Tenebrous Press will release Brave New Weird: The Best New Weird Horror of 2022, on February 6, 2023.
Without further ado, we hereby announce the first annual Brave New Weird Award shortlist!
Authors, please note!
Being on this list entitles you to say you are “a BNW-nominated author” or “the author of BNW-nominated (STORY TITLE)” or “an award-nominated author”.
Being on this list DOES NOT entitle you to say you or your story have won the BNW award, which will be the next phase of selection.
Only the winning stories will be reprinted in the Brave New Weird anthology. The nominated stories that don’t win, along with their authors and venues, will still be honorably mentioned in the book. We don’t need any rights in order to mention stories, so we will only be reaching out to confirm reprint rights availability to our potential winners.
How we determined this list:
We define New Weird Horror as a Horror subgenre focused on progress, creatively capturing themes and questions that bleed into fiction straight from the modern reader's life and future. It acts as a challenge to break new ground in terms of form and content and to engage with the unknown. Beyond that, New Weird Horror will be defined by the winning pieces themselves.
List is as follows: AUTHOR - ORIGINAL PUBLICATION - STORY TITLE
A. P. Howell - Dread Space - Used Armor Smell
Alex Kingsley - Radon Journal - This Is Not A Place of Honor
Bitter Karella - Seize the Press magazine - Low Tide Jenny
Brian Evenson and Chris Kelso - 3-Lobed Burning Eye - Jenny Longlegs
Briar Ripley Page - The Book Of Queer Saints - Therianthrope
Cadwell Turnbull - Many Worlds- Notes on the Forum of the Simulacra
Caitlin Marceau - Phantasmagoria Magazine Issue 20 - Tabula Rasa
Carson Winter - Apex Magazine -In Haskins
Charlotte Ariel Finn - Radon Journal - User Warning
Christi Nogle - Vastarien - She Ain't Stoppin'
Colleen Anderson - Radon Journal #2 - Machine (r)Evolution
Emily Rigole - Pseudopod - The Bear Across the Way
Ephiny Gale - The Dread Machine - Rewind
Erin Brown - FIYAH Magazine #22 - A Brief and Hideous Scrawl
Eugenia Triantafyllou - khōréō - Tomatoes
H.V. Patterson - Monstroddities anthology from Sliced up Press - Mother; Microbes
Hailey Piper - Cosmic Horror Monthly - Parasites of Silver and Gold
Isha Karki - khōréō - Skin
J. C. Changmore - khōréō - The Scumbling
J.A.W. McCarthy - Shredded: A Sports & Fitness Body Horror Anthology - Our Perpetual Intention
James Bennett - The Dark magazine - Ídolo
Jennifer Jeanne McArdle - Bear Creek Gazette Issue 10 - The Mules
Jennifer Lee Rossman - The Arcanist - Darken The Corners Of My Mind
Joe Koch - Convulsive - Blood Calumny
Jolie Toomajan - Death in the Mouth - Water Goes, Sand Remains
jonah wu - Los Suelos Anthology - There Is No Easy Way Towards Earth
Karlo Yeager Rodriguez - Pseudopod - Got Your Nose
Kirstyn McDermott - Weird Horror 5 - Lemmings
K.W. Colyard - Seize The Press Magazine - Those Who Forget and Those Who Perish
K. J. Shepherd - 206 Word Stories by Bag of Bones Press - The Horror of Oz
L. Marie Wood - Something Scary Podcast - Hypnopompia
LC von Hessen - Vastarien Volume 4, Issue 2 - The Accursed Manor of the Mirrorlands
Luciano Marano - Nightscript: Volume 8 - The Mythologization of Tymber Prescott in Five Selected Photos
M. A. Blanchard - PseudoPod - The Bleak Communion of Abandoned Things
M. E. Bronstein - khōréō magazine - Banhus
M. Shaw - Apex Magazine - The Cure for Loneliness
Mae Murray - Shortwave Publishing - The Imperfection
Maggie Nerz Iribarne - Halloween Frights and 100 Word Fiction - The Neighborhood Picnic
Maura Yzmore - Wyldblood Press: Wyld Flash - Barry
Michael Bettendorf - Ghost Orchid Press - Hummingbird Whispers
Morgan Melhuish - Annus Horribilis - Bag of Bones Press Ignition
Nikki R. Leigh - The Book of Queer Saints - Stage Five Clinger
Perry Ruhland - Baffling - Brighter Than Stars
Riley Tao - Seize The Press Magazine - What It's Like
RJ Joseph - Dark Dispatch, Winter 2022 - Suffer the Little Children
Sam Richard - Grief Rituals - Strømtatt
Samir Sirk Morató - The Dark Sire Literary Journal - Stand Not At Your Grave
Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin - Tales to Terrify podcast - Murmuration
Sergey Gerasimov - Apex Magazine - The Day When the Last War Is Over
Sloane Leong - Death in the Mouth: Original Horror from People of Color - Paradise
Sofia Ajram - Lost Contact - The Arborglyph
Sonia Sulaiman - Seize The Press Magazine - What the Ghouleh Said on Thursday of the Dead
Sonora Taylor - Chromophobia: A Strangehouse Anthology of Women in Horror - Eat Your Colors
Stésh - Wrongdoing Magazine - Eater
Tania Chen - Baffling Magazine - En el Patio de la Casa del Callejón
Tehnuka - Hennepin Review - I Welcome the Ant Colonies in Our House
Teika Marija Smits - ParSec - Umbilical
Warren Benedetto - The Dread Machine - Blame
Wendy N. Wagner - Vastarien - Halogen Sky
Zoe Kaplan - Horror Library Volume 7 - The Test
The final Table of Contents for Brave New Weird will be released December 1, 2022.
Edited by Alex Woodroe, Brave New Weird is out February 6, 2023.
