World Fantasy Award for Best Collection (World Fantasy Award)

World Fantasy Award

The World Fantasy Awards are given each year by the World Fantasy Convention for the best fantasy fiction published in English during the previous calendar year. The awards have been described as one of the three most prestigious speculative fiction awards, along with the Hugo and Nebula Awards. The World Fantasy Award for Best Collection is given each year for collections of fantasy stories by a single author published in English. A collection can have any number of editors, and works in the collection may have been previously published; awards are also given out for anthologies of works by multiple authors in the anthology category. The World Fantasy Award for Best Collection has been awarded annually since 1975, though from 1977 through 1987 anthologies were admissible as nominees. Anthologies were split into a separate category beginning in 1988; during the 10 years they were admissible they won the award 7 times and were 38 of the 56 nominations. World Fantasy Award nominees and winners are decided by attendees and judges at the annual World Fantasy Convention. A ballot is posted in June for attendees of the current and previous two conferences to determine two of the finalists, and a panel of five judges adds three or more nominees before voting on the overall winner. The panel of judges is typically made up of fantasy authors and is chosen each year by the World Fantasy Awards Administration, which has the power to break ties. The final results are presented at the World Fantasy Convention at the end of October.

Date Established : 1988

Check all the winners of World Fantasy Award for Best Collection presented under World Fantasy Award since 1988 .

Jeffrey Ford

Honored for : The Drowned Life

Nominations 2009 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Peter S. Beagle	Strange Roads
Jeffrey Ford	The Drowned Life
Kelly Link	Pretty Monsters
Nisi Shawl	Filter House
Shaun Tan	Tales from Outer Suburbia