The Ladies of Horror Fiction review site team has announced the nominees for their 2021 Ladies of Horror Fiction Awards.

There is a writeup about the nominees in every category at the link.

LOHF Award Nominees for Best Young Adult

• The Dead and the Dark, Courtney Gould
• White Smoke, Tiffany D Jackson
• Bad Witch Burning, Jessica Lewis
• Our Last Echoes, Kate Alice Marshall
• Girl in the Walls, Katy Michelle Quinn

LOHF Award Nominees for Best Middle Grade

• The Dollhouse, Charis Cotter
• The Collectors, Lorien Lawrence
• Ghost Girl, Ally Malinenko
• Cece Rios and the Desert of Souls, Kaela Rivera
• Root Magic, Eden Royce

LOHF Award Nominees for Best Novella

• Goddess of Filth, V. Castro
• Transmuted, Eve Harms
• & This Is How to Stay Alive, Shingai Njeri Kagunda
• Waif, Samantha Kolesnik
• Salvation Spring, T.C. Parker

LOHF Award Nominees for Best Short Fiction

• “Sister Glitter Blood,” Gwendoyln Kiste (Violent Vixens: An Homage to Grindhouse Horror)
• “A Cold Grip,” Christi Nogle (Boneyard Soup)
• “The Sharps,” Sonora Taylor (Someone to Share My Nightmares: Stories)
• “Eating Bitterness,” Hannah Yang (The Dark Issue 74)
• “Syringe,” Isabel Yap (Never Have I Ever)
• “First Harvest,” April Yates (Blood & Bone: An Anthology of Body Horror by Women and Non-Binary Writers)

LOHF Award Nominees for Best Poetry

• Strange Nests, Jessica McHugh
• Tortured Willows: Bent. Bowed. Unbroken., Angela Yuriko Smith, Lee Murray, Christina Sng, & Geneve Flynn
• Exposed Nerves, Lucy A. Snyder
• The Smallest of Bones, Holly Walrath
• Monstrum Poetica, Jezzy Wolfe

LOHF Award Nominees for Best Collection

• The Dangers of Smoking in Bed: Stories, Mariana Enríquez, Megan McDowell (Translator)
• Sometimes We’re Cruel, and Other Stories, J.A.W. McCarthy
• Unfortunate Elements of My Anatomy, Hailey Piper
• The Ghost Sequences, A.C. Wise
• SEEDS, Tabatha Wood
• Never Have I Ever, Isabel Yap

LOHF Award Nominees for Best Debut

• The Other Black Girl, Zakiya Dalila Harris
• When the Reckoning Comes, LaTanya McQueen
• Queen of Teeth, Hailey Piper
• The Forest, Lisa Quigley
• Tidepool, Nicole Willson

LOHF Award Nominees for Best Novel

• The Queen of the Cicadas, V. Castro
• Cackle, Rachel Harrison
• Good Neighbors, Sarah Langan
• The Burning Girls, C.J. Tudor
• The Last House on Needless Street, Catriona Ward