William L. Crawford (1911–1984) was an American publisher and editor who produced the first full-size book issued by a publisher that specialized in science fiction. Mars Mountain, published in 1935, is a collection of science fiction short stories by Eugene George Key. Crawford created several publishing companies, including the Fantasy Publishing Company (FPCI), and edited several magazine series including Spaceway, Fantasy Book and Marvel Tales.
The IAFA Crawford Award each year recognizes an outstanding new writer whose first fantasy book was published during the previous calendar year. It is not specifically a first novel award. The award was established with the support of the late Andre Norton, who also helped establish the criteria and who continued to support the award over the years.
Year | Author | Work |
2023 | Simon Jimenez | The Spear Cuts Through Water |
2022 | Usman T. Malik | Midnight Doorways: Fables from Pakistan |
2021 | Nghi Vo | The Empress of Salt and Fortune |
2020 | Tamsyn Muir | Gideon the Ninth |
2019 | R.F Kuang | The Poppy War |
2018 | Carmen Maria Machado | Her Body and Other Parties |
2017 | Charlie Jane Anders | All the Birds in the Sky |
2016 | Kai Ashante Wilson | The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps |
2015 | Stephanie Feldman | The Angel of Losses |
2014 | Sofia Samatar | A Stranger in Olandria |
2013 | Karin Tidbeck | Jagganath |
2012 | Genevieve Valentine | Mechanique |
2011 | Karen Lord | Redemption in Indigo |
2010 | Jedediah Berry | The Manual of Detection |
2009 | Daryl Gregory | Pandemonium |
2008 | Christopher Barzak | One for Sorrow |
2007 | Mary Rickert | Map of Dreams |
2006 | Joe Hill | Twentieth Century Ghosts |
2005 | Steph Swainston | The Year of Our War |
2004 | K. J. Bishop | The Etched City |
2003 | Alexander C. Irvine | A Scattering of Jades |
2002 | Jasper Fforde | The Eyre Affair |
2001 | Kij Johnson | The Fox Woman |
2000 | Anne Bishop | Black Jewels trilogy |
1999 | David B. Coe | Lon Tobyn Chronicles |
1998 | Chitra Bannerjee Divakaruni | Mistress of Spices |
1997 | Candas Jane Dorsey | Black Wine |
1996 | Sharon Shinn | Archangel |
1995 | Jonathan Lethem | Gun,With Occasional Music |
1994 | Judith Katz | Running Fiercely Toward a High Thin Sound |
1993 | Susan Palwick | Flying in Place |
1992 | Greer Gilman | Moonwise |
1991 | Michael Scott Rohan | Winter of the World trilogy |
1990 | Jeanne Larsen | The Silk Road |
1989 | Michaela Roessner | Walkabout Woman |
1988 | Elizabeth Marshall Thomas | Reindeer Moon |
1987 | Judith Tarr | The Hound and the Falcon trilogy |
1986 | Nancy Willard | Things Invisible to See |
1985 | Charles de Lint | Moonheart |