In which we are awarded!

Sun 1 Nov 2009 - Filed under: Not a Journal., , , , , | 7 Comments | Posted by: Gavin

Lovely news from San Jose: Gavin & Kelly have been awarded the World Fantasy Award, Special Award, Professional, for Small Beer Press and Big Mouth House: yay, we say, yay! John Kessel, whose collection we were proud to publish, was on hand to pick up the Howards which seemed appropriate as it is all about the books.

Other winners include: Jeff Ford (twice!), Margo Lanagan—Jeff and Margo: they rule this award!—Rick Bowes, Kij Johnson, Paper Cities (ed. by Ekaterina Sedia), Shaun Tan, and Michael Walsh of Old Earth Books for his two Howard Waldrop collections.

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Don’t know that we’ll keep counting, but this year we did some gender breakdown of a few of the genre awards and back in August we posted the  World Fantasy Award nominees and the gender breakdown:

  • 26 men
  • 21 women

And the winners  (not counting the two extra Life Achievement Awards to Jane Yolen and Ellen Asher):

  • 6 men (1 AUS, 5 USA)
  • 4 women (1 AUS, 3 USA)

Comments

7 Responses to “In which we are awarded!”

  1. Karen on November 1st, 2009 10:22 pm

    Congratulations! That’s fantastic!

  2. Greer Gilman on November 1st, 2009 11:02 pm

    Fabulous and righteous. Rejoicing!

  3. Margo Lanagan on November 2nd, 2009 3:44 am

    Congratulations, Gavin and Kelly!
    Cheers – clink!
    Margo.

  4. Fred on November 2nd, 2009 8:01 am

    Terrific (and well deserved) news! Congratulations!

  5. Liz Hand on November 2nd, 2009 8:04 am

    Congrats! Great news, though I’m not surprised. Hope you squoze some celebration in!
    xox

  6. Su-Yee on November 2nd, 2009 8:48 am

    Yay! Congrats!

  7. Gavin on November 2nd, 2009 3:20 pm

    Thanks! We were busy celebrating with bubbly, well, bubble bath that is: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lcrw/4069728492/

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