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Shards and the Stokers

I was remiss in mentioning this earlier, but I was stoked (pun intended) to have my debut collection Shards make it onto the preliminary ballot for the Bram Stoker Awards. For the uninitiated, the Stokers are the world’s top honour for horror fiction and they are presented each year by the international Horror Writers Association.

Although I must stress that this is not a nomination, it does mean that Shards has already been whittled down to a pretty awesome top 10. It’s an honour to make it this far, and I can only hope enough HWA members read and enjoy Shards enough to vote it onto the final ballot.

Shards is an outside chance at best, but as preliminary voting has now commenced, if any HWA active members are interested in downloading a free PDF of the collection, just drop me an email (shane@jiraiya.com.au) and I’ll send a copy pronto.

Aussies in the Stokers

As an HWA (USA) member, I’m aware that Aussies are doing pretty well in the early stages of this year’s Bram Stoker Awards (in my opinion, the world’s foremost horror award). It’s a complicated process, with three rounds (1. Recommendations from HWA members, 2. Voting on a preliminary longlist, and 3. Voting on the shortlisted finalists – the nominees).
Several Aussies, myself included, have had work ‘recommended’ by HWA members, and a couple of these could be on track to make the preliminary longlist – still far from being a Stoker finalist, but an achievement that eludes most Aussie horror authors nonetheless, primarily because US HWA members aren’t very aware of what happens Down Under and therefore do not recommend Aussie works.
To help raise Australian horror’s profile, AHWA’s Sinister Reads, the blog that promotes AHWA members’ work, has been running a series of posts on the authors and their works that have received one or more Stoker recommendations (and for posterity, a work needs to be in the top 10 for its category and have at least 5 recommendations to make the preliminary longlist stage).
Sinister Reads makes for fascinating reading. The posts so far are:
If you’re an HWA member reading this, I’d encourage you to check out these fine Aussie works for Stoker consideration. Drop me an email if you need contact info!
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Shane Jiraiya CummingsShane Jiraiya Cummings is one of Australia's leading dark fantasy & horror authors. He is the author of Shards and Phoenix and the Darkness of Wolves and the editor of acclaimed publications such as HorrorScope, Black Box, and Black: Australian Dark Culture Magazine.

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