The World Fantasy Association revealed the final ballot for the 2022 World Fantasy Awards. Both Naseem Jamnia’s novella THE BRUISING OF QILWA and Sam J. Miller’s collection BOYS, BEASTS & MEN received nominations.

Congrats to Naseem, Sam, and all the nominees.

NOVEL

• Saint Death’s Daughter by C. S. E. Cooney (Solaris)
• Spear by Nicola Griffith (Tordotcom Publishing)
• The Ballad of Perilous Graves by Alex Jennings (Redhook/Orbit UK)
• Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution by R. F. Kuang (Harper Voyager)
• Siren Queen by Nghi Vo (Tordotcom Publishing)

NOVELLA

• THE BRUISING OF QILWA by Naseem Jamnia (Tachyon Publications)
• The House of Drought by Dennis Mombauer (Stelliform Press)
• Even Though I Knew the End by C. L. Polk (Tordotcom Publishing)
• Helpmeet by Naben Ruthnum (Undertow Publications)
• Pomegranates by Priya Sharma (Absinthe Books)

SHORT FICTION

• “The Devil Don’t Come with Horns” by Eugen Bacon (Other Terrors: An Inclusive Anthology)
• “Incident at Bear Creek Lodge” by Tananarive Due (Other Terrors: An Inclusive Anthology)
• “The Morning House” by Kate Heartfield (PodCastle, July 5 2022)
• “Telling the Bees” by Kat Howard (The Sunday Morning Transport, Jan. 30 2022)
• “Douen” by Suzan Palumbo (The Dark magazine, March 2022)

ANTHOLOGY

• Screams from the Dark: 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous, ed. Ellen Datlow (Tor Nightfire)
• Other Terrors: An Inclusive Anthology, eds. Vince Liguano and Rena Mason (William Morrow)
• Dark Stars: New Tales of Darkest Horror, ed. John F. D. Taff (Tor Nightfire)
• Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction, eds. Sheree Renée Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, and Zelda Knight (Tordotcom Publishing)
• Trouble the Waters: Tales from the Deep Blue, eds. Sheree Renée Thomas, Pan Morigan, and Troy Wiggins (Third Man Books)

COLLECTION

• Dark Breakers by C. S. E. Cooney (Mythic Delirium Books)
• Breakable Things by Cassandra Khaw (Undertow Publications)
• All Nightmare Long by Tim Lebbon (PS Publishing)
• BOYS, BEASTS & MEN by Sam J. Miller (Tachyon Publications)
• A Different Darkness and Other Abominations by Luigi Musolino (Valancourt Books)

ARTIST

• Kinuko Y. Craft
• Galen Dara
• Matt Ottley
• Lauren Raye Snow
• Charles Vess

SPECIAL AWARD – PROFESSIONAL

• Irene Gallo, for Tor.com
• Gavin J. Grant and Kelly Link, for Small Beer Press
• Tim Lebbon and Daniele Serra, for Without Walls (PS Publishing)
• Fiona Moore, for Management Lessons from Game of Thrones: Organization Theory and Strategy in Westeros (Edward Elgar Publishing)
• Matt Ottley, for The Tree of Ecstasy and Unbearable Sadness (Dirt Lane Press)

SPECIAL AWARD – NON-PROFESSIONAL

• Michael Kelly, for Undertow Publications
• Cristina Macía, for The Celsius Festival
• Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, for Uncanny Magazine
• Dave Ring, for Neon Hemlock Press
• E. Catherine Tobler, for editing The Deadlands