Priya Sharma's Blog, page 4
October 8, 2023
Terence Davies
10 November 1945 – 7 October 2023
September 24, 2023
Jack O’Dander Is Coming
Can you see him?
Jack O’Dander by Priya Sharma. Edited by Ellen Datlow. Illustrated by Jeffrey Alan Love.
Out on Tor.com on 4th October 2023.
September 22, 2023
The British Fantasy Awards 2023
The British Fantasy Society (BFS) has announced the winners for the 2023 British Fantasy Awards:
Robert Holdstock Award for Best Fantasy Novel
WINNER: The Spear Cuts Through Water, Simon Jimenez (Del Rey)Path of War, David Green (Eerie River)Cast Long Shadows, Cat Hellisen (Luna)Glitterati, Oliver K. Langmead (Titan)The Bone Orchard, Sara A. Mueller (Tor)The Oleander Sword, Tasha Suri (Orbit)Best Horror Novel (the August Derleth Award)
WINNER: Just Like Home...September 10, 2023
Shirley Jackson Award Nomination
I am hugely honoured that “Pomegranates” was nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award. I will treasure my nominee pebble.
I owe thanks to my editor, Marie O’Regan, to Jeffrey Alan Love for his cover art, and tothe team at PS Publishing- Tamsin Traves, Michael Smith, snd Nicky and Peter Crowther.
August 21, 2023
World Fantasy Awards
The World Fantasy Awards ballot for works published in 2022 has been announced. The awards will be presented during the 2023 World Fantasy Convention, scheduled for October 26-29, 2023 at the Sheraton Crown Center in Kansas City MO.
The Life Achievement Awards, presented annually to individuals who have demonstrated outstanding service to the fantasy field, will go to Peter Crowther and John Douglas.
The World Fantasy Awards finalists are:
Best Novel
Saint Death’s Daughter, C.S.E. C...August 11, 2023
Interzone Pod
Thanks to Gareth Jelley for interviewing me for Interzone Pod to discuss “Pomegranates”.
Listen here.
July 25, 2023
British Fantasy Awards
The British Fantasy Award nominations have been annouced and I am delighted to be included with “Pomegranates” in the novella category. My humble thanks to anyone who voted for it.
The Robert Holdstock Award for Best Fantasy Novel
Jurors: Elias Eells, Elloise Hopkins, S.D. Howarth, Nadya Mercik, Roseanna Pendlebury
The Bone Orchard – Sara A. Mueller (Tor)Cast Long Shadows – Cat Hellisen (Luna Press Publishing)Glitterati – Oliver K. Langmead (Titan)The Oleander Sword – T...July 22, 2023
Tach Pollard’s Creatures
Tach Pollard, Oxford-based sculptor, works in hawthorn wood, which he burns and blackens, sometimes adding gold leaf.
His Etsy store is Surfing the Grain.
2022 Shirley Jackson Award Winners
Boston, MA (July 15, 2023) — In recognition of the legacy of Shirley Jackson’s writing, and with permission of the author’s estate, The Shirley Jackson Awards, Inc. has been established for outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic.
The 2022 Shirley Jackson Awards were presented in-person on Saturday, July 15 at Readercon 32, Conference on Imaginative Literature, in Quincy, Massa...
June 23, 2023
The Shirley Jackson Awards 2022
The nominees for the 2022 Shirley Jackson Awards are:
NOVEL
Beulah by Christi Nogle (Cemetery Gates Media)
The Dead Friends Society by Paul Gandersman and Peter Hall (Encyclopocalypse Publications)
The Devil Takes You Home by Gabino Iglesias (Mulholland Books)
Jackal by Erin E. Adams (Bantam)
Unwieldy Creatures by Addie Tsai (Jaded Ibis Press)
Where I End by Sophie White (Tramp Press)
NOVELLA
The Bone Lantern by Angela Slatter (PS Publishing)
Bound Feet by K...
