World Fantasy Award Ballot

The nominations for the World Fantasy Awards have been announced. Here at Aqueduct Press we're thrilled to see that Nisi Shawl's Filter House has been nominated for the single-author collections category and that her "Good Boy" (an original story in the collection) has been nominated for the novella category. Way to go, Nisi!

Here's the complete ballot:

Awards

This list of nominees for the 2009 World Fantasy Awards is as follows:

Best Novel

• The House of the Stag, Kage Baker (Tor)
• The Shadow Year, Jeffrey Ford (Morrow)
• The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins; Bloomsbury)
• Pandemonium, Daryl Gregory (Del Rey)
• Tender Morsels, Margo Lanagan (Allen & Unwin; Knopf)

Best Novella

• “Uncle Chaim and Aunt Rifke and the Angel”, Peter S. Beagle (Strange Roads)
• “If Angels Fight”, Richard Bowes (F&SF 2/08)
• “The Overseer”, Albert Cowdrey (F&SF 3/08)
• Odd and the Frost Giants, Neil Gaiman (Bloomsbury; HarperCollins)
• “Good Boy”, Nisi Shawl (Filter House)

Best Short Story

• “Caverns of Mystery”, Kage Baker (Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy)
• “26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss”, Kij Johnson (Asimov’s 7/08)
• “Pride and Prometheus”, John Kessel (F&SF 1/08)
• “Our Man in the Sudan”, Sarah Pinborough (The Second Humdrumming Book of Horror Stories)
• “A Buyer’s Guide to Maps of Antarctica”, Catherynne M. Valente (Clarkesworld 5/08)

Best Anthology

• The Living Dead, John Joseph Adams, ed. (Night Shade Books)
• The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Del Rey)
• The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 2008: Twenty-First Annual Collection, Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link, & Gavin J. Grant, eds. (St. Martin’s)
• Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy, Ekaterina Sedia, ed. (Senses Five Press)
• Steampunk, Ann & Jeff VanderMeer, eds. (Tachyon Publications)

Best Collection

• Strange Roads, Peter S. Beagle (DreamHaven Books)
• The Drowned Life, Jeffrey Ford (HarperPerennial)
• Pretty Monsters, Kelly Link (Viking)
• Filter House, Nisi Shawl (Aqueduct Press)
• Tales from Outer Suburbia, Shaun Tan (Allen & Unwin; Scholastic ‘09)

Best Artist

• Kinuko Y. Craft
• Janet Chui
• Stephan Martinière
• John Picacio
• Shaun Tan

Special Award, Professional

• Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant (for Small Beer Press and Big Mouth House)
• Farah Mendelsohn (for The Rhetorics of Fantasy)
• Stephen H. Segal & Ann VanderMeer (for Weird Tales)
• Jerad Walters (for A Lovecraft Retrospective: Artists Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft)
• Jacob Weisman (for Tachyon Publications)

Special Award, Non-Professional

• Edith L. Crowe (for her work with The Mythopoeic Society)
• John Klima (for Electric Velocipede)
• Elise Matthesen (for setting out to inspire and for serving as inspiration for works of poetry, fantasy, and SF over the last decade through her jewelry-making and her “artist’s challenges.”)
• Sean Wallace, Neil Clarke, & Nick Mamatas (for Clarkesworld)
• Michael Walsh (for Howard Waldrop collections from Old Earth Books)

Award Judges

Judges for 2009 are Jenny Blackford, Peter Heck, Ellen Klages, Chris Roberson & Delia Sherman.

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In an email to me this morning, in response to my congratulations, Nisi said: "I am so stoked."