2021 Award Eligibility List

It’s that time of year again! During the 2020 calendar year, I have (or will have by the end of the calendar year) edited and published twelve (12) original stories, ten (10) magazines, one (1) collection of co-authored short stories, four (4) anthologies, one (1) novella, and two (2) novels eligible for awards in 2021!

My press and publications are eligible for the Bram Stoker Awards, the Shirley Jackson Awards, Otherwise Award, the Hugo Awards (Best Novella, Novelette, Short Story, Best Semiprozine), the Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book, the Astounding Award for Best New Writer, the Nebula Awards (Best Novel, Novelette, and Short Story), World Fantasy Awards, the Rhysling Awards, Lambda Literary Awards, and the WSFA Small Press Award. There’s also more I’ve probably missed!

My co-editor Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki and I are eligible for the Best Editor Short Form category in the Hugo Awards, particularly for our work bringing the Dominion Anthology to life! We would appreciate you voting for us and spreading the word!

NOVELS

Realm of Wraiths by Taylor Balasavage

  • Bram Stoker Award Young Adult Novel

A Season of Whispers by Jackson Kuhl

Bram Stoker Award Novel

NOVELLAS

Gargoyles & Absinthe by Eric Avedissian

COLLECTIONS

Infinite Metropolis written by Edmund Schluessel and Mikko Rauhala

QUARTERLY MAGAZINES

Selene Quarterly Magazine Volume 2, Issue 4

Helios Quarterly Magazine Volume 5, Issue 1

Selene Quarterly Magazine Volume 3, Issue 1

Helios Quarterly Magazine Volume 5, Issue 2

Invictus: Quarterly Comics & Illustrations Volume 1, Issue 1

ANTHOLOGIES

Mystique: Lesbian and Gay Fantasy Romance (LGBT Speculative Erotic, #1) edited by Zelda Knight, written by E. M. Eastick, Rhidian Brenig Jones, and T.C. Mill

“The Naked Truth About Fools” © E. M. Eastick: Two men in ancient Rome cross paths during Hilaria.

“The Tribute” © Rhidian Brenig Jones: A handsome tribute is chosen to serve the King and his Prince.

“The Passion of Her Sleep” © T.C. Mill: A woman encounters an ethereal beauty at a peculiar gala. (novelette)

The Best of Helios Quarterly Magazine edited by Zelda Knight, written by Alexis Henderson, Stephen Scott Whitaker, H.L. Fullerton, Louis Rakovich, Jack Lothian, Jenny Blackford, Todd H. C. Fischer, Sara Codair, Christopher Benamati, Melion Traverse, Clayton Snyder, Angela Boswell, Edmund Schluessel, J.B. Riley, and David M. Chevalier

Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora (Volume One) edited by Zelda Knight and Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, written by Nicole Givens Kurtz, Dilman Dila, Eugen Bacon, Nuzo Onoh, Marian Denise Moore, Dare Segun Falowo, Rafeeat Aliyu, Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Odida Nyabundi, Mame Bougouma Diene, Michael Boatman, and Ekpeki Oghenechovwe Donald

Bram Stoker Award Anthology

“Trickin’” © Nicole Givens Kurtz: An old god rises up each fall to test his subjects.

Bram Stoker Award Short Fiction

“Red_Bati” © Dilman Dila: Once an old woman’s pet, a robot sent to mine an asteroid faces an existential crisis.

“A Maji Maji Chronicle” © Eugen Bacon: A magician and his son time-travel to Ngoni country and try to change the course of history.

“A Mastery of German” © Marian Denise Moore: Candace, an ambitious middle manager, is handed a project that will force her to confront the ethical ramifications of her company’s latest project—the monetization of human memory.

“Convergence in Chorus Architecture” © Dare Segun Falowo: Osupa, a newborn village in pre-colonial Yorubaland populated by refugees of war, is recovering after a great storm when a young man and woman are struck by lightning, causing three priests to divine the coming intrusion of a titanic object from beyond the sky.

Bram Stoker Award Long Fiction

“To Say Nothing of Lost Figurines” © Rafeeat Aliyu: A magician teams up with a disgruntled civil servant to find his missing wand.

“Clanfall: Death of Kings” © Odida Nyabundi: The death of a King sets off a chain of events that ensnare a trickster, an insane killing machine, and a princess, threatening to upend their post-apocalyptic world.

“The Satellite Charmer” © Mame Bougouma Diene: Africa is caught in the tug-of-war between two warring Chinas, and for Ibrahima torn between the lashings of his soul and the pain of the world around him, what will emerge?

Bram Stoker Award Long Fiction

“Thresher of Men” © Michael Boatman: When the Goddess of Vengeance locates the souls of her stolen believers, she comes to a midwestern town with a terrible past, seeking the darkest reparations.

Bram Stoker Award Short Fiction

“Ife-Iyoku, the Tale of Imadeyunuagbon” © Ekpeki Oghenechovwe Donald: In a post-apocalyptic world devastated by nuclear war, survivors gather in Ife-Iyoku, the spiritual capital of ancient Oyo Empire, where they are altered in fantastic ways by its magic and power.

Bram Stoker Award Long Fiction

AURELIA LEO Originals edited by Zelda Knight, written by David F. Shultz, Karl El-Koura, Andrea Kriz, Genevieve Williams, Patricia Moussatche, Alexander Langer, Natalie Dale, R. B. Payne, Phoebe Wagner, Brett Venter, Tais Teng, and Koji A. Dae

February: “The Last Nalpodian” © Karl El-Koura (874)

March: “I Want to Dream of a Brief Future” © Andrea Kriz (3,249)

September: “Swing Low Sweet Moon” © Phoebe Wagner (7,405)

LAST UPDATED: November 2, 2020

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