Lee Murray wins two prestigious Bram Stoker Awards®

Greg Chapman cover art for Grotesque: Monster Stories

For immediate release 24 May 2021

In a New Zealand first, Tauranga author, Lee Murray, has won two prestigious Bram Stoker Awards® at an awards event hosted by the Horror Writers Association over the weekend. 

Named for the author of the seminal horror novel Dracula, the international Bram Stoker Awards® are presented annually for superior achievement in dark fiction. 

Murray’s book Grotesque: Monster Stories, which Sublime Horror calls a “compelling collection of diverse, thought-provoking worlds” won the fiction collection category. Murray took her second award of the night for her work on Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women, an anthology of Southeast Asian horror tales co-edited with her Australian colleague, author Geneve Flynn.

Lee Murray at the 2019 Bram Stoker Awards® held at the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel, Grand Rapids, USA. (Photo credit: Ellen Datlow)

“We have so much undiscovered literary talent here,” she says, “and our authors offer a unique perspective.” 

HWA president, John Palisano, said, “This year’s winners reflect a deep range of works from a competitive field.” 

Other category winners include Bird Box author, Josh Malerman, and Stephen Graham Jones, author of Only Good Indians. Previous winners of the Bram Stoker Awards® include Stephen King, J.K. Rowling, George R.R. Martin, Joyce Carol Oates, and Neil Gaiman. 

This year, due to the pandemic, the awards were presented at a virtual literary event which included attendees from seventeen countries.

For full results: https://horror.org/2021/05/2020-bram-stoker-awards-winners/

 

To watch the event stream: https://youtu.be/035TKPBN_LQ (starting at 51:50)

For more information on Black Cranes, see in New Books

 



 
Previous
Previous

New trust hopes to save Margaret Mahy’s home for future generations

Next
Next

Henrietta Finney Waters has been named the winner of the 2021 Charles Brasch Young Writers Essay Competition