thing that Happened to Barnaby Brocket by John Boyne (Doubleday)
• Dave Shelton, A Boy and a Bear in a Boat by Dave Shelton (David Fickling Books)
• Peter Mendelsund, The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus (Granta)
• La Boca, The Teleportation Accident by Ned Beauman (Sceptre)

The winners will be announced in a ceremony at the Free Word Centre on 26 February. Winners will receive a total of £2,000 in prize money, as well as one of the prize’s iconic Tentacle trophies and bottles of The Kraken Rum.

Jared Shurin said  “We always look for books that challenge people’s expectations of the speculative and fantastic. Although the pool of publishers and authors grows more diverse every year, there’s still a lot of work to be done. We hope that The Kitschies helps spur more discussion about what makes great fiction.”

The prize, sponsored by The Kraken Rum, is now in its fourth year, with previous winners including Lauren Beukes, China Miéville, Donald Westlake and Patrick Ness.

Jared writes:

“Before I get into my own superficial conclusions, it is important to note that I’m not claiming that our submissions are indicative of anything besides our submissions. But, at 200+ books, selected by the publishers (and occasionally prompted by the judges), there’s possibly some sort of loose/anecdotal correlation with the year’s genre output as a whole. 

• There’s a shocking lack of fiction in translation – statistically, a UK genre title is twice as likely to have a zombie than be first published in a non-English language. Sadly, I suspect this is probably true across the genre, and not just in our submissions pile. 
• Vampires and zombies are still going strong.
• Steampunk’s not going away either.
• Quite a few people predicted that angels and demons would be popular in 2012 (yup) and that superheroes and werewolves would be on the rise in 2013 (we’ll see).
• As the award ages, we’re now in a position where previous finalists (and winners) now have new books submitted. This year, we had six (plus two others with re-jacketed old books submitted for the Inky).
• “Mid-series” is also an interesting one, encompassing both outright, “picks up after the cliffhanger ending” sequels and self-contained novels that are set in existing worlds. How to judge a mid-series book seems a uniquely genre challenge: George RR Martin’s latest installment in A Song of Ice and Fire is an inevitable Hugo finalist, whereas “lit-fic” prizes deal with, at most, the occasional sequel (see: Hilary Mantel).  
• There was some discussion earlier this year about a self-publishing “avalanche” overwhelming the submissions piles of all book awards. Even with our liberal submissions policy – no fee, only two physical copies required – we only received seven self-published books. (Requiring physical copies, which can even take the form of stapled print-outs, isn’t meant to be a barrier, as not all of our judges have e-readers.) “

Check out the full post HERE

Following a proposal by BFS member Allen Ashley, this text was added to the rules:

Where practicable, the awards administrator will allow and encourage members, publishers and other interested parties to contribute to a list of eligible items, to be made available online before voting begins.

Following a proposal by BFS chair Lee Harris, this text:

The Awards Administrator may not be associated (either by writing, publishing or editing) with work nominated in any category.

was replaced with:

The Awards Administrator may not own or part-own any works shortlisted in any category. Where the Awards Administrator is associated (either by writing, publishing or editing) a work shortlisted in any category, the Awards Administrator will declare this association to the committee, who will independently verify the votes placed for that work, and that work’s eligibility to be shortlisted.

The updated awards constitution can be seen here.

The constitution that applied from 30 September 2012 to 7 December 2012 can be seen here.

For full list of categories and nominations please go HERE

The 2013 Sunburst Award jurors have now been announced. They are: Rebecca Bradley, Tony Burgess, Shari Lapeña, Barbard Roden and Leon Rooke. Full details HERE

2012 World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Awards
winner Alan Garner
winner George R.R. Martin

Novel
winner Osama, Lavie Tidhar (PS Publishing)
Those Across the River, Christopher Buehlman (Ace)
11/22/63, Stephen King (Scribner; Hodder & Stoughton as 11.22.63)
A Dance with Dragons, George R.R. Martin (Bantam; Harper Voyager UK)
Among Others, Jo Walton (Tor)

Novella
winner “A Small Price to Pay for Birdsong”, K.J. Parker (Subterranean Winter 2011)
“Near Zennor”, Elizabeth Hand (A Book of Horrors)
“Alice Through the Plastic Sheet”, Robert Shearman (A Book of Horrors)
“Rose Street Attractors”, Lucius Shepard (Ghosts by Gaslight)
“Silently and Very Fast”, Catherynne M. Valente (WSFA Press; Clarkesworld)

Short Story
winner “The Paper Menagerie”, Ken Liu (F&SF 3-4/11)
“X for Demetrious”, Steve Duffy (Blood and Other Cravings)
“Younger Women”, Karen Joy Fowler (Subterranean Summer 2011)
“A Journey of Only Two Paces”, Tim Powers (The Bible Repairman and Other Stories)
“The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees”, E. Lily Yu (Clarkesworld 4/11)

Anthology
winner The Weird, Ann & Jeff VanderMeer, eds. (Corvus; Tor, published May 2012)
Blood and Other Cravings, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Tor)
A Book of Horrors, Stephen Jones, ed. (Jo Fletcher Books)
The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities, Ann & Jeff VanderMeer, eds. (Harper Voyager US)
Gutshot, Conrad Williams, ed. (PS Publishing)

Collection
winner The Bible Repairman and Other Stories, Tim Powers (Tachyon and Subterranean Press)
Bluegrass Symphony, Lisa L. Hannett (Ticonderoga)
Two Worlds and In Between, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Subterranean Press)
After the Apocalypse, Maureen F. McHugh (Small Beer)
Mrs Midnight and Other Stories, Reggie Oliver (Tartarus)

Artist
winner John Coulthart
Julie Dillon
Jon Foster
Kathleen Jennings
John Picacio

Special Award—Professional
winner Eric Lane, for publishing in translation – Dedalus books
John Joseph Adams, for editing – anthology and magazine
Jo Fletcher, for editing – Jo Fletcher Books
Brett Alexander Savory & Sandra Kasturi, for ChiZine Publications
Jeff VanderMeer & S.J. Chambers, for The Steampunk Bible

Special Award—Non-professional
winner Raymond Russell & Rosalie Parker, for Tartarus Press
Kate Baker, Neil Clarke, Cheryl Morgan & Sean Wallace, for Clarkesworld
Cat Rambo, for Fantasy
Charles Tan, for Bibliophile Stalker blog
Mark Valentine, for Wormwood

Congratulations to all the winners and nominees!

Contributions to the list can be made, and corrections suggested, here.

The resulting eligibility list can be seen here.

You don’t have to be a member of the BFS or a FantasyCon attendee to contribute. Feel free to supply details of your own work. We’d be grateful to anyone spreading the word about this on Twitter, Facebook or their blog.

If you have a large number of items to add (for example if you’re a publisher or the editor of a magazine), you may find it easier to supply them in a spreadsheet to the awards administrator (see below). Just be sure to include a column listing the appropriate categories.

Note that the resulting list is an informal eligibility list. There is no prestige in appearing on it. People whose items appear on the list must not describe themselves as British Fantasy Award nominees, or as having been longlisted for the British Fantasy Award. Members will not be limited to voting on items that appear on the list.

For any queries as to the eligibility rules, please see the British Fantasy Awards constitution. If any questions remain, please contact the awards administrator, Stephen Theaker (bfsawards@britishfantasysociety.org).

The annual award, sponsored by The Spanish Horror Writers Association, was one of several announced on 13 October 2012 by the President of NOCTE, Juan Angel Laguna Edroso, and Spanish author Roberto Malo at XXX Hispacón in the city of Urnieta Guipuzcoa.

For more information about NOCTE, go to:
http://www.nocte.es/blog2/en/bienvenidos-a-nocte/

Categories are Best UK / Irish Fanzine, Best UK / Irish Fan Writer and Best UK / Irish Fan Artist .  For the online voting form see HERE

Novel
The August Derleth Award (for best horror novel)
The Ritual by Adam Nevill (Pan)

The Robert Holdstock Award (for best fantasy novel)
Among Others by Jo Walton (Tor Books)

Novella
Gorel and the Pot Bellied God by Lavie Tidhar (PS Publishing)

Short Fiction
The Coffin-Maker’s Daughter by Angela Slatter (A Book of Horrors, Jo Fletcher Books)

Anthology
The Weird, editors Jeff and Ann Vandermeer (Corvus Books)

Collection
Everyone’s Just So So Special by Robert Shearman (Big Finish)

Screenplay
Midnight in Paris by Woody Allen

Magazine/Periodical
Black Static, Andy Cox, editor; TTA Press

Comic/Graphic Novel
Locke and Key by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez (IDW Publishing)

BFS Special Jury Awards:

The PS Publishing Independent Press Award
Chomu Press; Quentin S. Crisp
(Jury: Sandy Auden, Peter Crowther, Nicholas Royle, Peter Tennant & Darren Turpin)

The Artist Award
Daniele Serra
(Jury: Guy Adams, Anne Sudworth, Christopher Teague)

The Non-Fiction Award
Supergods: Our World in the Age of the Super Hero by Grant Morrison (Jonathan Cape)
(Jury: Djibril al-Ayad, Roz Kaveney & Adam Roberts)

The Sydney J. Bounds Best Newcomer Award
Kameron Hurley
(Jury: Adele Wearing, Jenny Barber, Lou Morgan)

The Karl Edward Wagner Special Award
Peter & Nicky Crowther
(Jury: BFS & Fantasycon Committees)

Congratulations to all the winners and nominees!

SF Scope

For a full list, see HERE

The first stage of the This Is Horror Awards 2012 begins now. Readers can email in their nominations for each of the eighteen Award categories. Taking into consideration the nominations for each category, This Is Horror will then draw up a shortlist.

The nominations stage runs from 3 September 2012 through until 31 October 2012. Categories include Novel of the Year, Film of the Year, TV Series of the Year and Podcast of the Year, among others.

Please see the This Is Horror website HERE for more information, the Award rules, and how to vote.

BEST NOVEL

Among Others by Jo Walton (Tor)

BEST NOVELLA

“The Man Who Bridged the Mist” by Kij Johnson (Asimov’s, September/October 2011)

BEST NOVELETTE

“Six Months, Three Days” by Charlie Jane Anders (Tor.com)

BEST SHORT STORY

“The Paper Menagerie” by Ken Liu (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, March/April 2011)

BEST RELATED WORK

The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, Third Edition edited by John Clute, David Langford, Peter Nicholls, and Graham Sleight (Gollancz)

BEST GRAPHIC STORY

Digger by Ursula Vernon (Sofawolf Press)

BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION, LONG FORM

Game of Thrones (Season 1) (HBO)

BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION, SHORT FORM

“The Doctor’s Wife” (Doctor Who) (BBC Wales)

BEST EDITOR, SHORT FORM

Sheila Williams

BEST EDITOR, LONG FORM

Betsy Wollheim

BEST PROFESSIONAL ARTIST

John Picacio

BEST SEMIPROZINE

Locus, edited by Liza Groen Trombi, Kirsten Gong-Wong, et al.

BEST FANZINE

SF Signal, edited by John DeNardo

BEST FAN WRITER

Jim C. Hines

BEST FAN ARTIST

Maurine Starkey

BEST FANCAST

SF Squeecast, Lynne M. Thomas, Seanan McGuire, Paul Cornell, Elizabeth Bear, and Catherynne M. Valente

JOHN W. CAMPBELL AWARD FOR BEST NEW WRITER

Award for the best new professional science fiction or fantasy writer of 2009 or 2010, sponsored by Dell Magazines (not a Hugo Award).

E. Lily Yu

Congratulations to all the winners!

To view the full shortlist go HERE

The judges for the Awards this year are John Berlyne, James P. Blaylock, Stephen Gallagher, Mary Kay Kare and Jacques Post. The awards will be presented at the World Fantasy Convention Banquet. In addition, 2012 World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Awards will be presented to Alan Garner and George R.R. Martin.

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature: Lisa Goldstein, The Uncertain Places (Tachyon Publications)

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature: Delia Sherman, The Freedom Maze (Big Mouth House)

Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies: Carl Phelpstead, Tolkien and Wales: Language, Literature and Identity (Univ. of Wales Press, 2011)

Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Myth and Fantasy Studies: Jack Zipes, The Enchanted Screen: The Unknown History of Fairy-Tale Films (Routledge, 2011)

Full details from the Mythopoeic Society’s website  HERE

American Horror Story

• Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie (Connie Britton as Vivien Harmon)
• Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie (Frances Conroy as Moira)
• Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a movie (Jessica Lange as Constance Langdon)
• Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie (Denis O’Hare as Larry Harvey)
• Art Direction for a Miniseries or Movie (“Open House” [Part 7])
• Art Direction for a Miniseries or Movie (Part 1)
• Casting for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special
• Costumes for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special
• Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Miniseries or a Movie
• Hairstyling for a Miniseries or a Movie
• Main Title Design
• Makeup for a Miniseries or a Movie (Non-Prosthetic)
• Prosthetic Makeup for a Series, Miniseries, Movie or a Special
• Sound Editing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special (“Piggy, Piggy”)
• Sound Mixing for a Miniseries or a Movie (“Piggy, Piggy”)
• Stunt Coordination

Other genre TV series picking up nominations include Grimm (1 nomination), Game of Thrones (12 nominations) and The Walking Dead (3 nominations).

The Awards will be presented on Sunday 23 September 2012 during a ceremony in the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles.

For a full list of all nominees go HERE

Read the full report HERE

SFScope

Campbell Award:
1st (joint): The Islanders by Christopher Priest (Gollancz)
1st (joint): The Highest Frontier by Joan Slonczewski (Tor)
3rd: Embassytown by China Miéville (Ballantine/Del Rey)
Honorable Mention: Osama by Lavie Tidhar (PS Publishing)

Sturgeon Award:
1st: The Choice by Paul McAuley (Asimov’s)
2nd: Six Months Three Days by Charlie Jane Anders (Tor.com)
3rd: The Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction)

The shortlisted works in the adult category are:
Blackdog by K. V. Johansen (Pyr Books)
Eutopia: A Novel of Terrible Optimism, by David Nickle (Chizine Publications)
Technicolor Ultra Mall by Ryan Oakley (EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing)
Enter, Night by Michael Rowe (Chizine Publications)
Paradise Tales by Geoff Ryman (Small Beer Press)
The Pattern Scars by Caitlin Sweet (Chizine Publications)

The shortlisted works in the young adult category are:
Ultraviolet by R. J. Anderson (Lerner Publishing Group)
All Good Children by Catherine Austen (Orca Book Publishers)
The Summer of Permanent Wants by Jamieson Findlay (Doubleday Canada)
The Dead Kid Detective Agency by Evan Munday (ECW Press)
Blood Red Road: Dustlands: 1 by Moira Young (Doubleday Canada)

The awards will be presented in the fall of 2012.

The jurors for the 2012 award are: Douglas Barbour, Zsuzsi Gartner, Daniel Justice, Lorna Toolis and Halli Villegas.

The Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic is an annual award celebrating the best in Canadian fantastic literature published during the previous calendar year.

The winners receive a cash prize of $1,000 as well as a hand-crafted medallion which incorporates the Sunburst logo.

The Sunburst Award takes its name from the debut novel of the late Phyllis Gotlieb, one of the first published authors of contemporary Canadian speculative fiction.

For additional information about the Sunburst Award, the nominees and jurors, as well as previous awards, eligibility and the selection process, please visit the website at www.sunburstaward.org.

The nominees are:

Short Form:

• Michael F. Flynn, The Iron Shirts (Tor.com)
• Lisa Goldstein, Paradise Is a Walled Garden (Asimov’s, 8/11)
• Jason Stoddard, Orion Rising (Panverse 3, edited by Dario Ciriello, Panverse Publishing)
• Harry Turtledove, Lee at the Alamo (Tor.com)

Long Form:

• Robert Conroy, Castro’s Bomb (Kindle)
• Robert Conroy, Himmler’s War (Baen Books)
• Jeff Greenfield, Then Everything Changed (Putnam)
• Ian R MacLeod, Wake Up and Dream (PS Publishing)
• Ian McDonald, Planesrunner (Pyr)
• Ekaterina Sedia, Heart of Iron (Prime)
• Lavie Tidhar, Camera Obscura (Angry Robot)

The Sidewise Awards for Alternate History were conceived in late 1995 to honor the best allohistorical genre publications of the year. The first awards were announced in summer 1996 and honored works from 1995. The award takes its name from Murray Leinster’s 1934 short story Sidewise in Time, in which a strange storm causes portions of Earth to swap places with their analogs from other timelines.

This year’s nominees include previous winners Harry Turtledove (1997, 2002), Michael F. Flynn (2007), Ian R. MacLeod (1998, 2005), and Robert Conroy (2009). Jason Stoddard was previously nominated in 2005. First time nominees include Lisa Goldstein, Jeff Greenfield, Ian McDonald, Ekaterina Sedia and Lavie Tidhar.

The winners will be announced at Chicon 7, this year’s Worldcon, in Chicago, Illinois during the weekend of 30 August 2012.

For more information, see the website HERE

The winners were:
Ravenheart Award (best cover art): Raymond Swanland – Blood of Aenarion
Morningstar Award (best debut): Helen Lowe – Heir of Night
Legend Award (best novel): Patrick Rothfuss – The Wiseman’s Fear

It was also announced that next year’s Gemmell Awards ceremony will take place as part of the 2013 World Fantasy Convention.

The convention takes place in Brighton, UK between 31 October and 3 November 2013.  The only other times that the World Fantasy Convention has moved outside North America was in 1988 and 1997, when it was staged in London, so we feel privileged to be a part of this prestigious international event.

Held at Brighton’s Metropole Hotel and the West Pier, WFC 2013 boasts an impressive line-up of guests, including Richard Matheson, Richard Christian Matheson, Brian Aldiss, Alan Lee and Tessa Farmer.  The Master of Ceremonies is China Mieville; and a host of other authors, artists, publishers and industry insiders will also be attending.

For full details of the convention visit the official website HERE

As the Gemmell Awards will be presented in October/November next year, and not in mid-June as usual, the voting cycle will be altered to accommodate the change of date.  To keep abreast of the changes check the awards website where you can sign-up for the free newsletter. The change of venue and date is for one year only – 2014 will see the awards returning to the Magic Circle.

In order to raise funds and keep these great awards running, an auction is held every year at the ceremony. This year, the auction lots include:

• Have your name featured in an upcoming Terry Brooks novel
• A Star Wars moleskin notebook containing the signatures of over 40 SFF authors including Brent Weeks, Robin Hobb, Peter Brett, Joe Abercrombie, China Miéville, Patrick Rothfuss, Peter Hamilton and many more
• Have 10,000 words of your manuscript, plus submission letter and synopsis edited by editor Gillian Redfearn at Gollancz
• The original pencil sketch by the artist Didier Graffet of the cover for The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie

Please see details of all the auction lots via the Gemmell Award homepage HERE

All of these lots will be auctioned off at the award ceremony. However, for those who would like to bid on an item but can’t attend the event, highest bids can now be submitted by email to christineharrison_007 [at] hotmail [dot] com in advance of the ceremony on 15 June 2012.

The Mythopoeic Society – a non-profit group devoted to the study of fantastic and mythopoeic literature – have announced the Mythopoeic Awards finalists. See HERE for details

The Association for the Recognition of Excellence in SF and Fantasy Translation (ARESFFT) have announced the finalists for the 2012 Science Fiction and Fantasy Translation Awards (for works published in 2011). See HERE for details

Locus Online reports that The Asimov’s Readers’ Awards and the Analog 2011 AnLab Awards were presented during the recent Nebula Awards Weekend. See the Locus website HERE for the list of winners

Finally, The 2012 Compton Crook Award winner is T.C. McCarthy‘s Germline (Orbit). This Award is presented by the members of the Baltimore Science Fiction Society for the best first novel in the field of science fiction, fantasy or horror. Further information HERE

As previously announced, Steven Moffat (Doctor Who, Sherlock) received a special BAFTA for his “outstanding creative writing contribution to television”. Sherlock also scooped an award when Andrew Scott won Best Supporting Actor for his role as Sherlock’s arch nemesis Moriarty.

The recently cancelled fantasy horror series The Fades won Best Drama Series, while the darkly comedic drama Psychoville won the Best New Media Award.

A full list of all the winners can be found HERE

Photo (c) BBC

For the full list of nominees and winners see the SFWA website HERE

A full list of the winners is provided on SFScope HERE

Steven Moffat

Moffat also received a writing prize at this year’s BAFTA Craft Awards for A Scandal in Belgravia, the first episode of Sherlock‘s second series.

Read the full BBC story HERE

British Fantasy Award recommendations:

Novel:
The Ritual; Adam Nevill (Pan Macmillan)
Zone One; Colson Whitehead (Harvill Secker)
Deadline; Mira Grant (Orbit)
The Concrete Grove; Gary McMahon (Solaris)
Southern Gods; John Horner Jacobs (Nightshade Books)
Regicide; Nicholas Royle (Solaris)
The Dracula Papers: Book 1 The Scholars Tale; Reggie Oliver (Chomu Press)
The Shadow of the Soul; Sarah Pinborough (Gollancz)
The Mall; S L Grey (Corvus Books)
Frankenstein’s Prescription; Tim Lees (Tartarus Press)
The Orphan Palace; Joseph S Pulver, Sr (Chomu Press)
Enterprise of Death; Jesse Bullington (Orbit)
Bleed;    Ed Kurtz (Abattoir)
Department 19; Will Hill (Harper Collins)
Black Flowers; Steve Mosby (Orion)
11.22.63; Stephen King (Hodder & Stoughton)
The Left Hand; Serenity J Banks (Dark Continents)
Ghosts Know; Ramsey Campbell (PS Publishing)
Ashes; Ilsa J Bick (Quercus)
666 Charing Cross Road; Paul Magrs (Headline Review)
Outpost; Adam Baker (Hodder & Stoughton)
The Lamplighters; Frazer Lee (Samhain Publishing)
Forest of Shadows; Hunter Shea (Samhain Publishing)
Loss of Separation; Conrad Williams (Solaris)
Kin; Kealan Patrick Burke (Cemetery Dance)
Revenants; Daniel Mills (Chomu Press)
Rivers of London; Ben Aaronovitch (Gollancz)
Graveminder; Melissa Marr (Harper Collins)
The Last Werewolf; Glen Duncan (Canongate)
Osama; Lavie Tidhar (PS Publishing)
Enter, Night; Michael Rowe (ChiZine Publications)
Little Star; John Ajvide Lindqvist (Quercus)
The Thing on the Shore; Tom Fletcher (Quercus)
The Damned Highway; Brian Keene and Nick Mamatas (Dark Horse)
Cyber Circus; Kim Lakin-Smith (NewCon Press)
Hunter’s Moon; Paul Finch (BBC Books)
A Matrix of Angels; Christopher Conlon (Creative Guy Publishing)
Isis Unbound; Allyson Bird (Dark Regions Press)
Long Lankin; Lindsay Barraclough (Bodley Head)
Shapes in the Mist; G R Yeates
Moon over Soho; Ben Aaronovitch (Gollancz)
Cold Mirrors; C J Lines (Adramelech Books)
Killer Move; Michael Marshall Smith (Orion)
Restoration – The World House; Guy Adams (Angry Robot)
Theatre of Curious Acts; Cate Gardner (Hadley Rille)
A Monster Calls; Patrick Ness and Siobhan Dowd (Walker)
O My Days; David Mathew (Triskaideka Press)
The Faceless; Simon Bestwick (Solaris)
Fangboy; Jeff Strand (Delirium Press)
Dead Bad Things; Gary McMahon (Angry Robot)
Mechanique; Genevieve Valentine (Prime)
The Burning Soul; John Connolly (Hodder & Stoughton)
Redlaw; James Lovegrove (Solaris Books)
Flesh Eaters; Joe McKinney (Pinnacle)
Ghost Story; Jim Butcher (Orbit)
Abarat 3 Absolute Midnight; Clive Barker (Harper Collins)
Reamde; Neal Stephenson (Atlantic Books)
God’s War; Kameron Hurley (Nightshade Books)
Snuff; Terry Pratchett    (Doubleday)
Somnium; Steve Moore (Somnium/Strange Attractor)
The Crippled God; Steven Erikson (Bantam Press)
The Heroes; Joe Abercrombie (Gollancz)
The Islanders; Christopher Priest (Gollancz)
The Cold Commands; Richard Morgan (Gollancz)
The Scar Crow Men; Mark Chadbourn (Gollancz)
Among Thieves; Douglas Hulick (Tor)
Fenrir; M D Lachlan (Gollancz)
Among Others; Jo Walton (Tor)
Enter Wildthyme; Paul Magrs (Snowbooks)
The Rogue; Trudi Canavan (Orbit)
IQ84; Haruki Murakami (Harvill Secker)
Babylon Steel; Gaie Sebold (Solaris)
Jack Cloudie; Stephen Hunt (Harper Voyager)
A Dance with Dragons; George R R Martin (Harper Voyager)
Daughter of Smoke and Bone; Laini Taylor (Hodder and Stoughton)
The Night Circus; Erin Morgenstern (Harvill Secker)
City of Hope and Despair; Ian Whates (Angry Robot)
Lowtown: The Straight Razor Cure; Daniel Polansky (Hodder & Stoughton)
Embassytown; China Mieville (Macmillan)
The Fallen Blade; Jon Courtenay Grimwood (Orbit)
The Traitors Gate; Sarah Silverwood (Gollancz)
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children; Ransom Riggs (Quirk)
Dangerous Waters; Juliet McKenna (Solaris)
The Company Man; Robert Jackson Bennett (Orbit)
The Emperor’s Knife; Mazarkis Williams (Jo Fletcher Books)
Hard Magic; Larry Correia (Baen Books)
Neon Court; Kate Griffin (Orbit)
Wise Man’s Fear; Patrick Rothfuss (Gollancz)
Professor Moriarty: The Hound of the D’Urbavilles; Kim Newman (Titan Books)
Elves: once walked with Gods*; James Barclay (Gollancz)
Savage City; Sophia McDougall (Gollancz)
The Ruby Trick; Julia Knight (Carina Press)
Wake Up and Dream; Ian R MacLeod (PS Publishing)
The Immorality Engine; George Mann (Snowbooks)
Cyrus Darian and the Technicrom; Raven Dane (Prosochi)
White Cat; Holly Black (Gollancz)
Apoidea; Douglas Thompson (Exaggerated Press)
Heartless: The Parasol Protectorate: Book 4; Gail Garriger (Orbit)
Songs of the Earth – the Wild Hunt book 1; Elspeth Cooper (Gollancz)
Echo City; Tim Lebbon (Orbit)
Darkness Falling; Peter Crowther (Angry Robot)
Harbinger of the Storm; Aliette de Bodard (Angry Robot)
Mr Fox; Helen Oyeyemi (Picador)
Dr Who: Borrowed Time; Naomi A Alderman (BBC Books)
The Evolutionary Void; Peter F Hamilton (Pan)
The Sword of Shadows; Adrian Cole (Wildside Press)
popCULT; David Barnett (Pendragon Press)
Picus the Thief; Robin Bennett (Small Vampires)
The Silver Wind; Nina Allan (Eibonvale)
All Clear; Connie Willis (Spectra Books)

(* ‘Elves: Once walked with Gods’ by James Barclay is included in the list of members’ recommendations. James Barclay is on the BFA Jury this year.)

Novella:
Dancing the Warrior; Marie Brennan (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #66 #67)
The Man Who Bridged the Mist; Kij Johnson (Asimov’s Science Fiction)
Alcyone; Colin Insole (Ex Occidente)
The Man Who Ended History; Ken Liu (Panverse)
Ghosts with Teeth; Peter Crowther (A Book of Horrors, Jo Fletcher Books)
Blue and Gold; K J Parker (Subterranean)
Edge of Dreams; Debbie Bennett (e book)
Jesus and the Eightfold Path; Lavie Tidhar (Immersion Press)
Greyglass; Tanith Lee (Immanion Press)
Gorel and the Pot-Bellied God; Lavie Tidhar (P S Publishing)
Bleed for you; Michael Lewis Calvillo (Delirium Books)
Halflife; Paul Kane (Books of the Dead)
The Men from Porlock; Laird Barron
Alice through the Plastic Sheet; Robert Shearman (A Book of Horrors, JF Books)
Near Zennor; Elizabeth Hand (A Book of Horrors, Jo Fletcher Books)
Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine; Peter Straub (Subterranean Press)
Isabel Jane; Catherine Dale (Pendragon Press)
Angels of the Silences; Simon Bestwick (Pendragon Press)
Pataki; Nisi Shawl (Strange Horizons)
Murder Born; Robert Reed (Asimov’s Science Fiction)
Barbed Wire Hearts; (Delirium Books)
A Brood of Foxes; Kristin Livdahl (Aqueduct Press)
The Child’s Problem; Reggie Oliver (A Book of Horrors, Jo Fletcher Books)
Terra Damnata; James Cooper (PS Publishing)
Angels of the Silences; Simon Bestwick (Pendragon Press)
The Grinding House; Kaaron Warren (40k)
The Mill; Mark West (Greyhart Press)
Times Table; Robert Shearman (Big Finish)
Promised Land Blues; Rio Youers (P S Publishing)
The Affair of the Chalk Cliffs; by James P Blaylock (Subterranean Press)
The Music of Bengt Karlsson, Murderer; John Ajvide Lindqvist (A Book of Horrors, Jo Fletcher Books)

Short Fiction:
At the Sign of the Black Dove; Lou Morgan (Pandemonium: Stories of the Apocalypse)
Qiqirn; Simon Kurt Unsworth (Phobophobia)
The Thief of Precious Things; A C Wise (Bewere the Night)
The Coffin-Maker’s Daughter; Angela Slatter (A Book of Horrors)
The Dark Space in the House in the Garden at the Centre of the World; Robert Shearman (Solaris/House of Fear)
Vamps Got Talent; Ross Baxter (Fangtales, Wyvern publications)
Flowers of the Sea; Reggie Oliver (The Horror Anthology of Horror Anthologies)
She Murdered Mortal He; Sarah Hall (Granta 117)
The Fool Jobs; Joe Abercrombie (Night Shade Books)
Small Price to Pay for Birdsong; K J Parker (Subterranean)
What They Hear in the Dark; Gary McMahon (Spectral Press)
Florrie; Adam Nevill (House of Fear)
Antlers; Thana Niveau (Death Rattles)
Sad, Dark Thing; Michael Marshall Smith (A Book of Horrors)
Butterfly; Garth Upshaw (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
Grey Magic for Cats; Jan Edwards (BFS Journal – New Horizons)
Waiting for the Bullet; Mark Morris (Gutshot, PS Publishing)
Of Dawn; Al Robertson (Interzone)
Me and My Shadow; Justin Carroll (Fangtales, Wyvern Publications)
I Have Heard the Mermaids Singing; Ray Cluley (Black Static #26)
Quieta Non Movere; Reggie Oliver (The Eighth Black Book of Horror)
Black Feathers; Alison Littlewood (Black Static 22)
The Little Green God of Agony; Stephen King (A Book of Horrors)
Closer Than You Think; Neil Williams (Ill at Ease, Penman Press)
Tethered by Mecurio; D. Rivera (Interzone, TTA Press)
Not The End of the World; Sophia McDougall (Pandemonium: Stories of the Apocalypse)
Dermot; Simon Bestwick (Black Static)
Botched; Lorraine Slater (The Monster Book for Girls)
Christ the Painter; Allen Ashley (Postscripts 24/25) 2
The Curtain Parts; Christopher Fowler (Black Static, TTA Press)
For Shame of Doing Wrong; Joel Lane (Unspoken Water 1)
Walk the Last Mile; Steve Savile (Terror Tales of the Lake District)
Pins and Needles; Ray Cluley (Black Static)
The Quiet Coach; Alison Littlewood (Fogbound from 5, Hersham Horror)
Cold Snap; Robert Shearman (Everyone’s Just So So Special)
Card Sharp; Rajan Khanna (The Way of the Wizard)

Deluge; Kim Lakin-Smith (Pandemonium: Stories of the Apocalypse)
Bury the Truth; Carole Johnston (Dark Minds Anthology)
Restoration; Robert Shearman (Big Finish)
Coverhithe; China Mieville (The Guardian)
Nowhere Hill; Cate Gardner (Spectral Press)
The Man in the Ditch; Lisa Tuttle (A Book of Horrors)
Christopher Raven; Theodora Goss (Fantasy Magazine)
Swans; Kelly Link (Fantasy Magazine)
The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains; Neil Gaiman (Stories – Headline Review)
The Day or the Hour; Jonathan Oliver (Pandemonium: Stories of the Apocalypse)
The Tower; Mark Samuel (The Man who Collected Machen, Chomu)
Wait; Conrad Williams (Haunts, Ulysses Press)
King Death; Paul Finch (Spectral Press)
Timekeeping; L H Leslie (Black Static, TTA Press)
Closer; Osgood Vance (Pandemonium: Stories of the Apocalypse)
Spiral; David Rix (The Monster Book for Girls)
Objects in Dreams May be Closer than They Appear; Lisa Tuttle (House of Fear anthology)
In the House of Answers; Allen Ashley (BFS Journal)
White Butterflies; Stephen Volk (Gutshot, P S Publishing)
Little One; Steve Rasnic Tem (Unspoken Water 1)
Cow Castle; Paul Finch (Death Rattles)
Roots and All; Brian Hodge (A Book of Horrors)
Daughters of Kali; Neesha Meminger (Expanded Horizons #27)
The Paper Menagerie; Ken Liu (Fantasy and Science Fiction)
Villanova; Paul Meloy (House of Fear)
Tok; Paul Finch (The Eighth Black Book of Horror)
Wikolak; Nina Allan (Crimewave 11: Ghosts)
The Morraine; Simon Bestwick (Terror Tales of the Lake District, Gray Friar)
Kriegsmaterial; Adrian Chamberlain (Fogbound from 5, Hersham Horror)
Your Golden Hands; Andrew Hook (Postscripts 24/25)
Tying knots; Ken Liu (Clarksworld)
On the beach; Andrew Hook (Unspoken Water 1)
Hail; Daniel Kaysen (Black Static)
Timekeeping; V H Leslie (Black Static)
Times Table; Robert Shearman in Everyone’s Just So, So Special by Robert Shearman (Big Finish, July 2011)
Moons; Ramsay Campbell (The Devil’s Coattails, Cycatrix Press)

Anthology:
Pandemonium: Stories of The Apocalypse; edited by Anne C. Perry and Jared Shurin (Jurassic London)
Granta 117: Horror; edited byJohn Freeman (Granta).
Wildthyme in Purple; edited by Cody Quijano-Schell and Stuart Douglas (Obverse Books)
The Way of the Wizard; edited by John Joseph Adams (Prime Books)
House of Fear; edited by Jonathan Oliver (Solaris Books)
The Master in Cafe Morphine; edited by Dan Ghetu (Ex Occidente Press)
Fangtales; edited by Berni Stevens (Wyvern Publications)
The Weird; edited by Ann and Jeff Vandermeer (Corvus Books)
The Best SFF of the Year Volume 5; edited by Jonathan Strachan (Night Shade Books)
Delicate Toxins; edited by John Hirschhorn-Smith (Side Real Press)
A Book of Horrors; edited by Stephen Jones (Jo Fletcher Books)
The Eighth Black Book of Horror; edited by Charles Black    (Mortbury Press)
13: Tales of Dark Fiction; edited by Adam Bradley (Morpheus Tales)
Tales of the Shadowmen 8: Agents Provocateurs; edited by Jean-Marc Lofficier, Randy Lofficier (Black Coat Press)
Stories: All-new Tales; edited by Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio    (Headline Review)
The Horror Anthology of Horror Anthologies; edited by DF Lewis    (Megazanthus Press)
Ill at Ease; edited by Mark West (PenMan Press)
The Monster Book for Girls; edited by Terry Grimwood (Exaggerated Press)
Postscripts 24/25; edited by Pete Crowther (PS Publishing)
Gutshot; edited by Conrad Williams (PS Publishing)
The Book of Cthulu; edited by Ross E Lockhart (Night Shade Books)
Terror Tales of the Lake District; edited by Paul Finch (Gray Friar Press)
Further Conflicts; edited by Ian Whates (NewCon Press)
A Dream of Stone; edited by D. M. Mitchell (Paraphilia Books and Magazines)
New Cthulhu: The Recent Weird; edited by Paula Guran (Prime Books)
The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities; edited by Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer (Harper Voyager US)
Haunts: Reliquaries of the Dead; edited by Stephen Jones (Ulysses)
Fogbound from 5; edited by Peter Mark May (Hersham Horror)
The Best Horror of the Year Volume 3; edited by Ellen Datlow (Night Shade Books)
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 22; edited by Stephen Jones (Robinson)
Beware the Night; edited by Ekaterina Sedia (Prime Books)
The Avenger: The Justice Inc. Files; edited by Joe Gentile, Howard Hopkins (Moonstone Books)
Phobophobia; edited by Dean M Drinkel (Dark Continents Publishing)
Alt Dead; edited by Peter Mark May (Hersham Horror)
Death Rattles; edited by Gary McMahon, Paul Finch and Stephen Volk (Gray Friar Press)
The Devil’s Coattails; edited by Jason V Brock and William F Nolan (Cycatrix Press)

(Please note – BFS publications are ineligible and therefore any recommendations have not been listed.)

Collection:
A Glass of Shadow; Liz Williams (Newcon Press)
Everyone’s Just So So Special; Robert Shearman (Big Finish Productions)
Quiet Houses; Simon Kurt Unsworth (Dark Continents)
Somewhere Beneath Those Waves; Sarah Monette (Prime Books)
Allurements of Cabochon; John Gale (Ex Occidente)
Baby’s First Book of Seriously Fucked Up Shit; Robert Devereaux (Eraserhead)
Long Shadows, Nightmare Light; Mark Morris (PS Publishing)
The Engines of Desire; Livia Llewellyn (Lethe Press)
Mrs Midnight; Reggie Oliver (Tartarus Press)
This is the Quickest Way Down; Charles Christian (Proxima)
Scream Quietly: The Best of Charles L. Grant; Charles L. Grant (PS Publishing)
Sherlock Holmes: Revenant; William Meikle (Dark Regions Press)
Love and Other Adventures; Nick Mellish (Lulu)
Binscombe Tales; John Whitbourn (Spark Furnace)
The Silver Wind; Nina Allen (Eibonvale)
The Man Who Collected Machen and Other Weird Tales; Mark Samuels (Chomu Press)
The Inhabitant of the Lake & Other Unwelcome Tenants; Ramsey Campbell  (PS Publishing)
Rumours of the Marvellous; Peter Atkins (Alchemy Press/Airgedlamh Productions)
Red Gloves; Christopher Fowler (PS Publishing)
Ventriloquism; Catherynne M. Valente (PS Publishing)
After the Apocalypse; Maureen F McHugh (Small Beer Press)
One Monster is not enough; by Paul Finch (Gray Friar Press)
Wind Angels; Leigh Kennedy (PS Publishing)
Central Park Knight by C.J. Henderson (MacMillan-Tor Books)
The Dragnet Solar Pons et al; August Derleth (Battered Silicon Dispatch Box)
The Secret Life of the Panda; Nick Jackson (Chomu Press)
Medi-Evil Volume 1; Paul Finch (Brentwood Press)
The Janus Tree; Glen Hirshberg (Subterranean Press)
Eldritch Tales; H.P. Lovecraft (Gollancz)
Nitrospective; Andrew Hook (Dog Horn Press)
Pain Cages; Paul Kane (Books of the Dead Press)
The Monkey’s Wedding and Other Stories; Joan Aiken (Small Beer Press)
Dark Dreams, Pale Horses; Rio Youers (PS Publishing)
Five Degrees of Latitude; Michael Reynier (Tartarus Press)
Gathered Dust and Others; W.H. Pugmire     (Dark Regions Press)
It Knows Where You Live; Gary McMahon (Gray Friar Press)

Screenplay:
Melancholia; Lars Von Trier
X-Men: First Class; Jane Goldman, Ashley Miller, Zack Stentz, Matthew Vaughn
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2; Steve Kloves
A Servant of Two Masters (Merlin, S4 ep6); Lucy Watkins
Attack the Block; Joe Cornish
Another Earth; Brit Marling
Merlin: Lancelot Du Lac; Lucy Watkins, Sara Hamill
The Doctor’s Wife (Dr Who); Neil Gaiman
The Awakening; Stephen Volk, Nick Murphy
Kill List; Ben Wheatley and Amy Jump
Midnight in Paris; Woody Allen
The Devil’s Rock; Paul Campion, Paul Finch, Brett Ihaka
Snowtown; Shaun Grant
Game of Thrones: Fire and Blood; David Benioff and D. B. Weiss
A Good Man Goes to War (Dr Who); Steve Moffat
Captain America: The First Avenger; Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely
Being Human; Toby Whitehouse
Torchwood Ep 7: Immortal Sins; Russell T Davies (creator), Jane Espensen
Hugo; John Logan
Rise of the Planet of the Apes; Rick Jaffa
Super; James Gunn
Black Pond; Will Sharpe
Marchlands; Stephen Greenhorn and Chrissy Skinns
Troll Hunter; André Øvredal, Sveinung Golimo* (NB – 2010 – ineligible)
A Golden Crown: Game of Thrones; Jane Espenson, David Benioff, D. B. Weiss
Super 8; J J Abrams
Whisperer in Darkness; Andrew Leman
The Fades:  The Chosen One
Winter Is Coming: Game of Thrones; David Benioff and D.B. Weiss
Red State; Kevin Smith, Jon Gordon
Sucker Punch; Zack Snyder, Steve Shibuya
Sherlock; Steven Moffat & Mark Gatiss
Source Code; Ben Ripley
13 Assassins; Kaneo Ikegami, Daisuke Tengan
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides; Terry Rossio & Ted Elliot
The Skin I Live In; Pedro Almodovar
The Wedding of River Song, Doctor Who; Steven Moffat

Periodical/Magazine:
Beneath Ceaseless Skies; Scott H Andrews
Ghosts & Scholars Newsletter; Rosemary Pardoe (Haunted Library)
Black Static; Andy Cox (TTA Press)
Interzone; Andy Cox (TTA Press)
Something Wicked; Joe Vaz (Something Wicked)
Rue Morgue; Rodrigo Gudino
Wormwood; Mark Valentine (Tartarus Press)
The Horror Zine; Jeani Rector (online)
Paraphilia; D. M. Mitchell (Paraphilia Books & Magazines)
Fantasy and Science Fiction; Van Gelder
Lovecraft eZine; Michael Davis (Michael Davis)
Fantasy Magazine; John Joseph Adams
SFX; Dave Bradley (Future)
Doctor Who Magazine
PS; Peter Crowther, Nick Gevers (PS  Publishing)
Midnight Street; Trevor Denyer (Immediate Direction)
Shimmer; Beth Wodzinski
Polluto; Victoria Hooper and Adam Lowe (Dog Horn Press)
Paperback Fanatic; Justin Marriott
Theaker’s Quarterly Fiction; Stephen Theaker and John Greenwood (Silver Age Books)
Strange Horizons; Niall Harrison
Peake Studies; G Peter Winnington
Cemetery Dance
Morpheus Tales; Adam Bradley (Morpheus Tales)
Clarkesworld; Neil Clarke
The Fortean Times
Shadows & Tall Trees; Michael Kelly (Undertow Books)
This Is Horror; Michael Wilson (This Is Horror)
Pornokitsch; Jared Shurin and Anne C Perry
Shock Totem
The Short Review; Tania Hershman
Ideomancer; Leah Bobet

Comic/Graphic novel:
Animal Man; Jeff Lemire, Travel Foreman   DC Comics
Jennifer Wilde; Maura McHugh*
Locke and Key; Joe Hill/Gabriel Rodriguez   IDW Publishing
Nelson; various (Blank Slate)
Batman; Scott Snyder (DC Comics)
Neonomicon; Alan Moore
The Unwritten; Mike Carey and Peter Gross (Vertigo)
The Unwritten Vol. 4: Leviathan
The Unwritten: Dead Man’s Knock
Nonplayer; Nate Simpson (Image)
Illustrated Masques; Mort Castle (Gauntlet)
Finder – Voice; Carla Speed McNeil (Dark Horse)
Anya’s Ghost; Vera Brosgol (First Second)
Sweet Tooth Vol. 1 Jeff Lemire (Vertigo)
The Walking Dead; Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard (Image)
Clint; Mark Millar (Titan)
BatWoman; J.H. Williams III and W. Haden Blackman (DC Comics)
Absolute Sandman Vol 5;  Neil Gaiman (Titan)
Wonder Woman; Brian Azzarello, Cliff  Chiang (DC Comics)
Birds of Prey: End Run; Gail Simone
The Boys; Grant Morrison (Dynamite)
Don Quixote; Rob Davis (Self Made Hero)
Fish + Chocolate; Kate Brown (Self Made Hero)
The Cape; Jason Ciaramella/Zach Howard (IDW Publishing)
Demon Knights; Paul Cornell and Diogenes Neves (DC Comics)
Uncanny X-Men: Regenesis; Kieron Gillen, Carlos Pacheco (Marvel)
Roisin Dubh; Maura McHugh*
Fables; Bill Willingham (Vertigo)
Hellblazer: Bloody Carnations (Titan)
Xombi; Rozum, Irving (DC Comics)
The Dunwich Horror; Weinberg and Lansdale (IDW Publishing)
The Lovecraft Anthology; edited by Dan Lockwood (Self Made Hero)
Batman Noel; Lee Bermejo

*Jennifer Wilde and Roisin Dubh by Maura McHugh received recommendations from members in this category. Maura is on the BFA jury this year.

The PS Publishing Independent Press Award:
Newcon Press; Ian Whates
Prime Books; Sean Wallace
Ex Occidente Press; Dan Ghetu
Wyvern Publishing; Holly Stacey
Spectral Press; Simon Marshall-Jones
Chomu Press; Quentin S. Crisp
Tree House; Shaun Levin
Anarchy Books; Andy Remic
Tartarus Press; Ray Russell
Mortbury Press; Charles Black
Rainfall Books
Small Beer Press; Gavin Grant & Kelly Link
Nightjar Press; Nicholas Royle
Atomic Fez; Ian Alexander Martin
Noose & Gibbet; Johnny Mains
ChiZine Publications; Brett Savory & Sandra Kasturi
Gray Friar Press; Gary Fry
Pendragon Press; Christopher Teague
Hersham Horror; Peter Mark May
Eibonvale Press; David Rix
Dark Fuse; Shane Staley
TTA Press; Andy Cox
The Exaggerated Press; Terry Grimwood
Screaming Dreams; Steve Upham
Parahilia; D. M. Mitchell
Angry Robot; Marc Gascoigne
Obverse Books; Stuart Douglas
Dog Horn Publishing; Adam Lowe
Megazanthus Press; Des Lewis
Side Real Press; John Hirschhorn Smith
Centipede Press; Jerad Walters
Morpheus Tales; Adam Bradley
Black Coat Press; Greg M. Seigel
Dark Continents Publishing; David M.Youngquist
Bad Moon Books; Roy Robbins

Best Artist:

Les Edwards;
cover of A Book of Horrors (Jo Fletcher Books Sep, 2011

http://www.lesedwards.com/

Rumours of the Marvellous – Peter Atkins (Alchemy Press)
Book of Horrors ed. Stephen Jones (cover)

Julie Dillon;
Planetary Alignment/cover of Clarkesworld Nov 11
clarkesworldmagazine.com/artbio_62/

Santiago Caruso;
Master at Cafe Morphine

Gabriel Rodriguez;
Locke & Key

Mark Manley;
Titan, Newbury and Hobbes

Vincent Chong;
Dark Minds Anthology
vincentchong-art.co.uk/illustration1.html
cover of Cyber Circus
vincentchong-art.co.uk
BFS Journal cover,
Long Shadows, Nightmare Light by Mark Morris (cover)
cover of The Devil’s Coattails (Cycatrix Press, October 2011

David Rix;
cover of Feather, Eibonvale book covers

Steve Upham;
a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/418180_378247258868322_100000491532934_1475543_1168256446_n.jpg
cover – Monster Book for Girls

Daniele Serra;
A Season in Carcosa – Joseph S. Pulver (Miskatonic River Press)
www.multigrade.it
Demon of the Dark Wood

Paul Mudie
The Black Books of Horror
freewebs.com/mortburypress/1.bp.blogspot.com/-wr0NLlescIo/ThzRJzMzbYI/AAAAAAAAAYI/fySGz5sWlsc/s320/8th+Black+Book.jpg

John Coulthart;
johncoulthart.com

Melissa Gay;
Jesus and the Eightfold Path
immersionpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Jesus_Eightfold_Path_Cover.jpg

Paul Hanley;
Doctor Who, Buckaroo Banzai, Iris Wildthyme
dadsbigplan.com/2010/10/the-art-of-paul-hanley/

Nate Simpson;
Nonplayer

Chris Roberts;
Wolf Mask, Ram Mask, Deer Mask, Cat Mask
deadclownart.com

Travel Foreman;
Animal Man (DC)

Jethro Lentle; Lovecraft Ezine Cover November 2011
dystoper.deviantart.com/

Randy Broecker

Carla Speed McNeil;
Finder   lightspeedpress.com

Ben Baldwin;
Interzone Sep-Oct 2011, Black Static, illustrations for ‘The Silver Wind’ in Interzone 233, benbaldwin.co.uk/DesignsFrameset.htm
benbaldwin.co.uk, Cover of ‘Ghost Train’ – Stephen Laws

Clive Barker;
Abarat: Absolute Midnight (cover and internal art)
harpercollins.co.uk/Titles/15618/absolute-midnight-clive-barker-9780007100477 and clivebarker.info/artindex

Andy Bigwood;
The Sixty

Erik Mohr;
Eutopia by David Nickle (cover)
erikmohr.com

John Picacio;
www.johnpicacio.com/portfolio/2011/ned-stark.html
www.johnpicacio.com

Dave McKeen;
The Magic of Reality: How We Know What’s Really True
mckean-art.co.uk

Jon Sullivan

Dominic Harman;
cover of Debris by Jo Anderton (Angry Robert 27 Sep 2011)

http://bleedingdreams.com/BleedingDreams/

Jenny Laatsch & Madame Thenadier;
Cover of Fantasy Magazine Nov 11
fantasy-magazine.com/new/artist-spotlight/artist-spotlight-jenny-laatsch-and-madame-thenadier/

Stephen J Clark;
Tartarus Press

Marc Silvestri;
The Incredible Hulk

Simon ‘Pye’ Parr;
cover of ‘Regicide’ – Nicholas Royle
pyeparr.blogspot.com/

Jimmy Broxton;
Knight & Squire trade paperback (DC)

Kate Brown;
Fish + Chocolate, danse-macabre.nu

Greg Capullo;
Batman

Pedro Marques;
cover of Osama

Steven Vincent Mitchell;
svmitchell.com

Bret Herholz;
Vworp, Vworp
colinbrockhurst.co.uk/vworpvworp/?p=459
Frazer Irving;
Xombi (DC)

Jim Kay;
A Monster Calls

Bob Eggleton

Mark Buckingham;
Fables

Mike Mignola

Non-Fiction:
Pornokitsch; Jared Shurin & Anne Perry
Austin Osman Spare; Phil Baker (Strange Attractor)
Coffinmaker’s Blues; Stephen Volk (Black Static Magazine)
Out of this World; Mike Ashley (British Library)
The Steampunk Bible: An Illustrated Guide to the World of Imaginary Airships, Corsets and Goggles, Mad Scientists, and Strange Literature; S.J. Chambers and Jeff VanderMeer (Abrams)
This is Horror; various
Supergods; Grant Morrison (Jonathan Cape)
Studies in the Horror Film: The Exorcist; ed. Danel Olson (Centipede Press)
Denying Science; John Grant (Prometheus)
Lest You Should Suffer Nightmares: A biography of Herbert Von Thal; Johnny Mains   (Screaming Dreams)
The Unsilent Library, Essays on the Russell T Davies Era of Doctor Who; Graham Sleight, Tony Keen and Simon Bradshaw (Science Fiction Foundation)
Case Notes (Black Static) Peter Tennant (TTA Press)
Studies in Terror: Landmarks of Horror Cinema; Jonathan Rigby (Signum Books)
Nightmare Movies: Horror on Screen since the 1960s; Kim Newman(Bloomsbury)
Diary of a Witchcraft Shop; Liz Williams and Trevor Jones (NewCon Press)
Pornokitsch review of A Monster Calls; Anne C Perry (Pornokitsch)
Walking Dead Survivors’ Guide; John Scalzi
The Stars at Noonday; Brendan Moody
Everything is Nice; Martin Lewis
Monstrous Creatures; Jeff Vandermeer
Black Static column; Stephen Volk (TTA Press)
Shooty Dog Thing: 2th and Claw; Paul Castle and Jon Arnold (Hirst Books)
Monsters in the Movies; John Landis (Dorling Kindersley)
Un:Bound; Adele Wearing
Machenalia; Gwil Games (Newsletter)
Follow the Thread; David Hebblethwaite (online reviews blog)
Black Static column; Christopher Fowler (TTA Press)

Ramsey – who is a HWA Lifetime Achievement Award winner -  will be participating in all aspects of the convention, including an in-depth interview, panel discussions, a mass signing, and presenting during the Bram Stoker Awards Banquet.

See the website HERE for further details.

• Ready Player One, Ernest Cline (Crown)
• This Shared Dream, Kathleen Ann Goonan (Tor)
• Soft Apocalypse, Will McIntosh (Night Shade Books)
• Embassytown, China Miéville (Del Rey)
• The Islanders, Christopher Priest (Gollancz)
• The Highest Frontier, Joan Slonczewski (Tor)
• Dancing with Bears, Michael Swanwick (Night Shade)
• Osama, Lavie Tidhar (PS Publishing)
• Robopocalypse, Daniel H. Wilson (Simon & Schuster)
• Home Fires, Gene Wolfe (Tor)
• Seed, Rob Ziegler (Night Shade Books)

Full details HERE

Novel:
The Heroes; Joe Abercrombie (Gollancz)
11.22.63; Stephen King (Hodder & Stoughton)
Cyber Circus; Kim Lakin-Smith (NewCon Press)
A Dance with Dragons; George RR Martin (Harper Voyager)
The Ritual; Adam Nevill (Pan)
Among Others; Jo Walton (Tor Books)

There will be two awards in the best Novel category: The August Derleth Award for best horror novel and The Robert Holdstock Award for best fantasy novel.

Novella:
Terra Damnata; James Cooper (PS Publishing)
Ghosts with Teeth; Peter Crowther (A Book of Horrors, Jo Fletcher Books)
Near Zennor; Elizabeth Hand (A Book of Horrors, Jo Fletcher Books)
The Music of Bengt Karlsson, Murderer; John Ajvide Lindqvist (A Book of Horrors, Jo Fletcher Books)
Gorel and the Pot Bellied God; Lavie Tidhar (PS Publishing)
Alice Through the Plastic Sheet; Robert Shearman (A Book of Horrors, Jo Fletcher Books)

Short Fiction:
Dermot; Simon Bestwick (Black Static)
Sad, Dark Thing; Michael Marshall Smith (A Book of Horrors, Jo Fletcher Books)
Florrie; Adam Nevill (House of Fear, Solaris Books)
The Coffin-Maker’s Daughter; Angela Slatter (A Book of Horrors, Jo Fletcher Books)
King Death; Paul Finch (Spectral Press)

Anthology:
A Book of Horrors; editor Stephen Jones (Jo Fletcher Books)
House of Fear; editor Jonathan Oliver (Solaris Books)
The Weird; editors Jeff and Ann Vandermeer (Corvus Books)
Gutshot; editor Conrad Williams (PS Publishing)

Collection:
Rumours of the Marvellous; Peter Atkins (Alchemy Press)
Mrs Midnight; Reggie Oliver (Tartarus Press)
Everyone’s Just So So Special; Robert Shearman (Big Finish)
A Glass of Shadow; Liz Williams (NewCon Press)

Screenplay:
Midnight in Paris by Woody Allen
Attack the Block by Joe Cornish
The Awakening by Stephen Volk and Nick Murphy
Melancholia by Lars Von Trier
Kill List by Ben Wheatley and Amy Jump

Magazine/Periodical:
Black Static; ed. Andy Cox  TTA Press
Interzone; ed. Andy Cox   TTA Press
SFX, ed. Dave Bradley    Future Publishing
The Horror Zine, ed. Jeani Rector

Comic/Graphic Novel:
Animal Man; Jeff Lemire and Travel Foreman (DC Comics)
Batwoman; JH Williams III and W Haden Blackman (DC Comics)
Locke and Key; Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez (IDW Publishing)
The Unwritten; Mike Carey and Peter Gross (Vertigo)
The Walking Dead; Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard (Image)

As stated in the new rules of the BFAwards, the Judges can add a title they feel was an egregious omission from the initial recommendations. This year they added 2 titles to the novel category, 2 titles to the novella category, and 1 title to short fiction. If a category has 5 titles listed, this is due to a tie on number of votes and points.

The BFAward Judges, James Barclay, Hal Duncan, Maura McHugh, Esther Sherman, and Damien G. Walter, will now review the shortlist and enter into deliberations. The winners will be announced at FantasyCon in Brighton on 30 September 2012.

The Special Juries and shortlists for the following awards have also been announced:

The PS Publishing Independent Press Award:

Jurors:
Sandy Auden
Peter Crowther
Nicholas Royle
Peter Tennant
Darren Turpin

Shortlist:
Chomu Press; Quentin S Crisp
Gray Friar Press; Gary Fry
NewCon Press; Ian Whates
Spectral Press; Simon Marshall-Jones

The Artist Award:

Jurors:
Guy Adams
Anne Sudworth
Christopher Teague

Shortlist:
Ben Baldwin
Vincent Chong
Les Edwards
Daniele Serra

The Non-Fiction Award :

Jurors:
Djibril al-Ayad
Roz Kaveney
Adam Roberts

Shortlist:
Lest You Should Suffer Nightmares: A biography of Herbert Van Thal; Johnny Mains (Screaming Dreams)
Supergods: Our World in the Age of the Superhero; Grant Morrison (Jonathan Cape)
Nightmare Movies: Horror on Screen since the 1960s; Kim Newman (Bloomsbury Publishing)
Studies in Terror: Landmarks of Horror Cinema; Jonathan Rigby (Signum Books)
Case Notes; Peter Tennant (Black Static)

British Fantasy Society Chair Lee Harris says, “Our members have been consistent in recommending the best in horror and fantasy published in 2011, and we think we have an incredibly strong shortlist. Our judges have a hard job ahead of them and we’re sure the 2012 British Fantasy Awards will get people debating for the rest of the year.”

Find out more about our judges here. The full longlist of members’ recommendations will be available to view on the BFS website from next week.

AMENDMENT

There has been a slight amendment to the BFAwards shortlist as listed above.

King Death was mistakenly listed in the Best Novella category (instead of short story) and Alice Through the Plastic Sheet was listed in the Best Short Story category (instead of novella). Both stories continue to be eligible in their new homes. Apologies for any confusion, and many thanks to those of you who spotted the error.

First, The David Gemmell Legend Award 2012 shortlist has been announced. See the full list HERE

The Testament of Jessie Lamb (Sandstone Press) by Jane Rogers – her first venture into science fiction – has won the 2012 Arthur C. Clarke Award. Full details HERE

Meanwhile, SFScope reports that Stanley Schmidt – long-time editor of Analog Science Fiction and Fact Magazine – is the 2012 winner of the Robert A. Heinlein Award. The Award is “bestowed for outstanding published works in science fiction and technical writings that inspire the human exploration of space.”

Finally, Locus Online reports that Joe Haldeman, James Tiptree Jr., James Cameron and Virgil Finlay are the 2012 inductees into the SF Hall of Fame.

The convention will be held at the historic Hotel Monteleone in the French Quarter of New Orleans. Membership sales will begin in the second half of 2012, as will voting for the WHC Grandmaster Award. Guests of Honour will be announced in due course.

For further details as they arise visit the website HERE

View the full list of finalists HERE

The Jury for the PS Publishing Independent Press Award:
Sandy Auden
Peter Crowther
Nicholas Royle
Peter Tennant
Darren Turpin

Sandy Auden is a freelance writer and photographer. Her work has appeared in SFX, Interzone, Locus and Supernatural magazines; a wide range of websites; and the occasional music video.

Peter and Nicky Crowther’s PS Publishing received the coveted annual BFS Award for Best Specialist/Small Press on seven occasions until, with a yearly output running to between 40 and fifty titles, Peter removed it from further consideration and instead contributes an annual financial prize to imprints with more modest schedules. We’re not sure whether those moist eyes when he presents the Award are due to parting with the prize of £250 or hankering for the days when he was putting out less than a book every week.

Nicholas Royle is a novelist and short story writer, a commissioning editor for contemporary fiction at Salt Publishing, and editor and publisher of chapbook specialist Nightjar Press.

Peter Tennant is the book reviewer and a contributing editor to Black Static magazine. He’s also the proofreader for Interzone and Crimewave.

Darren Turpin is the Marketing / Publicity / Digital / Webguy for UK-based independent genre fiction publisher Angry Robot, as well as the proprietor of their Robot Trading Company webstore. In the past he’s been a Waterstones bookseller, a book reviewer and serial blogger (The Alien Online, The UK SF Book News Network, The Genre Files), a freelance website content manager and a Big Publishing corporate wage slave. He lives in Manchester with his wife Jo and their cat, Hobbes.

The Jury for the Artist Award:
Guy Adams
Anne Sudworth
Christopher Teague

Guy Adams has written over twenty books, ranging from novels such as The World House and the Deadbeat series to novelisations of Hammer movies and more books about Sherlock Holmes than you could shake a Calabash pipe at. He is also the writer of the comic series The Engine, working with artist Jimmy Broxton.

Anne Sudworth is a British artist with paintings in many international collections. She has exhibited widely and has had two books on her work published.

Christopher Teague has been an independent publisher for over ten years and is still relatively sane. In that time, he has realised that folk do judge a book by its front cover.

The Jury for the Non-Fiction Award:
Djibril al-Ayad
Roz Kaveney
Adam Roberts

Djibril al-Ayad is the editor of The Future Fire, a social-political speculative fiction magazine and review, as well as a writer and academic historian (under different pseudonyms).

Roz Kaveney is a poet, novelist, critic and activist resident in London.

Adam Roberts is Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London; and the author of a dozen science fiction novels and various pieces of SF and Fantasy criticism.

Nominees include: two nominations for Reggie Oliver (Best Novel and Best Novella), three nominations for Stephen Jones‘ A Book of Horrors from Jo Fletcher Books (nominations for two of its stories in the Novella category, along with a nomination for Best Edited Anthology), and two nominations for PS Publishing titles in the Single-Author category.

The Awards will be presented on 15 July 2012 at Readercon 23, the Conference on Imaginative Literature, in Burlington, Massachusetts, US, hosted by Guests of Honour, Peter Straub and Caitlin R. Kiernan.

Best Novel: The Islanders by Christopher Priest (Gollancz)

Best Short Fiction: The Copenhagen Interpretation by Paul Cornell (Asimov’s Science Fiction)

Best Non-Fiction: The SF Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition, edited by John Clute, Peter Nicholls and David Langford (Gollancz website)

Best Art: Cover of Ian Whates’ The Noise Revealed (Solaris) by Dominic Harman

Congratulations to all the winners!

The full list of nominees is available HERE

Also, Locus reports that the 2012 Philip K. Dick Award for a “distinguished original science fiction paperback published for the first time during 2011 in the US” has gone to The Samuil Petrovitch Trilogy by Simon Morden (Orbit). A special citation was given to The Company Man by Robert Jackson Bennett (Orbit).

Full details HERE

Mike Carey‘s The Unwritten has received two nominations in the categories Best Writer and Best Single Issue.

Voting will take place over a total of 27 categories, and ballots will be going out in mid-April to comics creators, editors, publishers, and retailers. The results in all categories will be announced in a gala awards ceremony on the evening of Friday 13 July 2012 at Comic-Con International, San Diego, USA.

WINNER:  Mark Mikkelsen  – ‘Ode To Night’
2nd PLACE: Riff Poynton – ‘The Dark In The Heart’
3rd PLACE: Lynn Walton – ‘Awakening’
4th PLACE: Joe Hobbs – ‘Torso In The Gutter’
5th PLACE: Lorna Hunter – ‘Anxiety Attacks’

JUDGE’S SPECIAL COMMENDATION AWARD:
Cathy Bryant – ‘Petrified’
Tracey Clark – ‘Last Supper’
Pamela Johnson – ‘The Hanging Man’
Jerry Prince – ‘The Almost’
Daniel Mills – ‘Serpents (A Ballad)’
Annie Williams – ‘The Game’

HIGHLY COMMENDED AWARD:
Jim Stewart-Evans – ‘Nightfall on All Hallows Eve’
Lucienne Kim Flavell – ‘Afterword’
B.M. Laverty – ‘Fatal Attraction’
Tom Cunliffe – ‘Blank’

All winners’ poems will be featured in the first issue of The Poetry Box Horror & Dark Poetry Magazine. For full details and how to order please see the website HERE

The 2011 Bram Stoker Award winners and Vampire Novel of the Century Award winner have been announced by the Horror Writers’ Association HERE. BFS member Allyson Bird secures the Award of Superior Achievement in a First Novel for Isis Unbound (Dark Regions Press). Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend was presented with the one-off Vampire Novel of the Century Award.

Shortlisted works for the 2012 Arthur C. Clarke Award have been announced as follows:
Hull Zero Three by Greg Bear (Gollancz)
The End Specialist by Drew Magary (Harper Voyager)
Embassytown by China Miéville (Macmillan)
The Testament of Jessie Lamb by Jane Rogers (Sandstone Press)
Rule 34 by Charles Stross (Orbit)
The Waters Rising by Sheri S.Tepper (Gollancz)

Several SFFH authors have been long-listed for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize 2012, including Nina Allan, Robert Shearman, Simon Kurt Unsworth, David Rix and Dave Jeffery. Full details HERE.

The 2011 Aurealis Awards finalists have been announced. The full list of finalists can be found on the SFScope website HERE. The Aurealis Awards “recognise the achievements of Australian science fiction, fantasy and horror writers”.

Finally, the five judges for the 2012 Philip K. Dick Award have been named as Bruce Bethke, Sydney Duncan, Daryl Gregory, Bridget McKenna and Paul Witcover. See details HERE.

A reminder that voting for the British Fantasy Awards is now open and will close on 31 March 2012.

The new constitution for the awards may be found HERE

Members of the BFS (votes cast by a member whose membership expires after the vote is cast remain valid), members of FantasyCon 2011 and members of FantasyCon 2012 who register before voting closes on 31 March 2012 are eligible and encouraged to vote for works published for the first time in the English language in any part of the world in any format during the calendar year January to December 2011.

Each member may put forward up to three Recommendations in any category, expressed in preferential order. All Recommendations should ideally be accompanied with publication details: year of publication, publisher, and title of collection, magazine, editor, etc, if applicable.

Recommendations may not be made for the recommender’s own material.  The British Fantasy Society discourages the practice of canvassing for votes.

The four titles or names with the highest number of Recommendations will go forward to form the shortlist of nominations.

In the case of the award for Best Novel, members are invited to list up to three Recommendations in the categories of Horror and Fantasy.

The voting form is available online HERE

***PLEASE NOTE THAT THE TIME PERIOD FOR MAKING RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE BRITISH FANTASY AWARDS HAS NOW CLOSED***

In addition, the following stories/novels made the Tiptree Award Honor List:

Libba Bray, Beauty Queens (Scholastic Press 2011)
L. Timmel Duchamp, “The Nones of Quintilus” (in her collection Never at Home, Aqueduct Press 2011)
Kameron Hurley, God’s War (Night Shade Books 2011)
Gwyneth Jones, The Universe of Things (Aqueduct Press 2011)
Alice Sola Kim, “The Other Graces” (Asimov’s Science Fiction, July 2010)
Sandra McDonald, “Seven Sexy Cowboy Robots” (Strange Horizons, 2010.10.04)
Maureen F. McHugh, “After the Apocalypse” (in her collection After the Apocalypse, Small Beer Press 2011)
Delia Sherman, The Freedom Maze (Big Mouth House 2011)
Kim Westwood, The Courier’s New Bicycle (Harper Voyager Australia 2011)

Full details of the award winners and a longlist of “books worth mentioning” is available HERE

In additon to the Saturn Awards, filmmaker Martin Scorsese will receive The George Pal Memorial Award in recognition of his career achievements.

Full story HERE

James Barclay: James is the author of the two Raven trilogies: Chronicles of The Raven and Legends of The Raven, and the epic fantasy duology, The Ascendants of Estorea. He has written two novellas, Light Stealer and Vault of Deeds, and his latest book Elves: Once Walked With Gods is out now.

Hal Duncan: Hal’s debut Vellum was published in 2005, garnering nominations for the Crawford, Locus, BFS and World Fantasy Award, and winning the Gaylactic Spectrum, Kurd Lasswitz and Tähtivaeltaja. He’s since published the sequel Ink, the novella Escape from Hell!, various short stories, and a poetry collection.

Maura McHugh: Maura is a writer, freelance web designer and IT consultant. She’s currently writing two comic book series (Rķisín Dubh and Jennifer Wilde) for Atomic Diner in Ireland, and she also works for the Irish Playwrights and Screenwriters Guild as their webmaster, blogger and newsletter editor.

Esther Sherman: Esther is a medical underwriter, burlesque performer, voracious reader, computer games addict and geek culture fan. She is co-editor of Nasty Snips 2, a horror anthology from Pendragon Press due in Autumn 2012.

Damien G. Walter: Damien is a writer of weird and speculative fiction. In 2005 he was shortlisted for the Douglas Coupland short fiction contest, and more recently won a grant from Arts Council England to work on his first novel. He writes and reviews for The Guardian and IO9 among others.

The jury will deliberate on a shortlist of four nominations as determined by the members of the BFS. The jury shall also have powers to add nominations where it identifies an egregious omission.

The British Fantasy Awards 2012 will be presented during FantasyCon, to be held in Brighton in September.

See the full list of nominees HERE