2013 Bram Stoker Award Recommendations open for submissions!

HWA members may now SUBMIT RECOMMENDATIONS for the 2013 Bram Stoker Awards®. Members, please refresh your memory of the recommendation rules before submitting. Non-members are invited to browse the regularly updated Recommended Reading List for works published in 2013 (and previous years as...

Bruce Boston is Poet Guest of Honor at World Horror Con 2013

The Horror Writers Association (HWA) is proud to announce Bruce Boston as Poet Guest of Honor for the Bram Stoker Awards™ Weekend 2013, to be held in New Orleans from 13-16 June 2013. Bruce Boston is the author of fifty books and chapbooks, including the novels The Guardener’s Tale and Stained Glass...

Glenn Chadbourne is Artist Guest of Honor at 2013 World Horror Con

The Horror Writers Association is proud to announce Glenn Chadbourne as the Artist Guest of Honor for the World Horror Convention (WHC) 2013. In 2013 the HWA is hosting WHC as part of the Bram Stoker Awards™ Weekend in New Orleans from 13-16 June. Glenn Chadbourne is a freelance artist specialising in the...

Free Samples of Bram Stoker Award Nominees

GalleyCat has gathered free samples of the scariest books of the year, those on the Bram Stoker Award® final ballot. Pick your next read from this...

The 2012 Bram Stoker Awards® Final Ballot

The Horror Writers Association (HWA) is pleased to announce the Final Ballot for the 2012 Bram Stoker Awards®. The HWA (see www.horror.org ) is the premiere writers organization in the horror and dark fiction genre, with nearly 1000 members. We have presented the Bram Stoker Awards in various categories...

HWA 2012 Specialty Press Award Goes to Centipede Press

Centipede Press, of Lakewood, Colorado, will receive the Horror Writers Association’s Specialty Press Award for 2012. The Award will be presented during the Bram Stoker Awards® Banquet, to be held this year in New Orleans on June 15. The annual Specialty Press Award recognizes a publisher outside the...

Jonathan Maberry to be Guest of Honor at Bram Stoker Awards® Weekend

The Horror Writers Association (HWA) is proud to announce Jonathan Maberry as a Guest of Honor for the Bram Stoker Awards™ Weekend 2013, to be held in New Orleans from 13-16 June 2013. Jonathan Maberry is a New York Times best-selling author, multiple Bram Stoker Award winner, and Marvel Comics writer. His...

BARKER & MCCAMMON win Lifetime Horror Award

The Horror Writers Association has chosen two long-time icons of the genre to receive the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award this year. The award, given in recognition of the recipient’s overall body of work, will go to Clive Barker and to Robert McCammon. Clive Barker A visionary, fantasist, poet...

Charles Day to receive the Hammer Award from HWA

The Horror Writers Association periodically gives the Hammer Award (also known as 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. The...

James Chambers 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 Writer’s Association’s President. As its name implies, it is given by the HWA’s sitting President. The Award is presented to a volunteer...

The 2012 Bram Stoker Awards Preliminary Ballot Announced

The Horror Writers Association (HWA) is pleased to announce the Preliminary Ballots for the 2012 Bram Stoker Awards®. The HWA is the premiere writers organization in the horror and dark fiction genre, with over 800 members. We have presented the Bram Stoker Awards in various categories since 1987. The...

Jeff Strand to Emcee Bram Stoker Awards Banquet 2013

The Horror Writers Association (HWA) is proud to announce Jeff Strand will emcee the 2013 Bram Stoker Awards Banquet and also act as Toastmaster at the World Horror Convention 2013. Both of these events are part of the Bram Stoker Awards Weekend, to be held in New Orleans from 13-16 June 2013. Jeff has...