2003 World Fantasy Convention
Award Nominees

Final Ballot covering the 2003 Award Year

The WFC 2003 will be held in Washington, DC.
Judges are Justin Ackroyd, Les Edwards, Laura Anne Gilman, Lawrence Watt-Evans, and Jane Yolen, with awards administrator Peter Dennis Pautz.

Novel:

The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque Jeffrey Ford (Morrow)
Fitcher's Brides Gregory Frost (Tor)
The Facts of Life Graham Joyce (Gollancz)
Ombria in Shadow Patricia A. McKillip (Ace)
The Scar China Mi&eegrave;ville (Macmillan U.K.; Del Rey)

Novella:

Seven Wild Sisters Charles de Lint (Subterranean Press)
A Year in the Linear City Paul Di Filippo (PS Publishing)
Coraline Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins)
"The Least Trumps" Elizabeth Hand (Conjunctions 39: The New Wave Fabulists)
"The Library" Zoran Zivkovic (Leviathan 3)

Short Story:

"Creation" Jeffrey Ford (F&SF 5/02)
"The Weight of Words" Jeffrey Ford (Leviathan 3)
"October in the Chair" Neil Gaiman (Conjunctions 39: The New Wave Fabulists)
"Little Dead Girl Singing" Stephen Gallagher (Weird Tales Spring 2002)
"The Essayist in the Wilderness" William Browning Spencer (F&SF 5/02)

Anthology:

The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Editors (Viking)
Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifteenth Annual Collection Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Editors (St. Martin's)
Conjunctions 39: The New Wave Fabulists Peter Straub, Editor (Bard College)
The American Fantasy Tradition Brian M. Thomsen, Editor (Tor)
Leviathan 3 ‚ Jeff VanderMeer & Forrest Aguirre, Editors (Ministry of Whimsy Press)

Collection:

Waifs and Strays Charles de Lint (Viking)
The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories Jeffrey Ford (Golden Gryphon Press)
Water: Tales of Elemental Spirits Robin McKinley & Peter Dickinson (Putnam)
The Ogre's Wife Richard Parks (Obscura Press)
City of Saints and Madmen Jeff VanderMeer (Prime Books)
Figures in Rain Chet Williamson (Ash-Tree Press)

Artist:

Kinuko Y. Craft
Tom Kidd
Gary Lippincott
Dave McKean
John Jude Palencar
Charles Vess

Special Award: Professional:

Paul Barnett for Paper Tiger art books
Ellen Datlow for editing
William Schafer for Subterranean Press
Gary Turner & Marty Halpern for Golden Gryphon Press
Gordon Van Gelder for The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
Terri Windling for editing

Special Award: Non-Professional:

Peter Crowther for PS Publishing
Gavin Grant and Kelly Link for Small Beer Press
Sean Wallace for Prime Books
Michael Walsh for Old Earth Books
Jason Williams, Jeremy Lassen, Benjamin Cossel for Night Shade Books