The winners of the 2026 World Fantasy Award (for work published in 2025) were announced at the World Fantasy Convention in Oakland, Calif.:
Life Achievement: Clive Barker, Joyce Carol Oates
Novel: Once Was Willem by M.R. Carey (Orbit)
Long Fiction: Psychopomp & Circumstance by Eden Royce (Tordotcom)
Short Fiction: "The Hungry Mouth at the Edge of Space and the Goddess Knitting at Home" by Renan Bernardo (Reactor, Aug. 27, 2025)
Anthology: Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology edited by Julie C. Day with Carina Bissett & Craig Laurance Gidney (Essential Dreams)
Collection: Uncertain Sons and Other Stories by Thomas Ha (Undertow Publications)
Artist: Kathleen Jennings
Special Award, Professional: Jaymee Goh, Jill Roberts, and Jacob Weisman, for Tachyon Publications
Special Award, Non-Professional: Wendy Wagner, for Nightmare magazine