NOMINATIONS:
Horror and Religion: New Literary Approaches to Theology, Race, and Sexuality (University of Wales Press) , Non-Fiction, 2019
Category: Non-fiction
Wetmore, Jr., Kevin J.
Awards:
Silver Hammer Award, 2021
Nominations:
“Jackson and Haunting of the Stage” (Journal of Shirley Jackson Studies Vol. 2 No. 1) (Shirley Jackson Society), Short Non-Fiction, 2024
“A Theatre of Ghosts, A Haunted Cinema: The Japanese Gothic as Theatrical Tradition in Gurozuka” (The Wenshan Review of Literature and Culture: Special Issue on Asian Gothic), Short Non-Fiction, 2023
“A Clown in the Living Room: The Sinister Clown on Television” (The Many Lives of Scary Clowns: Essays on Pennywise, Twisty, the Joker, Krusty and More) (McFarland and Company), Short Non-Fiction, 2022
“Devil’s Advocates: The Conjuring” (Auteur Publishing/Liverpool University Press), Short Non-Fiction, 2021
Eaters of the Dead: Myths and Realities of Cannibal Monsters (Reaktion Books), Non-Fiction, 2021
The Streaming of Hill House: Essays on the Haunting Netflix Adaption (McFarland & Co., Inc.), Non-Fiction, 2020
Uncovering Stranger Things: Essays on Eighties Nostalgia, Cynicism and Innocence in the Series (McFarland & Co., Inc.), Non-Fiction, 2018
BIO: Kevin Wetmore is a professor, short fiction writer of over four dozen published short stories, and writer of Post 9/11 Horror in American Cinema, Back from the Dead: Reading Remakes of Romero’s Zombie Films as Markers of their Times, The Theology of Battlestar Galactica, the Devil’s Advocates volume on The Conjuring, and over a hundred book chapters on everything from zombies on stage to Godzilla, to apocalyptic horror. He is also the editor of over a dozen books, including Uncovering Stranger Things, The Streaming of Hill House, and Theatre and the Macabre. He also works as an actor, director, stage combat choreographer and stand-up comedian.
Ingham, Howard David
Nominations
We Don’t Go Back: A Watcher’s Guide to Folk Horror (Room 207 Press), Non-fiction, 2018
BIO: Howard has lived in Swansea, Wales since 1994, and has worked as a writer, book designer and editor since 2002. They were a key writer for White Wolf Games Studio between 2005 and 2009, with over 40 credits in the World of Darkness game line. They were Artist in Residence at Swansea University in 2002. Their first book on film, We Don’t Go Back: A Watcher’s Guide to Folk Horror was a finalist for the 2018 Bram Stoker Awards. Their writing can be found at room207press.com.
Gambin, Lee
Nominations
The Howling: Studies in the Horror Film (Centipede Press), Non-fiction, 2018
BIO: Lee Gambin is a writer, author and film historian. He has written for Fangoria, Shock Till You Drop, Delirium and Scream Magazine. He has written the books Massacred by Mother Nature: Exploring the Natural Horror Film, We Can Be Who We Are: Movie Musicals of the 1970s, Nope, Nothing Wrong Here: The Making of Cujo, Hell Hath No Fury: The Making of Christine and the Bram Stoker Award-nominated The Howling: Studies in the Horror Film. He contributes commentaries for various BluRay releases for companies such as Kino Lorber, Scream Factory, Arrow Video and more, lectures on cinema studies and is currently working on a new book entitled Tonight, on a Very Special Episode: A History of Sitcoms That Sometimes Got Serious.
Murray, Lee
Awards:
“I Don’t Read Horror (& Other Weird Tales)” (Interstellar Flight Magazine) (Interstellar Flight Press), Short Non-Fiction, 2022
Tortured Willows: Bent. Bowed. Unbroken. (Yuriko Publishing), Poetry Collection, 2021
“Permanent Damage” (Attack From the ’80s) (Raw Dog Screaming Press), Short Fiction, 2021
Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women (Omnium Gatherum Media), Anthology, 2020
Grotesque: Monster Stories (Things in the Well), Fiction Collection, 2020
Mentor of the Year Award, 2019
Nominations:
Fox Spirit on a Distant Cloud (The Cuba Press), Poetry Collection, 2024
“Displaced Spirits” (Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror, Black Spot Books), Short Non-fiction, 2023
Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror (Black Spot Books), Non-fiction, 2023
Despatches (PS Publishing), Long Fiction, 2023
Into the Ashes (Severed Press), Novel, 2019
“Dead End Town” (Cthulhu Deep Down Under Volume 2) (IFWG Publishing International), Short Fiction, 2018
Hellhole: An Anthology of Subterranean Terror (Adrenaline Press), Anthology, 2018
BIO: Lee Murray is a writer, editor, poet, essayist, and screenwriter from Aotearoa, and a New Zealand Prime Minister’s Award winner for Literary Achievement in Fiction. A USA Today bestselling author and multiple award-winner (including Sir Julius Vogel, Australian Shadows, Shirley Jackson, and Bram Stoker awards), Lee’s works include the Taine McKenna military thrillers, supernatural crime-noir series The Path of Ra (with Dan Rabarts), fiction collection Grotesque: Monster Stories, as well as several books for children. Her short fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines, including prestigious venues such as Weird Tales, Space and Time, and Grimdark Magazine. She is proud to have edited more than two dozen anthologies, among them award-winning titles Baby Teeth: Bite Sized Tales of Terror and At the Edge (with Dan Rabarts), Te Kōrero Ahi Kā (with Grace Bridges and Aaron Compton), Hellhole: An Anthology of Subterranean Terror, Midnight Echo #14, Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women (with Geneve Flynn), and Under Her Eye (with Lindy Ryan). A Rhysling- and Pushcart-nominated poet, Lee’s poetry collection, Tortured Willows: Bent, Bowed, Unbroken, is a collaboration with poets Christina Sng, Geneve Flynn, and Angela Yuriko Smith. Her first solo poetry collection, Fox Spirit on a Distant Cloud (2024), won her a Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship and the NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize for ‘unique and innovative vision’. Lee is a life member of Tauranga Writers, New Zealand’s longest standing writing group, and of SpecFicNZ, and she’s an Honorary Literary Fellow of the New Zealand Society of Authors. Lee lives over the hill from Hobbiton in New Zealand’s sunny Bay of Plenty where she dreams up stories from her office overlooking a cow paddock. Read more at www.leemurray.info.
Smith, Angela Yuriko
Awards:
“Horror Writers: Architects of Hope” (The Sirens Call, Halloween 2021, Issue 55) (Sirens Call Publications), Short Non-fiction, 2021
Tortured Willows: Bent. Bowed. Unbroken. (Yuriko Publishing), Poetry Collection, 2021
Nominations:
Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror (Black Spot Books), Non-fiction, 2023
Bitter Suites (CreateSpace), Long Fiction, 2018
BIO: Angela Yuriko Smith is a third-generation Ryukyuan-American, award-winning poet, author, and publisher with 20+ years in newspapers. Publisher of Space & Time magazine (est. 1966), two-time Bram Stoker Awards® Winner, and HWA Mentor of the Year, she shares Authortunities, a free weekly calendar of author opportunities at authortunities.substack.com.
