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Recommend a Work for the Bram Stoker Awards® 2025

ONLY HWA MEMBERS MAY RECOMMEND WORKS FOR CONSIDERATION. 
 
If you're not a member of the Horror Writers Association, then please do not submit a recommendation. We'll have to disqualify it.
 
Use this form to make recommendations for the Bram Stoker Awards®. If this is your first recommendation, you may find it helpful to read the Bram Stoker Award informational page before you begin. If you are unsure of the answers to any of the questions below, please let us know by using the "Notes" field. Please provide as much information as you can.
 
!! Remember, you MUST BE an HWA member to make a recommendation.
 
!! Written work created with generative AI is not eligible in any category. (Read HWA AI Policy)
 
!! Remember, you can't recommend your own work, work you edited, illustrated, or any work in which you have a financial interest. You may submit those works to the appropriate jury. Authors whose work appears in an anthology or magazine may recommend other works in that anthology or magazine, subject to the limitations listed on the Award Etiquette page.
 
Here is a brief guide to the category definitions:
 
  • NOVEL (at least 40,000 words in length)
     
  • FIRST NOVEL (at least 40,000 words, written by an author who has never before published any novel)
     
  • YOUNG ADULT NOVEL (intended for the age group 14-21, at least 40,000 words in length)
     
  • MIDDLE-GRADE NOVEL (intended for the age group 8-13, at least 25,000 words in length)
     
  • GRAPHIC NOVEL (print or electronic at least 48 pages in length)
     
  • LONG FICTION (7,500 to 39,999 words in length)
     
  • SHORT FICTION (no more than 7,499 words in length)
     
  • SCREENPLAY (feature-length screenplays, episodic teleplays, and direct-to-DVD feature first screened or released during the pertinent year)
     
  • ANTHOLOGY (> 60,000 words, 60% or more original material)
     
  • FICTION COLLECTION (at least 40,000 words total)
     
  • NON-FICTION (at least 30,000 words total, must be in prose form)
     
  • SHORT NON-FICTION (no more than 29,999 words in length)
     
  • POETRY (collection and long form) (complex rules, see the Award Rules)
Recommend a title:

IMPORTANT: When making a recommendation, please do NOT use all caps for the title or anything else. Every time you do it has to be re-entered, which is extremely time consuming. Thank you.

Your first name:

Your last name:
Your email address:
Title of the work you're recommending (DO NOT USE ALL CAPS!):

Contributors
Please list major contributors to the work (artists, editors, authors, etc.) - For anthologies, list only the editor(s), not the authors.

Venue (name of the magazine, e-zine, or other, where the work first appeared, if appropriate):
Publisher (does not apply to screenplays):
Month of publication:
Award Category:

Notes:
Describe any uncertainties you have about the information you've submitted.

By submitting this recommendation, you certify that the author did not ask you to make the recommendation, that you will not share your recommendation with others, and that you are not recommending a Work in exchange for a recommendation of your own Work. Any breach of these rules can result in disqualification of the Recommended Work from Awards consideration.
 
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