2021 Splatterpunk Award Update

1. Like many industries, production on our statues for the 2020 awards was delayed by Covid. We are happy to report that we have found a new company to caste them, and will ship the statues out as soon as they are completed.

2. Time is running out to nominate works for the 2021 Splatterpunk Awards, which honor superior achievement in the sub-genres of Splatterpunk and Extreme Horror fiction published in 2020.

The categories are:

BEST NOVEL (for works of more than 50,000 words)
BEST NOVELLA (for works from 15,000 to 50,000 words)
BEST SHORT STORY (for works from 500 to 14,000 words)
BEST COLLECTION (for single-author works over 50,000 words)
BEST ANTHOLOGY (for multiple-author collections over 50,000 words)

To cast your recommendation, email it to SPLATTERPUNKAWARDS@GMAIL.COM. Please include the category, title of work, and the author or editor of the work.

Please Note: THE WORK MUST HAVE BEEN PUBLISHED IN 2020 TO BE ELIGIBLE. Reprints and works published in other years will be disqualified unless a case can be made that they were significantly revised. Works by award founders Brian Keene and Wrath James White are also ineligible.

The deadline for recommendations is midnight (Eastern Standard Time) February 14, 2021.

After all recommendations are tallied, a final ballot will be announced, along with this year’s judges.

The awards will be presented during a ceremony at the 2021 Killercon Convention, taking place in Austin, Texas.

In addition to the Splatterpunk Awards, author John Skipp will receive this year’s J.F. Gonzalez Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to the field, following previous honorees David J. Schow, David G. Barnett, and Edward Lee.