Category: Long Fiction
LaRocca, Eric
Nominations:
“All The Parts of You That Won’t Easily Burn” (This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances) (Titan Books), Long Fiction, 2024
Everything the Darkness Eats (CLASH Books/Titan), First Novel, 2023
Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke (Weirdpunk Books), Long Fiction, 2021
BIO: Eric LaRocca (he/they) is a Bram Stoker Award® finalist and Splatterpunk Award winner. Named by Esquire as one of the “Writers Shaping Horror’s Next Golden Age” and praised by Locus as “one of strongest and most unique voices in contemporary horror fiction,” LaRocca’s notable works include Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke, Everything the Darkness Eats, The Trees Grew Because I Bled There: Collected Stories, and This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances. His new novel, At Dark, I Become Loathsome, has already been optioned for film by The Walking Dead star Norman Reedus.
Pinsker, Sarah
NOMINATIONS:
Two Truths and a Lie (Tor.com), Long Fiction, 2020
BIO: Sarah Pinsker’s first novel, A Song For A New Day, won the 2020 Nebula Award, and her Small Beer Press collection Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea won the Philip K Dick Award. Her short stories have won the Nebula and Sturgeon awards, and have been finalists for the Hugo, Locus, and World Fantasy Award. Her second novel, We Are Satellites, will be published in spring 2021. She is also a singer/songwriter with three albums on various independent labels and a fourth she swears will be released someday soon. She was born in New York and has lived all over the US and Canada, but currently lives with her wife and terrier in Baltimore in a hundred-year-old house surrounded by sentient vines. Her website is sarahpinsker.com.
Knight, EV
NOMINATIONS:
Three Days in the Pink Tower (Creature Publishing), Long Fiction, 2022
AWARDS:
The Fourth Whore (Raw Dog Screaming Press), First Novel, 2020
BIO: EV Knight is the author of the Bram Stoker Award winning debut novel The Fourth Whore. She has also written the novel Children of Demeter as well as several novellas; Dead Eyes, Partum, and her most recent release, the autofictional Three Days in the Pink Tower. You can find her numerous short stories in horror anthologies as well. EV lives in one of America’s most haunted cities—Savannah, Ga. She is a huge fan of the Savannah Bananas and the beauty of Bonaventure Cemetery. When not out and about searching for the ghosts of the past, EV can be found at home with her husband Matt, her crazy dog Gozer, and their three naughty sphynx cats. You can find EV on her website evknightauthor.com where you can sign up for her newsletter and find links to all her social media.
Taborska, Anna
AWARDS:
Discontinue If Death Ensues: Tales from the Tipping Point (Flame Tree Publishing), Anthology, 2024
NOMINATIONS:
“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.
