This year’s World Fantasy Award nomination period is still open. The 2011World Fantasy  Awards will be presented in San Diego, CA during the World Fantasy Convention (October 27-30). Deadline for nominating online is May 31.

Anyone who has a supporting or full membership from the 2010 World Fantasy Convention, or the upcoming 2011 World Fantasy Convention may nominate works. If you didn’t attend World Fantasy last year, and you don’t plan to attend this year, you can still nominate by purchasing a supporting membership.

Already registered? Go and nominate your favorite works! (Note: You may email your ballot to the award administrator, Rodger Turner, to the email address listed on the nomination ballot.)

Here’s a list of works I edited that are eligible in the various World Fantasy categories. Linked titles are available to read online for free. (Note that the World Fantasy categories are slightly different than the Nebulas and Hugos in regard to word counts: World Fantasy considers a Novella to be 10,000-40,000 words and Short Story to be 10,000 words or less, whereas the Nebulas and Hugos divide those categories differently, and have a third category (Novelette) in between.)

Titles annotated with DATLOW, HORTON, GURAN, or JONES indicate that the story in question has been selected for inclusion in the editor’s best-of-the-year anthology.

Novella (10,000 – 40,000 words)

• Feeding the Feral Children—David Farland (The Way of the Wizard)
• Life So Dear Or Peace So Sweet—C. C. Finlay (The Way of the Wizard)

Short Story (under 10,000 words)

• Dating in Dead World—Joe McKinney (The Living Dead 2)
• Alone, Together—Robert Kirkman (The Living Dead 2)
• The Price of a Slice—John Skipp & Cody Goodfellow (The Living Dead 2)
• When the Zombies Win—Karina Sumner-Smith (The Living Dead 2) ^{DATLOW, JONES}
• Zombie Gigolo—S. G. Browne (The Living Dead 2)
• The Other Side—Jamie Lackey (The Living Dead 2)
• And the Next, and the Next—Genevieve Valentine (The Living Dead 2)
• Pirates vs. Zombies—Amelia Beamer (The Living Dead 2)
• Everglades—Mira Grant (The Living Dead 2)
• Steve and Fred—Max Brooks (The Living Dead 2)
• The Anteroom—Adam-Troy Castro (The Living Dead 2)
• Mouja—Matt London (The Living Dead 2)
• The Mexican Bus—Walter Greatshell (The Living Dead 2)
• Who We Used to Be—David Moody (The Living Dead 2)
• Last Stand—Kelley Armstrong (The Living Dead 2)
• Flotsam & Jetsam—Carrie Ryan (The Living Dead 2)
• Reluctance—Cherie Priest (The Living Dead 2)
• Tameshigiri—Steven Gould (The Living Dead 2)
• The Summer Place—Bob Fingerman (The Living Dead 2)
• The Days of Flaming Motorcycles—Catherynne M. Valente ^DATLOW
  (The Living Dead 2 / Dark Faith)
• He Said, Laughing—Simon R. Green (The Living Dead 2) ^GURAN
• Are You Trying to Tell Me This is Heaven?—Sarah Langan (The Living Dead 2) ^GURAN
• Lost Canyon of the Dead—Brian Keene (The Living Dead 2)
• Good People—David Wellington (The Living Dead 2)
• The Skull-Faced City—David Barr Kirtley (The Living Dead 2)
• Zero Tolerance—Jonathan Maberry (The Living Dead 2)
• The Orange-Tree Sacrifice—Vylar Kaftan (The Way of the Wizard)
• The Sorcerer Minus—Jeffrey Ford (The Way of the Wizard)
• Too Fatal a Poison—Krista Hoeppner Leahy (The Way of the Wizard)
• So Deep That the Bottom Could Not Be Seen—Genevieve Valentine
  (The Way of the Wizard)
• Street Wizard—Simon R. Green (The Way of the Wizard)
• Card Sharp—Rajan Khanna (The Way of the Wizard)
• Endgame—Lev Grossman (The Way of the Wizard / Borders.com)
• The Secret of Calling Rabbits—Wendy N. Wagner (The Way of the Wizard)
• The Magician and the Maid and Other Stories—Christie Yant
  (The Way of the Wizard) ^HORTON
• Love is the Spell That Casts Out Fear—Desirina Boskovich (The Way of the Wizard)
• The Trader and the Slave—Cinda Williams Chima (The Way of the Wizard)
• The Go-Slow—Nnedi Okorafor (The Way of the Wizard)
• The Ereshkigal Working—Jonathan L. Howard (The Way of the Wizard)
• Mommy Issues of the Dead—T. A. Pratt (The Way of the Wizard)
• Family Tree—David Barr Kirtley (The Way of the Wizard)
• One Click Banishment—Jeremiah Tolbert (The Way of the Wizard)
• The Thirteen Texts of Arthyria—John R. Fultz (The Way of the Wizard)

Special Award, Professional

John Joseph Adams (for editing: The Living Dead 2, The Way of the Wizard)

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