British Fantasy Award for Best Novella
| British Fantasy Award for Best Novella | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Works between 15,000 and 40,000 words |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Presented by | British Fantasy Society |
| First award | 2005 |
| Most recent winner | The Last to Drown by Lorraine Wilson |
| Website | britishfantasysociety |
The British Fantasy Award for Best Novella is a literary award given annually as part of the British Fantasy Awards.
Winners and shortlist
* Winners
| 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] |
Notes
- ^ With Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, and Jonathan Snipes
References
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