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  World Fantasy Award for Best Novella - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This World Fantasy Award is given to the fantasy novella or novellas voted best by a panel of judges, and presented each year at the World Fantasy Convention.
The 25th World Fantasy Convention, held in Providence, Rhode Island, was co-chaired by Chip Hitchcock and Davey Snyder.
WFC 2002, held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, was chaired by Greg Ketter.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/World_Fantasy_Award_for_Best_Novella   (1232 words)

  
 World Fantasy Awards
The World Fantasy Awards are nominated by members of the World Fantasy Convention and selected by a panel of judges to acknowledge excellence in fantasy writing and art.
The recipients of the 2002 World Fantasy Awards were announced at the World Fantasy Convention in Minneapolis, MN on November 3, 2002.
The recipients of the 2003 World Fantasy Awards were announced at the World Fantasy Convention in Washington, DC on November 2, 2003.
dpsinfo.com /awardweb/worldfantasy   (1532 words)

  
 AwardWeb: Collections of Literary Award Information and Photographs -- http://www.awardweb.info
The World Fantasy Awards are given out each fall by the members of the World Fantasy Convention with final selections made by a jury for the best in published fantasy.
Awarded annually for distinguished SF published as a paperback original in the U.S. To the International Fantasy Awards.
The award is adminstered by the Permanent Trustee Co Ltd of Sydney.
www.dpsinfo.com /awardweb   (1471 words)

  
 2003 World Fantasy Convention - 2003 World Fantasy Awards Information
The judges are chosen by the World Fantasy Awards Administration.
All Fantasy is eligible, from supernatural horror to Tolkienesque to sword and sorcery to the occult to children’s and YA books, and beyond.
Materials to be considered for awards must be received, no later than June 1, 2003, by all five judges with an additional copy to the World Fantasy Awards Association.
www.seahunt.org /wfc/awards.htm   (601 words)

  
 News Page - China MiĆ©ville   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Hugo Award was named in honor of Hugo Gernsback, "The Father of Magazine Science Fiction," as he was described in a special award given to him in 1960.
The distinguishing characteristics of the Hugo Award are that it is sponsored by WSFS, administered by the committee of the World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon) held that year, and determined by nominations from and a popular vote of the membership of WSFS.
The BSFA Awards are voted on by the membership of the British Science Fiction Association and the membership of the annual British National Science Fiction Convention (or Eastercon).
www.panmacmillan.com /features/china/news.htm   (479 words)

  
 Tooth and Claw by Jo Walton - SFandF.com - Science Fiction Books and Fantasy Books
The tale of a family dealing with the death of their father, of a son who goes to law for his inheritance, a son who agonizes over his father's deathbed confession, a daughter who falls in love, a daughter who becomes involved in the abolition movement, and a daughter sacrificing herself for her husband.
Here is a world of politics and train stations, of churchmen and family retainers, of courtship and country houses...
Bound by a desire to escape the ghosts of the past, together they flee to the teeming city of Ashamoil, where Raule plies her trade among the desperate and destitute, and Gwynn becomes bodyguard and assassin for the household of a corrupt magnate.
www.sfandf.com /html/scifi-fantasy-books.html?id=6&p1=worldfn   (710 words)

  
 The James Tiptree, Jr. Award
The award is named for Alice B. Sheldon, who wrote under the pseudonym James Tiptree, Jr.
Award was started by visionaries, supported by nourishment, and selected with passion, patience and respect for difference.
This process ensures that the criteria for the award are reinvented every year by a new group of people whose only charge is to look for science fiction and fantasy that 'explores and expands gender.' Each set of judges refines and re-examines their own definitions of that phrase.
www.tiptree.org   (760 words)

  
 British Fantasy Society - Welcome   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The British Fantasy Society exists to promote and enjoy the genres of fantasy, science fiction and horror in all its forms.
To celebrate the 35th Anniversary of The British Fantasy Society and the 30th Anniversary of Fantasycon, we are pleased to announce our short story competition for 2006.
FANTASY WORLDWIDE International Film Festival- Toronto is an independent not-for-profit organization and the only film festival of its kind in the world bringing together various Fantasy and Science Fiction genres....
www.britishfantasysociety.org.uk   (1123 words)

  
 Center for Holocaust, Genocide & Peace Studies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Originally published in 1982 in the British science-fiction magazine Interzone, Ryman's story went on to win the British Fantasy Award for Best Novella in 1985 and the World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction in the same year.
The houses would greet their families with their cries for the dead." This final grace, however, cannot justify the pain that has come before.
Ryman's strange and beautiful story uses the metaphors of fantasy to pierce hearts calloused by the numbing realism of the evening news.
www.unr.edu /chgps/ryman.html   (474 words)

  
 Locus Online News: World Fantasy Awards Ballot
Nominations for the 2004 World Fantasy Awards, covering the 2003 publishing year, have been announced:
Two nominees in each category are placed on the ballot by reader votes submitted by members of the annual World Fantasy Convention, and the rest of the ballot is completed by a panel of five judges.
The winners, including one or more winners in the Life Achievement category, whose candidates are not announced in advance, will be selected by the judges and will be announced at the Awards Banquet on Sunday at this year's World Fantasy Convention, to be held October 28-31, 2004, in Tempe, Arizona.
www.locusmag.com /2004/News/08_WorldFantasyAwardBallot.html   (176 words)

  
 Jane Yolen's Awards
The award is a statuette of a white lion (Aslan, from Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia) and is voted on by members of the organization.
Given annually at the World Fantasy Convention, awards go to a short story, novel, non-fiction, editor, and a special award for a person or a piece that does not fall easily into a catagory.
1988 Kerlan Award of the University of Minnesota
www.janeyolen.com /janeawards.html   (937 words)

  
 Emerald City
The special award (non-professional) has gone to Ray Russell and Rosalie Parker for Taratrus Press, a British small press company that specialises is reprints of really good stuff.
If you are really lucky you'll get the results of the World Fantasy Awards live, but I'm not sure whether the wireless access will extend to the function space, and anyway I might have to leave to catch a plane before all of the results are announced.
For some reason that I can't quite fathom our French friends announce their award winners a month before the convention at which the awards are to be presented.
www.emcit.com /blog/2004_10_01_blogarch.shtml   (4714 words)

  
 The SF Site: World Fantasy Award Nominees
The nine awards are presented at the banquet of the World Fantasy Convention held each year around the end of October.
The nominees for that award are not released in advance.
The Awards will be announced at the World Fantasy Convention awards banquet to be held in Washington, DC on November 2, 2003.
www.sfsite.com /08b/wfa158.htm   (355 words)

  
 Thomas Ligotti   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
His story, "Purity," which appeared in the 80th anniversary issue of Weird Tales, will be reprinted in the next Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, edited by Teri Windling and Ellen Datlow.
Frank is kind of a parasite of a world that he doesn’t much care for.
At work, he wants to fit in only to the extent that is necessary to keep at bay the powers that rule over him.
home.earthlink.net /~dtwilbanks/ligotti10.html   (1203 words)

  
 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
__NOTOC__ This World Fantasy Award is given to the fantasy novel or novels voted best by a panel of judges, and presented each year at the World Fantasy Convention.
The 1983 WFC, held in Chicago, Illinois, was chaired by Robert Weinberg.
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education.music.us /W/World-Fantasy-Award-for-Best-Novel.htm   (1373 words)

  
 Tangent Online: 1998 World Fantasy Convention Photos by John L. Coker III   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Tim Powers is a previous World Fantasy Award winner for his novel, Last Call.
Andre Norton was the recipient of a World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement.
Fantasy & Science Fiction magazine editor Gordon Van Gelder accepts World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award for F&SF publisher Ed Ferman and, as St. Martin's Press editor for The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, edited by John Clute and John Grant.
www.sff.net /people/torhyth/tangent/others/photo03.htm   (187 words)

  
 Lucius Shepard interviewed - infinity plus non-fiction
The kind of dishonesty one experiences in the company of thieves is of a far less pernicious variety than the sort one experiences when in the company of the so-called upper or educated classes.
The island is home to the world's greatest storytellers -- you can walk into any non-tourist bar and within minutes you'll be regaled by the most amazing tales concerning the local history: gun- and rum-running and revolution and pirate lore.
The architectural fantasies of Piranesi were the chief source of inspiration for the decor of Castle Banat.
www.infinityplus.co.uk /nonfiction/intshepard.htm   (5020 words)

  
 Mythopoeic Awards
The winners of this year’s awards were announced at the Tolkien 2005 conference (incorporating Mythcon XXXVI) in Birmingham, England, on August 15, 2005.
The Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature is given to the fantasy novel, multi-volume, or single-author story collection for adults published during the previous year that best exemplifies "the spirit of the Inklings".
The Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Myth and Fantasy Studies is given to scholarly books on other specific authors in the Inklings tradition, or to more general works on the genres of myth and fantasy.
www.mythsoc.org /awards.html   (683 words)

  
 Neil Gaiman
(The World Fantasy Award is a bust of H. Lovecraft.
Editor Jo Fletcher had brought his award back to the UK for him, and presented it to him at a British Fantasy Society Open Night.
Fellow World Fantasy Award for Best Novel nominee -- and this year's World Fantasy Guest of Honour -- Jonathan Carroll, has a beautiful website for his new book up.
www.neilgaiman.com /journal/2002/08/big-news-click-here-to-see-what-it-is.asp   (259 words)

  
 Wheatland Press - Polyphony - Authors - Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Nina Kiriki Hoffman’s first solo novel, The Thread That Binds the Bones (1993), won the Bram Stoker Award for first novel; her second novel, The Silent Strength of Stones (1995) was a finalist for the Nebula and World Fantasy Awards.
A Red Heart of Memories (1999, part of her “Matt Black” series), nominated for a World Fantasy Award, was followed by sequel Past the Size of Dreaming in 2001.
Much of her work to date is short fiction, including “Matt Black” novella “Unmasking” (1992), nominated for a World Fantasy Award; and “Matt Black” novelette “Home for Christmas” (1995), nominated for the Nebula, World Fantasy, and Sturgeon awards.
www.wheatlandpress.com /polyphony/authors/nkhoffman.html   (187 words)

  
 Sci Fi Wire -- The News Service of the Sci Fi Channel
Cave, who was born in 1910, received a Bram Stoker Life Achievement Award in 1990, a World Fantasy Special Convention Award in 1996, a Living Legend Award from the International Horror Guild in 1997 and a World Fantasy Life Achievement Award in 1998, the site reported.
Cave became one of the top pulp writers and was most famous for his work in the "weird menace" genre.
In the 1970s, Cave wrote mystery and dark fantasy stories for the mainstream paperback market; in 1977 he won the World Fantasy Award for his collection Murgunstrumm & Others.
www.scifi.com /scifiwire/art-main.html?2004-06/29/09.00.books   (227 words)

  
 Dragon*Con Biography: [George R.R. Martin]
George was a finalist for the 1971 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in Science Fiction, the World Fantasy Award (Howard) in both 1982 and 1983, and the Bram Stoker Award in 1987.
He was also on the final ballot for the Writers Guild Award (Best Teleplay, Anthology Series) for 1986.
A winner of the Hugo, Nebula, Daikon (Japanese Hugo), Balrog, Gilgamesh (Spanish), Daedelus, Bram Stoker, and World Fantasy Awards, his stories have been translated into German, French, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Dutch, Japanese, Portugese, Serbo-Croatian, Russian, Polish, and Esperanto.
www.dragoncon.org /people/marting.html   (320 words)

  
 Sci Fi Wire -- The News Service of the Sci Fi Channel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Fantasy Magazine will primarily be a fiction magazine, but each issue will also include book reviews and interviews.
Fantasy Magazine will debut at the World Fantasy Convention, which takes place Nov. 4 through Nov. 6 in Madison, Wis. The magazine will appear quarterly, and each issue will have a cover price of $5.95.
Prime Books is the publisher of the World Fantasy Award-winning anthology Leviathan 3, and Wallace himself is a two-time World Fantasy Award nominee for editing.
www.scifi.com /scifiwire2005/index.php?id=32730   (541 words)

  
 Award-winning horror/fantasy writer Jack Cady dead at 71
Fantasy filtered through daily life into believable but extraordinary narratives was the specialty of Jack Cady, the Port Townsend novelist who died Wednesday night of cancer.
Although he won just about every award in science fiction, including the Nebula, Phillip K. Dick Award, World Fantasy Award and Bram Stoker Award, he was not really a science-fiction writer, leaning closer to horror and fantasy.
Award is icing on the cake for 'Ella' creators
seattlepi.nwsource.com /books/156842_cadyobit16.html   (364 words)

  
 Odyssey, the Fantasy Writing Workshop
Top authors, editors and agents have served as guests at Odyssey, and 40% of students have gone on to be published.
I was a senior editor at Bantam Doubleday Dell, where I won the World Fantasy Award for my editing, and I serve as primary instructor at the workshop.
They are true masters of the writing craft, and they will be running the workshop for the entire fifth week, a wonderful opportunity for students.
www.sff.net /odyssey   (1247 words)

  
 STURGEON, Theodore H. - personal data   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Nebula and Hugo Awards for 1970's Short Story "Slow Sculpture"; International Fantasy Award for More Than Human; and 1985's World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement; inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 2000.
James Gunn (the SF writer) created in 1987 the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for short fiction that is presented annually by the University of Kansas.
This is one of a pair of awards, along with the John W. Campbell Award given for the novel form.
www.gwillick.com /Spacelight/sturgeon.html   (484 words)

  
 DarkEcho/HorrorOnline: Dennis Etchison (2000)
But copper tarnishes when left out in the world too long, and their careers will turn fl at the end if they don't have the sense to step off before it's too late.
The title story from Etchison's first collection of short fiction, THE DARK COUNTRY, won the British Fantasy Award in 1981 and the World Fantasy Award in 1982.
Etchison went on to garner more World Fantasy and British Fantasy Awards for both his writing and his editing.
www.darkecho.com /darkecho/horroronline/etchison.html   (3037 words)

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