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] |