The finalists for the 2018 World Fantasy Awards were announced. Peter S. Beagle’s IN CALABRIA and THE NEW VOICES OF FANTASY (which he co-edited with Jacob Weisman), Ellen Klages’ WICKED WONDERS (as well as her Passing Strange), and Jane Yolen’s THE EMERALD CIRCUS all received nominations. Charles de Lint is to be given a Life Achievement Award.

Several other Tachyon writers and editors received notice including Ellen Datlow, Daryl Gregory, Tim Powers as well as contributors to the nominated THE NEW VOICES OF FANTASY: Carmen Maria Machado, Sofia Samatar. and JY Yang.

Congratulations to all the finalists.

Best Novel

• The City of
  Brass, S.A. Chakraborty (Harper Voyager)
• Ka: Dar Oakley in
  the Ruin of Ymr, John Crowley (Saga)
• The Strange Case
  of the Alchemist’s Daughter, Theodora Goss (Saga)
• Spoonbenders,
  Daryl Gregory (Knopf; riverrun)
• The Changeling,
  Victor LaValle (Spiegel & Grau)
• Jade City,
  Fonda Lee (Orbit US; Orbit UK)

Best Novella

• The Teardrop
  Method, Simon Avery (TTA)
• IN CALABRIA, Peter
  S. Beagle (Tachyon)
• Mapping the
  Interior, Stephen Graham Jones (Tor.com Publishing)
• Passing Strange,
  Ellen Klages (Tor.com Publishing)
• The Black Tides
  of Heaven, JY Yang (Tor.com Publishing)

Best Short Story

• “Old Souls”,
  Fonda Lee (Where the Stars Rise: Asian Science Fiction and
  Fantasy)
• “Welcome to Your
  Authentic Indian ExperienceTM“, Rebecca Roanhorse (Apex
  8/17)
• “The Birding: A
  Fairy Tale”, Natalia Theodoridou (Strange Horizons 12/18/17)
• “Clearly Lettered
  in a Mostly Steady Hand”, Fran Wilde (Uncanny 9-10/17)
• “Carnival Nine”,
  Caroline M. Yoachim (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 5/11/17)

Best Anthology

• THE NEW VOICES OF FANTASY, Peter S. Beagle & Jacob Weisman, eds. (Tachyon)
• Black Feathers,
  Ellen Datlow, ed. (Pegasus)
• The Book of
  Swords, Gardner Dozois, ed. (Bantam; HarperCollins UK)
• The Djinn Falls
  in Love and Other Stories, Mahvesh Murad & Jared Shurin, eds.
  (Solaris US; Solaris UK)
• The Best of
  Subterranean, William Schafer, ed. (Subterranean)

Best Collection

• WICKED WONDERS,
  Ellen Klages (Tachyon)
• Her Body and
  Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado (Graywolf)
• Down and Out in
  Purgatory: The Collected Stories of Tim Powers, Tim Powers (Baen)
• Tender, Sofia
  Samatar (Small Beer)
• THE EMERALD CIRCUS, Jane Yolen (Tachyon)

Best Artist

• Gregory Manchess
• Victo Ngai
• Omar Rayyan
• Rima Staines
• Fiona Staples

Special Award,
Professional

• Harry Brockway,
  Patrick McGrath, and Danel Olson, for Writing Madness
  (Centipede)
• C.C. Finlay, for
  F&SF editing
• Irene Gallo, for art
  direction at Tor Books and Tor.com
• Greg Ketter, for
  DreamHaven Books
• Leslie Klinger, for
  The New Annotated Frankenstein (Liveright)

Special Award,
Non-Professional

• Scott H. Andrews,
  for Beneath Ceaseless Skies
• Justina Ireland &
  Troy L. Wiggins, for FIYAH
• Khaalidah
  Muhammed-Ali & Jen R Albert, for PodCastle
• Ray B. Russell &
  Rosalie Parker, for Tartarus
• Lynne M. Thomas &
  Michael Damian Thomas, for Uncanny

LIFE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

• Charles de Lint
• Elizabeth Wollheim

For more info about THE NEW VOICES OF FANTASY, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover art by Camille André

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

For more info about IN CALABRIA, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

For more info about WICKED WONDERS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

For more info about THE EMERALD CIRCUS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

For more info about THE VERY BEST OF CHARLES DE LINT, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Charles Vess