2021 Splatterpunk Awards Winners

Best Novel

• WINNER: The Magpie Coffin, Wile E. Young (Death’s Head)

• Pandemonium, Ryan Harding & Lucas Mangum (Death’s Head)
• Tome, Ross Jeffery (The Writing Collective)
• Dust, Chris Miller (Death’s Head)
• Slaughter Box, Carver Pike (self-published)
• Gone to See the River Man, Kristopher Triana (Cemetery Dance)
• They All Died Screaming, Kristopher Triana (Blood Bound)

Best Novella

• WINNER: True Crime, Samantha Kolesnik (Grindhouse)

• The Slob, Aron Beauregard (self-published)
• Bella’s Boys, Thomas R Clark (Stitched Smile)
• Juniper, Ross Jeffery (The Writing Collective)
• Red Station, Kenzie Jennings (Death’s Head)
• The Night Silver River Run Red, Christine Morgan (Death’s Head)
• How Much 2, Matt Shaw (self-published)

Best Short Story

• WINNER: “My Body”, Wesley Southard (Midnight in the Pentagram)

• “The Incident at Barrow Farm”, M Ennenbach (Cerberus Rising)
• “Full Moon Shindig”, Patrick C. Harrison III (Visceral: Collected Flesh)
• “Phylum”, Tom Over (The Comfort Zone and Other Safe Spaces)
• “Footsteps”, Janine Pipe (Diabolica Britannica)
• “Next in Line”, Susan Snyder (Devour the Earth)
• The God in the Hills, Jon Steffens (Filthy Loot)

Best Collection

• WINNER: The Essential Sick Stuff, Ronald Kelly (Silver Shamrock)

• War of Dictates, John Baltisberger (Death’s Head)
• Cerberus Rising, M Ennenbach, Chris Miller & Patrick C. Harrison III (self-published)
• Rhapsody in Red, Peter Molnar (Stitched Smile)
• Visceral: Collected Flesh, Christine Morgan & Patrick C. Harrison III (Death’s Head)
• The Comfort Zone and Other Safe Spaces, Tom Over (NihilismRevised)
• Blood Relations, Kristopher Triana (Grindhouse)

Best Anthology

• WINNER: Worst Laid Plans, Samantha Kolesnik, ed. (Grindhouse)

• Chew on This!, Robert Essig, ed. (Blood Bound)
• Brewtality, K. Trap Jones, ed. (The Evil Cookie)
• Welcome to the Splatter Club, K. Trap Jones, ed. (Blood Bound)
• Crash Code, Q. Parker, ed. (Blood Bound)
• If I Die Before I Wake Vol. 3: Tales of Deadly Women and Retribution, R.E. Sargent & Steven Pajak, eds. (Sinister Smile)
• Psi-Wars: Classified Cases of Psychic Phenomena, Joshua Viola, ed. (Hex)

J.F. Gonzalez Lifetime Achievement Award

• John Skipp

The awards were presented during the 2021 KillerCon on August 21, 2021, and announced by Brian Keene via Twitter and his website. For more, see the announcement.

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