World Fantasy Awards 2026: the winners

The 2026 World Fantasy Awards were presented on 25 October at the World Fantasy Convention in Oakland, California. The winners are:

Novel: Once Was Willem by M. R. Carey (Orbit)

Long fiction: Psychopomp & Circumstance by Eden Royce (Tordotcom)

Short fiction: "The Hungry Mouth at the Edge of Space and the Goddess Knitting at Home" by Renan Bernardo (Reactor)

Anthology: Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology, edited by Julie C. Day with Carina Bissett and Craig Laurance Gidney (Essential Dreams)

Collection: Uncertain Sons and Other Stories by Thomas Ha (Undertow Publications)

Artist: Kathleen Jennings

Special Award, Professional: Jaymee Goh, Jill Roberts and Jacob Weisman, for Tachyon Publications

Special Award, Non-Professional: Wendy Wagner, for Nightmare magazine

Life Achievement: Clive Barker and Joyce Carol Oates

The full list is: https://locusmag.com/2026/10/world-fantasy-awards-winners-7/

Cover photo by Dollar Gill on Unsplash.