It’s the sixth annual This Is Horror Awards and this year’s categories reflect our focus on horror fiction and the craft of writing.

Here are the categories:

Novel of the Year
Novella of the Year
Short Story Collection of the Year
Anthology of the Year
Fiction Magazine of the Year
Publisher of the Year
Fiction Podcast of the Year
Nonfiction Podcast of the Year

Now to the rules and how to nominate.

Readers can e-mail in their nominations for each category. Taking into consideration the nominations for each category This Is Horror will then draw up a shortlist.

We invite you to include one sentence as to why the nomination is award-worthy.

The public nominations stage runs from 7 November 2016 through until 30 November 2016.

Rules

To be eligible for an award, where applicable, the creative work must have been released between 2 November 2015 and 7 November 2016. This means that the first release/publication must have occurred within the above time period.
You may only nominate two items per category, if you nominate more than two This Is Horror will only recognise your first two nominations.
You may nominate in as many categories as you like.
Do not send in a nomination for your own work or anything which you are affiliated with (see Note To Publishers below).
All nominations must be emailed to [email protected] with the subject line ‘This Is Horror Award Nominations 2016′.

Public nominations close at 12:01am GMT on 30 November 2016.

Note To Publishers

This year we also invite publishers to send in their own eligible work to This Is Horror for consideration. We will happily accept digital files and links. Please send a maximum of two works per publisher per category.

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