Nominations for the World Fantasy Awards have been announced. The awards will be presented November 2, 2003 at the World Fantasy Convention in Washington, DC. Judges for this year's awards are Justin Ackroyd, Les Edwards, Laura Anne Gilman, Lawrence Watt-Evans, and Jane Yolen.

BEST NOVEL:
The Facts of Life, Graham Joyce (Gollancz)
Fitcher's Brides, Gregory Frost (Tor)
Ombria in Shadow, Patricia A. McKillip (Ace)
The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque, Jeffrey Ford (Morrow)
The Scar, China Miéville (Macmillan; Del Rey)

BEST NOVELLA:
Coraline, Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins)
"The Least Trumps", Elizabeth Hand (Conjunctions 39: The New Wave Fabulists)
"The Library", Zoran Zivkovic (Leviathan 3)
"Seven Wild Sisters," Charles de Lint (Subterranean Press)
"A Year in the Linear City," Paul Di Filippo (PS Publishing)

BEST SHORT STORY:
"Creation", Jeffrey Ford (F&SF May 2002)
"The Essayist in the Wilderness", William Browning Spencer (F&SF May 2002)
"Little Dead Girl Singing", Stephen Gallagher (Weird Tales Spring 2002)
"October in the Chair", Neil Gaiman (Conjunctions 39: The New Wave Fabulists)
"The Weight of Words", Jeffrey Ford (Leviathan 3)

BEST ANTHOLOGY:
The American Fantasy Tradition, Brian M. Thomsen, ed. (Tor)
Conjunctions 39: The New Wave Fabulists, Peter Straub, ed. (Bard College)
The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, eds. (Viking)
Leviathan 3 , Jeff VanderMeer & Forrest Aguirre, eds. (Ministry of Whimsy Press)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifteenth Annual Collection, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, eds. (St. Martin's)

BEST COLLECTION:
City of Saints and Madmen, Jeff VanderMeer (Prime Books)
The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories, Jeffrey Ford (Golden Gryphon Press)
Figures in Rain, Chet Williamson (Ash-Tree Press)
The Ogre's Wife, Richard Parks (Obscura Press)
Waifs and Strays, Charles de Lint (Viking)
Water: Tales of Elemental Spirits, Robin McKinley & Peter Dickinson (Putnam)

BEST ARTIST:
Kinuko Y. Craft
Tom Kidd
Gary Lippincott
Dave McKean
John Jude Palencar
Charles Vess

SPECIAL AWARD, PROFESSIONAL
Paul Barnett (for Paper Tiger art books)
Ellen Datlow (for editing)
William K. Schafer (for Subterranean Press)
Gary Turner & Marty Halpern (for Golden Gryphon Press)
Gordon Van Gelder (for F&SF)
Terri Windling (for editing)

SPECIAL AWARD, NON-PROFESSIONAL
Peter Crowther (for PS Publishing)
Gavin Grant & Kelly Link (for Small Beer Press)
Sean Wallace (for Prime Books)
Michael Walsh (for Old Earth Books)
Jason Williams, Jeremy Lassen & Benjamin Cossel (for Night Shade Books)