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NOMINATIONS:
“She Sheds Her Skin” (Nightmare Magazine November 2024) (Adamant Press), Short Fiction, 2024
BIO: Raven Jakubowski is a Dwarf Stars nominated and Rhysling longlisted writer whose work has appeared in Nightmare Magazine, Strange Horizons, and Star*Line among others. Raven is a member of Brooklyn Speculative Fiction Writers and an associate member of SFWA. A tailor by trade and writer by vocation, Raven lives in New York City.
NOMINATIONS:
“Ten Thousand Crawling Children” (Nightmare Magazine January 2024) (Adamant Press), Short Fiction, 2024
BIO: Usually found out in the middle of nowhere, R.A. Busby is the author of CORPORATE BODY, WORDS MADE OF FLESH, and YOU WILL SPEAK FOR THE DEAD. The 2020 winner of the Shirley Jackson Award for short fiction, Busby spends her time researching weird things and writing about them until she’s out of coffee.
NOMINATIONS:
“To the Wolves” (Weird Horror #9) (Undertow Publications), Short Fiction, 2024
BIO: Sasha Brown is a Boston-area writer and gardener whose surreal stories have been called “Creative! But not in a good way.” His horror work is in joints like Bourbon Penn and Weird Horror, and his literary fiction is in mags like X-R-A-Y and Split Lip. He’s on bsky at sashabrown, and online at sashabrownwriter.com.
NOMINATIONS:
“And She Had Been So Reasonable” (Apex Magazine Issue 147) (Apex Book Company), Short Fiction, 2024
BIO: Rachel Bolton is a writer working on more projects than she has time for. Her stories and essays have appeared in Apex Magazine, Women Write About Comics, Strange Girls, and more. She feels honored to be nominated for the Bram Stoker Award. Rachel lives with her cat in Massachusetts. rachelmbolton.wordpress.com and @raebolt.bsky.social.
Nominations:
“An Inherited Taste” (No Trouble at All, Cursed Morsels Press), Short Fiction, 2023
Nominations:
“If Someone You Love Has Become a Vurdalak” (The Dark), Short Fiction, 2023
BIO: Sam J. Miller‘s books have been called “must-reads” and “bests of the year” by NPR, Entertainment Weekly, USA Today, and O: The Oprah Magazine, among others. His novel The Blade Between was a #2 horror bestseller according to LibraryJournal. His short fiction has been published in places like The Kenyon Review, Vogue Italia, Tor.com, Asimov’s, and more. He’s received the Nebula, Locus, and Shirley Jackson Awards, as well as the hopefully-soon-to-be-renamed John W. Campbell Memorial Award. He’s also the last in a long line of butchers. Sam lives in New York City, and at samjmiller.com
