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Edition 11 (2017)

NovelNovellaNoveletteShort StorySingle-Author CollectionEdited AnthologyBoard of Directors Award

Winners

7 people
Michael Kelly Winner

An anthology of short horror fiction by a range of writers. It spans classical gothic moods to contemporary psychological dread, showing how many forms fear can take.

Fear speaks in many voices, not just one.

306 pages
horrordark fantasyshort fictiongothicpsychological suspense

A novel in which a family’s ordinary life begins to unravel after a small incident, turning bodily change and unstable memory into psychological horror. Its quiet style draws terror out of everyday cracks.

The smallest tear in everyday life becomes a doorway to terror.

208 pages
psychological horrorfamilytraumaembodimentisolation
Chavisa Woods Winner

A short story that uses the image of the road home to trace family rupture and estrangement. Movement and shifting memory turn it into a meditation on where the self belongs.

The road home becomes a way of measuring distance from family and self.

familyreturnidentityestrangementLGBTQ+

An experimental novella about the loss at the center of mother-daughter relations and the fractures of a community. Fragmented viewpoints and uncertain narration probe the boundary between loss and renewal.

Fragmented narration slowly brings the shape of loss into view.

169 pages
mother-daughter relationlosscommunityexperimentalpsychological

A psychological horror novel built from unsettling dialogue and fragmentary recollection. Concerns about a child’s health, environmental danger, and parent-child anxiety gradually come into focus, leaving a strong aftershock.

Fragmented conversation alone is enough to keep the tension climbing.

192 pages
psychological horrorparent-child relationenvironmental crisismemoryabsurdity
Kurt Fawver Winner

A short horror story in which an orange ball slips into a town and lets unease spread through the gaps in ordinary life.

An eerie short story in which a single impossible object unsettles an entire town.

horrorsuburban uneasecosmic dread

A short story collection that moves through desire, violence, and horror, finding moments where intimacy and dread sit side by side.

A sharp and unsettling collection in which the body becomes a stage for fear and desire.

248 pages
queer desirebody horrorintimacytrauma