British Fantasy Award for Best Non-Fiction

British Fantasy Award for Best Non-Fiction
Awarded forNon-fiction works in the field of speculative fiction
CountryUnited Kingdom
Presented byBritish Fantasy Society
First award2007 (2007)
Most recent winnerQueer as Folklore by Sacha Coward
Websitebritishfantasysociety.org

The British Fantasy Award for Best Non-Fiction is a literary award given annually as part of the British Fantasy Awards.

Winners and shortlists

  *   Winners

Year Author / Editor Work Publisher Ref.
2007 Mark Morris* Cinema Macabre PS Publishing [1]
Allen Ashley The Days of the Dodo Dodo Press [1]
Paul Kane The Hellraiser Films and Their Legacy McFarland & Company [1]
Andy Murray Into the Unknown: The Fantastic Life of Nigel Kneale Headpress [1]
Julie Phillips James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon St. Martin's Press [1]
2008 Peter Tennant* Whispers of Wickedness — [2]
Peter Thrower Nightmare USA: The Untold Story of the Exploitation Independents FAB Press [2]
Allen Ashley "Planet Dodo" — [2]
Darren Turpin UKSF Book News — [2]
Mark Valentine Wormwood Tartarus Press [2]
2009 Stephen Jones, ed.* Basil Copper: A Life in Books PS Publishing [3]
Russell T. Davies Doctor Who: The Writer’s Tale BBC Books [3]
Benjamin Cook
Neil Gaiman journal.neilgaiman.com — [3]
Nick Lowe "Mutant Popcorn" Interzone [3]
Paul Kincaid What Is It We Do When We Read Science Fiction Beccon Publications [3]
2010 David Langford* Ansible Link news.ansible.co.uk [4]
George Beahm Knowing Darkness: Artists Inspired by Stephen King Centipede Press [4]
Axelle Carolyn It Lives Again! Horror Movies in the New Millennium Telos Publishing [4]
John Scalzi Whatever scalzi.com/whatever [4]
Peter Tennant "Case Notes" Black Static [4]
2011 Vincent Chong* Altered Visions: The Art of Vincent Chong Telos Publishing [5]
Mark Morris Cinema Futura PS Publishing [5]
Steven Savile Fantastic TV: 50 Years of Cult Fantasy and Science Fiction Plexus Publishing [5]
Harold Billings M.P. Shiel: The Middle Years 1897-1923 Roger Beacham [5]
Darrel Buxton The Shrieking Sixties Midnight Marquee [5]
2012 Grant Morrison* Supergods: Our World in the Age of the Super Hero Jonathan Cape [6]
Johnny Mains Lest You Should Suffer Nightmares: A Biography of Herbert Van Thal Screaming Dreams [6]
Kim Newman Nightmare Movies: Horror on Screen Since the 1960s Bloomsbury Publishing [6]
Jonathan Rigby Studies in Terror: Landmarks of Horror Cinema Signum [6]
Peter Tennant "Case Notes" Black Static [6]
2013 Anne C. Perry, ed.* Pornokitsch — [7]
Jared Shurin, ed.*
David Langford Ansible — [7]
Edward James, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature Cambridge University Press [7]
Farah Mendlesohn, ed.
Stephen Volk "Coffinmaker's Blues" Black Static [7]
Marc Aplin Fantasy Faction — [7]
Diana Wynne Jones Reflections: On the Magic of Writing David Fickling [7]
2014 Justin Landon, ed.* Speculative Fiction 2012 Jurassic London [8]
Jared Shurin, ed.*
Marc Aplin Fantasy Faction — [8]
Mike Barrett Doors to Elsewhere The Alchemy Press [8]
Kameron Hurley "We Have Always Fought: Challenging the Women, Cattle and Slaves Narrative" A Dribble of Ink [8]
D. F. Lewis Gestalt Real-Time Reviews — [8]
2015 S. T. Joshi, ed.* Letters to Arkham: The Letters of Ramsey Campbell and August Derleth, 1961-1971 PS Publishing [9]
Hal Duncan Rhapsody: Notes on Strange Fictions Lethe Press [9]
Jonathan Green You Are the Hero: A History of Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks Snowbooks [9]
John Howard Touchstones: Essays on the Fantastic The Alchemy Press [9]
D. F. Lewis D. F. Lewis Dreamcatcher Real-Time Reviews D. F. Lewis [9]
Jim McLeod, ed. Ginger Nuts of Horror Jim McLeod [9]
Adam Roberts Sibilant Fricative: Essays & Reviews Steel Quill [9]
2016 Alexandra Pierce, ed.* Letters to Tiptree Twelfth Planet [10]
Alisa Krasnostein, ed.*
Marc Aplin, ed. Fantasy Faction — [10]
Jennie Ivins, ed.
Stephen Jones, ed. The Art of Horror: An Illustrated History Applause Theater & Cinema [10]
Jim McLeod, ed. Ginger Nuts of Horror gingernutsofhorror.com [10]
Kari Sperring Matrilines Strange Horizons [10]
Mark West, ed. King for a Year kingreviews2015.blogspot.com [10]
2017 Kameron Hurley* The Geek Feminist Revolution Tor Books [11]
Gary Couzens Blood Spectrum Black Static [11]
Jim McLeod, ed. Ginger Nuts of Horror — [11]
Joel Lane This Spectacular Darkness Tartarus Press [11]
Mark Valentine, ed.
Sarah Gailey The Women of Harry Potter Tor.com [11]
Ursula K. Le Guin Words are my Matter: Writings about Life and Books, 2000-2016 Small Beer Press [11]
2018 FT Barbini, ed.* Gender Identity and Sexuality in Science Fiction and Fantasy Luna Press [12]
Jim McLeod, ed. Ginger Nuts of Horror — [12]
Alexandra Pierce, ed. Luminescent Threads Mimi Mondal Twelfth Planet [12]
Mimi Mondal, ed.
Ursula K. Le Guin No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters Houghton Mifflin Harcourt [12]
Grady Hendrix Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of 70s and 80s Horror Fiction Quirk Books [12]
Maura McHugh Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me Electric Dreamhouse Press [12]
2019 Ruth EJ Booth* Noise and Sparks Shoreline of Infinity [13]
Francesca T. Barbini, ed. The Evolution of African Fantasy and Science Fiction Luna Press [13]
Alasdair Stuart The Full Lid — [13]
Jim McLeod, ed. Ginger Nuts of Horror — [13]
Tim Major Les Vampires PS Publishing [13]
2020 Ebony Elizabeth Thomas* The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games New York University Press [14]
Stephen Volk Coffinmaker's Blues: Collected Writings on Terror PS Publishing [14]
Alasdair Stuart The Full Lid — [14]
Gwyneth Jones Joanna Russ (Modern Masters of SF) University of Illinois Press [14]
Lynda E. Rucker Notes from the Borderland Black Static, TTA Press [14]
Farah Mendlesohn The Pleasant Profession of Robert E Heinlein Unbound [14]
2021 Alison Peirse, ed.* Women Make Horror: Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre Rutgers University Press [15]
Francesca T. Barbini, ed. Ties that Bind: Love in Fantasy and Science Fiction Luna Press [15]
Paul Kincaid The Unstable Realities of Christopher Priest Gylphi Limited [15]
Adam Roberts It's the End of the World: But What Are We Really Afraid Of? Elliot & Thompson [15]
Lynda E. Rucker Notes from the Borderland Black Static [15]
Alasdair Stuart The Full Lid — [15]
Marguerite Kenner
2022 Dan Coxon, ed.* Writing the Uncanny Dead Ink [16]
Richard V. Hirst, ed.*
Thomas Connolly After Human: A Critical History of the Human in Science Fiction from Shelley to Le Guin Liverpool University Press [16]
Francesca T. Barbini, ed. Worlds Apart: Worldbuilding in Fantasy and Science Fiction Luna Press [16]
Alasdair Stuart The Full Lid — [16]
Marguerite Kenner
Andrew Nette, ed. Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950-1985 PM Press [16]
Iain McIntyre, ed.
Jim McLeod, ed. Ginger Nuts of Horror — [16]
2023 Eugen Bacon* An Earnest Blackness Anti-Oedipus [17]
Brian Attebery Fantasy: How it Works Oxford University Press [17]
Shona Kinsella Outlander and the Real Jacobites Pen & Sword History [17]
Kit Power My Life in Horror, Vol. 2 Self-published [17]
Alasdair Stuart The Full Lid — [17]
Marguerite Kenner
Rob Wilkins Terry Pratchett: A Life with Footnotes Doubleday [17]
2024 Dan Coxon, ed.* Writing the Future Dead Ink [18]
Richard V. Hirst, ed.*
Tiffani Angus Spec Fic for Newbies: A Beginner’s Guide to Writing Subgenres of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Luna Press [18]
Val Nolan
Delyth Badder The Folklore of Wales: Ghosts Calon [18]
Mark Norman
Alasdair Stuart The Full Lid — [18]
Marguerite Kenner
2025 Sacha Coward* Queer as Folklore: The Hidden Queer History of Myths and Monsters Unbound [19]
Tiffani Angus Spec Fic for Newbies Vol 2: A Beginner's Guide to Writing More Subgenres of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Luna Press [19]
Val Nolan
David Green "Autism and Writing" BFS Blog [19]
Alasdair Stuart The Full Lid — [19]
Marguerite Kenner
Abigail Nussbaum Track Changes Briardene Books [19]
Juwen Zhang Translating, Interpreting, and Decolonizing Chinese Fairy Tales: A Case Study and Ideological Approach (Studies in Folklore and Ethnology: Traditions, Practices, and Identities) Lexington Books [19]
2026 Dan Coxon, ed. Writing The Magic: Essays on Crafting Fantasy Fiction Dead Ink [20]
Richard V. Hirst, ed.
Eugen Bacon "Spec Fic and the Politics of Identity: Finding the Self in Other" Strange Horizons [20]
Chukwunonso Ezeiyoke Nigerian Speculative Fiction: Evolution Routledge India [20]
Alasdair Stuart The Full Lid — [20]
Marguerite Kenner
Mark Norman Britain's Folklore Year: A seasonal journey through our customs, celebrations and rituals National Trust [20]
Kevan Manwaring The Ecological Imaginary in Literature and Other Media: The Nature of Fantasy Routledge [20]

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