Talk:British Fantasy Award

Update needed
At the moment, this article lists nominees from 2004 and 2005, and winners from 2004. If anyone has the time and inclination to update this (the 2009 nominations were just announced), as well as to list nominees and winners from earlier in the award's history, that would be great. A listing of past award recipients is here. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 21:47, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

New years
I've added 06, 07 and 08 to the list but I could only find the winners. Also I went a little nuts with the citations so if someone wants to consolidate it in to a single global refrence it might be a good idea. --Elfwood (talk) 15:12, 22 October 2009 (UTC)

Update Nov 26 2012
The BFS link has been changed. Currently you can get the list of winners at http://www.britishfantasysociety.co.uk/british-fantasy-awards/the-british-fantasy-awards-a-short-history/
 * That remains true. -P64 2013-04-16
 * Not any more. https://www.britishfantasysociety.org/british-fantasy-awards/bfawinners/ Is the link at present.Nickpheas (talk) 15:32, 21 September 2022 (UTC)

The 2012 Categories are, I believe, different than what is indicated in intro.
 * The Robert Holdstock Award for Best Fantasy Novel
 * The August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel
 * Novella
 * Short Fiction
 * Collection
 * Anthology
 * The PS Publishing Independent Press Award
 * Non-Fiction
 * Magazine/Periodical
 * Artist
 * Comic/Graphic Novel
 * Screenplay
 * Newcomer (The Sydney J. Bounds Award)
 * Special Award (The Karl Edward Wagner Award)

I have cut and pasted the following from the BFS site, but I do not know what to do about the copyright issues.
 * Deleted (see previous version of this section) -P64 2013-04-16

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.96.77.238 (talk) 01:34, 27 November 2012 (UTC)
 * I formatted that list of categories for display as a list. And I deleted that massive list of all past winners, which nearly replicates the bulk of the linked page.("Short History" with official list)
 * The lists per se appear to be substantially identical. The current official version includes some prose notes between the years ("Subsequently ..."). The current listings use colons ("Anthology: The Weird ...") where the deleted copy uses tabs that may be useful for some purpose.(previous version of this section)
 * --P64 (talk) 18:37, 16 April 2013 (UTC)

Karl Edward Wagner Award
"the Karl Edward Wagner Award is given at the discretion of the BFS committee."

What does the KEW recognize? eg, outstanding service to the Society?

--P64 (talk) 18:37, 16 April 2013 (UTC)

It can, but also service to the genre of fantasy. Here's the description from the awards constitution (http://www.britishfantasysociety.org/the-british-fantasy-awards-constitution-ii/):

"The British Fantasy Special Award is known as the Karl Edward Wagner Award. The Award may be presented to individuals or organisations. Eligibility: this Award is not necessarily restricted to an activity in the year prior to that in which the Award is presented. The Award may go to someone who has made an important contribution to the genre or the Society throughout his/her lifetime; or it may go to the organisers of a special event or publication that took place in the relevant year. Recommendations for this Award will be sought from the membership. *The BFS Committee will determine the winner of this award."

Rolnikov (talk) 06:16, 22 July 2015 (UTC)


 * Also, does anyone know why Karl Edward Wagner, an American, with no obvious connections to the UK or British fandom is so memorialised?Nickpheas (talk) 12:46, 30 September 2021 (UTC)

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Award order
I've added the last few years in imitation of the BFS web pages. One thing that I did find annoying me as I did so was that the order of awards seems to change all the time (on the source), making it harder to find the one you're looking for. Is there an objective right order? Probably not. But if I were to impose some standardisation, would anyone object?

Suggest Fantasy novel, Horror Novel, novella, short fiction, anthology, collection, non fiction, newcomer (so grouping the writing awards together), peroidical, imprint, artist, comic, film, KEW.Nickpheas (talk) 12:41, 30 September 2021 (UTC)