Category: Short Non-fiction

O’Quinn, Cindy

Awards:

“Quondam” (The Nightmare Never Ends, Exploding Head Fiction), Short Fiction, 2023

Nominations:

“One and Done” (Were Tales: A Shapeshifter Anthology) (Brigids Gate Press), Short Fiction, 2021

“A Gathering at the Mountain” (The Bad Book) (Bleeding Edge Books), Short Non-Fiction, 2021

“The Thing I Found Along a Dirt Patch Road” (Shotgun Honey Presents Volume 4: Recoil, Down and Out Books), Short Fiction, 2020

“Lydia” (The Twisted Book of Shadows) (Twisted Publishing) , Short Fiction, 2019

BIO: Cindy O’Quinn is an Appalachian writer from the beautiful mountains of West Virginia. She was steeped in folklore from an early age. She now lives on the old Tessier Homestead in the woods of northern Maine with her family. Cindy is a horror loving, photo taking, herb gathering homesteader.

Works published or forthcoming in Weirdbook Magazine, Shotgun Honey Presents Vol 4: RECOIL, HWA Poetry Showcase Vol V, Sanitarium Magazine, Space & Time Magazine, Star*Line, Nothing’s Sacred, Chiral Mad 5, and The Shirley Jackson Award winning anthology-The Twisted Book of Shadows, which contained Cindy’s HWA Bram Stoker nominated short fiction, “Lydia”.

Cindy’s poetry has been nominated for Dwarf Star and Rhysling Awards. 

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Wetmore, Jr., Kevin J.

Awards:

Silver Hammer Award, 2021

Nominations:

“Jackson and Haunting of the Stage” (Journal of Shirley Jackson Studies Vol. 2 No. 1) (Shirley Jackson Society), Short Non-Fiction, 2024

“A Theatre of Ghosts, A Haunted Cinema: The Japanese Gothic as Theatrical Tradition in Gurozuka” (The Wenshan Review of Literature and Culture: Special Issue on Asian Gothic), Short Non-Fiction, 2023

“A Clown in the Living Room: The Sinister Clown on Television” (The Many Lives of Scary Clowns: Essays on Pennywise, Twisty, the Joker, Krusty and More) (McFarland and Company), Short Non-Fiction, 2022

“Devil’s Advocates: The Conjuring” (Auteur Publishing/Liverpool University Press), Short Non-Fiction, 2021

Eaters of the Dead: Myths and Realities of Cannibal Monsters (Reaktion Books), Non-Fiction, 2021

The Streaming of Hill House: Essays on the Haunting Netflix Adaption (McFarland & Co., Inc.), Non-Fiction, 2020

Uncovering Stranger Things: Essays on Eighties Nostalgia, Cynicism and Innocence in the Series (McFarland & Co., Inc.), Non-Fiction, 2018

BIO: Kevin Wetmore is a professor, short fiction writer of over four dozen published short stories, and writer of Post 9/11 Horror in American Cinema, Back from the Dead: Reading Remakes of Romero’s Zombie Films as Markers of their Times, The Theology of Battlestar Galactica, the Devil’s Advocates volume on The Conjuring, and over a hundred book chapters on everything from zombies on stage to Godzilla, to apocalyptic horror.  He is also the editor of over a dozen books, including Uncovering Stranger Things, The Streaming of Hill House, and Theatre and the Macabre. He also works as an actor, director, stage combat choreographer and stand-up comedian. 

Murray, Lee

Awards:

“I Don’t Read Horror (& Other Weird Tales)” (Interstellar Flight Magazine) (Interstellar Flight Press), Short Non-Fiction, 2022

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

“Permanent Damage” (Attack From the ’80s) (Raw Dog Screaming Press), Short Fiction, 2021

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

Grotesque: Monster Stories (Things in the Well), Fiction Collection, 2020

Mentor of the Year Award, 2019

Nominations:

Fox Spirit on a Distant Cloud (The Cuba Press), Poetry Collection, 2024

“Displaced Spirits” (Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror, Black Spot Books), Short Non-fiction, 2023

Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror (Black Spot Books), Non-fiction, 2023

Despatches (PS Publishing), Long Fiction, 2023

Into the Ashes (Severed Press), Novel, 2019

“Dead End Town” (Cthulhu Deep Down Under Volume 2) (IFWG Publishing International), Short Fiction, 2018

Hellhole: An Anthology of Subterranean Terror (Adrenaline Press), Anthology, 2018

BIO: Lee Murray is a writer, editor, poet, essayist, and screenwriter from Aotearoa, and a New Zealand Prime Minister’s Award winner for Literary Achievement in Fiction. A USA Today bestselling author and multiple award-winner (including Sir Julius Vogel, Australian Shadows, Shirley Jackson, and Bram Stoker awards), Lee’s works include the Taine McKenna military thrillers, supernatural crime-noir series The Path of Ra (with Dan Rabarts), fiction collection Grotesque: Monster Stories, as well as several books for children. Her short fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines, including prestigious venues such as Weird Tales, Space and Time, and Grimdark Magazine. She is proud to have edited more than two dozen anthologies, among them award-winning titles Baby Teeth: Bite Sized Tales of Terror and At the Edge (with Dan Rabarts), Te Kōrero Ahi Kā (with Grace Bridges and Aaron Compton), Hellhole: An Anthology of Subterranean Terror, Midnight Echo #14, Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women (with Geneve Flynn), and Under Her Eye (with Lindy Ryan). A Rhysling- and Pushcart-nominated poet, Lee’s poetry collection, Tortured Willows: Bent, Bowed, Unbroken, is a collaboration with poets Christina Sng, Geneve Flynn, and Angela Yuriko Smith. Her first solo poetry collection, Fox Spirit on a Distant Cloud (2024), won her a Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship and the NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize for ‘unique and innovative vision’. Lee is a life member of Tauranga Writers, New Zealand’s longest standing writing group, and of SpecFicNZ, and she’s an Honorary Literary Fellow of the New Zealand Society of Authors. Lee lives over the hill from Hobbiton in New Zealand’s sunny Bay of Plenty where she dreams up stories from her office overlooking a cow paddock. Read more at www.leemurray.info. 

Smith, Angela Yuriko

Awards:

“Horror Writers: Architects of Hope” (The Sirens Call, Halloween 2021, Issue 55) (Sirens Call Publications), Short Non-fiction, 2021

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

Nominations:

Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror (Black Spot Books), Non-fiction, 2023

Bitter Suites (CreateSpace), Long Fiction, 2018

BIO: Angela Yuriko Smith is a third-generation Ryukyuan-American, award-winning poet, author, and publisher with 20+ years in newspapers. Publisher of Space & Time magazine (est. 1966), two-time Bram Stoker Awards® Winner, and HWA Mentor of the Year, she shares Authortunities, a free weekly calendar of author opportunities at authortunities.substack.com.

HWA Announces New Stoker Award Category

HWA Announces New Stoker Award Category

LOS ANGELES – June 13, 2018 – PRLog — The Horror Writers Association (HWA), the premier organization of writers and publishers of horror and dark fantasy, announces a new Bram Stoker Awards® category. A Short Non-Fiction category will be added to next year’s ballot. HWA President, Lisa Morton welcomes the new addition, stating: “As a writer who has written non-fiction at all lengths, a reader who loves articles and essays, and an admirer of academic study of dark fiction, I am pleased to announce this new awards category.”

Ms. Morton is a scholar of dark fiction and she feels the new category will help foster and reward excellence in non-fiction coverage of horror and dark fantasy. “We have truly been fortunate to have such talented articles and essays written in the field,” she added. The HWA Board recently voted in favor of adding the Short Non-Fiction category to the Bram Stoker Awards®. Works qualifying for the new award category include magazine articles, short essays, and academic papers, all of which must be at least 2,000 words but less than 40,000 words. The works must be published in a book (print or e-format), a magazine (print or online), or an academic monograph. Under no circumstances will consideration be given to personal websites, newsletters, or blogs.

The HWA will institute the Short Non-Fiction category beginning in 2019, and it will accept both member recommendations and jury submissions.

Media Contact
John W. Dennehy, Communications Director
Horror Writers Association
jdennehy@johnwdennehy.com
CLICK HERE to see this announcement at PRLog

Waggoner, Tim

Awards:

Writing in the Dark: The Workbook (Guide Dog Books), Non-Fiction, 2022

Writing in the Dark (Guide Dog Books/Raw Dog Screaming Press), Non-Fiction, 2020

“Speaking of Horror” (The Writer), Short Non-Fiction, 2020

The Winter Box (DarkFuse), Long Fiction, 2016

Mentor of the Year Award, 2016

Nominations:

Old Monsters Never Die (Winding Road Stories), Fiction Collection, 2024

“A Touch of Madness” (The Pulp Horror Book of Phobias) (LVP Publications), Short Fiction, 2019

Dark and Distant Voices: A Story Collection (Nightscape Press), Fiction Collection, 2018

A Kiss of Thorns (DarkFuse), Long Fiction, 2017

BIO: Tim Waggoner’s first novel came out in 2001, and since then he’s published nearly sixty novels and eight collections of short stories. He writes original dark fantasy and horror, as well as media tie-ins. He’s written tie-in fiction based on Supernatural, Grimm, The X-Files, Alien, Doctor Who, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and Transformers, among others, and he’s written novelizations for films such as Halloween Kills, Terrifier 2, Resident Evil: The Final Chapter and Kingsman:The Golden Circle. His articles on writing have appeared in Writer’s Digest, The Writer, and The Writer’s Chronicle. He’s the author of the acclaimed horror-writing guide Writing in the Dark, which won the Bram Stoker Award for Nonfiction in 2021. The follow-up, Writing in the Dark: The Workbook, also won a Stoker in the same category in 2023. He won another Stoker in 2021 in the category of Short Nonfiction for his article “Speaking of Horror,” and in 2017 he received the Stoker for Long Fiction for his novella The Winter Box. In addition, he’s won the Scribe Award, given by the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers. He’s also been a multiple finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award and a one-time finalist for the Splatterpunk Award. His fiction has received numerous Honorable Mentions in volumes of Best Horror of the Year, and he’s had several stories selected for inclusion in volumes of Year’s Best Hardcore Horror. His work has been translated into Russian, Portuguese, Japanese, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Hungarian, and Turkish. He’s also a full-time tenured professor who teaches creative writing and composition at Sinclair College in Dayton, Ohio. His papers are collected by the University of Pittsburgh’s Horror Studies Program.

Website: www.timwaggoner.com
Blog: http://writinginthedarktw.blogspot.com/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/#!/tim.waggoner.9
Twitter: @timwaggoner