Nominations for the 2017 World Fantasy Awards close on Wednesday! 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 six 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.)
Also, note the short deadline: May 31.
Are You Eligible to Nominate?
If you were a member of World Fantasy Con last year (2016, Columbus OH) or the year before (2015, Saratoga Springs NY) or are a member this year (2017, San Antonio, TX), you are eligible to nominate.
Deadline to Nominate:
Voting closes MAY 31, 2017.
How to Nominate:
The front page of the WFC 2017 website has a link to a PDF ballot that can be submitted by paper mail or by email to rturner@arctera.com.
Unlike in past years, no email ballot seems to have been emailed to attendees of recent World Fantasy conventions.
What BCS Stories are Eligible:
Everything published in 2016, which is BCS #190 through BCS #215, inclusive.
Here are a few of our best-reviewed stories of 2016 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):
“A Salvaging of Ghosts” by Aliette de Bodard (Locus Recommended Reading List) (Tangent Recommended Reading List) (selected for Best SF&F of the Year) (selected for Year’s Best SF 34)
“Laws of Night and Silk” by Seth Dickinson (Tangent Recommended Reading List) (selected for Year’s Best SF&F) (selected for Best SF&F of the Year)
“The Limitless Perspective of Master Peek, or, the Luminescence of Debauchery” by Catherynne M. Valente (Eugie Foster Award finalist)
“Foxfire, Foxfire” by Yoon Ha Lee (Locus Recommended Reading List) (Tangent Recommended Reading List) (selected for Best SF&F of the Year)
“The Orangery” by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam (Tangent Recommended Reading List) (Nebula Award finalist)
Novella (pieces longer than 10,000 words):
“Blood Grains Speak Through Memories” by Jason Sanford (Tangent Recommended Reading List) (selected for Year’s Best SF&F) (Nebula Award finalist)
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):
“The Orangery” by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam (Tangent Recommended Reading List) (Nebula Award finalist)
“The Limitless Perspective of Master Peek, or, the Luminescence of Debauchery” by Catherynne M. Valente
“Foxfire, Foxfire” by Yoon Ha Lee (Locus Recommended Reading List) (Tangent Recommended Reading List) (selected for Best SF&F of the Year)
“Longsleeves” by Mike Allen
“Where She Went” by Linden A. Lewis (selected for the 2016 Tangent Recommended Reading List)
“The True and Otherworldly Origins of the Name ‘Calamity Jane’” by Jordan Kurella (Tangent Recommended Reading List)
“The Jeweled Nawab Jungle Retreat” by Priya Sridhar (Tangent Recommended Reading List)
“Masks of the Mud God” by Greg Kurzawa
“The Marvelous Inventions of Mr. Tock” by Daniel Baker
“The Uncarved Heart” by Evan Dicken
“The Garden of Ending” by K.J. Kabza
“Dearly Departed” by Kelly Stewart
“A Cup of Comfort” by Stephanie Burgis
“The Wind Shall Blow” by Gregory Norman Bossert (Tangent Recommended Reading List)
“Teeth, Tapestries” by Alex Dally MacFarlane
“Abere and the Poisoner” by Jonathan Edelstein
“To Rise No More” by Marie Brennan (Tangent Recommended Reading List)
“The Patchwork Procedure” by Claude Lalumière (Tangent Recommended Reading List)
“What Pada-Sara Means to the Elephant” by Jeremy Sim
“Ebb Stung By the Flow” by E. Catherine Tobler
“Under She Who Devours Suns” by Benjanun Sriduangkaew (Tangent Recommended Reading List)
“The Night Bazaar for Women Becoming Reptiles” by Rachael K. Jones (Tangent Recommended Reading List)
“Mortal Eyes” by Ann Chatham (Tangent Recommended Reading List)
“The Nature of Ghosts and the Fate of Shadows” by Luke Nolby (Tangent Recommended Reading List)
“Blood Reckonings” by Alec Austin (Tangent Recommended Reading List)
“Shadow’s Weave” by Yoon Ha Lee (Locus Recommended Reading List)
“Laws of Night and Silk” by Seth Dickinson (Tangent Recommended Reading List) (selected for Year’s Best SF&F) (selected for Best SF&F of the Year)
“They Said the Desert” by A.T. Greenblatt (Tangent Recommended Reading List)
“Whale-Oil” by Sylvia V. Linsteadt
“The Sweetest Skill” by Tony Pi (Parsec Award finalist)
“Rabbit Grass” by Kelly Stewart (Tangent Recommended Reading List)
“Sea of Dreams” by Alter S. Reiss (Tangent Recommended Reading List)
“The Stone Garden” by Cae Hawksmoor
“A Salvaging of Ghosts” by Aliette de Bodard (Tangent Recommended Reading List) (selected for Best SF&F of the Year) (selected for Year’s Best SF 34)
“The Mountains His Crown” by Sarah Pinsker (Tangent Recommended Reading List)
“Call and Answer, Plant and Harvest” by Cat Rambo (Tangent Recommended Reading List)
“The Right Bright Courier” by Anaea Lay (Tangent Recommended Reading List)
“And the Blessing of the Angels Came Upon Them” by Dean Wells (Tangent Recommended Reading List)
“Salt Circles” by Andrew F. Sullivan
“The Three Dancers of Gizari” by Tamara Vardomskaya (Tangent Recommended Reading List)
“In Skander, for a Boy” by Chaz Brenchley (selected for Year’s Best SF&F)
“Blessed are Those Who Have Seen and Do Not Believe” by D.K. Thompson
“The Mama Mmiri” by Walter Dinjos
“Cloud Dweller” by E. Catherine Tobler
“A Deeper Green” by Samantha Murray (Tangent Recommended Reading List)
“Nothing But the Sky” by Gwendolyn Clare (Tangent Recommended Reading List)
“Salt and Sorcery” by Raphael Ordoñez
“The Aeroliths” by Stephen Case
“The Boy Who Would Not Be Enchanted” by A.M. Dellamonica (Tangent Recommended Reading List)
“Fire in the Haze” by Mishell Baker
“A Courtship of Beasts” by Michael Anthony Ashley (Tangent Recommended Reading List)
Novella:
“A Glass Kiss for the Little Prince of Pain” by Martin Cahill
“The Book of How to Live” by Rose Lemberg (Tangent Recommended Reading List)
“George & Frank Tarr, Boy Avencherers, in ‘Beeyon the Shours We Knowe!!!!’” by Thomas M. Waldroon (Tangent Recommended Reading List)
“‘Or I Wil Harrie Them Out of This Land’” by Thomas M. Waldroon
“Blood Grains Speak Through Memories” by Jason Sanford (Tangent Recommended Reading List) (selected for Year’s Best SF&F) (Nebula Award finalist)
“Told By An Idiot” by K.J. Parker (Locus Recommended Reading List) (Tangent Recommended Reading List)
Thank you for considering our stories.