Category: Fiction Collection

Sylvaine, Angela

Nominations:

The Dead Spot: Stories of Lost Girls (Dark Matter Ink), Fiction Collection, 2024

BIO: Angela Sylvaine is a Bram Stoker Award nominated author and self-proclaimed cheerful goth who writes speculative fiction and poetry. Her novel, Frost Bite, a ’90s sci-fi horror comedy, and her retro ’80s YA mall slasher novella, Chopping Spree, embody her cheerful side. Her short story collection, The Dead Spot: Stories of Lost Girls is fully goth and heartbreaking. Angela’s short fiction and poetry have appeared in over sixty anthologies, magazines, and podcasts, including Southwest Review, Apex, and The NoSleep Podcast. She lives in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains with her sweetheart and three creepy cats. You can find her online at angelasylvaine.com.

Nogle, Christi

Awards:

Beulah (Cemetery Gates Media), First Novel, 2022

Nominations:

The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future (Flame Tree Press), Fiction, Collection, 2023

Mother: Tales of Love and Terror (Weird Little Worlds), Anthology, 2022

BIO: Christi Nogle is the author of the Bram Stoker Award® nominated novel Beulah (Cemetery Gates Media, 2022) and co-editor with Willow Dawn Becker of the Bram Stoker Award® nominated anthology Mother: Tales of Love and Terror (Weird Little Worlds, 2022). Christi’s debut short story collection The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future is out now from Flame Tree Press. Her collections Promise and One Eye Opened in That Other Place are coming from Flame Tree Press in 2023 and 2024. Her short stories have appeared in many publications, including PseudoPod, Vastarien, Mooncalves, and Horror Library. Follow her at http://christinogle.com and on Twitter @christinogle

Wise, A. C.

Nominations:

The Ghost Sequences (Undertow Publications), Fiction Collection, 2021

BIO: A.C. Wise is the author of the novels Wendy, Darling and Hooked (July 2022), along with a novella (Catfish Lullaby), and two short fiction collections published by Lethe Press. Her most recent collection, The Ghost Sequences, published by Undertow Books, is a 2021 finalist for the Stoker Awards. Her work has won the Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic, and been a finalist for the Nebula, Sunburst, Lambda, Aurora, and Ignyte Awards. In addition to her fiction, she contributes review columns to The Book Smugglers and Apex Magazine. Find her online at www.acwise.net.