The facts
Eden Royce won long fiction for Psychopomp & Circumstance; Renan Bernardo won short fiction for The Hungry Mouth at the Edge of Space and the Goddess Knitting at Home. [1]
Thomas Ha won the collection award for Uncertain Sons and Other Stories. Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology, edited by Julie C. Day with Carina Bissett and Craig Laurance Gidney, won anthology. [1]
Kathleen Jennings won artist. The professional special award went to Jaymee Goh, Jill Roberts and Jacob Weisman for Tachyon Publications; Wendy Wagner won the non-professional special award for Nightmare magazine. [1]
The convention’s official schedule places the award ceremony on 25 October; its final ballot names the lifetime honorees and nominated works. [3][4]
Sources
References support the numbered facts above. Source checks: 29 Oct 2026, 11:28 UTC.
The official main-site winners table had not been updated to 2026 when opened. Competitive results are attributed to the checked specialist reports; the convention independently establishes the date, ballot and lifetime honorees.
- Here are the 2026 World Fantasy Winners
Reactor / Tor Publishing Group · Reporting · 27 Oct 2026
Vanessa Armstrong’s actual results report read. Reactor belongs to Tor/Macmillan and published the winning Bernardo story; that interest is disclosed. It is separate from the awarding convention.
- World Fantasy Awards 2026: M. R. Carey and Clive Barker give Liverpool a fantasy double
SFcrowsnest · Reporting · 26 Oct 2026
Actual report corroborates Carey’s win, both lifetime honorees and the Oakland ceremony date.
- 2026 World Fantasy Awards final nominations
World Fantasy Convention 2026 · Primary source
Official ballot identifies the awarding event, nominees and lifetime honorees. It is a nominations page, not independent proof of every competitive winner.
- The World Fantasy Awards Banquet
World Fantasy Convention 2026 · Primary source
Official ceremony schedule gives Sunday 25 October 2026, with awards starting at 1:30 p.m.