Category: Silver Hammer Award

Knost, Michael

Awards:

Writers Workshop of Horror 2 (Hydra Publications), Non-fiction, 2021

Mentor of the Year Award, 2021

Silver Hammer Award, 2015

Writers Workshop of Horror, Non-fiction, 2009

Nominations:

Author’s Guide to Marketing with Teeth (Seventh Star Press), Non-fiction, 2015

Return of the Mothman (Woodland Press), First Novel, 2014

Barbers & Beauties (Hummingbird House Press), Anthology, 2013

BIO: Michael Knost is a Bram Stoker Award®-winning editor and author of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and supernatural thrillers. He has written in various genres and helmed multiple anthologies. He received the Horror Writers Association’s Silver Hammer Award in 2015 for his work as the organization’s mentorship chair. He also received the prestigious J.U.G. (Just Uncommonly Good) Award from West Virginia Writer’s Inc. His Return of the Mothman is currently being filmed as a movie adaption. He has taught writing classes and workshops at several colleges, conventions, online, and currently resides in Chapmanville, West Virginia with his wife, daughter, and a zombie goldfish.

De Marco, Guy Anthony

Awards:

Silver Hammer Award, 2011

Nominations:

Behind These Eyes (Villainous Press), Graphic Novel, 2012

BIO: Guy Anthony De Marco is a speculative fiction author; a Bram Stoker Award® and IAMTW Scribe Award finalist, winner of the HWA Silver Hammer Award, a disabled veteran, a prolific short story and flash fiction crafter, a novelist and poet, an invisible man with superhero powers, a game writer; and a coffee addict. One of these is false.
A writer since 1977, Guy Anthony De Marco is a member of the organizations: SFWA, ITW, WWA, SFPA, IAMTW, ASCAP, MWG, SWG, HWA, and hopes to eventually collect all remaining letters of the alphabet.

Chambers, James

Awards:

Kolchak the Night Stalker: The Forgotten Lore of Edgar Allan Poe (Moonstone), Graphic Novel, 2016

Silver Hammer Award, 2016

Richard Laymon President’s Award, 2012

Nominations:

Under Twin Suns: Alternate Histories of the Yellow Sign (Hippocampus Press), Anthology, 2021

A New York State of Fright: Horror Stories from the Empire State (Hippocampus Press), Anthology, 2018

“A Song Left Behind in the Aztakea Hills” (Shadows Over Main Street, Volume 2), Short Fiction, 2017

BIO: James Chambers is the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of the original graphic novel Kolchak the Night Stalker: The Forgotten Lore of Edgar Allan Poe as well as the Lovecraftian novella collection, The Engines of Sacrifice, described in a Publisher’s Weekly starred-review as “…chillingly evocative….” He has also written the story collections On the Night Border and Resurrection Houseand the dark, urban fantasy novella, Three Chords of Chaos. His story “A Song Left Behind in the Aztakea Hills,” published in Shadows Over Main Street 2, was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award. His tales of crime, fantasy, horror, pulp, science fiction, steampunk, and more have appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines. He has also edited anthologies—most recently A New York State of Fright, nominated for a Bram Stoker Award—and written and edited comic books, including Isaac Asimov’s I*Bots, Leonard Nimoy’s Primortals, Gene Roddenberry’s Lost Universe, and Shadow House. His website is www.jameschambersonline.com.