The British Fanasty Society has posted the Winners of The British Fantasy Awards 2009.

• Best Novel (The August Derleth Fantasy Award): Memoirs of a Master Forger, by William Heaney, aka Graham Joyce (Gollancz)
• Best Novella: "The Reach of Children" by Tim Lebbon (Humdrumming)
• Best Short Fiction: "Do You See" by Sarah Pinborough, from Myth-Understandings, ed. by Ian Whates (Newcon Press)
• Best Collection: Bull Running for Girls by Allyson Bird (Screaming Dreams)
• Best Anthology: The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 19, ed. Stephen Jones (Constable & Robinson)
• The PS Publishing Best Small Press Award: Elastic Press, run by Andrew Hook
• Best Non-Fiction : Basil Copper: A Life in Books by Basil Copper, ed. Stephen Jones (PS Publishing)
• Best Magazine/Periodical: Postscripts, ed. Peter Crowther and Nick Gevers (PS Publishing)
• Best Artist: Vincent Chong
• Best Comic/Graphic Novel : Locke and Key by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez (IDW Publishing)
• Best Televison : Doctor Who, head writer Russell T. Davies (BBC Wales)
• Best Film: The Dark Knight, directed by Christopher Nolan (Warner Brothers)
• The Sydney J. Bounds Award for Best Newcomer: Joseph D'Lacey, for Meat (Bloody Books)
• The Karl Edward Wagner Award (the Special Award): Hayao Miyazaki

The results of the BFS Short Story Competition 2009 were also announced at the ceremony:

• Winner: "Dead Astronauts" by Patrick Whittaker
• Runner-up: "In the Moment" by Elana Gomel

[via Science Fiction Awards Watch]

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Posted by John DeNardo at Monday September 21, 2009 at 12:13 AM
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