British Fantasy Award — Flyaway for Best Newcomer

I’m hugely honoured to have received the British Fantasy Award (The Sydney J Bounds Award) for Best Newcomer, for Flyaway!

Congratulations to all my fellow nominees — here are their books!

• Tiffani Angus, for Threading the Labyrinth (Unsung Stories)
• Dan Coxon, for Green Fingers & Only the Broken Remain (Black Shuck Books)
• Sean Hogan, for Three Mothers, One Father (Black Shuck Books)
• Simon Jimenez, for The Vanished Birds (Titan)
• Rym Kechacha, for Dark River (Unsung Stories)

And many congratulations to all the winners:

• BEST NEWCOMER (THE SYDNEY J. BOUNDS AWARD) — Kathleen Jennings, for Flyaway (Tordotcom)
• BEST FILM / TELEVISION PRODUCTION — The Boys: What I Know (Season 2, episode 8)
• BEST NON-FICTION — Women Make Horror: Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre, ed. Alison Peirse (Rutgers University Press)
• BEST ARTIST — Daniele Serra
• BEST COMIC / GRAPHIC NOVEL — DIE Vol. 2: Split the Party, Kieron Gillen & Stephanie Hans (Image Comics)
• BEST MAGAZINE / PERIODICAL — Strange Horizons
• BEST INDEPENDENT PRESS — Luna Press Publishing
• BEST AUDIO — The Magnus Archives, Rusty Quill
• BEST ANTHOLOGY — Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora, ed. Zelda Knight & Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki (Aurelia Leo)
• BEST SHORT FICTION — Infinite Tea in the Demara Café, Ida Keogh (in “London Centric: Tales of Future London, Newcon Press)
• BEST COLLECTION — The Watcher in the Woods, Charlotte Bond (Black Shuck Books)
• BEST NOVELLA — Ring Shout, P. Djèlí Clark (Tordotcom)
• BEST HORROR NOVEL (THE AUGUST DERLETH AWARD) — Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Jo Fletcher Books)
• BEST FANTASY NOVEL (THE ROBERT HOLDSTOCK AWARD) — The Once and Future Witches, Alix E. Harrow (Orbit)
• KARL EDWARD WAGNER AWARD — Alasdair Stuart