Category: Poetry Collection

Cabeen, Robert Payne

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Awards:

Cold Cuts (Omnium Gatherum Media), First Novel, 2017

Nominations:

Fearworms: Selected Poems (Fanboy Comics), Poetry Collection, 2014

BIO: Robert Payne Cabeen is a screenwriter, artist, purveyor of narrative horror poetry, and now a novelist, with his Bram Stoker Award winning debut Cold Cuts, from Omnium Gatherum. His screenwriting credits include Heavy Metal 2000, for Columbia TriStar, Sony Pictures, A Monkey’s Tale, and Walking with Buddha. Cabeen’s illustrated book, FEARWORMS: Selected Poems, was a 2015 Bram Stoker Award nominee.

As creative director for Streamline Pictures, Robert helped anime pioneer Carl Macek bring Japanese animated features, like Akira and dozens of other classics, to a western audience.

Cabeen received a Master of Fine Arts degree from Otis Art Institute, with a dual major in painting and design. Since then, he has combined his interests in the visual arts with screenwriting and storytelling for a broad range of entertainment companies including Warner Brothers, Columbia/TriStar, Disney, Sony, Universal, USA Network, Nelvana, and SEGA.

Robert is a city of Lost Angels native. He resides in the Miracle Mile with his wife Cecile Grimm. Together, they spawned three offspring–all smarter, better looking and more talented than he is–but certainly not as scary.

For more about Robert Payne Cabeen, visit: robertpaynecabeen.com

Robert Cabeen at the 2018 Bram Stoker Awards presentation

Boston, Bruce

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Awards:

Dark Matters, Poetry Collection, 2010

The Nightmare Collection, Poetry Collection, 2008

Shades Fantastic, Poetry Collection, 2006

Pitchblende, Poetry Collection, 2003

Nominations:

Artifacts (Independent Legions Publishing), Poetry Collection, 2018

Visions of the Mutant Rain Forest (Crystal Lake Publishing), Poetry Collection, 2017

Sacrificial Nights (KippleOfficinaLibraria), Poetry Collection, 2016

Resonance Dark and Light (Eldritch Press), Poetry Collection, 2015

Dark Roads: Selected Long Poems 1971-2012 (Dark Renaissance Books), Poetry Collection, 2013

“Surrounded by the Mutant Rain Forest” (Daily Science Fiction), Short Fiction, 2012

Notes from the Shadow City (Dark

Regions Press), Poetry Collection, 2012

Surrealities, Poetry Collection, 2011

Double Visions, Poetry Collection, 2009

North Left of Earth, Poetry Collection, 2009

The Guardener’s Tale, Novel, 2007

Night Smoke, Poetry Collection, 2002

White Space, Poetry Collection, 2001

The Complete Accursed Wives, Poetry Collection, 2000

BIO: Bruce Boston lives in Ocala, Florida, once known as the City of Trees, with his wife, writer-artist Marge Simon, and the ghosts of two cats. His poems and stories have appeared in hundreds of publications, most visibly in Analog, Asimov’s, Amazing Stories, Weird Tales, New Myths, Strange Horizons, Pedestal, Realms of Fantasy, Daily Science Fiction, Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, and the Nebula Awards Showcase, and received numerous award, most notably the Bram Stoker Award, a Pushcart Prize, the Asimov’s Readers Award, and the Rhysling and Grandmaster Awards of the Science Fiction Poetry Association. He is the author of more than fifty books and chapbooks, including the dystopian sf novel The Guardener’s Tale and the psychedelic coming-of-age novel Stained Glass Rain.

https://www.bruceboston.com
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Addison, Linda

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Awards:

The Place of Broken Things (Crystal Lake Publishing), Poetry Collection, 2019

Lifetime Achievement Award, 2017

Mentor of the Year Award, 2015

Four Elements (Bad Moon Books/Evil Jester Press), Poetry Collection, 2013

How to Recognize a Demon Has Become Your Friend, Poetry Collection, 2011

Being Full of Light, Insubstantial, Poetry Collection, 2007

Consumed, Reduced to Beautiful Grey Ashes, Poetry Collection, 2001

Nominations:

Sycorax’s Daughters (Cedar Grove Publishing), Anthology, 2017

Dark Duet (NECON eBooks), Poetry Collection, 2012

BIO: Linda D. Addison is the first African-American recipient of the HWA Bram Stoker Award® and has received four awards for collections in the Poetry category. She was also part of two books that were finalists for the HWA Bram Stoker Award.

 
She is the only author with fiction in three landmark anthologies that celebrate African-Americans speculative writers: the award-winning anthology Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction (Warner Aspect), Dark Dreams I and II (Kensington), and Dark Thirst (Pocket Book).
 
Addison’s work has made frequent appearances over the years on the honorable mention list for Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror and Year’s Best Science-Fiction.
 
She has published over 300 poems, stories and articles, a founding member of the writer’s group Circles in the Hair (CITH) and a member of SFWA, HWA and SFPA.
 
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Arnzen, Michael A.

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Awards:

Proverbs for Monsters, Fiction Collection, 2007

Freakcidents, Poetry Collection, 2005

The Goreletter (email newsletter), Alternative Forms, 2003

Grave Markings, First Novel, 1994

Nominations:

“Screamin’ in the Rain: The Orchestration of Catharsis in William Castle’s The Tingler“ (What Sleeps Beneath), Short Non-fiction, 2024

100 Jolts: Shockingly Short Stories, Fiction Collection, 2004

The Goreletter, Alternative Forms, 2004

Gorelets: Unpleasant Poems, Poetry Collection, 2003

Paratabloids, Poetry Collection, 2000

Arnzen has been an active HWA member since the late 1980s and continues explore the weirdness through his writing.  Follow him on twitter at @MikeArnzen to stay updated and to get strange poems when you least expect them. Extended biographical information and his award-winning newsletter, The Goreletter, is also available at: http://gorelets.com/about-michael-a-arnzen/

BIO: Amityville-born horror writer Michael Arnzen currently holds four Bram Stoker Awards and an International Horror Guild Award for his often funny, always disturbing fiction and poetry.  Aside from his novels, Grave Markings and Play Dead, the short-story collections Proverbs for Monsters and 100 Jolts: Shockingly Short Stories collect the best of the minimalist horror and speculative flash fiction that he is especially known for.  Always experimenting, Arnzen’s work in the genre has appeared in everything from poetry magnets (Fridge of the Damned) and Palm Pilots (Gorelets) to playing cards (Play Dead) and moving pictures (Exquisite Corpse). He has also run a small press outfit called called Mastication Publications since 1991.

Arnzen holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Oregon and since 1999 has taught fulltime at Seton Hill University, near Pittsburgh, in their MFA program in Writing Popular Fiction. He has mentored writers in the HWA and has taught sessions at many genre writing retreats, from Odyssey to Alpha.  He also has written helpful books for writers, including, Instigation: Creative Prompts on the Dark Side and, as co-editor, Many Genres, One Craft: Lessons in Writing Popular Fiction.

Bailey, Michael

Awards:

The Library of the Dead (Written Backwards), Anthology, 2015

Nominations:

Long Division: Stories of Social Decay, Societal Collapse, and Bad Manners (Bad Hand Books), Anthology, 2024

Sifting the Ashes (Crystal Lake Publishing), Poetry Collection, 2022

Miscreations: Gods, Monstrosities & Other Horrors (Written Backwards), Anthology, 2020

Our Children, Our Teachers (Written Backwards), Long Fiction, 2018

“I Will Be the Reflection Until the End” Tales from the Lake Vol. 4 (Crystal Lake Publishing), Short Fiction, 2017

“Time is a Face on the Water” (Borderlands 6) (Borderlands Press), Short Fiction, 2016

Chiral Mad 3 (Written Backwards), Anthology, 2016

Qualia Nous (Written Backwards), Anthology, 2014

“Primal Tongue” (Zippered Flesh 2, Smart Rhino Publications), Short Fiction, 2013

BIO: Michael Bailey is a recipient and ten-time nominee of the Bram Stoker Award, a five-time Shirley Jackson Award nominee, and a three-time recipient of the Benjamin Franklin Award, along with a number of independent publishing accolades. He has written, edited, and published many books of various genres. His latest is Righting Writing, a nonfiction narrative used as curriculum for aspiring writers, and Silent Nightmares: Haunting Stories to Be Told on the Longest Night of the Year, an anthology co-edited with Chuck Palahniuk. He is also the screenwriter for Madness and Writers, a creative documentary series about writers, and a producer for numerous film projects. Find him online at nettirw.com, or on social media @nettirw. He is represented by Lane Heymont of the Tobias Literary Agency.