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This World Fantasy Award is given to the fantasy short story voted best by a panel of judges, and presented each year at the World Fantasy Convention.

After Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess won the 1991 Short Fiction award in 1991—for the "A Midsummer Night's Dream" issue of The Sandman— comics were restricted to the Special Award: Professional category.[1][2]

Award winners and finalists

1989

WFC 1989 was held in held Seattle, Washington, and was chaired by Robert Doyle. Judges were Susan Allison, Ed Bryant, Lisa Goldstein, Peter Dennis Pautz and Jon White.

2004

WFC 2004 was held in Tempe, Arizona. Judges were John Clute, Sherwood Smith, Michael Stackpole, Alain Nevant, and Scott Wyatt.

2005

WFC 2005 was held in Madison, Wisconsin, and is chaired by Meg Turville-Heitz. Judges were Alis Rasmussen (Kate Elliott), Jeffrey Ford, Tim Lebbon, Patrick Nielsen Hayden and Jessica Amanda Salmonson.

  • Winner: "Singing My Sister Down", Margo Lanagan (Black Juice, Allen & Unwin Australia)
  • "The Wings of Meister Wilhelm", Theodora Goss (Polyphony 4, Wheatland Press)
  • "The Faery Handbag", Kelly Link (The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm, Viking)
  • "Reports of Certain Events in London", China Miéville (McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories, Vintage)
  • "Northwest Passage", Barbara Roden (Acquainted With The Night, Ash Tree Press)

2006

WFC 2006 was held in Austin, Texas. Judges were Steve Lockley, Barbara Roden, Victoria Strauss, Jeff VanderMeer, and Andrew Wheeler.

2007

WFC 2007 was held in Saratoga Springs, New York. Judges for the event were Gavin Grant, Ed Greenwood, Jeremy Lassen, Jeff Mariotte, and Carsten Polzin.

  • Winner: "Journey Into the Kingdom", M. Rickert (F&SF, May 2006)
  • "The Way He Does It", Jeffrey Ford (Electric Velocipede 10, Spring 2006)
  • "A Siege of Cranes", Benjamin Rosenbaum (Twenty Epics, All-Star Stories)
  • "Another Word for Map Is Faith", Christopher Rowe (F&SF, August 2006)
  • "Pol Pot's Beautiful Daughter (Fantasy)", Geoff Ryman (F&SF, October/November 2006)

2008

WFC 2008 was held in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

2009

WFC 2009 was held in San Jose, California.

2010

WFC 2010 was held in Columbus, Ohio in October 2010. Judges were Greg Ketter, Kelly Link, Jim Minz, Jürgen Snoeren, and Gary K. Wolfe.[1]

  • Winner: "The Pelican Bar", by Karen Joy Fowler (Eclipse Three)
  • "A Journal of Certain Events of Scientific Interest from the First Survey Voyage of the Southern Waters by HMS Ocelot, As Observed by Professor Thaddeus Boswell, DPhil, MSc, or, A Lullaby", by Helen Keeble (Strange Horizons 6/09)
  • "Singing on a Star", by Ellen Klages (Firebirds Soaring)
  • "The Persistence of Memory, or This Space for Sale", by Paul Park (Postscripts 20/21: Edison’s Frankenstein )
  • "In Waiting", by R. B. Russell (Putting the Pieces in Place)
  • "Light on the Water", by Genevieve Valentine (Fantasy 10/09)

2011

WFC 2011 was held in San Diego, California in October 2011. Judges were Andrew Hook, Sacha Mamczak, Mark Rich, Sean Wallace, and Kim Wilkins.[2]

  • Winner: "Fossil—Figures," by Joyce Carol Oates (Stories: All-New Tales)
  • "Beautiful Men," by Christopher Fowler (Visitants: Stories of Fallen Angels and Heavenly Hosts, edited by Stephen Jones, Ulysses Press)
  • "Booth's Ghost," by Karen Joy Fowler (What I Didn't See and Other Stories, Small Beer Press)
  • "Ponies," by Kij Johnson (Tor.com)
  • "Tu Sufrimiento Shall Protect Us," by Mercurio D. Rivera (Black Static #18, 08/09.10)

2012

WFC was held in Toronto, Canada in November 2012. The judges were John Berlyne, James P. Blaylock, Stephen Gallagher, Mary Kay Kare and Jacques Post.[3]

2013

WFC was held in Brighton, UK in November 2013.[4]

  • Winner: “The Telling”, Gregory Norman Bossert (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 11/29/12)
  • “A Natural History of Autumn”, Jeffrey Ford (F&SF 7-8/12)
  • “The Castle That Jack Built”, Emily Gilman (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 1/26/12)
  • “Breaking the Frame”, Kat Howard (Lightspeed 8/12)
  • “Swift, Brutal Retaliation”, Meghan McCarron (Tor.com 1/4/12)

See also

References

  1. ^ 2010 World Fantasy Award judges
  2. ^ 2011 World Fantasy Award Winners
  3. ^ 2012 World Fantasy Award Ballot
  4. ^ Locus Online News
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