Bram Stoker Award for Best Poetry Collection

The Bram Stoker Award for Best Poetry Collection is an award presented by the Horror Writers Association (HWA) for "superior achievement" in horror writing for a poetry collection.

Winners and nominees[]

Nominees are listed below the winner(s) for each year.^[1]

2000: A Student of Hell by Tom Piccirilli
- Paratabloids by Michael A. Arnzen
- The Complete Accursed Wives by Bruce Boston
- Burial Plot in Sagittarius by
2001: Consumed, Reduced to Beautiful Grey Ashes by Linda Addison
- White Space by Bruce Boston
- What the Cacodaemon Whispered by
- Taunting the Minotaur by Charlee Jacob
2002: The Gossamer Eye by Mark McLaughlin, Rain Graves, and David Niall Wilson
- Night Smoke by Bruce Boston and Marge Simon
- Guises (Poetry Section "Night Unmasked") by Charlee Jacob
- This Cape Is Red Because I've Been Bleeding by Tom Piccirilli
2003: Pitchblende by Bruce Boston
- Gorelets: Unpleasant Poems by Michael A. Arnzen
- Final Girl by Daphne Gottlieb
- Cardinal Sins by Charlee Jacob
- Professor LaGungo's Exotic Artifacts & Assorted Mystic Collectibles by Mark McLaughlin
- Artist of Antithesis by Marge Simon
2004: The Women at the Funeral by
- The Desert by Charlee Jacob
- Men Are From Hell, Women Are From The Galaxy Of Death by Mark McLaughlin
- Waiting my Turn to go Under the Knife by Tom Piccirilli
2005: Freakcidents by Michael A. Arnzen (tie)
2005: Sineater by Charlee Jacob (tie)
- The Shadow City by Gary William Crawford
- Seasons: A Series of Poems Based on the Life and Death of Edgar Allan Poe by Daniel Shields
2006: Shades Fantastic by Bruce Boston
- Valentine: Short Love Poems by
- The Troublesome Amputee by
- Songs of a Sorceress by
2007: (tie)
- Being Full of Light, Insubstantial by Linda Addison
- VECTORS: A Week in the Death of a Planet by Charlee Jacob & Marge Simon
  - Heresy by Charlee Jacob
  - PHANTASMAPEDIA by Mark McLaughlin
  - Ossuary by
2008: The Nightmare Collection by Bruce Boston
- The Phantom World by Gary William Crawford
- Virgin of the Apocalypse by
- Attack of the Two-Headed Poetry Monster by Mark McLaughlin & Michael McCarty
2009: Chimeric Machines by Lucy A. Snyder
- Barfodder by Rain Graves
- Double Visions by Bruce Boston
- North Left of Earth by Bruce Boston
2010: Dark Matters by Bruce Boston
- Wild Hunt of the Stars by Ann K. Schwader
- Diary of a Gentleman Diabolist by Robin Spriggs
- Vicious Romance by
2011: by Linda Addison
- At Louche Ends: Poetry for the Decadent, the Damned & the Absinthe-Minded by Maria Alexander
- Surrealities by Bruce Boston
- Shroud of Night by
- The Mad Hattery by Marge Simon
- Unearthly Delights by Marge Simon
2012: by Marge Simon
- Dark Duet by Linda Addison and
- Notes from the Shadow City by Bruce Boston and Gary William Crawford
- A Verse to Horrors by Michael Collings
- Lovers & Killers by Mary A. Turzillo
2013:^[2] Four Elements by Marge Simon, Rain Graves, Charlee Jacob, and Linda Addison
- Dark Roads: Selected Long Poems 1971-2012 by Bruce Boston
- The Sex Lives of Monsters by
- Dangerous Dreams by Marge Simon and
- Hysteria: A Collection of Madness by Stephanie M. Wytovich
2014:^[3] Forgiving Judas by Tom Piccirilli
- Fearworms: Selected Poems by Robert Payne Cabeen
- Venus Intervention by Corrinne De Winter & Alessandro Manzetti
- Sweet Poison by Marge Simon & Mary Turzillo
- Mourning Jewelry by Stephanie Wytovich
2017: A Collection of Nightmares by
- Visions of the Mutant Rain Forest by Robert Frazier and Bruce Boston
- No Mercy by Alessandro Manzetti
- Satan's Sweethearts by Marge Simon and Mary Turzillo
- Sheet Music to My Acoustic Nightmare by Stephanie M. Wytovich
2018: The Devil's Dreamland by Sara Tantlinger
- Artifacts by Bruce Boston
- Bleeding Saffron by David E. Cowen
- Witches by Donna Lynch
- War by Marge Simon and Alessandro Manzetti
2019: The Place of Broken Things by Alessandro Manzetti and Linda D. Addison
- Mary Shelley Makes a Monster by Octavia Cade
- Choking Back the Devil by Donna Lynch
- Dragonfly and Other Songs of Mourning by Michelle Scalise
- The Demeter Diaries by Bryan D. Dietrich and Marge Simon
- The Apocalyptic Mannequin by Stephanie M. Wytovich

References[]

^ "Horror Writers Association - Past Bram Stoker Award Nominees & Winners". Archived from the original on 2014-10-09.
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-05-30. Retrieved 2014-05-02.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ "2014 Bram Stoker Award Winners". Locus Online. Locus Magazine. 10 May 2015. Retrieved 16 July 2017.

External links[]

[1] "Horror Writers Association - Past Bram Stoker Award Nominees & Winners". Archived from the original on 2014-10-09.

[2] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-05-30. Retrieved 2014-05-02.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[3] "2014 Bram Stoker Award Winners". Locus Online. Locus Magazine. 10 May 2015. Retrieved 16 July 2017.

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v t HWA- Bram Stoker Award
Current categories	Novel (1987–) First Novel (1987–) Young Adult Novel (2011–) Graphic Novel (2011–) Long Fiction (1998–) Short Fiction (1998–) Fiction Collection (1998–) Screenplay (1998–2004, 2011–) Anthology (1998–) Non-Fiction (1987–) Poetry Collection (2000–) Lifetime Achievement (1987–)
Discontinued categories	Novelette (1987–1997) Short Story (1987–1997) Collection (1987–1997) Other Media (1993, 1998–2000) Illustrated Narrative (1998–2004) Work for Young Readers (1998–2004) Alternative Forms (2001–2004)