World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story (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 Short Story is given each year for fantasy short stories published in English. A work of fiction is defined by the organization as a short story if it is 10,000 words or less in length; awards are also given out for longer pieces in the novel and novella categories. The World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story has been awarded annually since 1975, though before 1982â€”when the novella category was instatedâ€”the category was named "Best Short Fiction" and covered works of up to 40,000 words. 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.

Check all the winners of World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story presented under World Fantasy Award since 1975 .

Kij Johnson

Honored for : 26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss

Nominations 2009 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Kij Johnson	26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss
Kage Baker	Caverns of Mystery
John Kessel	Pride and Prometheus
Sarah Pinborough	Our Man in the Sudan
Catherynne M. Valente	A Buyer's Guide to Maps of Antarctica

Theodora Goss

Honored for : Singing of Mount Abora

Nominations 2008 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Theodora Goss	Singing of Mount Abora
Daniel Abraham	The Cambist and Lord Iron: A Fairytale of Economics
Kij Johnson	The Evolution of Trickster Stories Among the Dogs of North Park After the Change
Rob Shearman	Damned if you Don't
Simon Kurt Unsworth	The Church on the Island

M. Rickert

Honored for : Journey into the Kingdom

Nominations 2007 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
M. Rickert	Journey into the Kingdom
Jeffrey Ford	The Way He Does It
Benjamin Rosenbaum	A Siege of Cranes
Christopher Rowe	Another Word for Map Is Faith
Geoff Ryman	Pol Pot's Beautiful Daughter

George Saunders

Honored for : CommComm

Nominations 2006 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
George Saunders	CommComm
Peter S. Beagle	Two Hearts
Joe Hill	Best New Horror
Holly Phillips	The Other Grace
Caitlín R. Kiernan	La Peau Verte

Margo Lanagan

Honored for : Singing My Sister Down

Nominations 2005 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Margo Lanagan	Singing My Sister Down
Theodora Goss	The Wings of Meister Wilhelm
Kelly Link	The Faery Handbag
China Miéville	Reports of Certain Events in London
Barbara Roden	Northwest Passage

Bruce Holland Rogers

Honored for : Don Ysidro

Nominations 2004 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Bruce Holland Rogers	Don Ysidro
Charles de Lint	A Circle of Cats
Maureen F. McHugh	Ancestor Money
Alexander C. Irvine	Gus Dreams of Biting the Mailman
Chris Roberson	O One

Jeffrey Ford

Honored for : Creation

Albert E. Cowdrey

Honored for : Queen for a Day

Andy Duncan

Honored for : The Pottawatomie Giant

Ian R. MacLeod

Honored for : The Chop Girl

Kelly Link

Honored for : The Specialist's Hat

P.D. Cacek

Honored for : Dust Motes

James Blaylock

Honored for : Thirteen Phantasms

Gwyneth Jones

Honored for : The Grass Princess

Stephen King

Honored for : The Man in the Black Suit

Fred Chappell

Honored for : The Lodger

Dan Simmons

Honored for : This Year's Class Picture

Joe Haldeman

Honored for : Graves

Fred Chappell

Honored for : The Somewhere Doors

Charles Vess, Neil Gaiman

Honored for : A Midsummer Night's Dream

(The only comic story ever to win this award.)

Steven Millhauser

Honored for : The Illusionist

John M. Ford

Honored for : Winter Solstice, Camelot Station

Nominations 1989 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
John M. Ford	Winter Solstice, Camelot Station
Joe R. Lansdale	Night They Missed the Horror Show
Lucius Shepard	Life of Buddha
Dan Simmons	Metastasis