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The British Fantasy Awards shortlists have been released, with the winners to be announced at FantasyCon in September. Sci-Fi Bulletin’s Alasdair Stewart is among the nominees.

Best Newcomer (The Sydney J. Bounds Award)
Tiffani Angus, for Threading the Labyrinth (Unsung Stories)
Dan Coxon, for Green Fingers & Only the Broken Remain (Black Shuck Books)
Sean Hogan, for Three Mothers, One Father (Black Shuck Books)
Kathleen Jennings, for Flyaway (Tordotcom)
Simon Jimenez, for The Vanished Birds (Titan)
Rym Kechacha, for Dark River (Unsung Stories)

Best Film / Television Production
Birds of Prey
The Boys: What I Know (Season 2, episode 8)
The Haunting of Bly Manor: The Romance of Certain Old Clothes (Season 1, episode 8)
The Invisible Man
The Lighthouse
Saint Maud

Best Non-Fiction
The Full Lid, Alasdair Stuart, ed. Marguerite Kenner
It’s the End of the World: But What Are We Really Afraid Of?, Adam Roberts (Elliot & Thompson)
Notes from the Borderland, Lynda E. Rucker (in “Black Static”, TTA Press)
Ties that Bind: Love in Fantasy and Science Fiction, ed. Francesca T Barbini (Luna Press Publishing)
The Unstable Realities of Christopher Priest, Paul Kincaid (Gylphi Limited)
Women Make Horror: Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre, ed. Alison Peirse (Rutgers University Press)

Best Artist
Warwick Fraser-Coombe
David Rix
Vincent Sammy
Daniele Serra

Best Comic / Graphic Novel
The Daughters of Ys, Jo Rioux & M.T. Andersen (First Second)
DIE Vol. 2: Split the Party, Kieron Gillen & Stephanie Hans (Image Comics)
John Constantine: Hellblazer, Vol. 1: Marks of Woe, Simon Spurrier & Aaron Campbell (DC Comics)
The Magic Fish, Trung Le Nguyen (Random House Graphic)
Rivers of London: The Fey and the Furious, Ben Aaronovitch & Andrew Cartmell (Titan)
Venus in the Blind Spot, Junji Ito (VIZ Media LLC)

Best Magazine / Periodical
Black Static
The Dark
FIYAH
Ginger Nuts of Horror
Shoreline of Infinity
Strange Horizons

Best Independent Press
Black Shuck Books
Flame Tree Press
Luna Press Publishing
Unsung Stories

Best Audio
Breaking the Glass Slipper, Megan Leigh, Lucy Hounson & Charlotte Bond
The Magnus Archives, Rusty Quill
PodCastle, Escape Artists
PseudoPod, Escape Artists
The Sandman, Dirk Maggs & Neil Gaiman (Audible Originals)
Stellar Firma, Rusty Quill

Best Anthology
After Sundown, ed. Mark Morris (Flame Tree Press)
Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women, ed. Lee Murray & Genevieve Flynn (Omnium Gatherum Media)
Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora, ed. Zelda Knight & Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki (Aurelia Leo)
Shadows & Tall Trees, Vol. 8, ed. Michael Kelly (Undertow Publications)

Best Short Fiction
8-Bit Free Will, John Wiswell (in PodCastle 654, Escape Artists)
Daylight Robbery, Anna Taborska (in “Bloody Britain”, Shadow Publishing)
Infinite Tea in the Demara Café, Ida Keogh (in “London Centric: Tales of Future London, Newcon Press)
We Do Like to be Beside, Pete Sutton (in “Alchemy Press Book of Horrors 2”, Alchemy Press)

Best Collection
Bloody Britain, Anna Taborska (Shadow Publishing)
Only the Broken Remain, Dan Coxon (Black Shuck Books)
The Watcher in the Woods, Charlotte Bond (Black Shuck Books)
We All Hear Stories in the Dark, Robert Shearman (PS Publishing)

Best Novella
The Flame and the Flood, Shona Kinsella (Fox Spirit)
Honeybones, Georgina Bruce (TTA Press)
The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water, Zen Cho (Tordotcom)
Ring Shout, P. Djèlí Clark (Tordotcom)
A Song for the End, Kit Power (Horrific Tales Publishing)
Triggernometry, Stark Holborn (Rattleback Books)

Best Horror Novel (The August Derleth Award)
Beneath the Rising, Premee Mohamed (Rebellion)
The Hollow Places, T. Kingfisher (Titan)
Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Jo Fletcher Books)
The Only Good Indians, Stephen Graham Jones (Titan)
Plain Bad Heroines, Emily Danforth (The Borough Press)
Survivor Song, Paul Tremblay (Titan)

Best Fantasy Novel (The Robert Holdstock Award)
The Bone Shard Daughter, Andrea Stewart (Orbit)
By Force Alone, Lavie Tidhar (Tor Books)
The City We Became, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit)
Dark River, Rym Kechacha (Unsung Stories)
The Once and Future Witches, Alix E. Harrow (Orbit)
Threading the Labyrinth, Tiffani Angus (Unsung Stories)