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British Fantasy Awards 2007 - Winners Announced
Posted in: Press Room on 23rd September 2007 by UKSFBN admin
The Winners of the 2007 British Fantasy Awards were announced during the award ceremony at the culmination of this year's Fantasycon, earlier this afternoon, in Nottingham, UK.
Master of Ceremonies Peter Crowther, of PS Publishing fame, provided the banter and sight-gags as he invited a string of guest presenters (including Chaz Brenchley masquerading as Chris Fowler, Chaz Brenchley as Chaz Brenchley, Mark Morris, Tim Lebbon, Sarah Pinborough, John Grant, Simon Clark, Steven Volk, Stephen Jones, Simon R. Green, Ramsey Campbell, Michael Marshall Smith and Jo Fletcher of Gollancz Books), onto the stage at the Britannia Hotel to announce the winners of the awards to a packed and eager roomful of fantasy and horror fiction fans.
And the award winners are:
Sydney J. Bounds Best Newcomer Award (selected by a panel of judges including
Ramsey Campbell, Marie O'Regan, David A. Sutton, Stephen Jones, Jo Fletcher and Philip Harbottle)
- Joe Hill
Best Non-Fiction
- Mark Morris, for Cinema Macabre (PS Publishing)
Best Artist
- Vincent Chong
Best Collection
- Neil Gaiman, for Fragile Things (Headline)
Best Anthology
- Gary Couzens, for Extended Play: The Elastic Book of Music (Elastic Press)
- Mark Chadbourn, for 'Whisper Lane' (The BFS: A Celebration, British Fantasy Society)
- Paul Finch, for Kid (Choices, Pendragon Press)
- Peter Crowther, PS Publishing
- Ellen Datlow
- Tim Lebbon for Dusk (Bantam Spectra)
Best Short Fiction
Best Novella
Best Small Press
Karl Edward Wagner Award (BFS Committee Special Award)
August Derleth Award for Best Novel
A quite fantastic line-up there, and there's an even wider range of high-quality fiction, non-fiction, artwork and publishing panache among the rest of the nominees. Many congratulations to all the winners!
Source: Our on-the-spot reporter, yours truly
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