Bram Stoker Award for Best Short Non-Fiction
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The Bram Stoker Award for Best Short Non-Fiction, established in 2019, is an award presented by the Horror Writers Association (HWA) for "superior achievement" in horror writing for short non-fiction.
| Year | Author | Title | Publication | Publisher | Result | Ref. |
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| 2019 | ||||||
| Gwendolyn Kiste | Magic, Madness, and Women Who Creep: The Power of Individuality in the Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman | Vastarien: A Literary Journal, Vol. 2, Issue 1 | Winner | [1][2][3] | ||
| Vince A. Liaguno | Slasher Films Made Me Gay: The Queer Appeal and Subtext of the Genre | LGBTQ+ Horror Month: 9/1/2019, Ginger Nuts of Horror | Finalist | [1][2][4] | ||
| Karen J. Renner | The Evil Aging Women of American Horror Story | Elder Horror: Essays on Film’s Frightening Images of Aging | McFarland | Finalist | [1][2][4] | |
| Kelly Robinson | Film's First Lycanthrope: 1913's The Werewolf | Scary Monsters Magazine #114 | Finalist | [1][2][4] | ||
| Valerie E. Weich | Lord Byron's Whipping Boy: Dr. John William Polidori and the 200th Anniversary of The Vampyre | Famous Monsters of Filmland, Issue #291 | Finalist | [1][2][4] | ||
| 2020 | ||||||
| Tim Waggoner | Speaking of Horror | The Writer | Winner | [5][6][7][8] | ||
| Rhonda Jackson Joseph | The Beloved Haunting of Hill House: An Examination of Monstrous Motherhood | The Streaming of Hill House: Essays on the Haunting Netflix Adaption | McFarland | Finalist | [5][9][10] | |
| Cynthia Pelayo | I Need to Believe | Southwest Review, Vol. 105.3 | Finalist | [5][9][10] | ||
| Kelly Robinson | Lost, Found, and Finally Unbound: The Strange History of the 1910 Edison Frankenstein | Rue Morgue, June 2020 | Finalist | [5][9][10] | ||
| Christina Sng | Final Girl: A Life in Horror | Interstellar Flight Magazine, October 2020 | Finalist | [5][9][10] | ||
| 2021 | ||||||
| Angela Yuriko Smith | Horror Writers: Architects of Hope | The Sirens Call, Halloween 2021, Issue 55 | Sirens Call Publications | Winner | [11][12][13][14] | |
| Cindy O'Quinn | One and Done | Were Tales: A Shapeshifter Anthology | Brigids Gate Press | Finalist | [11][12][15][16] | |
| Dejan Ognjanović | The Three Paradigms of Horror | Vastarien, Vol. 4, Issue 2 | Grimscribe Press | Finalist | [11][12][15][16] | |
| Emily Ruth Verona | A Horror Fan’s Guide to Surviving Womanhood | thefinalgirls.co.uk | Finalist | [11][12][15][16] | ||
| Kevin J. Wetmore Jr. | Devil's Advocates: The Conjuring | Auteur Publishing/Liverpool University Press | Finalist | [11][12][15][16] | ||
| 2022 | Aaron Dries | Nona Doesn't Dance | Cut to Care: A Collection of Little Hurts | IFWG Australia, IFWG International | Finalist | [17][18] |
| Douglas Gwilym | Poppy's Poppy | Penumbric Speculative Fiction Magazine, Vol. V, No. 6 | Finalist | [17][18] | ||
| J.A.W. McCarthy | The Only Thing Different Will Be the Body | A Woman Built by Man | Cemetery Gates Media | Finalist | [17][18] | |
| 2023 | ||||||
| Nadia Bulkin | Becoming Ungovernable: Latah, Amok, and Disorder in Indonesia | Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror | Black Spot Books | Winner | [19] | |
| Carina Bissett | Words Wielded by Women | Apex Magazine | Nominee | [19] | ||
| K.P. Kulski | Everything the Darkness Eats | Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror | Black Spot Books | |||
| Lee Murray | Displaced Spirits | Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror | Black Spot Books | |||
| Kevin Wetmore, Jr | A Theatre of Ghosts, a Haunted Cinema: The Japanese Gothic as Theatrical Tradition in Gurozuka | Special Issue on Asian Gothic 6/23 | Wenshan Review of Literature and Culture | |||
| 2024 | ||||||
| Lisa Wood | Blacks in Film and Cultivated Bias | No More Haunted Dolls: Horror Fiction that Transcends the Tropes | Vernon Press | Winner | [20] | |
| Michael Arnzen | Screamin’ in the Rain: The Orchestration of Catharsis in William Castle’s The Tingler | What Sleeps Beneath | Nominee | [20] | ||
| Vince A. Liaguno | The Horror of Donna Berzatto and Her Feast of the Seven Fishes | You’re Not Alone in the Dark | Cemetery Dance Publications | |||
| Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock | Hidden Histories: The Many Ghosts of Disney’s Haunted Mansion | Disney Gothic: Dark Shadows in the House of Mouse | Lexington Books | |||
| Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr | Jackson and Haunting of the Stage | Journal of Shirley Jackson Studies, Vol. 2 No. 1 | Shirley Jackson Studies | |||
| 2025 | Patrick Barb | “Deathwish Wolf Man: The Tragic Hero at the Heart of the Universal Monster” | Interstellar Flight Magazine | Interstellar Flight Press | TBA | [21] |
| Tananarive Due | “My Long Road to Horror” | Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Fiction | Saga Press | |||
| Stephen Graham Jones | “Why Horror” | Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Fiction | Saga Press | |||
| Mo Moshaty | “Haunted Thresholds: Liminal Horror and the Psychological Disintegration of Women from Post-Partum, Grief, Trauma and Religious Fanaticism” | Darkest Margins: 24 Essays on Liminality and Liminal Spaces in the Horror Genre | 1428 Publishing Ltd | |||
| Cynthia Pelayo | “My Mother Was Margaret White” | Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Fiction | Saga Press |
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 "The 2019 Bram Stoker Award® Winners". The Bram Stoker Awards. Archived from the original on 2022-05-28. Retrieved 2023-02-28.
- 1 2 3 4 5 "Winners - Bram Stoker Awards®". Horror Writers Association. 2020-04-19. Archived from the original on 2022-06-25. Retrieved 2023-03-01.
- ↑ "2019 Stoker Awards Winners". Locus Online. 2020-04-20. Archived from the original on 2020-04-24. Retrieved 2023-03-01.
- 1 2 3 4 "2019 Stoker Awards Final Ballot". Locus Online. 2020-02-20. Archived from the original on 2022-12-01. Retrieved 2023-03-01.
- 1 2 3 4 5 "The Bram Stoker Awards 2020". The Bram Stoker Awards. Archived from the original on 2022-05-28. Retrieved 2023-03-01.
- ↑ Caplan, Walker (2021-06-01). "Here are the winners of the 2020 Bram Stoker Awards". Literary Hub. Archived from the original on 2022-07-03. Retrieved 2023-03-01.
- ↑ Templeton, Molly (2021-06-01). "Announcing the 2020 Bram Stoker Awards Winners". Tor.com. Archived from the original on 2021-07-07. Retrieved 2023-03-01.
- ↑ "2020 Stoker Awards Winners". Locus Online. 2021-05-24. Archived from the original on 2022-08-11. Retrieved 2023-03-01.
- 1 2 3 4 Liptak, Andrew (2021-02-22). "Here Are the 2020 Bram Stoker Award Nominees". Tor.com. Archived from the original on 2021-05-06. Retrieved 2023-03-01.
- 1 2 3 4 "2020 Stoker Awards Final Ballot". Locus Online. 2021-02-22. Archived from the original on 2022-10-08. Retrieved 2023-03-01.
- 1 2 3 4 5 "The 2021 Bram Stoker Awards® Winners". The Bram Stoker Awards. Archived from the original on 2022-08-13. Retrieved 2023-03-01.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Pavlik, Tina (2022-05-16). "2021 Bram Stoker Awards® Winners". Horror Writers Association. Archived from the original on 2022-06-20. Retrieved 2023-03-01.
- ↑ Armstrong, Vanessa (2022-05-17). "Congratulations to the 2021 Bram Stoker Awards Winners!". Tor.com. Archived from the original on 2022-06-28. Retrieved 2023-03-01.
- ↑ "2021 Stoker Awards Winners". Locus Online. 2022-05-15. Archived from the original on 2022-07-04. Retrieved 2023-03-01.
- 1 2 3 4 Templeton, Molly (2022-02-25). "Announcing the Nominees for the 2021 Bram Stoker Awards". Tor.com. Archived from the original on 2022-09-27. Retrieved 2023-03-01.
- 1 2 3 4 "2021 Stoker Awards Final Ballot". Locus Online. 2022-02-25. Archived from the original on 2022-12-08. Retrieved 2023-03-01.
- 1 2 3 "The 2022 Bram Stoker Awards® Final Ballot". The Bram Stoker Awards. Archived from the original on 2023-02-28. Retrieved 2023-03-01.
- 1 2 3 "2022 Stoker Awards Final Ballot". Locus Online. 2023-02-24. Archived from the original on 2023-02-25. Retrieved 2023-03-01.
- 1 2 "The 2023 Bram Stoker Awards® Winners". Retrieved July 8, 2025.
- 1 2 "2024 Stoker Awards Winners". Retrieved July 9, 2025.
- ↑ "Horror Writers Association Releases the 2025 Bram Stoker Awards® Final Ballot". Bram Stoker Awards. Retrieved 21 March 2026.
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