Nominations for the 2016 World Fantasy Awards are open! The WFAs are a juried award, but two of the five finalists in each category are chosen by open nominations. In the past three years, BCS has been a finalist for five WFAs and won the 2013 WFA for Short Fiction.
For readers interested in nominating, here are details on how to do it, links to several of our best-reviewed stories of the year, and a full list of all eligible BCS stories and which World Fantasy Award category they fit in. (WFA short fiction categories are different than those for Hugos & Nebulas.)
Are You Eligible to Nominate?
If you were a member of World Fantasy Con last year (2015, Saratoga Springs, NY) or the year before (2014, Washington DC), or are a member this year (2016, Columbus, OH), you are eligible to nominate.
Deadline to Nominate:
Voting closes June 15, 2016.
How to Nominate:
Go to World Fantasy Convention 2016 — World Fantasy Awards Ballot to find a link to a PDF ballot that can be submitted by paper mail or by email to rturner@arctera.com.
(The PDF says the deadline is May 31, but the WFC admins on Facebook and the email ballot say June 15.)
Also, an email ballot was emailed directly to attendees of recent World Fantasy conventions. Those ballots can be submitted by paper mail or by email reply, to rturner@arctera.com.
What BCS Stories are Eligible:
Everything published in 2015, which is BCS #164 through BCS #189, inclusive.
Here are a few of our best-reviewed stories of 2015 and which WFA category they fit in. For a list of all eligible BCS stories and their categories, see the bottom of this post.
Short Fiction (pieces up to 10,000 words):
“Two to Leave” by Yoon Ha Lee (Recommended at Locus Online)
“The King in the Cathedral” by Rich Larson (selected for Year’s Best SF&F 2016)
“Unearthly Landscape by a Lady” by Rebecca Campbell (selected for Year’s Best SF&F 2016)
Novella (pieces longer than 10,000 words):
“Grandmother-nai-Leylit’s Cloth of Winds” by Rose Lemberg (a finalist for the Nebula Awards)
For more information on the WFA categories, see this WFC page. If you’re interested in other eligible short fiction, we recommend our authors’ stories in other magazines, like the ones listed in our BCS Authors Elsewhere posts.
Thanks very much for considering our stories!
All World Fantasy Award-Eligible Stories from BCS
This is the full list of all BCS stories that are eligible for the World Fantasy Awards, and what WFA category they fit in.
Short Fiction (up to 10,000 words):
“A Killer of Dead Men” by David Tallerman
“So Strange the Trees” by James Lecky
“Spider’s Ink” by Jason S. Ridler
“The Rest Will Blur Together” by John Wheeler (2015 Tangent Recommended Reading List)
“The Guardian’s Head” by Tamara Vardomskaya
“Bloodless” by Cory Skerry
“A Careful Fire” by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam
“Unearthly Landscape by a Lady” by Rebecca Campbell (selected for Year’s Best SF&F 2016, ed. Horton)
“Eyes Beyond the Fire” by Nick Scorza
“The Delusive Cartographer” by Rich Larson
“Holy Water, Holy Blood” by Bruce McAllister
“Demons Enough” by Ian McHugh
“The Sons of Vincente” by I.L. Heisler
“Murder Goes Hungry ” by Margaret Ronald (2015 Tangent Recommended Reading List)
“Flying the Coop” by Jack Nicholls
“Bent the Wing, Dark the Cloud” by Fran Wilde
“Moogh and the Great Trench Kraken” by Suzanne Palmer
“The Exile of the Eldest Son of the Family Ysanne” by Kendra Leigh Speedling
“The Scale-Tree” by Raphael Ordoñez
“The Insurrectionist and the Empress Who Reigns Over Time” by Benjanun Sriduangkaew
“Wild Things Got to Go Free” by Heather Clitheroe
“Fire Rises” by Alec Austin
“Defy the Grey Kings” by Jason Fischer
“The Grace of Turning Back” by Therese Arkenberg
“Seasons Set in Skin” by Caroline M. Yoachim
“Stone Prayers” by Kate Marshall (Recommended at Locus Online)
“The Girl with Golden Hair” by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam
“Court Bindings” by Karalynn Lee
“Sinseerly A Friend & Yr. Obed’t” by Thomas M. Waldroon (Recommended at Locus Online)
“On Freedom of Agency and the Finding of Lost Hearts” by Ken Scholes
“Two to Leave” by Yoon Ha Lee
“Out of the Rose Hills” by Marissa Lingen
“The Warriors, The Mothers, The Drowned” by Kay Chronister (2015 Tangent Recommended Reading List)
“The Punctuality Machine, Or, A Steampunk Libretto” by Bill Powell (2015 Tangent Recommended Reading List)
“Splitskin” by E. Catherine Tobler
“Swallowing Silver” by Erin Cashier
“The Snake-Oil Salesman and the Prophet’s Head” by Shannon Peavey
“The Fires of Mercy” by Spencer Ellsworth
“Sun, Stone, Spear” by Carrie Vaughn
“The Sixth Day” by Sylvia Anna Hivén
“Steady on Her Feet” by K.J. Kabza
“A Screech of Gulls” by Alyc Helms
“The King in the Cathedral” by Rich Larson (selected for Year’s Best SF&F 2016, ed. Horton)
“For Lost Time” by Therese Arkenberg (2015 Tangent Recommended Reading List)
“Everything Beneath You” by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam
“The Metamorphoses of Narcissus” by Tamara Vardomskaya
“Y Brenin” by C.A. Hawksmoor
“The Wizard’s House” by Stephen Case
“Day of the Dragonfly” by Raphael Ordoñez
Novella:
“Geometries of Belonging” by Rose Lemberg (2015 Tangent Recommended Reading List)
“The Four Schools” by Naim Kabir
“Grandmother-nai-Leylit’s Cloth of Winds” by Rose Lemberg (a finalist for the Nebula Awards)
“Primaflora’s Journey” by Cat Rambo
“Madonna” by Bruce McAllister
Thank you for considering our stories.