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I Spit Myself Out, Tracy Fahey (Sinister Horror Company).WINNER: Never Have I Ever, Isabel Yap (Small Beer).

“Fill the Thickened Lung with Breath”, C.A.“Sky Eyes”, Julie Travis ( Dreamland: Other Stories).“O2 Arena”, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki ( Galaxy’s Edge 11/21).

WINNER: “Bathymetry”, Lorraine Wilson ( Strange Horizons 3/21).

These Lifeless Things, Premee Mohamed (Solaris).

& This is How to Stay Alive, Shingai Njeri Kagunda (Neon Hemlock).

Matryoshka, Penny Jones (Hersham Horror).

Treacle Walker, Alan Garner (4th Estate).

The Book of Accidents, Chuck Wendig (Penguin).

A Broken Darkness, Premee Mohamed (Solaris).

Nothing but Blackened Teeth, Cassandra Khaw (Titan).

My Heart is a Chainsaw, Stephen Graham Jones (Titan).

WINNER: The Last House on Needless Street, Catriona Ward (Viper).

This is Our Undoing, Lorraine Wilson (Luna)īest Horror Novel (the August Derleth Award).

WINNER: She Who Became the Sun, Shelley Parker-Chan (Tor).

Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)

Matryoshka by Penny Jones