World Fantasy Awards

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One of the three most prestigious science fiction and fantasy awards (along with the Hugo and Nebula).

Trigger warning: the following articles discuss H.P. Lovedraft's racism.

The award statue is a caricature of H.P. Lovecraft. Daniel Jose Older proposed to have it changed to Octavia Butler.

• Nnedi Okorafor's criticism
• Guardian's review
• Jim C. Hines' criticism

Women Winners for Best Novel

• 1975: Patricia A. McKillip, The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
• 1980: Elizabeth A. Lynn, Watchtower
• 1991: Ellen Kushner, Thomas the Rhymer (co-winner)
• 1997: Rachel Pollack, Godmother Night
• 1999: Louise Erdrich, The Antelope Wife
• 2002: Ursula K. Le Guin, The Other Wind
• 2003: Patricia A. McKillip, Ombria in Shadow (co-winner)
• 2004: Jo Walton, Tooth and Claw
• 2005: Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
• 2009: Margo Lanagan, Tender Morsels (co-winner)
• 2011: Nnedi Okorafor, Who Fears Death
• 2013: G. Willow Wilson, Alif the Unseen
• 2014: Sofia Samatar, A Stranger in Olondria

Women Winners for Best Novella

• 1988: Ursula K. Le Guin, "Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight"
• 1991: Pat Murphy, "Bones"
• 1995: Elizabeth Hand, "Last Summer at Mars Hill"
• 2000: Laurel Winter, "Sky Eyes"
• 2001: Melanie Tem, "The Man on the Ceiling" (co-author)
• 2004: Greer Gilman "A Crowd of Bone"
• 2008: Elizabeth Hand, Illyria
• 2010: Margo Lanagan, "Sea-Hearts"
• 2011: Elizabeth Hand, "The Maiden Flight of McCauley's Bellerophon"
• 2014: Andy Duncan & Ellen Klages, "Wakulla Springs"

Women Winners for Best Short Story

• 1983: Tanith Lee, "The Gorgon"
• 1984: Tanith Lee, "Elle Est Trois, (La Mort)"
• 1996: Gwyneth Jones, "The Grass Princess"
• 1998: P. D. Cacek, "Dust Motes"
• 1999: Kelly Link, "The Specialist's Hat"
• 2005: Margo Lanagan, "Singing My Sister Down"
• 2007: M. Rickert, "Journey Into the Kingdom"
• 2008: Theodora Goss, "Singing of Mount Abora"
• 2009: Kij Johnson, "26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss"
• 2010: Karen Joy Fowler, "The Pelican Bar"
• 2011: Joyce Carol Oates, "Fossil-Figures"
• 2014: Caitlín R. Kiernan, "The Prayer of Ninety Cats"

Women Winners for Best Artist

• 2011: Kinuko Y. Craft

Women Winners for Best Anthology

• 2004: Strange Tales, edited by Rosalie Parker
• 2005: Acquainted with the Night, edited by Barbara & Christopher Roden (co-winner)
• 2005: Dark Matter: Reading the Bones, edited by Sheree R. Thomas (co-winner)
• 2007: Salon Fantastique, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
• 2008: Inferno: New Tales of Terror and the Supernatural, edited by Ellen Datlow
• 2009: Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy, edited by Ekaterina Sedia
• 2011: My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me, edited by Kate Bernheimer
• 2012: The Weird, Ann VanderMeer(co-editor)
• 2015: Monstrous Affections: An Anthology of Beastly Tales, co-edited by Kelly Link

Women Winners for Best Collection

• 1980: Jessica Amanda Salmonson (editor), Amazons!
• 1982: Terri Windling (editor), Elsewhere
• 1986: Robin McKinley (editor), Imaginary Lands
• 1987: James Tiptree, Jr., Tales of the Quintana Roo
• 1991: Carol Emshwiller, The Start of the End of It All and Other Stories
• 1996: Gwyneth Jones, Seven Tales and a Fable
• 1999: Karen Joy Fowler, Black Glass
• 2002: Nalo Hopkinson, Skin Folk
• 2004: Elizabeth Hand, Bibliomancy
• 2005: Margo Lanagan, Black Juice
• 2007: M. Rickert, Map of Dreams
• 2010: Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried To Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales
• 2014: Caitlín R. Kiernan The Ape's Wife and Other Stories
• 2015: Helen Marshall Gifts for the One Who Comes After (co-winner)
• 2015: Angela Slatter The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings (co-winner)

Women Winners for Life Achievement

• 1981: C.L. Moore
• 1989: Evangeline Walton
• 1995: Ursula K. Le Guin
• 1997: Madeleine L'Engle
• 1998: Andre Norton
• 2000: Marion Zimmer Bradley
• 2005: Carol Emshwiller
• 2007: Betty Ballantine
• 2007: Diana Wynne Jones
• 2008: Diane Dillon (with Leo Dillon)
• 2008: Patricia A. McKillip
• 2009: Ellen Asher
• 2009: Jane Yolen
• 2011: Angélica Gorodischer
• 2013: Susan Cooper
• 2013: Tanith Lee
• 2014: Ellen Datlow
• 2014: Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
• 2015: Sheri S. Tepper

Women Winners the Special Award: Professional

• 2007: Ellen Asher (for work at SFBC)
• 2009: Kelly Link (for Small Beer Press and Big Mouth House) along with Gavin J. Grant
• 2014: Irene Gallo (for art direction at Tor.com)
• 2015: Sandra Kasturi for ChiZine Publications

Women Winners of the Special Award: Non-Professional

• 2004: Rosalie Parker (for Tartarus Press) along with R.B. Russell
• 2008: Midori Snyder and Terri Windling (for Endicott Studios Website)
• 2010: Susan Marie Groppi (for Strange Horizons)
• 2011: Alisa Krasnostein (for Twelfth Planet Press)
• 2014: Kate Baker along with Neil Clarke & Sean Wallace (for Clarkesworld)
• 2015: Rosalie Parker for Tartarus Press