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three or more nominees before voting on the overall winner. The panel of judges is typically made up of fantasy authors, as well as other fantasy professionals and is chosen each year by the World
Fantasy Awards Administration, which has the power to break ties if the judges are deadlocked. The awards administration is a subgroup of the World Fantasy Convention Board, which selects sites for upcoming World Fantasy Conventions. Both the board and the judges panel are largely made up of professionals in the field of fantasy. The judges for the 2014 awards, for example, were authors
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is decided by the judges panel, while the
Convention award winner, not given every year, is selected by the convention organizers. The World Fantasy Convention itself is a multi-day event with several hundred attendees taking place in a different city each year, usually in the United States but sometimes in Canada or the United Kingdom. In addition to the awards ceremony, the conventions include an art show, a dealer's room, autograph receptions, and numerous panels and discussions.
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rules. 1978 saw the addition of the
Convention Award, a special award given for general contributions to the genre, and the only award not given every year since the beginning. The Short Fiction award was split into Short Story and Novella awards in 1982, and in 1988 the multi-author anthologies, previously eligible for the Collection award, were split into their own Best Anthology category. No changes have been made since.
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in 2007, however, noted that the consensus at the time "in the bookselling community" was that winning the novel category did not have any effect on sales and did not help keep the book in print, with 57 percent of prior winners out of print, compared to 23 percent of Hugo Award winners from the same
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The nominees are announced in July, and final results are presented at the World
Fantasy Convention around the end of October. The Life Achievement and Convention Awards do not list nominees, and instead have the winner announced along with the other categories' nominees. The Life Achievement winner
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Lovecraft's history of racism, no explicit reason was given for
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September 2014, the administrators of the World Fantasy Award announced they were "in discussion" about the future of the award trophy. In November 2015, at the 2015 awards, they announced that the Lovecraft bust would no longer be used beginning the following year. Lenika Cruz, associate editor
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Fantasy Award nominees and winners are decided by judges and attendees of the World Fantasy Convention. A ballot is posted in June for attendees of the current and previous two conferences to determine two of the finalists, with the two most-nominated selected, and a panel of five judges adds
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Fantasy Awards are split into ten categories, including both awards for written works and for professionals in the field. Eligibility requirements are loosely defined: works must have been published in the prior calendar year, and professionals must still be living. All types of fantasy
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At the start of the awards in 1975, seven categories were presented: Best Novel, Best Short
Fiction, Best Collection, Best Artist, Special Award—Professional, Special Award—Non-professional, and Life Achievement. Only a few categories have changed since then, and no changes have been made to the
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depicting a tree in front of a full moon was released in 2017. The 2023 awards were presented at the 49th convention in Kansas City, Missouri on
October 29, 2023, and the 2024 awards will be presented at the 50th convention in Niagara Falls, New York on October 20, 2024.
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138:). World Fantasy Award nominees and winners are decided by attendees of the convention and a panel of judges, typically made up of fantasy authors. Winners receive a small trophy; through the 2015 awards it was a bust of
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refused his Life Achievement award as he felt the award bust was a demeaning caricature of Lovecraft, whom he had known personally. Wandrei's rejected trophy was later recycled and given to another award winner.
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noted in 2011 that they felt conflicted about being honored by a bust of a man who hated people of color. Several authors and editors argued for the trophy to be changed, including a petition by author
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series has said that winning the anthology award for their first volume in 1991 helped "establish the series among readers and some publishers" in multiple countries. Winners such as
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has both the most nominations and most wins of any nominee, with 10 wins out of 42 nominations, primarily for her anthologies. She is followed by
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First World Fantasy Awards: An Anthology of the Fantastic
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182:, held that first year in horror writer
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386:Professionals in the field of fantasy
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1064:Hermann, Brenda (December 20, 1991).
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1547:Flood, Alison (November 11, 2015).
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2374:Works inspired by J. R. R. Tolkien
1484:The Dream World of H. P. Lovecraft
1482:Tyson, Donald (November 8, 2010).
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1028:Tan, Corrie (September 17, 2013).
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888:. World Fantasy Convention Board.
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762:Flood, Alison (November 9, 2015).
647:Cruz, Lenika (November 12, 2015).
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251:works are accepted, regardless of
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1524:(312). Burrowing Wombat Press.
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850:Walling, René (June 28, 2011).
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550:and World Fantasy Award winner
466:and 2014 Best Anthology winner
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995:"World Fantasy Awards Tallies"
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458:). In 2010 multiple winner
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446:awards, along with the
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1106:Howard Who?: Stories
1104:(October 23, 2010).
533:H. P. Lovecraft bust
464:Tachyon Publications
295:Current description
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18:World Fantasy Awards
2369:Tolkien's influence
2082:Fantasy Masterworks
2035:Television programs
1843:Fairy tale parodies
1488:Llewellyn Worldwide
525:and illustrated by
460:George R. R. Martin
444:speculative fiction
289:Current categories
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211:Vincent Villafranca
151:Vincent Villafranca
124:speculative fiction
35:World Fantasy Award
2591:Damsel in distress
2359:Mythopoeic Society
1960:Paranormal romance
1875:Historical fantasy
1860:Fantasy of manners
1814:Children's fantasy
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