World Fantasy Award Best Novella Winners — Complete List (1982–2025)

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  Yoke of Stars by R. B. Lemberg

  2025World FantasyNovella

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• "Half the House Is Haunted" by Josh Malerman

  2024World FantasyNovella
• Pomegranates by Priya Sharma

  2023World FantasyNovella

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  And What Can We Offer You Tonight by Premee Mohamed

  2022World FantasyNovella

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  Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi

  2021World FantasyNovella

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  Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh

  2020World FantasyNovella

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• "The Privilege of the Happy Ending" by Kij Johnson

  2019World FantasyNovella

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  Passing Strange by Ellen Klages

  2018World FantasyNovella

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  The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe by Kij Johnson

  2017World FantasyNovella

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  The Unlicensed Magician by Kelly Barnhill

  2016World FantasyNovella

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  We Are All Completely Fine by Daryl Gregory

  2015World FantasyNovella

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  "Wakulla Springs" by Andy Duncan

  2014World FantasyNovella

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• "Let Maps to Others" by K. J. Parker

  2013World FantasyNovella
• "A Small Price to Pay for Birdsong" by K. J. Parker

  2012World FantasyNovella
• "The Maiden Flight of McCauley's Bellerophon" by Elizabeth Hand

  2011World FantasyNovella
• "Sea-Hearts" by Margo Lanagan

  2010World FantasyNovella

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  "If Angels Fight" by Richard Bowes

  2009World FantasyNovella

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  Illyria by Elizabeth Hand

  2008World FantasyNovella

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• "Botch Town" by Jeffrey Ford

  2007World FantasyNovella
• Voluntary Committal by Joe Hill

  2006World FantasyNovella

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• "The Growlimb" by Michael Shea

  2005World FantasyNovella
• "A Crowd of Bone" by Greer Gilman

  2004World FantasyNovella
• "The Library" by Zoran Živković

  2003World FantasyNovella

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  "The Bird Catcher" by S. P. Somtow

  2002World FantasyNovella

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  The Man on the Ceiling by Steve Rasnic Tem

  2001World FantasyNovella

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• Palace Corbie Eight(Merrimack Books) by "The Transformation of Martin Lake"

  2000World FantasyNovella
• "Sky Eyes" by Laurel Winter

  2000World FantasyNovella
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  "The Summer Isles" by Ian R. MacLeod

  1999World FantasyNovella

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  "Streetcar Dreams" by Richard Bowes

  1998World FantasyNovella

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  A City in Winter by Mark Helprin

  1997World FantasyNovella

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• "Radio Waves" by Michael Swanwick

  1996World FantasyNovella
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  "Last Summer at Mars Hill" by Elizabeth Hand

  1995World FantasyNovella

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  "Under the Crust" by Terry Lamsley

  1994World FantasyNovella

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• "The Ghost Village" by Peter Straub

  1993World FantasyNovella
• "The Ragthorn" by Robert Holdstock

  1992World FantasyNovella

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• "Bones" by Pat Murphy

  1991World FantasyNovella

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• "Great Work of Time" by John Crowley

  1990World FantasyNovella

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  "The Skin Trade" by George R. R. Martin

  1989World FantasyNovella

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  "Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight" by Ursula K. Le Guin

  1988World FantasyNovella

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• "Hatrack River" by Orson Scott Card

  1987World FantasyNovella

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• "Nadelman's God" by T. E. D. Klein

  1986World FantasyNovella
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  "The Unconquered Country" by Geoff Ryman

  1985World FantasyNovella

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• "Black Air" by Kim Stanley Robinson

  1984World FantasyNovella

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• Whispers by "Beyond Any Measure"

  1983World FantasyNovella
• "Confess the Seasons" by Charles L. Grant

  1983World FantasyNovella
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  "The Fire When It Comes" by Parke Godwin

  1982World FantasyNovella

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