Awards and Nominations

Best Semiprozine Nominee — Apex Magazine edited by Catherynne M. Valente, Lynne M. Thomas, and Jason Sizemore

Short Fiction Nominee — “Ghosts of New York” by Jennifer Pelland (Dark Faith)
Short Fiction Nominee — “The Green Book” by Amal El-Mohtar (Apex Magazine, issue 18)
Short Fiction Nominee — “I Remember the Future” by Michael A. Burstein (I Remember the Future)

Short Fiction Nominee — “Lollo” by Martin Livings (Close Encounters of the Urban Kind)
Short Fiction Winner — “Clockwork, Patchwork and Ravens” by Peter M. Ball (The Book of Apex: Volume 1 of Apex Magazine)
Short Fiction Nominee–”To Dream of Stars: An Astronomer’s Lament” by Peter M. Ball (The Book of Apex: Volume 2 of Apex Magazine)

Superior Achievement in Nonfiction Nominee — Starve Better by Nick Mamatas
Superior Achievement in Nonfiction Winner — To Each Their Darknes by Gary A. Braunbeck
Superior Achievement in an Anthology Nominee — Dark Faith edited by Maurice Broaddus and Jerry Gordon
Superior Achievement in a Collection Winner — Taste of Tenderloin by Gene O’Neill
Superior Achievement in a Collection Nominee — Mama’s Boy and Other Dark Tales by Fran Friel
Superior Achievement in an Anthology Nominee — Aegri Somnia edited by Jason Sizemore and Gill Ainsworth

Black Quill Award

Award Finalist — “The Day of Flaming Motorcycles” by Catherynne M. Valente (Dark Faith)
Award Finalist — “Queen of Stars” by Bryn Sparks (Apex Science Fiction and Horror Digest)

Award Finalist — “Trees of Bone” by Daliso Chaponda (Apex Science Fiction and Horror Digest)

3rd Place Short Form Poem — “Dogstar Men” by C.S.E. Cooney (Apex Magazine)
Nominee Long Form Poem — “Anything So Utterly Destroyed” by Elizabeth McClellan (Apex Magazine)
Nominee — “The Witch’s Heart” by Nicole Korhner-Stace (Apex Magazine)
Nominee Short Form Poem — “Lion Heart” by Tim Pratt (Apex Magazine)
Nominee Long Form Poem — “The King of Cats, the Queen of Wolves” by Mike Allen, Sonya Taaffe, and Nicole Kornher-Stace (Apex Magazine)
Nominee — “Down Cycles” by Elizabeth McClellan (Apex Magazine)
Nominee Long Form Poem — “The Walking Man Goes Looking for the Sons of John: Six Cantos” by Elizabeth McClellan (Apex Magazine)