The World Fantasy Award nominees were announced last night, and BCS is represented again, this year with one finalist, your humble Editor-in-Chief/Publisher, me (Scott H. Andrews), for Special Award–Non-Professional.

But a bunch of BCS authors are finalists for other work:

• Marie Brennan (“The Ascent of Unreason” in BCS #104 and podcastBCS 089, “Driftwood” in BCS #14 and podcastBCS 013,  “And Blow Them at the Moon” in BCS #50 and podcast BCS 044, set in the world of her Oynx Court novels, and many others) for novel A Natural History of Dragons: A Memoir by Lady Trent

• Rachel Swirsky (“Great, Golden Wings” in BCS #28 and BCS 027) for short fiction “If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love”

• Yoon Ha Lee (“The Bonedrake’s Penance” in BCS #143 Science-Fantasy Month 2, “The Book of Locked Doors” in BCS #91 Science Fantasy Month and podcast BCS 078, “The Pirate Captain’s Daughter” in BCS #27 and podcast BCS 025, and several others) for short fiction “Effigy Nights”

Congratulations, all! And thanks very much to all who found the magazine and my work on it worthy.