The Bram Stoker Awards
Quintessential Horror
The Horror Writer’s Association presents the Bram Stoker Awards for Superior Achievement annually. The awards are named in honor of Bram Stoker, author of the seminal horror work, Dracula.
The PEN/Bellwether Awards
For Socially Engaged Fiction
The PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction is a career-founding prize, which promotes fiction that addresses issues of social justice and the impact of culture and politics on human relationships. Established by novelist Barbara Kingsolver in 2000, it is awarded biennially to the author of an unpublished novel manuscript of high literary caliber that exemplifies the prize’s founding principles.
