Following votes from the BFS membership and initial conversations by the juries, the final shortlists for the British Fantasy Awards have been set!
Here are the nominations for the 2022 awards, with the winners to be announced at FantasyCon in September.
Best Newcomer (The Sydney J. Bounds Award)
Jurors: Anna Agaronyan, Clara Cohen, E.M. Faulds, Mina Ikemoto Ghosh, João F. Silva
- J.T. Greathouse, for The Hand of the Sun King (Gollancz)
- Ian Green, for The Gauntlet and the Fist Beneath(Head of Zeus)
- Shelley Parker-Chan, for She Who Became the Sun (Tor)
- Lorraine Wilson, for This is Our Undoing (Luna Press Publishing)
- C.A. Yates, for We All Have Teeth (Fox Spirit)
- Xiran Jay Zhao, for Iron Widow (Penguin Teen)
Best Film / Television Production
Jurors: Shona Kinsella, S. Naomi Scott, Marie Sinadjan, Neil Williamson
- Candyman
- Dune
- The Green Knight
- In the Earth
- Last Night in Soho
- Space Sweepers
Best Non-Fiction
Jurors: Alba Arnau Prado, Gautam Bhatia, Jessica Lévai, Patrick McGinley, Aparna Sivasankar
- After Human: A Critical History of the Human in Science Fiction from Shelley to Le Guin, Thomas Connolly (Liverpool University Press)
- Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950-1985, ed. Andrew Nette & Iain McIntyre (PM Press)
- The Full Lid, Alasdair Stuart, ed. Marguerite Kenner
- Ginger Nuts of Horror, Jim Mcleod
- Worlds Apart: Worldbuilding in Fantasy and Science Fiction, ed. Francesca T. Barbini (Luna Press Publishing)
- Writing the Uncanny, ed. Dan Coxon & Richard V. Hirst (Dead Ink)
Best Artist
Jurors: Eugen Bacon, Marc Gascoigne, Alex Gushurst-Moore, John Newsome, Paul Yates
- Olga Beliaeva
- Randy Broecker
- Alison Buck
- Jenni Coutts
- Vincent Sammy
- Daniele Serra
Best Comic / Graphic Novel
Jurors: Ben Appleby-Dean, Hannah Barton, Dan Coxon, Rajani Thindiath, Mob W
- 2000AD (Rebellion)
- DIE Vol. 4, Kieron Gillen & Stephanie Hans (Image)
- Djeliya, Juni Ba (TKO Studios)
- ExtraOrdinary, V.E. Schwab & Enid Balam (Titan Comics)
- The Girl from the Sea, Molly Knox Ostertag (Graphix)
- Usagi Yojimbo: Homecoming, Stan Sakai (IDW Publishing)
Best Magazine / Periodical
Jurors: Nicole Chen, Adri Joy, Andrew Lindsay, Suzie Wilde
- Anathema Magazine
- Apex Magazine
- Black Static
- Ginger Nuts of Horror
- Interzone
- Shoreline of Infinity
Best Independent Press
Jurors: David Green, Susan Maxwell, Alia McKellar, Kate Sibson
- Black Shuck Books
- Luna Press Publishing
- Unsung Stories
- Wizard’s Tower Press
Best Audio
Jurors: Marcus Gipps, Ann Landmann, Adam McDowall, Tam Moules, Dion Winton-Polak
- Breaking the Glass Slipper, Megan Leigh, Lucy Hounsom & Charlotte Bond
- Daughter of Fire and Water, Lyndsey Croal
- Monstrous Agonies, H.R. Owen
- PodCastle, Escape Artists
- PseudoPod, Escape Artists
Best Anthology
Jurors: Colleen Anderson, Caroline Mersey, Graham Millichap, Siân O’Hara, Fabienne Schwizer
- Dreamland: Other Stories, ed. Sophie Essex (Black Shuck Books)
- Out of the Darkness, ed. Dan Coxon (Unsung Stories)
- Sinopticon: A Celebration of Chinese Science Fiction, ed. Xueting C. Ni (Solaris)
- There Is No Death, There Are No Dead, ed. Aaron J. French & Jess Landry (Crystal Lake)
- When Things Get Dark, ed. Ellen Datlow (Titan)
- The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction, ed. Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki (Jembefola Press)
Best Short Fiction
Jurors: Laura Burge, Rick Danforth, Peter Haynes, Phillip Irving, Roseanna Pendlebury
- Bathymetry, Lorraine Wilson (in Strange Horizons)
- Fill the Thickened Lung with Breath, C.A. Yates (in Dreamland: Other Stories, Black Shuck Books)
- A Flight of Birds, E.M. Faulds (in Shoreline of Infinity #25)
- Henrietta, T.H. Dray (in BFS Horizons #13)
- O2 Arena, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki (in Galaxy’s Edge)
- Sky Eyes, Julie Travis (in Dreamland: Other Stories, Black Shuck Books)
Best Collection
Jurors: Wendy Bradley, Jay Faulkner, Brian Kinsella, Abbi Shaw, Filip Drnovšek Zorko
- The Ghost Sequences, A.C. Wise (Undertow Publications)
- I Spit Myself Out, Tracy Fahey (Sinister Horror Company)
- The Museum for Forgetting, Pete W. Sutton (Grimbold Books)
- Never Have I Ever, Isabel Yap (Small Beer Press)
- We All Have Teeth, C.A. Yates (Fox Spirit)
Best Novella
Jurors: Verity L. Allan, Allyson Bird, Kshoni Gunputh, Mick Rohman, Ellis Saxey
- & This is How to Stay Alive, Shingai Njeri Kagunda (Neon Hemlock)
- Defekt, Nino Cipri (Tordotcom)
- Matryoshka, Penny Jones (Hersham Horror)
- A Spindle Splintered, Alix E. Harrow (Tordotcom)
- These Lifeless Things, Premee Mohamed (Solaris)
- Treacle Walker, Alan Garner (4th Estate)
Best Horror Novel (The August Derleth Award)
Jurors: Edward Crocker, Laura Lucas, Ian Muneshwar, Amanda Rutter, Judith Schofield
- The Book of Accidents, Chuck Wendig (Penguin)
- A Broken Darkness, Premee Mohamed (Solaris)
- A Dowry of Blood, S.T. Gibson (Nyx Publishing / Orbit)
- The Last House on Needless Street, Catriona Ward (Viper Books)
- My Heart is a Chainsaw, Stephen Graham Jones (Titan)
- Nothing but Blackened Teeth, Cassandra Khaw (Titan)
Best Fantasy Novel (The Robert Holdstock Award)
Jurors: Danny Boland, Jessie Goetzinger-Hall, Elloise Hopkins, Kate Towner, Jen Williams
- The Black Coast, Mike Brooks (Orbit)
- The Jasmine Throne, Tasha Suri (Orbit)
- She Who Became the Sun, Shelley Parker-Chan (Tor)
- Sistersong, Lucy Holland (Tor)
- This is Our Undoing, Lorraine Wilson (Luna Press Publishing)
- The Unbroken, C.L. Clark (Orbit)