World Horror Grandmaster Brian Keene and Wrath James White are starting the Splatterpunk Awards to honor superior achievement in the sub-genres of Splatterpunk/Extreme Horror fiction. The award will be given in the following categories:
- BEST NOVEL (for works of more than 50,000 words)
- BEST NOVELLA (for works from 15,000 to 50,000 words)
- BEST SHORT STORY (for works from 500 to 14,000 words)
- BEST COLLECTION (for single-author works over 50,000 words)
- BEST ANTHOLOGY (for multiple-author collections over 50,000 words)
In addition, there will be an annual Lifetime Achievement Award (the J. F. Gonzalez Award), honoring an individual’s contributions to these sub-genres.
The first set of awards will be presented at KillerCon 2018 and members of the convention can recommend works for the awards. Recommendations will be taken from August 1 until January 31, 2018. Details on how to recommend works will be posted at the Killercon website in the coming weeks.
This will be a juried award. The three works that have the most reader recommendations in each category will proceed to the ballot. The 2018 Splatterpunk Awards jury will have the ability to add two additional works, that may have been overlooked by the general public, to each category. When this process is completed, the official nominees will be announced publicly. The jury will then vote on the winner in each category.
The inaugural jurors are David J. Schow, Gerard Houarner, Monica J. O’Rourke, Mike Lombardo, and Tod Clark.
The Founders of the Splatterpunk Awards, Wrath James White and Brian Keene, will select the J. F. Gonzalez Lifetime Achievement Award winner.
Keene spoke about the new award in a recent edition of his podcast.
[Thanks to Dann for the story.]
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Yay!
And thanks again Mike for being so gracious with my submissions.
VBR,
Dann
A minor note, Mike—the awards site styles the name as “SplatterPunk” rather than with a lowercase “p.”
It really remains to be seen. I noticed the discrepancy when I wrote my post. Award founder Brian Keene’s press release headline says “Splatter Punk,” the convention website headline says “SplatterPunk,” and Keene, in the body of the press release text writes it as “Splatterpunk” seven times. That’s why I went with Splatterpunk. Time will tell which of these becomes the official style.