2023 Wonderland Awards Finalists

BizarroCon has announced the finalists for the 2024 Wonderland Book Awards for Excellence in Bizarro Fiction.

Best Novel

  • The Last Night to Kill Nazis, David Agranoff (CLASH)
  • Elogona, Samantha Kolesnik (WeirdPunk )
  • Glass Children, Carlton Mellick III (Eraserhead)
  • Edenville, Sam Rebelein (William Morrow)
  • Soft Targets, Carson Winter (Tenebrous)

Best Collection

  • All I Want is to Take Shrooms and Listen to the Color of Nazi Screams, John Baltisberger (Planet Bizarro Press)
  • An Altar of Stories to Liminal Saints, Rios de La Luz (Broken River)
  • Bizarro Classicks, Emma Alice Johnson (Freak Tension)
  • What Remains When the Stars Burn Out, P.L. McMillan (Salt Heart)
  • Gush, Gina Ranalli (Madness Heart)

They also gave honorable mentions “to the titles that came close to placing on the final ballot.”

  • Cthulhu Fishing off the Iraq Nebula, Chris Meekings (Planet Bizarro)
  • The Overlooked, Simon Ore Molina (Eraserhead)
  • Posthaste Manor, Jolie Toomajan & Carson Winter (Tenebrous)
  • The Hum of the World, Grant Wamack (Nictitating)

The awards are presented annually at BizarroCon for superior achievement in bizarro fiction writing. The 2024 awards, for books published in 2023, will be presented November 9, 2024 at BizarroCon 2024.


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