Where and When:
Readercon 31,
August 15, 2021
Eligibility Year:
2020
Novelette
- Winner: The Attic Tragedy, J. Ashley-Smith (Meerkat)
- “Faith”, Ginny Tapley Takemori (Granta 18 Nov 2020)
- “Heritage Hill”, Matthew R. Davis (Outback Horrors Down Under)
- “I Will Find You, Even in the Dark”, Jessica Landry (Dim Shores Present, Vol. 1)
- Many Restless Concerns: The Victims of Countess Bathory Speak in Chorus (A Testimony), Gayle Brandeis (Black Lawrence)
- “Pale Toes”, Marko Mautala, translated by Sanna Terho (The Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories)
- “Señor Ligotti”, Bernardo Esquinca, translated by James D. Jenkins (The Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories)
Short Fiction
- Winner: “Not the Man I Married”, R. A. Busby (Black Petals Aut 2020)
- Graceful Burdens, Roxane Gay (Amazon Original Stories)
- “Holes”, R. A. Busby (Graveyard Smash)
- “Isn't Your Daughter Such a Doll”, Tobi Ogundiran (Shoreline of Infinity #18)
- “The Memory Game”, Franki Haber (The Gravity of the Thing Spr 2020)
- “Room and Board Included, Demonology Extra”, Eden Royce (Eyedolon Jun 2020)
Anthology
- Winner: Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women, Lee Murray & Geneve Flynn, eds. (Omnium Gatherum)
- After Sundown, Mark Morris, ed. (Flame Tree)
- Lullabies for Suffering: Tales of Addiction Horror, Mark Matthews, ed. (Wicked Run)
- Miscreations: Gods, Monstrosities & Other Horrors, Doug Murano & Michael Bailey, eds. (Written Backwards)
- The Night Bazaar Venice: Thirteen Tales of Forbidden Wishes and Dangerous Desires, Lenore Hart, ed. (Northampton House)
- Shadows & Tall Trees, Vol. 8, Michael Kelly, ed. (Undertow)
- Tiny Nightmares, Lincoln Michel & Nadxieli Nieto, eds. (Catapult)