05/15/2012, 10:08 AM

For any BCS readers interested in nominating for the 2012 World Fantasy Awards, here are details on how you can nominate and links to our eligible stories.

Are You Eligible to Nominate?
If you were a member of World Fantasy Con last year (2011, San Diego) or in 2010 (Columbus, Ohio), or are a member this year (2012, Toronto), you are eligible to nominate.

WFC mailed out paper ballots last month to last year’s members and to this year’s members along with one of the progress reports. The ballot is also downloadable from the WFC 2012 website.

Deadline to Nominate:
Ballots must be postmarked or emailed by May 31, 2012.

How to Nominate:
Download the ballot from the WFC 2012 website or use the paper one they mailed you, fill it out, and either mail or email it to the address listed on the ballot. By May 31, 2012.

What BCS Stories are Eligible:
Everything published in 2011, which is BCS Issue #60 through Issue #85.

Here’s a small list of a few of our best-reviewed stories of 2011, including which WFA category they fit in (Short Fiction or Novella–note that the categories are different from the ones for Hugos or Nebulas).

For the full list of all eligible BCS stories and the categories they fit in, click through the More tag.

Short Fiction category:
Richard Parks, The Ghost of Shinoda Forest
A.B. Treadwell, Playing for Amarante
Geoffrey Maloney, Mr Morrow Becomes Acquainted with the Delicate Art of Squid Keeping

Michael J. DeLuca, The Nine-Tailed Cat
Adam Callaway, Walls of Paper, Soft as Skin
Siobhan Carroll, In the Gardens of the Night

Dean Wells, To the Gods of Time and Engines, a Gift
Megan Arkenberg, The Gardens of Landler Abbey
Seth Dickinson, The Traitor Baru Cormorant, Her Field-General, and Their Wounds

Thanks very much for considering our stories!

The Full List of All WFA-Eligible Stories:

Here is the full list of all BCS stories that are eligible for the 2012 WFAs and which category they fall under.  Thanks very much for considering our stories.

Eligible for Best Short Fiction:
Marie Brennan, Two Pretenders
Camille Alexa, Over a Narrow Sea
Margaret Ronald, Recapitulation in Steam
Corie Ralston, Mamafield
Kris Dikeman, Silent, Still, and Cold

Jesse Bullington, The Adventures of Ernst, Who Began a Man, Became a Cyclops, and Finished a Hero
Richard Parks, The Ghost of Shinoda Forest
Eljay Daly, Dirt Witch
Garth Upshaw, Breathing Sunshine
Geoffrey Maloney, Mr Morrow Becomes Acquainted with the Delicate Art of Squid Keeping

Cat Rambo, Love, Resurrected
A.B. Treadwell, Playing for Amarante
Heather Fawcett, The Fairy Gaol
Greg Linklater, Memories of Her
Genevieve Valentine, The Finest Spectacle Anywhere

Jason S. Ridler, Buzzard’s Final Bow
Margaret Ronald, Letters of Fire
Wendy N. Wagner, Cold Iron and Green Vines
Michael J. DeLuca, The Nine-Tailed Cat
Therese Arkenberg, The Godslayer’s Wife

Erin Hoffman, Sightwolf
Joe L. Murr, The Moral Education of a Mad Bastard
Adam Callaway, Walls of Paper, Soft as Skin
Siobhan Carroll, In the Gardens of the Night
Marko Kloos, Ink and Blood

Peter Darbyshire, The Angel Azrael Rode Into the Town of Burnt Church on a Dead Horse
Ferrett Steinmetz, My Father’s Wounds
Michael John Grist, Bone Diamond
Marissa Lingen, The Witch’s Second
Margaret Ronald, Salvage

Heather Clitheroe, Gone Sleeping
Garth Upshaw, Butterfly
Kristina C. Mottla, The Magick
Richard Parks, The Tiger’s Turn
J.S. Bangs, The Judge’s Right Hand

Kat Howard, The Calendar of Saints
Nicole M. Taylor, A Spoonful of Salt
Dean Wells, To the Gods of Time and Engines, a Gift
Stephen Case, Read This Quickly, For You Will Only Have a Moment...
Wren Wallis, The Red Cord

Megan Arkenberg, The Gardens of Landler Abbey
Nadia Bulkin, Princess Courage
Peadar Ó Guilín, Heartless
Derek Künsken, The God Thieves
Seth Dickinson, The Traitor Baru Cormorant, Her Field-General, and Their Wounds

Eligible for Best Novella:
Bradley P. Beaulieu, From the Spices of Sanandira
Rosamund Hodge, And Her Eyes Sewn Shut with Unicorn Hair
Rose Lemberg, Held Close in Syllables of Light
Spencer Ellsworth, The Death of Roach
Marie Brennan, Dancing the Warrior
Michael Anthony Ashley, Hence the King from Kagehana