World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction

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This World Fantasy Award is given to the fantasy short story voted best by a panel of judges, and presented each year at the World Fantasy Convention.

[edit] Award winners and finalists

[edit] 1989

WFC 1989 was held in held Seattle, Washington, and was chaired by Robert Doyle. Judges were Susan Allison, Ed Bryant, Lisa Goldstein, Peter Dennis Pautz and Jon White.

Winner: "Winter Solstice, Camelot Station", John M. Ford
"Night They Missed the Horror Show", Joe R. Lansdale
"Life of Buddha", Lucius Shepard
"Metastasis", Dan Simmons

[edit] 2004

WFC 2004 was held in Tempe, Arizona. Judges were John Clute, Sherwood Smith, Michael Stackpole, Alain Nevant, and Scott Wyatt.

Winner: "Don Ysidro", Bruce Holland Rogers (Polyphony 3, Wheatland Press)
Circle of Cats, Charles de Lint (Viking)
"Ancestor Money", Maureen F. McHugh (SCIFICTION)
"Gus Dreams of Biting the Mailman", Alex Irvine (Trampoline, Small Beer Press)
"O One", Chris Roberson (Live Without a Net, Roc)

[edit] 2005

WFC 2005 was held in Madison, Wisconsin, and is chaired by Meg Turville-Heitz. Judges were Alis Rasmussen (Kate Elliott), Jeffrey Ford, Tim Lebbon, Patrick Nielsen Hayden and Jessica Amanda Salmonson.

Winner: "Singing My Sister Down", Margo Lanagan (Black Juice, Allen & Unwin Australia)
"The Wings of Meister Wilhelm", Theodora Goss (Polyphony 4, Wheatland Press)
"The Faery Handbag", Kelly Link (The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm, Viking)
"Reports of Certain Events in London", China Miéville (McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories, Vintage)
"Northwest Passage", Barbara Roden (Acquainted With The Night, Ash Tree Press)