Fantasy winners
The World Fantasy Awards, the most prestigious awards in the fantasy genre, were given at the World Fantasy Convention 2021 in Montreal on 7 November. The winners were: Best Novel, Trouble the Saints,
Alaya Dawn Johnson; Best Novella, Riot Baby, Tochi Onyebuchi; Short Fiction, Glass Bottle Dancer, Celeste Rita Baker; Best Anthology, The Big Book of Modern Fantasy, edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer; Best Collection, Where the Wild Ladies Are, Aoka Matsuda, translated by Polly Barton. Lifetime achievement awards were given to Megan Lindholm (who also writes as Robin Hobb) and Howard Waldrop. The judging panel was Tobias Buckell, Siobhan Carroll, Cecilia Dart-Thornton, Brian Evenson and Patrick Swenson.
• In October the Mythopoeic Society announced the 2021 Mythopoeic Awards winners in an online ceremony. The awards celebrate work in and about the tradition of
The Inklings — CS
Lewis, JRR Tolkien and Charles Williams. The winners were: Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for
Adult Literature, The House in the Cerulean
Sea, TJ Klune; Children’s Literature, A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking,T
Kingfisher; Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies, Tolkien’s Lost Chaucer,
John M Bowers; Scholarship Award in Myth and Fantasy Studies, Fantasies of Time and Death: Dunsany, Eddison, Tolkien, Anna Vaninskaya.
• The 2021 Aurora Awards, Canada’s top awards for science fiction and fantasy were given in October in Ottawa in a ceremony which was livestreamed. The winners were: Best Novel, Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia; Best YA Novel, Flights of Marigold, Susan Forest; Best Novelette/Novella: Tool Use by the Humans of Danzhai County, Derek Künsken (Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, July/Aug); Best Short Story, All Cats Go to Valhalla, Chadwick Ginther (Swashbuckling Cats: Nine Lives on the Seven Seas); Best Graphic Novel, It Never Rains, Kari Maaren; Best Poem/Song, Nidhog,
Jo Walton, The Book of Dragons.