
Nominations:
The Creepening of Dogwood House (Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers), Middle Grade Novel, 2024
Hollow Tongue (Raw Dog Screaming Press), Long Fiction, 2024
BIO: Eden Royce is a writer from Charleston, South Carolina now living in Southeast England. She’s a Shirley Jackson Award finalist for her adult short fiction, which has appeared in a variety of print and online publications, including Nightmare, Strange Horizons, and Apex Magazine. She has also written for Writer’s Digest, The Horn Book Magazine, Western Colorado University, and We Need Diverse Books. Her debut novel, Root Magic, is a Walter Dean Myers Award Honoree, an Andre Norton Nebula Award Finalist, an Ignyte Award winner, and a Mythopoeic Fantasy Award winner for outstanding children’s literature.
Website: https://edenroyce.com/