2021 Word Fantasy Award Finalists: Novels, Novellas, Short Stories

The 2021 Word Fantasy Awards Finalists have been announced ! The winners will be announced during the World Fantasy Convention, 4.-7.11.2021.

I extract only a few categories which are interesting for me. I don’t exactly plan to read through everything. Some reviews are already available, mostly due to overlap with the other Award Nominations.

Here are all the nominees from short to long story. Links in the title lead to freely available online publications:

Best Short Story

• ★★★★☆ • Open House on Haunted Hill • 2020 • Ghost short story by John Wiswell • review
• ★★★☆☆ • My Country Is a Ghost • 2020 • Ghost short story by Eugenia Triantafyllou • review
• 
Glass Bottle Dancer by Celeste Rita Baker 
• The Women Who Sing for Sklep by Kay Chronister (Thin Places)
• The Nine Scents of Sorrow by Jordan Taylor 

Best Novella

• ★★★★★ • Ring Shout • 2020 • Historical horror novella by P. Djèlí Clark • review
• ★★★★★ • The Four Profound Weaves • 2020 • Fantasy novella by R.B. Lemberg • review
• ★★★★☆ • Stepsister • 2020 • Fairy tale novelette by Leah Cypess • review
• ★★★+☆☆ • Riot Baby • 2020 • Superhero novella by Tochi Onyebuchi • review
• Flyaway by Kathleen Jennings

Best Novel

• ★★★☆☆ • Piranesi • 2020 • Speculative fiction novel bySusanna Clarke • review
• Trouble the Saints by Alaya Dawn Johnson (Tor Books)
• The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones (Saga Press/Titan UK)
• Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey US/Jo Fletcher Books UK)
• The Midnight Bargain by C. L. Polk (Erewhon Books US/Orbit UK)