Saturday, May 14, 2022

2021 HWA Bram Stoker Award Winners

Congarters to the 2021 HWA Bram Stoker Award winners!

  • SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A FIRST NOVEL: Piper, HaileyQueen of Teeth (Strangehouse Books)
  • SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A GRAPHIC NOVEL: Manzetti, Alessandro (author) and Cardoselli, Stefano (artist) – The Inhabitant of the Lake (Independent Legions Publishing)
  • SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A YOUNG ADULT NOVEL: Waters, EricaThe River Has Teeth (HarperTeen)
  • SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN LONG FICTION: Strand, Jeff – “Twentieth Anniversary Screening” (Slice and Dice) (Independently published)
  • SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN SHORT FICTION: Murray, Lee – “Permanent Damage” (Attack From the ’80s) (Raw Dog Screaming Press)
  • SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A FICTION COLLECTION: Files, GemmaIn That Endlessness, Our End (Grimscribe Press)
  • SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A SCREENPLAY: Flanagan, Mike; Flanagan, James; and Howard, JeffMidnight Mass, Season 1, Episode 6: “Book VI: Acts of the Apostles” (Intrepid Pictures)
  • SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A POETRY COLLECTION: Sng, Christina; Yuriko Smith, Angela; Murray, Lee; and Flynn, GeneveTortured Willows: Bent. Bowed. Unbroken. (Yuriko Publishing)
  • SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN AN ANTHOLOGY: Datlow, EllenWhen Things Get Dark: Stories Inspired by Shirley Jackson (Titan Books)
  • SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN NON-FICTION: Knost, MichaelWriters Workshop of Horror 2 (Hydra Publications)
  • SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN SHORT NON-FICTION: Yuriko Smith, Angela – “Horror Writers: Architects of Hope” (The Sirens Call, Halloween 2021, Issue 55) (Sirens Call Publications)
  • LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT: Fletcher, Jo; Holder, Nancy; Suzuki, Koji
  • SPECIALTY PRESS: Valancourt Books
  • THE RICHARD LAYMON PRESIDENT’S AWARD: Saulson, Sumiko
  • THE SILVER HAMMER AWARD: Wetmore, Kevin J.
  • MENTOR OF THE YEAR: Knost, Michael