Bram Stoker Award for Best Short Non-Fiction

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.

## Honorees

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Bram Stoker Award for Best Short Non-Fiction winners and finalists  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

## References

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1. ^ a b c d e "The 2019 Bram Stoker Award® Winners". The Bram Stoker Awards. Archived from the original on 2022-05-28. Retrieved 2023-02-28.
2. ^ a b c d e "Winners - Bram Stoker Awards®". Horror Writers Association. 2020-04-19. Archived from the original on 2022-06-25. Retrieved 2023-03-01.
3. ^ "2019 Stoker Awards Winners". Locus Online. 2020-04-20. Archived from the original on 2020-04-24. Retrieved 2023-03-01.
4. ^ a b c d "2019 Stoker Awards Final Ballot". Locus Online. 2020-02-20. Archived from the original on 2022-12-01. Retrieved 2023-03-01.
5. ^ a b c d e "The Bram Stoker Awards 2020". The Bram Stoker Awards. Archived from the original on 2022-05-28. Retrieved 2023-03-01.
6. ^ 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.
7. ^ 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.
8. ^ "2020 Stoker Awards Winners". Locus Online. 2021-05-24. Archived from the original on 2022-08-11. Retrieved 2023-03-01.
9. ^ a b c d 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.
10. ^ a b c d "2020 Stoker Awards Final Ballot". Locus Online. 2021-02-22. Archived from the original on 2022-10-08. Retrieved 2023-03-01.
11. ^ a b c d e "The 2021 Bram Stoker Awards® Winners". The Bram Stoker Awards. Archived from the original on 2022-08-13. Retrieved 2023-03-01.
12. ^ a b c d e 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.
13. ^ 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.
14. ^ "2021 Stoker Awards Winners". Locus Online. 2022-05-15. Archived from the original on 2022-07-04. Retrieved 2023-03-01.
15. ^ a b c d 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.
16. ^ a b c d "2021 Stoker Awards Final Ballot". Locus Online. 2022-02-25. Archived from the original on 2022-12-08. Retrieved 2023-03-01.
17. ^ a b c "The 2022 Bram Stoker Awards® Final Ballot". The Bram Stoker Awards. Archived from the original on 2023-02-28. Retrieved 2023-03-01.
18. ^ a b c "2022 Stoker Awards Final Ballot". Locus Online. 2023-02-24. Archived from the original on 2023-02-25. Retrieved 2023-03-01.
19. ^ a b "The 2023 Bram Stoker Awards® Winners". Retrieved July 8, 2025.
20. ^ a b "2024 Stoker Awards Winners". Retrieved July 9, 2025.

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