Bram Stoker Award™ Preliminary Ballot Announced
NOVEL:
RECS:
- Lamberson, Greg -- Cosmic Forces
- Longfellow, Ki -- Houdini Heart
- Malfi, Ronald -- Floating Staircase
- O'Neill, Gene -- Not Fade Away
- Warner, Matthew -- Blood Born
JURY:
- Conlon, Christopher -- A Matrix Of Angels
- Dunbar, Robert -- Willy
- McKinney, Joe -- Flesh Eaters
- Oliver, Reggie -- The Dracula Papers, Book 1: The Scholar’s Tale
- Thomas, Lee -- The German
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HAUTALA and LANSDALE Win Lifetime Horror Award
The Horror Writers Association has chosen two long-time icons of the genre to receive the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award (LAA) this year. The award, given in recognition of the recipient's overall body of work, will go to Rick Hautala and to Joe R. Lansdale.
Under his own name, Rick Hautala has written nearly thirty novels, including the million-copy bestseller Nightstone, as well as Winter Wake, The Mountain King, and Little Brothers. He has published two short story collections: Bedbugs and Occasional Demons. A new collection, The Back of Beyond, is due soon. He has had over sixty short stories published in a variety of national and international anthologies and magazines.
Joe R. Lansdale is the author of over thirty novels and numerous short stories. His work has appeared in national anthologies, magazines, collections, as well as numerous foreign publications. He has written for comics, film, newspapers, and internet sites. His work has been collected in eighteen short story collections, and he has edited or coedited over a dozen anthologies. He has received the Edgar Award, eight Bram Stoker Awards™, The British Fantasy Award, the Grinzani Cavour Prize For Literature, the Herodotus Historical Fiction Award, The Inkpot Award for his contributions to Science Fiction and Fantasy, and many others.
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KAREN LANSDALE to Receive The Richard Laymon President’s Award from Horror Writers Association
The Richard Laymon President's Award for Service was instituted in 2000 and is named in honor of Richard Laymon, who died in 2000 while serving as the Horror Writers Association President. The award is given by the HWA sitting President to a volunteer who has served HWA in an especially exemplary manner and has shown extraordinary dedication to the organization.
HWA President Rocky Wood has chosen Karen Lansdale to receive the 2011 Richard Laymon Award. Karen is recognized as one of the Founders of the HWA; in fact, the award is for her dedication and hard work at that time. “It’s clear that Karen was the true driving force behind the successful launch of the HWA,” Wood said.
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Guy Anthony DE MARCO to receive The Silver Hammer Award from HWA
The Horror Writers Association periodically gives The Silver Hammer Award to an HWA volunteer who has done a truly massive amount of work for our organization, often unsung and behind the scenes. It was instituted in 1996 and is decided by a vote of HWA's Board of Trustees.
The Board has voted to give the 2011 Award to Guy Anthony De Marco, who currently serves on the web team and does a magnificent job of managing the web credentials, among many other duties. Prior to this, he served as Chapter Chair. Guy has served the Association and its membership for the majority of the time since he joined in 2007.
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Samhain Publishing announced as Platinum Sponsor of the 25th Annual Bram Stoker Awards™
The Horror Writers Association (HWA) is pleased to announce Samhain Publishing as the Platinum Sponsor for the 25
th Annual Bram Stoker Awards Banquet. The Banquet will be held in conjunction with the World Horror Convention on 31 March 2012 with HWA's Founders Joe and Karen Lansdale and Robert McCammon as Special Guests of Honor. Full details of both the Banquet and "Celebrate HWA Day" are at our dedicated website:
http://www.stokers2012.org/.
Don D'Auria, executive editor for Samhain Horror, will be representing the publisher at the World Horror Convention in Salt Lake City, Utah. "We're proud to support the Horror Writing community. We're also excited to be a part of the 25th anniversary celebration of these prestigious awards and to support the efforts of the Horror Writers Association in honoring outstanding horror writing," D'Auria said.
Launched in 2011, Samhain Horror (www.samhainhorror.com) publishes both established horror authors and the genre's most compelling new voices.
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Jeremy Wagner Announced as Sponsor of the Bram Stoker Vampire Novel of the Century Award
The Horror Writers Association (HWA) is pleased to announce
Jeremy Wagner as the sponsor for the Bram Stoker Vampire Novel of the Century Award.
The Horror Writers Association (HWA), the horror genre’s peak body for writers and publishing professionals, will be giving the Bram Stoker Vampire Novel of the Century Award in conjunction with the Bram Stoker Family Estate and the Rosenbach Museum & Library. The award marks the centenary of the death in 1912 of Abraham (Bram) Stoker, the author of
Dracula, and also celebrates the twenty-fifth anniversary of the association.
Full details of both the banquet and "Celebrate HWA Day" are at our dedicated website:
http://www.stokers2012.org. Details of the iconic Bram Stoker Award™, which has been won by such notable authors as Stephen King, Peter Straub, Joe Lansdale, Thomas Harris, Joyce Carol Oates, Neil Gaiman, Harlan Ellison, and George R. R. Martin, are at
http://www.horror.org/stokers.htm.
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HWA 25th Anniversary Celebration
We're celebrating the 25th anniversary of HWA's incorporation in March of 2012 at the World Horror Convention! We're thrilled to say that our three founders--
Joe Lansdale, Karen Lansdale, and Robert McCammon--will be on hand to celebrate with us. We'll have an entire full slate of special panels and events culminating with the gala presentation of the 2011 Bram Stoker Awards at WHC 2012 on the evening of March 31, 2012.
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Vampire Novel of the Century Award
The Horror Writers Association (HWA) is proud to announce it will present the Bram Stoker Vampire Novel of the Century Award at the Bram Stoker Awards Banquet in 2012. The Banquet will be held at World Horror Convention in Salt Lake City on 31 March next year.
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HWA Announces 2010 Bram Stoker Award Winners
- Superior Achievement in a NOVEL
A DARK MATTER by Peter Straub
- Superior Achievement in a First Novel (tie)
BLACK AND ORANGE by Benjamin Kane Ethridge
CASTLE OF LOS ANGELES by Lisa Morton
- Superior Achievement in Long Fiction
INVISIBLE FENCES by Norman Prentiss
- Superior Achievement in Short Fiction
THE FOLDING MAN by Joe R. Lansdale
- Superior Achievement in an Anthology
HAUNTED LEGENDS edited by Ellen Datlow and Nick Mamatas
- Superior Achievement in a Collection
FULL DARK, NO STARS by Stephen King (Simon and Schuster)
- Superior Achievement in Nonfiction
TO EACH THEIR DARKNESS by Gary A. Braunbeck
- Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection
DARK MATTERS by Bruce Boston
- Specialty Press Award
Dark Regions Press
- Silver Hammer Award
Angel Leigh McCoy
- Richard Layman Award
Michael Colangelo
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