World Fantasy Award - Novella (Awarded by World Fantasy Convention)

Awards List

2022

And What Can We Offer You Tonight
(Winner)
Premee Mohamed

Never Have I Ever: Stories
(Nominee)
Isabel Yap

Finches
(Nominee)
A.M. Muffaz

For Sale by Owner
(Nominee)
Elizabeth Hand
in When Things Get Dark

Nothing But Blackened Teeth
(Nominee)
Cassandra Khaw

2021

Riot Baby
(Winner)
Tochi Onyebuchi

Flyaway
(Nominee)
Kathleen Jennings

The Four Profound Weaves
(Nominee)
R.B. Lemberg

Ring Shout
(Nominee)
P. Djeli Clark

2020

Silver in the Wood
(Winner)
Emily Tesh

In an Absent Dream
(Nominee)
Seanan McGuire

Desdemona and the Deep
(Nominee)
C.S.E. Cooney

2019

The Privilege of the Happy Ending
(Winner)
Kij Johnson

Beneath the Sugar Sky
(Nominee)
Seanan McGuire

The Only Harmless Great Thing
(Nominee)
Brooke Bolander

The Tea Master and the Detective
(Nominee)
Aliette De Bodard

The Black God's Drums
(Nominee)
P. Djeli Clark

2017

The Ballad of Black Tom
(Nominee)
Victor Lavalle

Every Heart a Doorway
(Nominee)
Seanan McGuire

The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe
(Nominee)
Kij Johnson

A Taste of Honey
(Nominee)
Kai Ashante Wilson

2016

The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn
(Nominee)
Usman T. Malik

Waters of Versailles
(Nominee)
Kelly Robson

2015

We Are All Completely Fine
(Winner)
Daryl Gregory

The Devil in America
(Nominee)
Kai Ashante Wilson

The Mothers of Voorhisville
(Nominee)
Mary Rickert

Where the Trains Turn
(Nominee)
Pasi Ilmari Jaaskelainen

2014

Six-Gun Snow White
(Nominee)
Catherynne M. Valente

Burning Girls
(Nominee)
Veronica Schanoes

2013

The Emperor's Soul
(Nominee)
Brandon Sanderson

2012

Silently and Very Fast
(Nominee)
Catherynne M. Valente

Alice Through the Plastic Sheet
(Nominee)
Robert Shearman

2011

The Thief of Broken Toys
(Nominee)
Tim Lebbon

Bone and Jewel Creatures
(Nominee)
Elizabeth Bear

2010

Sea Hearts
(Winner)
Margo Lanagan

The Women of Nell Gwynne's
(Nominee)
Kage Baker

2009

If Angels Fight
(Winner)
Richard Bowes

Odd and the Frost Giants
(Nominee)
Neil Gaiman

2008

Illyria
(Winner)
Elizabeth Hand

2007

Dark Harvest
(Nominee)
Norman Partridge

Map of Dreams
(Nominee)
M. Rickert

2006

Voluntary Committal
(Winner)
Joe Hill

UOUS
(Nominee)
Tanith Lee
in The Fair Folk

Another War
(Nominee)
Simon Morden

The Imago Sequence
(Nominee)
Laird Barron

2004

The Empire of Ice Cream: Stories
(Nominee)
Jeffrey Ford

2003

Seven Wild Sisters
(Nominee)
Charles de Lint
  • / Urban Fantasy
  • Buy Buy

Coraline
(Nominee)
Neil Gaiman

2001

Blue Kansas Sky
(Nominee)
Michael Bishop

Chip Crockett's Christmas Carol
(Nominee)
Elizabeth Hand

2000

Crocodile Rock
(Nominee)
Lucius Shepard

The Winds of Marble Arch
(Nominee)
Connie Willis

1997

Beauty and the Opera or The Phantom Beast
(Nominee)
Suzy McKee Charnas

1996

Where They Are Hid
(Nominee)
Tim Powers

1995

Last Summer at Mars Hill
(Winner)
Elizabeth Hand

1994

Mefisto in Onyx
(Nominee)
Harlan Ellison
  • / Science Fiction
  • Buy Buy

The Night We Buried Road Dog
(Nominee)
Jack Cady

Wall, Stone, Craft
(Nominee)
Walter Jon Williams

1992

The Gallery of His Dreams
(Nominee)
Kristine Kathryn Rusch

1991

Bones
(Winner)
Pat Murphy

Black Cocktail
(Nominee)
Jonathan Carroll

1990

A Dozen Tough Jobs
(Nominee)
Howard Waldrop
  • / Science Fiction
  • Buy Buy

1989

The Devil's Arithmetic
(Nominee)
Jane Yolen

1988

Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight
(Winner)
Ursula K. Le Guin

1987

The Hellbound Heart
(Nominee)
Clive Barker

1986

Do I Dare to Eat a Peach?
(Nominee)
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
in A Whisper of Blood

The Gorgon Field
(Nominee)
Kate Wilhelm

1983

Horrible Imaginings
(Nominee)
Fritz Leiber

1982

The Fire When It Comes
(Winner)
Parke Godwin
  • / Fantasy
  • Buy Buy

Mythago Wood
(Nominee)
Robert Holdstock

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