Tremendous news, Space Unicorns!!!! Editors-in-Chief Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas won the Special Award–Non-Professional World Fantasy Award for their Uncanny Magazine work! We are so thrilled and honored!!! Congratulations to all of the finalists and winners!!!!!

Once again, congratulations to P. Djèlí Clark for “How to Raise a Kraken in Your Bathtub” and A. T. Greenblatt  “Waystation City” who were finalists for the Best Short Fiction World Fantasy Award.

Here is the text of the Thomases’ speech as wonderfully given by our acceptor, A. T. Greenblatt:

We are so very honored to win the World Fantasy Award. This was a fabulous group of finalists, filled with friends, colleagues, and people who inspired us as editors and publishers.

Uncanny Magazine is the work of numerous people, so we want to thank our 2023 staff of managing editor Monte Lin, nonfiction editor Meg Elison, podcast producers Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky, assistant editor Tania Chen, podcast reader Matt Peters, interviewer Caroline M. Yoachim, all of our submissions editors, and contributors.

We also wish to thank the World Fantasy Award jury, our agent Lisa Rogers at JABBERwocky, and finally, a huge thank you to every single member of the Space Unicorn Ranger Corps.

We make Uncanny Magazine for all of you, you magnificent Space Unicorns. Keep making a world a better place with your art and kindness. Thank you.

Most of all, we want to thank world’s greatest daughter, Caitlin, who was the strongest, fiercest, most loving, and most amazing human we have ever known. She passed away in April, and we miss her more than we can ever express. Caitlin lived a life entirely without malice– full of joy in everyday things. She was the best of us, and she touched many lives. She loved her people fiercely and unconditionally, and was extremely loved in return. Caitlin had a lifetime of adventures, and will live on forever in our hearts.

The Space Unicorn was always Caitlin.