Category: Long Fiction

White, Gordon B.

Nominations:

And in Her Smile, the World (Trepidatio Publishing), Long Fiction, 2022

BIO: Gordon B. White is a Seattle-based author of horror and/or weird fiction. He is a Shirley Jackson Award finalist, a Clarion West alum, and the author of As Summer’s Mask Slips and Other Disruptions; Rookfield; and And In Her Smile, The World (with Rebecca J. Allred). Gordon’s stories, reviews, and interviews have appeared in dozens of venues, including The Best Horror of the Year Vol. 12. You can find him online at gordonbwhite.com or on Twitter @GordonBWhite.

McCarthy, J.A.W.

Nominations:

Sleep Alone (Off Limits Press LLC), Long Fiction, 2023

“The Only Thing Different Will Be the Body” (A Woman Built by Man)(Cemetery Gates Media), Short Fiction, 2022

BIO: J.A.W. McCarthy is the Bram Stoker Award and Shirley Jackson Award nominated author of Sometimes We’re Cruel and Other Stories (Cemetery Gates Media, 2021) and Sleep Alone (Off Limits Press, 2023). Her short fiction has appeared in numerous publications, including Vastarien, PseudoPod, LampLight, Apparition Lit, Tales to Terrify, and The Best Horror of the Year Vol 13 (ed. Ellen Datlow). She is Thai American and lives with her husband and assistant cats in the Pacific Northwest. You can call her Jen on Twitter @JAWMcCarthy, and find out more at www.jawmccarthy.com.

Carmen, Christa

Awards:

The Daughters of Block Island (Thomas & Mercer), First Novel, 2023

Nominations:

“Through the Looking Glass and Straight into Hell” (Orphans of Bliss: Tales of Addiction Horror)(Wicked Run Press), Long Fiction, 2022

BIO: Christa Carmen is the two-time Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of The Daughters of Block Island, Something Borrowed, Something Blood-Soaked, and the forthcoming Beneath the Poet’s House. Additional work can be found in Vastarien, Nightmare, Orphans of Bliss, Year’s Best Hardcore Horror, and the Stoker-nominated anthologies, Not All Monsters and The Streaming of Hill House. She has a BA from the University of Pennsylvania, an MA from Boston College, and an MFA from the University of Southern Maine. Christa lives in Rhode Island with her husband, daughter, and bloodhound-golden retriever mix.

Khaw, Cassandra

Awards:

Breakable Things (Undertow Publications), Fiction Collection, 2022

Nothing But Blackened Teeth (Tor Nightfire), Long Fiction, 2021

Nominations:

The Salt Grows Heavy (Tor Nightfire/Macmillan/Titan), Long Fiction, 2023

BIO: USA Today bestselling author Cassandra Khaw’s books include, Hammers on Bone, a British Fantasy award and Locus award finalist, The All-Consuming World, one of the Washington Post’s Best science fiction, fantasy and horror books of 2021, and their most recent novella, Nothing But Blackened Teeth, a Japanese haunted house story described as “sharp, playful, and nasty as hell,” which was a Bram Stoker Award Finalist.

Their work has been translated or is in the process of being translated to Catalan, Turkish, Russian, Bulgarian, French, and Spanish.

Their short fiction can be found in a myriad of places, including Fantasy & Science Fiction, Lightspeed, Tor.com, Nature, The Dark, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Khaw is also an award-winning game writer who has worked on games such as She Remembered Caterpillars (German Game Awards Best Children’s Game 2017), Wasteland 3, and Falcon Age. Cassandra has also done work for Magic: the Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons, Critical Role, World of Darkness, and Warhammer 40k.

Their last public speaking appearance was in Barcelona, where they keynoted at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona.

They currently reside in Montreal with two inadvisably large cats, and can be found on Twitter and Instagram at @casskhaw.