Category: Anthology

Gyzander, Carol

Nominations:

Discontinue If Death Ensues: Tales from the Tipping Point (Flame Tree Publishing), Anthology, 2024

“The Yellow Crown” (Under Twin Suns: Alternate Histories of the Yellow Sign) (Hippocampus Press), Short Fiction, 2021

BIO: Carol Gyzander was a prolific reader of classic science fiction and Agatha Christie mysteries in her early days. Now that her kids have flown the coop, she writes and edits horror, weird fiction, suspense, and science fiction—with strong women in twisted tales that touch your heart. Her short stories appear in magazines such as Weird Tales 367 and Weird House Magazine, and over two dozen anthologies. Carol has edited eight anthologies and a number of novels and collections.

She received a 2021 Bram Stoker Award® nomination for Superior Achievement in Short Fiction for her short story “The Yellow Crown” in Under Twin Suns: Alternate Histories of the Yellow Sign (Hippocampus Press, 2021). Her piece offers a female-centered perspective on Robert W. Chambers’s classic work of weird fiction, The King in Yellow (1895). This was the first year that all the nominees in a category were women!

She co-edited and contributed to Discontinue If Death Ensues: Tales From the Tipping Point (Flame Tree Collections, 2024), nominated for the 2024 Bram Stoker Award®. It contains interlaced stories and poems from five women authors in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand—her fellow nominees for the aforementioned 2021 HWA Bram Stoker Award®: Lee Murray, Cindy O’Quinn, Kyla Lee Ward, Anna Taborska, and Carol Gyzander. Her “Bobblehead” poem in the anthology was nominated for the 2025 SFPA Rhysling Award.

Some recent anthologies she’s co-edited from Crone Girls Press include the fungus horror Dark Spores: Stories We Tell After Midnight Volume 4 (2024) and feminist horror A Woman Unbecoming (2022), which was produced in only two months after the overturn of Roe v. Wade. Even in the Grave (NeoParadoxa, 2022) features ghost stories.

Carol lives with her husband in the northern New Jersey suburbs of New York City. She is quite busy with the Horror Writers Association as one of the Chapter Program Managers for the past four years, Co-Coordinator of the NY Chapter, and co-host of Galactic Terrors, the HWA NY monthly online reading series every second Thursday. See HWANY.org for more info!

See what else Carol is working on at http://www.CarolGyzander.com, or follow her on Instagram @carolgyzander or Bluesky @carolgyzander.bsky.social

Flynn, Geneve

AWARDS:

Tortured Willows: Bent. Bowed. Unbroken. (Yuriko Publishing), Poetry Collection, 2021

Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women (Omnium Gatherum Media), Anthology, 2020

BIO: Geneve Flynn is an award-winning speculative fiction editor and author.

She co-edited Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women with celebrated New Zealand author and editor Lee Murray. The anthology won the 2020 Bram Stoker Award® and 2020 Shirley Jackson Award. It also shortlisted for the British Fantasy, Aurealis, and Australian Shadows awards. Black Cranes is listed on Tor Nightfire’s Works of Feminist Horror and Locus magazine’s 2020 Recommended Reading List.

Geneve was assistant editor for Relics, Wrecks, and Ruins, a speculative fiction anthology which features authors such as Neil Gaiman, Ken Liu, Robert Silverberg, James (SA) Corey, Lee Murray, Mark Lawrence, Mary Robinette Kowal, and Angela Slatter. The anthology is the legacy of Australian fantasy author Aiki Flinthart, and is in support of the Flinthart Writing Residency with the Queensland Writers Centre.

Geneve’s short stories have been published in various markets, including Flame Tree Publishing, Crystal Lake Publishing & Black Spot Books, and PseudoPod.

Her poetry features in Tortured Willows: Bent, Bowed, Unbroken, a collaboration with Angela Yuriko Smith, Lee Murray, and Christina Sng. Geneve has been nominated for the Rhysling and Pushcart awards.

Geneve loves tales that unsettle, all things writerly, and B-grade action movies. If that sounds like you, check out her website at www.geneveflynn.com.au.

Taborska, Anna

NOMINATIONS:

Discontinue If Death Ensues: Tales from the Tipping Point (Flame Tree Publishing), Anthology, 2024

“A Song for Barnaby Jones” (Zagava), Short Fiction, 2022

“The Star” (Great British Horror 7: Major Arcana) (Black Shuck Books), Short Fiction, 2022

“Two Shakes Of A Dead Lamb’s Tail”(Terror Tales of the Scottish Lowlands) (Telos Publishing), Short Fiction, 2021

Bloody Britain (Shadow Publishing), Fiction Collection, 2020

The Cat Sitter (Shadowcats) (Black Shuck Books), Long Fiction, 2019

BIO: Anna Taborska is a British filmmaker and horror writer. She has written and directed two short fiction films, two documentaries and an award-winning TV drama. She has also worked on twenty other films, and was involved in the making of two major BBC television series: Auschwitz: the Nazis and the Final Solution and World War Two Behind Closed Doors – Stalin, the Nazis and the West. Anna’s short stories have appeared in over thirty anthologies, and her debut short story collection, For Those who Dream Monsters, published by Mortbury Press in 2013, won the Dracula Society’s Children of the Night Award and was nominated for a British Fantasy Award. Anna is also the author of Shadowcats – a feline-themed micro-collection from Black Shuck Books, and her Stoker Award-nominated collection of novelettes and short stories, Bloody Britain, came out in October 2020 from Shadow Publishing. 

Tantlinger, Sara

Awards:

The Devil’s Dreamland (Strangehouse Books), Poetry Collection, 2018

Nominations:

Chromophobia: A Strangehouse Anthology by Women in Horror (Strangehouse Books), Anthology, 2022

Not All Monsters: A Strangehouse Anthology by Women of Horror (Rooster Republic Press), Anthology, 2020

Cradleland of Parasites (Rooster Republic Press), Poetry Collection, 2020

To Be Devoured (Unnerving), Long Fiction, 2019

BIO: Sara Tantlinger is the author of the Bram Stoker Award-winning The Devil’s Dreamland: Poetry Inspired by H.H. Holmes, and the Stoker-nominated works To Be Devoured, Cradleland of Parasites, and Not All Monsters. Along with being a mentor for the HWA Mentorship Program, she is also a co-organizer for the HWA Pittsburgh Chapter. She embraces all things macabre and can be found lurking in graveyards or on Twitter @SaraTantlinger, at saratantlinger.com and on Instagram @inkychaotics.