British Fantasy Award for Best Novella

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

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

  1. ^ With Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, and Jonathan Snipes

References

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