Category: Anthology

Nominations:

We Mostly Come Out at Night: 15 Queer Tales of Monsters, Angels & Other Creatures (Running Press), Anthology, 2024

BIO: Rob Costello(he/him) writes dark and contemporary fiction with a queer bent for and about young people. He’s the contributing editor of We Mostly Come Out At Night: 15 Queer Tales of Monsters, Angels & Other Creatures, nominated for a 2024 Bram Stoker Award® and named a 2024 CYBILS Award Finalist, as well as a Notable/Recommended/Best Book of 2024 by the New York Public Library, Ginger Nuts of Horror, PseudoPod, Reactor Magazine, and Locus Magazine. He’s also author of the dark fiction story collection The Dancing Bears: Queer Fables for the End Times, named a finalist for The Whirling Prize. His debut YA novel, An Ugly World for Beautiful Boys, is forthcoming from Lethe Press. His stories have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and have appeared in The Dark, The NoSleep Podcast, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and PseudoPod, among other publications.

An alumnus of Millay Arts, he holds an MFA in Writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts and has served on the faculty of the Highlights Foundation since 2014. He is co-founder (with Lesa Cline-Ransome, Jo Knowles, and Jennifer Richard Jacobson) of the R(ev)ise and Shine! writing community, and he lives in upstate NY with his husband and their four-legged overlords.

Learn more at: www.cloudbusterpress.com & www.revise-and-shine.com.

Nominations:

American Cannibal (Maenad Press), Anthology, 2023

BIO: Rebecca Rowland is an author of dark fiction and curator of horror anthologies, including the bestseller Unburied: A Collection of Queer Dark Fiction. Rebecca is an Active member of the HWA and despite her love of the ocean and distaste for cold weather, she makes her home in a landlocked and often icy corner of New England. For more information, visit RowlandBooks.com.

Awards:

Out There Screaming (Random House), Anthology, 2023

Nominations:

Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology (Vintage), Anthology, 2023

BIO: Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. (enrolled Mackinac Bands of Chippewa and Ottawa Indians) is a bestselling author and editor, and the Tilikum Professor and Chair of Indigenous Nations Studies at Portland State University. He is the author of Chicago-set award-winning mosaic novels Sacred Smokes and Sacred City as well as the editor of The Faster Redder Road: The Best UnAmerican Stories of Stephen Graham Jones. His co-edited Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology (with Shane Hawk) was published in September 2023 by Vintage / Penguin Random House. A national bestseller in both the US and Canada, it received its tenth printing less than a month after release and is now in its twelfth. His Southern Gothic novella,Pour One for the Devilwas released by Lanternfish Press in March 2024.

Nominations:

Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology (Vintage), Anthology, 2023

BIO: SHANE HAWK (enrolled Cheyenne-Arapaho, Hidatsa and Citizen Potawatomi descent) is a history teacher by day and a horror writer by night. Hawk’s literary contributions include his debut story collection Anoka, alongside short fiction featured in numerous anthologies. He recently co-edited Never Whistle at Night, an internationally bestselling Indigenous dark fiction anthology published by Penguin Random House. Hawk lives in San Diego, California with his beautiful wife. Learn more at shanehawk.com.