Category: Short Non-fiction

Kulski, K. P.

Nominations:

“100 Livers” (Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror, Black Spot Books), Short Non-fiction, 2023

BIO: K.P. KULSKI is a Hawaii-born Korean-American author, historian, and career vampire of patriarchal tears. Channeling a lifelong obsession with history and the morose she’s managed to birth the gothic horror novel, Fairest Flesh, and novella, House of Pungsu. She bartered nine years of her life to the U.S. Navy and Air Force for food and later taught college history to a captive audience. Trapped by a force field, she currently resides in the woods of Northeast Ohio where she (probably) brews potions and talks to ghosts. Find her online at garnetonwinter.com.

Wood, L. Marie

Nominations:

“Blacks in Film and Cultivated Bias” (No More Haunted Dolls: Horror Fiction that Transcends the Tropes) (Vernon Press), Short Non-Fiction, 2024

Imitation of Life (Falstaff Books), Poetry Collection, 2024

“African American Horror Authors and Their Craft: The Evolution of Horror Fiction from African Folklore” (Conjuring Worlds: An Afrofuturist Textbook for Middle and High School Students), Short Non-Fiction, 2022

“The H Word: The Horror of Hair” (Nightmare Magazine, No. 118), Short Non-Fiction, (Adamant Press), 2022

BIO: L. Marie Wood is the recipient of the Golden Stake Award for Literature and the International Impact Book Award. She is also a MICO Award-winning screenwriter, a two-time Bookfest Award winner, a four-time Bram Stoker Award® Nominee, an Ignyte Award finalist, a Rhysling nominated poet, an accomplished essayist, and a playwright. Wood has won over 50 national and international screenplay and film awards. She has been published in groundbreaking works, including the anthologies Sycorax’s Daughters and Slay: Stories of the Vampire Noire, as well as industry staples such as the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Apex Magazine, and Nightmare Magazine.  Her nonfiction has been published in academic textbooks such as the cross-curricular, Conjuring Worlds: An Afrofuturist Textbook. She is also part of the 2022 Bookfest Book Award-winning poetry anthology, Under Her Skin, as well as Bram Stoker Award® and Shirley Jackson Award Nominee anthologies Shakespeare Unleashed and Mooncalves.  Her papers are archived as part of University of Pittsburgh’s Horror Studies Collection. Wood is the Vice President of the Horror Writers Association, the founder of the Speculative Fiction Academy, an English and Creative Writing professor, a horror scholar with a Ph.D. in Creative Writing and an MFA in Speculative Fiction, and a frequent contributor to the conversation around the evolution of genre fiction. Learn more about L. Marie Wood at www.lmariewood.com.

Ognjanović, Dejan

Nominations:

“The Three Paradigms of Horror” (Vastarien Vol 4, Issue 2) (Grimscribe Press), Short Non-Fiction, 2021

BIO: Born in 1973. Lives in Niš, Serbia. Got his PhD in Literature (“Historical Poetics of Horror Genre in Anglo-American Literature”) at the University of Belgrade. Writes book and film reviews and articles for Rue Morgue magazine since 2010. He wrote the booklet The Weird World of H.P. Lovecraft (Rue Morgue, 2017). Occasionally contributes to Vastarien magazine. In Serbia he published three horror novels, three studies on horror cinema and two collections of essays. Contributed to Steven Schneider’s 100 European Horror Films, 501 Movie Directors, and 101 Horror Movies You Must See Before You Die, and also to academic collections Speaking of Monsters (Palgrave, 2012) and Digital Horror (IB Tauris, 2015). He is an editor at Orfelin Publishing (Novi Sad, Serbia) since 2015, where he edits the series of books “Poetics of Horror” (25 titles so far).