Ravenheart Award
The Ravenheart Award, named for one of David Gemmell’s novels, is given to the artist/s responsible for the year’s best fantasy book cover art, as chosen by open vote.
The trophy, pictured here, is created annually by Lee Blair, and was first presented at our 2014 ceremony.
Voting on 2017’s Ravenheart longlist opens at midday on Friday 17th February and closes at midnight on Friday 31th March.
Voting on the shortlist opens at midday on Friday 21st April and closes at midnight on Friday 2nd June.
The presentation takes place on the evening of Saturday 15th July at Edge-Lit 6, Derby UK. http://www.derbyquad.co.uk/film/edge-lit-6.aspx
AKG Images and Joseph Martin – Guy Gavriel Kay, Children of Earth and Sky (Hodder and Stoughton)
Arcangel, Margie Hurwich and Mohammad Itani – Brian Staveley, The Last Mortal Bond (Tor)
Arcangel and Lauren Panepinto – NK Jemisin, The Obelisk Gate (Orbit)
Tommy Arnold – David Dalglish, Fireborn (Orbit)
L. Bachman – Brian G Murray, Forgotten Hero (Burning Willow Press)
Ihar Balakain and Dusan Kostic – Marc Turner, Dragon Hunters (Titan)
Alessandro Baldasseroni – Black Rift, Josh Reynolds (Black Library)
Kirk Benshoff – Daniel Abraham, The Spider’s War (Orbit)
Kerem Beyit – Miles Cameron, A Plague of Swords (Gollancz)
Black Sheep UK – The Stealers’ War, Stephen Hunt
Buerosued – Sebastien De Castell, Saint’s Blood (Jo Fletcher Books)
Jamie Carr – Steph Swainston, Fair Rebel (Gollancz)
Jason Chan – Mark Lawrence, The Wheel of Osheim (Harper Voyager)
CollaborationJS – Gail Z. Martin, Shadow and Flame
Alejandro Colucci – Tim Akers, The Pagan Night (Titan)
Alejandro Colucci – Andrezj Sapkowski, The Tower of the Swallow (Gollancz)
Alejandro Colucci – Den Patrick, The Girl on the Liar’s Throne (Gollancz)
Alejandro Colucci – James A. Moore, The Silent Army (Angry Robot)
Jason Deem – Joanne Hall, The Summer Goddess (Kristell Ink Publishing)
Bastion Lecouffe Deharme – Jon Skovron, Hope and Red (Orbit)
Bastion Lecouffe Deharme – Terry Brooks, The Sorcerer’s Daughter (Orbit)
Evelinn Enoksen – Joel Cornah, The Sky Slayer (Kristell Ink Publishing)
Sam Green – Brandon Sanderson, Calamity (Gollancz)
Sam Green – Brandon Sanderson, The Bands of Mourning (Gollancz)
Head Design – Mark De Jager, Infernal (Del Rey UK)
Jaime Jones – Anthony Ryan, The Waking Fire (Orbit)
Jaime Jones – Peter Newman, The Malice (Harper Voyager)
Jet Design Ltd. – Edward Cox, The Watcher of Dead Time (Gollancz)
Nik Keevil – AJ Smith, The World Raven (Head of Zeus)
Sam Kennedy – Sonia Orin Lyris, The Seer (Baen)
Patrick Knowles Design – Sam Sykes, The Mortal Tally (Gollancz)
Michael Komarck – Gail Z. Martin, The Shadowed Path (Solaris)
KS Agency – Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Blades (Jo Fletcher Books)
Neil Lang and Shutterstock – Adrian Tchaikovsky, The Tiger and The Wolf (Pan)
Neil Lang, Stephen Mulcahey, and Shutterstock – Ben Peek, Leviathan’s Blood (Pan)
Julia Lloyd – Duskfall, Christopher Husberg (Titan Books)
Todd Lockwood – Ryk E Spoor, Phoenix Ascendant (Baen)
Silas Manhood – Helen Lowe, Daughter of Blood (Orbit)
Silas Manhood – Brent Weeks, The Blood Mirror (Orbit)
Jon McCoy – Tom Lloyd, Stranger of Tempest (Gollancz)
David Palumbo – Adrian Selby, Snakewood (Orbit)
Ryan Pancoast – Jeff Salyards, Chains of the Heretic (Night Shade Books)
Lauren Panepinto – Alex Marshall, A Blade of Black Steel (Orbit)
Rhett Podersoo – Daniel Polansky, Those Below (Hodder and Stoughton)
Andreas Rocha – NS Dolkart, Silent Hall (Angry Robot)
Kerby Rosanes – Jay Kristoff, Nevernight (Harper Voyager)
Larry Rostant – R. Scott Bakker, The Great Ordeal (Orbit)
Larry Rostant – Luke Scull, Dead Man’s Steel (Head of Zeus)
Shutterstock – Jen Williams, The Silver Tide (Headline)
Karl Simon – Jon Hollins, The Dragon Lords: Fool’s Gold (Orbit)
Marc Simonetti – Michael J Sullivan, Age of Myth (Del Rey)
Jack Smyth and Shutterstock – Ian Irvine, The Summon Stone (Orbit)
Steve Stone – Glenda Larke, The Fall of the Dagger (Orbit)
Steve Stone – Stephen Aryan, Blood Mage (Orbit)
Steve Stone – Stephan Aryan, Chaos Mage (Orbit)
Raymond Swanland – KV Johansen, Gods of Nabban (Pyr)
Jorge Luis Torres – Steven Poore, The High King’s Vengeance (Kristell Ink Publishing)
Paul Young – John Gwynne, Wrath (Tor)