World Fantasy Special Award: Professional

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This World Fantasy Award is presented to individuals for their outstanding professional work in the fantasy field, and voted by a panel of judges at the World Fantasy Convention.

After Neil Gaiman & Charles Vess won the World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction in 1991—for the "A Midsummer Night's Dream" issue of The Sandman—comics were restricted to this category.[1][2]

[edit] Award winners and finalists

[edit] 2004

WFC 2004 was held in Tempe, Arizona. Judges were John Clute, Sherwood Smith, Michael Stackpole, Alain Nevant, and Scott Wyatt.

Winner: Peter Crowther (for PS Publishing)
John Howe and Alan Lee (for artwork in The Lord of the Rings)
Kelly Link and Gavin Grant (for Small Beer Press)
Sharyn November (for Firebird Books)
David Pringle (for Interzone and services to the field)
Sean Wallace (for Prime Books)

[edit] 2005

WFC 2005 was held in Madison, Wisconsin, and was chaired by Meg Turville-Heitz. Judges were Alis Rasmussen (Kate Elliott), Jeffrey Ford, Tim Lebbon, Patrick Nielsen Hayden and Jessica Amanda Salmonson.

Winner: S. T. Joshi (for scholarship)
Gavin Grant and Kelly Link (for Small Beer Press)
Sharyn November (for editing)
Gordon Van Gelder (for F&SF)
Terri Windling (for editing)

[edit] 2006

WFC 2006 was held in Austin, Texas. Judges were Steve Lockley, Barbara Roden, Victoria Strauss, Jeff VanderMeer, and Andrew Wheeler.

Winner: Sean Wallace (for Prime Books)
Susan Allison and Ginjer Buchanan (for Ace Books)
Lou Anders (for editing at Pyr)
S.T. Joshi & Stefan Dziemanowicz, eds. (for Supernatural Literature of the World: An Encyclopedia, Greenwood Press)
Peter Lavery (for Pan MacMillan UK/Tor UK)
Chris Roberson and Allison Baker (for MonkeyBrain Books)

[edit] 2007

WFC 2007 was held in Saratoga Springs, New York. Judges for the event were Gavin Grant, Ed Greenwood, Jeremy Lassen, Jeff Mariotte, and Carsten Polzin.

Winner: Ellen Asher (for work at SFBC)
Mark Finn (for Blood & Thunder: The Life of Robert E. Howard, MonkeyBrain)
Deanna Hoak (for copyediting)
Greg Ketter (for DreamHaven Books)
Leonard S. Marcus, ed. (for The Wand in the Word: Conversations with Writers of Fantasy, Candlewick)