Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)

• WINNER: Upon a Starlit Tide, Kell Woods (Tor US; Titan UK)

• A Song of Legends Lost, M.H. Ayinde (Orbit)
• The Outcast Mage, Annabel Campbell (Orbit)
• Magic, Maps, and Mischief, David Green (self-published)
• Daughters of Nicnevin, Shona Kinsella (Flame Tree)
• Grave Empire, Richard Swan (Orbit)

Best Horror Novel (the August Derleth Award)

• WINNER: The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, Stephen Graham Jones (Saga US; Titan UK)

• Hungerstone, Kat Dunn (Zando US; Manilla UK)
• Black Flame, Gretchen Felker-Martin (Tor Nightfire US; Titan UK)
• The Needfire, MK Hardy (Solaris)
• Witchcraft for Wayward Girls, Grady Hendrix (Berkley US; Tor Nightfire UK)
• Lionhearts, Dan Howarth (Northern Republic UK)

Best Novella

• WINNER: The River Has Roots, Amal El-Mohtar (Tordotcom US; Arcadia UK)

• The Nga’phandileh Whisperer: A Sauútiverse Novella, Eugen Bacon (Stars and Sabers)
• Fate’s Bane, C.L. Clark (Tordotcom)
• “Walking A Wounded Land”, Andrew Knighton (Wiz Duos 3)

Best Short Fiction

• WINNER: “Shadow Jack”, CL Hellisen (GigaNotoSaurus 5/1/25)

• “Down Street”, James Bennett (Blood in the Bricks)
• “Godzilla as a Young Man Named Mike”, E.M. Faulds, narrated by Eliza Chan (PodCastle 7/29/25)
• “No One Knows the Old Ways Anymore and It Will Be the End of Everything”, LJ McMenemy (Hiding Under the Leaves)

Best Collection

• WINNER: Call and Response, Christopher Caldwell (Neon Hemlock)

• Wolf’s Path, Joyce Chng (Atthis Arts)
• Dark Crescent, Lyndsey Croal (Luna Press Publishing)
• Who Will You Save, Gareth L. Powell (Titan)
• Into Wrack and Ruin, Benjamin Kurt Unsworth (Phantasmagoria)

Best Anthology

• WINNER: Silk & Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror From the Asian Diaspora, Kristy Park Kulski, ed. (Bad Hand)

• Lesbians In Space: Where No Man Has Gone Before, J.S. Fields, Heather Tracy & William C. Tracy, eds. (Space Wizard Science Fantasy)
• This Way Lies Madness, Dave Jeffery & Lee Murray, eds. (Flame Tree)
• Blood in the Bricks, Neil Williamson, ed. (NewCon)

Best Independent Press

• WINNER: NewCon

• Black Shuck
• Flame Tree
• Luna Press Publishing

Best Non-Fiction

• WINNER: Nigerian Speculative Fiction: The Evolution, Chukwunonso Ezeiyoke (Routledge India)

• “Spec Fic and the Politics of Identity: Finding the Self in Other”, Eugen Bacon (Strange Horizons 3/24/25)
• Writing The Magic: Essays on Crafting Fantasy Fiction, Dan Coxon & Richard V. Hirst (Dead Ink)
• The Ecological Imaginary in Literature and Other Media: The Nature of Fantasy, Kevan Manwaring (Routledge)
• Britain’s Folklore Year: A seasonal journey through our customs, celebrations and rituals, Mark Norman (National Trust)
• The Full Lid, Alasdair Stuart, edited by Marguerite Kenner

Best Magazine / Periodical

• WINNER: Remains

• Ginger Nuts of Horror
• Mythaxis
• Phantasmagoria
• Strange Horizons

Best Artist

• WINNER: Jenni Coutts

• Ben Baldwin
• Kelly Chong
• Vincent Chong
• Mina Ikemoto Ghosh

Best Audio (Fiction)

• WINNER: The Shape of Monsters, CL Hellisen, narrated by Omari Douglas (Audible Originals)

• PodCastle
• PseudoPod
• The Tiny Bookcase

Best Audio (Non-Fiction)

• WINNER: The Folklore Podcast

• Breaking The Glass Slipper
• Fantasy Book Swap
• Uncanny

Best Newcomer

• WINNER: Annabel Campbell for The Outcast Mage (Orbit)

• M.H. Ayinde for A Song of Legends Lost (Orbit)
• MK Hardy for The Needfire (Solaris)
• Ana Sun for Futures to Live By (NewCon)