… And just like that…

It’s awards season again! I’ve had the honor of being included in some amazing magazines and anthologies this year, as well as had a few of my solo projects release.

If you are part of the voting membership in the Horror Writers Association (Stoker Awards), the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (Nebula), and the Science Fiction Poetry Association (Elgin, Rhysling), this information might be of interest to you. The following works are eligible this year:

Long Non-Fiction (HWA):

Title: The Horror Aesthetic: Essays from the Dark Corners of the Genre

Publisher: Mocha Memoirs Books           

Date: October 2024

Short Non-Fiction (HWA): 

Title: Blacks in Horror and Cultivated Bias

Anthology/Volume: No More Haunted Dolls: Horror Fiction that Transcends the Tropes

Publisher: Vernon Press   

Date: May 2024

Title: Why A Quiet Place: Day One is the Perfect Movie – Horror or Otherwise

Publisher: NightTide Magazine

Date: July 2024

Long Fiction (Novella) (HWA, SFWA):

Title: 12 Hours

Publisher: Raw Dog Screaming Press

Date: January 2024

Poetry (HWA, SFPA – Elgin, SFWA):

Title: Imitation of Life

Publisher: Falstaff Books   

Date: April 2024

Poem (SFPA – Rhysling):

Title: This House

Anthology: Where the Silent Ones Watch

Publisher: Hippocampus Press

Date: October 2024

Short Fiction (HWA, SFWA): 

Title: “Amore”

He watches. He waits. He sees. He prepares.

Anthology: Nevermore

Publisher: Falstaff Books

Date: April 2024

Title: “Beggars Can’t be Choosers”

They’re here.  They’re ready to consume. And he’s ready to feed them.

Anthology: Beyond the Bounds of Infinity

Publisher: Raw Dog Screaming Press

Date: July 2024

Title: “Jacob Street”

A couple’s response to confusion, loss, and a creeping darkness.

Publisher: Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction

Date: August 2024

Title: “The Facility”

Like a sentinel, it has always been there, until one day…

Publisher: House of Gamut

Date: August 2024

Title: “Model Home”

What goes on in the model home after closing, stays in the model home… right?

Publisher: Sudden Fiction Podcast

Date: August 2024

Title: “Real Science Shit”

That’s one way to do it…

Anthology: Dark Spores: Stories We Tell After Midnight 4

Publisher: Crone Girl Press

Date: December 2024

Comment if you would like to receive a copy for consideration.

Thanks folks!

Until next time,

L. Marie Wood

Published by L. Marie Wood

Celebrated psychological horror author L. Marie Wood is the winner of multiple awards including the Bram Stoker Award®, the Golden Stake Award for Literature, and the International Impact Book Award. She is also a MICO Award-winning screenwriter, an Elgin Award finalist poet, an accomplished essayist, and a playwright. Wood has won over 50 national and international screenplay and film awards. She has been published in groundbreaking works, including the anthologies Sycorax's Daughters and Slay: Stories of the Vampire Noire, as well as industry staples such as the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and Nightmare Magazine and in multiple languages. Her papers are archived as part of University of Pittsburgh’s Horror Studies Collection. Wood is the president of the Horror Writers Association, the founder of the Speculative Fiction Academy, an English and Creative Writing professor, as well as a horror scholar. Learn more at www.lmariewood.com.

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