2021 Ladies of Horror Fiction Awards

The Ladies of Horror Fiction review site team has announced the winners of the 2021 Ladies of Horror Fiction Awards.

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

LOHF Award for Best Young Adult

  • Bad Witch Burning by Jessica Lewis

LOHF Award for Best Middle Grade

·       The Collectors by Lorien Lawrence

LOHF Award for Best Novella

·       Goddess of Filth by V. Castro

LOHF Award for Best Short Fiction

  • “Sister Glitter Blood” by Gwendoyln Kiste (in Violent Vixens: An Homage to Grindhouse Horror edited by Aric Sundquist) 

LOHF Award for Best Poetry

  • Strange Nests by Jessica McHugh

LOHF Award for Best Collection

[TIE]

  • Never Have I Ever by Isabel Yap
  • Unfortunate Elements of My Anatomy by Hailey Piper

LOHF Award for Best Debut

  • The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris

LOHF Award for Best Novel

  • Cackle by Rachel Harrison

2021 Ladies of Horror Fiction Award Nominees

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

Ladies of Horror Fiction Awards 2020

The Ladies of Horror Fiction review site team has announced the winners of their 2020 Ladies of Horror Fiction Awards.

LOHF Award for Best Collection

  • All That’s Fair, S.H. Cooper

LOHF Award Best Debut

  • The Year of the Witching, Alexis Henderson

LOHF Award for Best Graphic Novel

  • The Low Low Woods, Carmen Maria Machado

LOHF Award for Best Middle Grade

  • Hide and Seeker, Daka Hermon

LOHF Award for Best Novel

  • Tender is the Flesh, Agustina Bazterrica

LOHF Award for Best Novella

  • The Bell Chime, Mona Kabbani

LOHF Award for Best Poetry Collection

  • A Complex Accident of Life, Jessica McHugh

LOHF Award for Best Short Fiction

  • Unkindly Girls, Hailey Piper (Worst Laid Plans)

LOHF Award for Best Young Adult

  • Blood Countess, Lana Popovi?

Ladies of Horror Fiction Awards 2020 Nominees

The Ladies of Horror Fiction review site team has announced the nominees for their 2020 Ladies of Horror Fiction Awards.

LOHF Award Nominees for Best Collection

  • All That’s Fair, S.H. Cooper
  • Bluebeard’s First Wife, Ha Seong-nan
  • Halloween Season, Lucy A. Snyder
  • Lucid Screams, Red Lagoe
  • Sed de Sangre, Violet Castro

LOHF Award Nominees for Best Debut

  • Beneath the Rising, Premee Mohamed
  • Catherine House, Elisabeth Thomas
  • Fairest Flesh, K.P. Kulski
  • Lakewood, Megan Giddings
  • The Return, Rachel Harrison
  • The Year of the Witching, Alexis Henderson

LOHF Award Nominees for Best Graphic Novel

  • Devil Within, Stephanie Phillips
  • Dracula, Motherf**ker, Alex de Campi
  • The Low Low Woods, Carmen Maria Machado
  • Monstress, Vol. 5, Marjorie M. Liu

LOHF Award Nominees for Best Middle Grade

  • Crater Lake, Jennifer Killick
  • Ghost Squad, Claribel A. Ortega
  • The Girl and the Ghost, Hanna Alkaf
  • Hide and Seeker, Daka Hermon
  • The Stitchers, Lorien Lawrence
  • Thirteens, Kate Alice Marshall

LOHF Award Nominees for Best Novel

  • Betty, Tiffany McDaniel
  • The Hollow Places, T. Kingfisher
  • Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia
  • Saltblood, T.C. Parker
  • The Sun Down Motel, Simone St. James
  • Tender is the Flesh, Agustina Bazterrica

LOHF Award Nominees for Best Novella

  • The Bell Chime, Mona Kabbani
  • Beneath A Bethel, April-Jane Rowan
  • Cirque Berserk, Jessica Guess
  • Crossroads, Laurel Hightower
  • The Invention of Ghosts, Gwendolyn Kiste
  • The Worm and His Kings, Hailey Piper

LOHF Award Nominees for Best Poetry Collection

  • Burials, Jessica Drake-Thomas
  • A Collection of Dreamscapes, Christina Sng
  • A Complex Accident of Life, Jessica McHugh
  • Cradleland of Parasites, Sara Tantlinger
  • Into the Forest and All the Way Through, Cynthia Pelayo

LOHF Award Nominees for Best Short Fiction

  • Carreg Samson, Catherine McCarthy (Diabolica Britannica)
  • The Clockmaker, Sonora Taylor (Women of Horror Vol. 2: Graveyard Smash)
  • The Cucuy of Cancun, V. Castro (Worst Laid Plans)
  • The Curse of She, Part 6, Hailey Piper (We Are Wolves)
  • Heart Music, Lee Murray (Grotesque Monster Stories)
  • Holes, R.A. Busby (Graveyard Smash Anthology #2)
  • A Key for Any Lock, S.H. Cooper (We Are Wolves)
  • Unkindly Girls, Hailey Piper (Worst Laid Plans)

LOHF Award Nominees for Best Young Adult

  • Blood Countess, Lana Popovi?
  • Category Five, Ann Dávila Cardinal
  • Deathless Divide, Justina Ireland
  • Harrow Lake, Kat Ellis
  • Horrid, Katrina Leno

2019 Ladies of Horror Fiction Awards

The Ladies of Horror Fiction review site team has announced the selections for their 2019 Ladies of Horror Fiction Awards.

Best Collection

  • Little Paranoias, Sonora Taylor

Best Debut

  • The Luminous Dead, Caitlin Starling

Best Poetry Collection

  • Choking Back the Devil, Donna Lynch

Best Novel

[Tie]

  • Bunny, Mona Awad
  • Without Condition, Sonora Taylor

Best Novella

  • To Be Devoured, Sara Tantlinger

Best Young Adult

  • Wilder Girls, Rory Power