Câștigătorii vor fi anunțați la World Fantasy Convention, în 4-7 noiembrie 2021, în Montréal, Canada, într-o convenție cu tema Fantasy, Imagination, and the Dreams of Youth.
Deocamdată, au fost stabiliți finaliștii – câte doi per categorie nominalizați de public, restul de un juriu compus din Tobias Buckell, Siobhan Carroll, Cecilia Dart-Thornton, Brian Evenson, Patrick Swenson.
ROMAN
- Piranesi de Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury)
- Trouble the Saints de Alaya Dawn Johnson (Tor Books)
- The Only Good Indians de Stephen Graham Jones (Saga Press/Titan UK)
- Mexican Gothic de Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey US/Jo Fletcher Books UK)
- The Midnight Bargain de C. L. Polk (Erewhon Books US/Orbit UK)
NUVELĂ
- Ring Shout, or Hunting Ku Kluxes in the End Times de P. Djèlí Clark (Tordotcom)
- Stepsister de Leah Cypess (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction,May/June 2020)
- Flyaway de Kathleen Jennings (Tordotcom)
- The Four Profound Weaves de R. B. Lemberg (Tachyon Publications)
- Riot Baby de Tochi Onyebuchi (Tordotcom)
PROZĂ SCURTĂ
- “Glass Bottle Dancer” de Celeste Rita Baker (Lightspeed, April 2020)
- “The Women Who Sing for Sklep” de Kay Chronister (Thin Places)
- “The Nine Scents of Sorrow” de Jordan Taylor (Uncanny Magazine, July/Aug. 2020)
- “My Country Is a Ghost” de Eugenia Triantafyllou (Uncanny Magazine,January/February 2020)
- “Open House on Haunted Hill” de John Wiswell (Diabolical Plots, June 15 2020)
ANTOLOGIE
- Edited By, editor Ellen Datlow (Subterranean Press)
- The Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories, Vol. 1, editori James D. Jenkins & Ryan Cagle (Valancourt Books)
- Shadows & Tall Trees 8, editor Michael Kelly (Undertow Publications)
- The Book of Dragons, editor Jonathan Strahan (Harper Voyager)
- The Big Book of Modern Fantasy, editori Ann & Jeff VanderMeer (Vintage Books)
COLECȚIE (Volum de povestiri)
- The Best of Jeffrey Ford de Jeffrey Ford (PS Publishing)
- Velocities: Stories de Kathe Koja (Meerkat Press)
- Where the Wild Ladies Are de Aoko Matsuda, traducere Polly Barton (Soft Skull Press US/Tilted Axis UK)
- We All Hear Stories in the Dark de Robert Shearman (PS Publishing)
- Nine Bar Blues: Stories of an Ancient Future de Sheree Renée Thomas (Third Man Books)
ARTIST
- Rovina Cai
- Jeffrey Alan Love
- Reiko Murakami
- Daniele Serra
- Charles Vess
PREMIUL SPECIAL — PROFESIONIȘTI
- Clive Bloom, pentru The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Gothic (Palgrave Macmillan)
- C. Finlay, pentru The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction editing
- Jo Fletcher, pentru Jo Fletcher Books
- Maria Dahvana Headley, pentru Beowulf: A New Translation (MCD X FSG Originals US/Scribe UK)
- Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, pentru The Monster Theory Reader (University of Minnesota Press)
PREMIUL SPECIAL — AMATORI
- Scott H. Andrews, pentru Beneath Ceaseless Skies: Literary Adventure Fantasy
- Brian Attebery, pentru Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts
- Michael Kelly, pentru Undertow Publications
- Arley Sorg & Christie Yant, pentru Fantasy Magazine
- Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas, pentru Uncanny Magazine
sursa: tor.com