2020 Imadjinn Awards Finalists

Best Science Fiction Novel

• Harvest Day, R. Kyle Hannah (Jumpmaster)
• Things They Buried, Amanda K. King & Michael R. Swanson (Ismae)

Best Fantasy Novel

• Things They Buried, Amanda K. King & Michael R. Swanson (Ismae)
• The Amulet of Elements, Rose Marie Machario (Seventh Star)
• To Kill a Fae, Jamie A. Waters (self-published)

Best Horror Novel

• Squirrel Apocalypse, Josef Matulich (Hydra)
• The Immortal Force, Stephen Paul Sayers (Hydra)
• The Crymost, Dean H. Wild (Blood Bound)

Best Urban Fantasy Novel

• A Drop of Magic, L.R. Braden (Bell Bridge)
• Wolf Dreams, Aimee Easterling (self-published)
• Love, Lies, and Hocus Pocus Betrayal, Lydia Sherrer (Chenoweth)
• Tattered Men, Michael Williams (Seventh Star)

Best Steampunk Novel

• Black Recluse, Anna Bowman (Rivet Wing)

Best Paranormal Romance

• The Guardian, Amy Leigh McCorkle (Healing Hands)

Best Young Adult Novel

• The Evil Within, Karen Kasey (self-published)
• Persnickety Jones and the Pirates of Undertoe, Robert Ottoman (Wicked Clever)

Best Anthology

• Tales of the Lost, Volume 1: We All Lose Something!, Eugene Johnson, ed. (Things in the Well)
• Mayhem In Memphis, Carolyn McSparren, ed. (Dingbat)
• Dark Tides, John J. Questore & Eugene Johnson, eds. (Gestalt)

Best Short Story Collection

• Terror in Time, Melodie Romeo (Past and Prologue)

Best Short Story

• Water of Life, Kathy L. Brown (Otter Springs)
• “Woman off the Grid”, Sandy Lender (TulipTree Review Spring ’19)
• Kill Me When You Can, William Allen Webb (Last Brigade)

Best Audiobook Narration

• Cinema of Shadows, Michael West, narrated by Nila Hagood (Seventh Star)
• Spook House, Michael West, narrated by Nila Hagood (Seventh Star)