Wikipedia

Crawford Award

The IAFA William L. Crawford Fantasy Award (short: Crawford Award) is a literary award given to a writer whose first fantasy book was published during the preceding calendar year. It's one of several awards presented by the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (IAFA) and is presented at the International Conference of the Fantast in the Arts[1] each March in Orlando.

In order to be eligible, a title must be the author’s first fantasy book; it is permissible for an author active in different genres to be submitted, so long as it is their first fantasy book. In addition to novels and novellas, collections of poetry, short stories, and fiction aimed at younger readers are all eligible.

The Prize was conceived and established with the help of Andre Norton, who continued to sponsor it for many years.[2] The award is named after the publisher and editor William L. Crawford (1911-1984).[3] It was administered by noted Locus reviewer, Gary K. Wolfe from 1985 to 2023. The current administrator is critic Farah Mendlesohn.

Crawford honorees have gone on to win a dozen World Fantasy Awards (including a Life Achievement Award for Charles de Lint), five Shirley Jackson Awards, five Locus Awards, four Hugo Awards, four Nebula Awards, and 27 other awards of various kinds. Two Crawford-winning novels have been adapted as feature films, Chitra Bannerjee Divakaruni’s Mistress of Spices in 2005 and Christopher Barzak’s One for Sorrow in 2014 (under the title Jamie Marks is Dead). While the majority of honorees have been residents of the United States, the international dimension of the award is reflected by winners from Canada, the U.K., Sweden, Barbados, India, Australia, New Zealand, and Malaysia.

List of recipients

edit
Year Recipient Title of Book Ref
1985 Charles de Lint Moonheart [4]
1986 Nancy Willard Things Invisible to See [4]
1987 Judith Tarr The Hound and the Falcon trilogy [4]
1988 Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Reindeer Moon [4]
1989 Michaela Roessner Walkabout Woman [4]
1990 Jeanne Larsen The Silk Road [4]
1991 Michael Scott Rohan Winter of the World trilogy [4]
1992 Greer Gilman Moonwise [4]
1993 Susan Palwick Flying in Place [4]
1994 Judith Katz Running Fiercely Toward a High Thin Sound [4]
1995 Jonathan Lethem Gun, With Occasional Music [4]
1996 Sharon Shinn Archangel [4]
1997 Candas Jane Dorsey Black Wine [4]
1998 Chitra Bannerjee Divakaruni Mistress of Spices [4]
1999 David B. Coe Lon Tobyn Chronicles [4]
2000 Anne Bishop Black Jewels trilogy [4]
2001 Kij Johnson The Fox Woman [4]
2002 Jasper Fforde The Eyre Affair [4]
2003 Alexander C. Irvine A Scattering of Jades [4]
2004 K. J. Bishop The Etched City [4]
2005 Steph Swainston The Year of Our War [4]
2006 Joe Hill Twentieth Century Ghosts [4]
2007 M. Rickert Map of Dreams [4]
2008 Christopher Barzak One for Sorrow [5]
2009 Daryl Gregory Pandemonium [4]
2010 Jedediah Berry The Manual of Detection [4]
2011 Karen Lord Redemption in Indigo [6]
2012 Genevieve Valentine Mechanique [7]
2013 Karin Tidbeck Jagganath [8]
2014 Sofia Samatar A Stranger in Olondria [9]
2015[a] Zen Cho Spirits Abroad [10]
Stephanie Feldman The Angel of Losses [10]
2016 Kai Ashante Wilson The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps [11]
2017 Charlie Jane Anders All the Birds in the Sky [12]
2018 Carmen Maria Machado Her Body and Other Parties [13]
2019 R. F. Kuang The Poppy War [14]
2020 Tamsyn Muir Gideon the Ninth [15]
2021 Nghi Vo   The Empress of Salt and Fortune [16]
2022 Usman T. Malik   Midnight Doorways: Fables from Pakistan [17]
2023 Simon Jimenez The Spear Cuts Through Water [18]
2024 Vajra Chandrasekera The Saint of Bright Doors [19]
2025 Jared Pechaček The West Passage [20]
2026 Christopher Caldwell Call and Response [21]

Judges

edit

Notes

edit
  1. ↑ In 2015, the selection resulted in a tie for the first time in the award's history. Zen Cho and Stephanie Feldman were named co-winners.

References

edit
  1. ↑ "International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts - Conferences". iaftfita.wildapricot.org. Retrieved 2023-10-25.
  2. ↑ "IAFA Awards". International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts. Archived from the original on 2012-10-08. Retrieved 2013-06-07.
  3. ↑ Clute, John; John Grant (1997). The Encyclopedia of Fantasy. New York: St. Martin's Press. p. 1015. ISBN 0-88184-708-9.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 "Past Winners of the Crawford Award". iaftfita.wildapricot.org. Retrieved 2026-05-21.
  5. ↑ "Awards News: Crawford Fantasy Award Winner". Locus Online. Locus Publications. 2008-01-10. Archived from the original on 2005-03-02. Retrieved 2008-01-11.
  6. ↑ "The Locus Index to SF Awards". Locus Online. Locus Publications. 2011-03-20. Archived from the original on 2011-10-16. Retrieved 2011-07-11.
  7. ↑ "2012 Crawford Award Announced". Locus Online. Locus Publications. 2012-01-24. Retrieved 2012-07-17.
  8. ↑ "2013 Crawford Award". Locus Online. Locus Publications. 2013-02-05.
  9. ↑ "Samatar Wins Crawford Award". Locus Online. Locus Publications. 2014-01-24.
  10. 1 2 "Cho and Feldman Win Crawford Award". Locus. 27 Jan 2015. Retrieved 16 Dec 2025.
  11. ↑ "Kai Ashante Wilson". Tor Publishing Group. Retrieved 2026-05-20.
  12. ↑ "Charlie Jane Anders Wins the 2017 Crawford Award for All the Birds in the Sky". reactor.com. Retrieved 2026-05-20.
  13. ↑ "Machado Wins Crawford Award," Locus, Feb. 14, 2019.
  14. ↑ "Kuang Wins Crawford Award," Locus, Feb. 1, 2019.
  15. ↑ "Muir Wins Crawford Award," Locus, Feb. 4, 2020.
  16. ↑ "William L. Crawford - IAFA Fantasy Award 2021 ," Feb. 11, 2022.
  17. ↑ "2022 IAFA Crawford Award and Shortlist Announced – International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts". Retrieved 2022-02-11.
  18. ↑ "Jimenez Wins Crawford". Locus. 7 Feb 2023. Retrieved 7 Jul 2025.
  19. ↑ "Chandrasekera Wins Crawford". Locus. 4 Mar 2024. Retrieved 5 Jul 2025.
  20. ↑ "The West Passage Wins Crawford Award". Locus. March 22, 2025. Retrieved September 15, 2025.
  21. ↑ "Christopher Caldwell Wins Crawford Award". Locus Magazine. March 21, 2026. Retrieved March 24, 2026.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
edit
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Crawford_Award&oldid=1357794402"