Prizes and Awards
Awards Garry has won or been nominated for:
- Winner of the Gollancz/Sunday Times Best SF Prize (short story) for Let's Go To Golgotha! (1974).
- Winner of the World Fantasy Award (Novella) for The Ragthorn (1992) written with Robert Holdstock.
- Winner of the Interzone Magazine readers' Short Story Poll for The Sculptor (1992).
- Winner of the British Science Fiction Association award for The Ragthorn (1994) written with Robert Holdstock.
- Winner of the Interzone Magazine readers' Short Fiction Poll for The Ragthorn (1994) written with Robert Holdstock.
- Winner of the The Lancashire County Library/National Westminster Bank Children's Book of the Year Award for the novel The Electric Kid, (1995).
- Runner up for the East Anglia 'Angel' Award for Fiction (Novel and short stories) for In the Hollow of the Deep-Sea Wave (1990).
- Library Association's Carnegie Medal Commendation for the juvenile novel The Drowners (1992).
- Shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Association Award (Short Story): four different years for The Dissemblers (1983), Spiral Winds (1985), Hogfoot Right and Birdhands (1987), The Sculptor (1993).
- Shortlisted for the World Fantasy Award (Short Story) for Hogfoot Right and Birdhands (1987).
- Shortlisted for the World Fantasy Award (Short Story Collection) for THE SONGBIRDS OF PAIN. (1984)
- Shortlisted for the Smarties' Prize for The Drowners (1992)
- Shortlisted for the World Fantasy Award (Short Story Collection) for HOGFOOT RIGHT AND BIRDHANDS (1994).
- Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal for juvenile novel The Brontë Girls (1996).
- Shortlisted for the Stockton Children's Book Prize for The Gargoyle (1998).
- Shortlisted for the Stockton Children's Book Prize for Drummer Boy (1999).
- Longlisted for the Booker Prize for Witchwater Country (1986).