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 The UK SF Book News Network » Print » World Horror Con 2007 to host Bram Stoker Awards
The [1] Horror Writers Association (HWA) is pleased to announce that the 20th Annual Presentation of the [2] Bram Stoker Awards for excellence in horror and fantasy fiction will be presented in conjunction with the [3] World Horror Convention 2007 in Toronto, Canada.
Most recent Lifeteime Achievement Award winner [6] Peter Straub attended the 2006 Awards presentation in New York City, and is set to be one of the many horror celebrities also attending the 2007 event.
The Bram Stoker Awards presentation is expected to be one of the highlights of the convention, and will include past Stoker Award winners as award presenters.
www.uksfbooknews.net /2006/10/12/world-horror-con-2007-to-host-bram-stoker-awards/print   (328 words)

  
 Frank Belknap Long - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Though his writing career spanned seven decades, he is best known for his horror and science fiction short stories, including early contributions to the Cthulhu Mythos.
During his life, Long received the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement (at the 1978 World Fantasy Convention), the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement (in 1987, from the Horror Writers of America), and the First Fandom Hall of Fame Award (1977).
Frank Belknap Long was born in New York City in 1903, and grew up in the Harlem area of Manhattan.
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 Awards
In 1995 Ray Bradbury was awarded the Citizen of the Year Award from the city of Los Angeles.
Ray Bradbury was awarded the "Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement."
The O'Henry Memorial Award was founded by the Society of Arts and Sciences in 1919 to honor the best short stories by American authors published in magazines each year.
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 Horror Writers Association - Lifetime Achievement Awards
While this award is often presented to a writer, it may also be given for influential accomplishments in other creative fields.
To be eligible for this award, a candidate must either be at least sixty years of age by May 1 of the year of the award's presentation, or must have first produced professional work in the field of Horror at least thirty-five years prior to May 1 of the year of the award's presentation.
Instead, at the beginning of each year, HWA's President appoints a Lifetime Achievement Awards Committee consisting of five Active HWA members from diverse geographical areas, and whose writing represents the varied types of dark fantasy/ horror/ and occult fiction.
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 Bram Stoker Awards   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The Stoker Awards were instituted immediately after the organization's incorporation in 1987.
To ameliorate the competitive nature of awards, the Stokers are given "for superior achievement," not for "best of the year," and the rules are deliberately designed to make ties fairly probable.
The winners are announced and the awards presented at a gala banquet held in conjunction with HWA's annual conference, usually in June.
www.plymouth.lib.in.us /bram_stoker_awards.htm   (257 words)

  
 Bram Stoker Award - Iridis Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The Bram Stoker Award is a recognition presented by the Horror Writer's Association (HWA) for "superior achievement" in horror writing.
The awards have been presented annually since 1987, and the winners are selected by ballot of the members of the HWA.
The HWA therefore went to lengths to avoid mean-spirited competition: They agreed to specically seek out new and neglected writers and works, and officially issue awards not based on "best of the year" criteria, but "for superior achievement", which allows for frequent ties.
www.iridis.com /Bram_Stoker_Award   (116 words)

  
 · Darkness > Anne Rice To Get Lifetime Achievement Award
Each year, the Horror Writers Association presents the Bram Stoker Awards, named in honor of the author of the seminal horror novel Dracula, for superior achievement in the horror genre.
The Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement is the most prestigious of these awards, given in acknowledgment of superior achievement not just in a single work but in an entire career.
His prodigious contributions to literature and entertainment have won him many accolades, including the Milford Award for lifetime achievement in science fiction editing in 1989, and the Ellery Queen Award for lifetime achievement in mystery editing in 1995.
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 Bram Stoker   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
You may also visit the Bram Stoker Awards website that has information about the awards and lists of past award winners.
Stoker Awards are presented during the year following the publication of the eligible works.
Listed below are lifetime achievement award winning authors, followed by the horror titles and book numbers available through the Utah State Library for the Blind and Disabled.
blindlibrary.utah.gov /good_reads/award_winners/bramstoker   (301 words)

  
 Paingod and other Delusions
In a career spanning more than 50 years, he has won more awards for the 74 books he has written or edited, the more than 1700 stories, essays, articles, and newspaper columns, the two dozen teleplays and a dozen motion pictures he has created, then any other living fantasist.
He was presented with the first Living Legend award by the International Horror Critics at the 1995 World Horror Convention.
He is also the only author in Hollywood ever to win the Writers Guild of America award for Outstanding teleplay (solo work) four times, most recently for “Paladin of the Lost Hour” his Twilight Zone episode that was Danny Kaye’s final role, in 1987.
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 Bram Stoker Awards
To ameliorate the competitive nature of awards, the Stokers are given "for superior achievement," not for "best of the year," and the rules are deliberately designed to make ties fairly common.
The award itself is an eight-inch replica of a fanciful haunted house, designed specifically for HWA by sculptor Steven Kirk.
In addition, Lifetime Achievement Stokers are occasionally presented to individuals whose entire body of work has substantially influenced Horror.
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 1999 Bram Stoker Award Winners - SFWA News
The 1999 Bram Stoker Award Winners were presented May 13, 2000 at the 2000 Stoker Banquet and HWA Annual Meeting, held in Denver in conjunction with the World Horror Convention.
The Stokers are nominated and voted on by members of the Horror Writer's Association.
The Lifetime Achievement Award was anounced earlier in the year.
www.sfwa.org /news/99stoker.htm   (206 words)

  
 Bram Stoker book online - - sell books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Abraham "Bram" Stoker (November 8, 1847 - April 20, 1912) was an Irish writer, best remembered as the author of the influential horror novel Dracula.He was born on November 8, 1847 in Clontarf in Ireland, a coastal village near Dublin.
Dracula is the basis of countless films and plays.Bram Stoker died on April 20, 1912 in London, England and was interred at Golders Green Crematorium, London.
The awards have been presented annually since 1987, and the winners are selected by ballot of the members of the HWA.Several members of the HWA
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 Stephen King - Alles über den King of Horror
The Bram stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement is the most prestigious of these awards, given in acknowledgment of superior achievement not just in a single work but in an entire career.
The HWA Annual Conference and Bram stoker Awards banquet will be held this year on June 6th ­ 8th at the Park Central Hotel in New York City.
King was merely a genre writer, undeserving of an award previously granted to Arthur Miller, Eudora Welty, Saul Bellow and Toni Morrison.
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 World Horror Convention 2007: Bram Stoker Awards Banquet Presentation
The Horror Writers Association (HWA) is pleased to announce that the 20th Annual Presentation of the Bram Stoker Awards for excellence in horror and fantasy fiction will be presented in conjunction with the World Horror Convention 2007 on the evening of Saturday, March 31st.
Most recent Lifetime Achievement Award winner Peter Straub attended the 2006 Awards presentation in New York City, and is set to be one of the many horror celebrities also attending the 2007 event.
The annual WHC Grand Master Award will also be presented at the Awards Banquet of the Saturday evening, and voting is open to anyone who is a registered member of the 2007 convention (please see the voting page for the Grand Master Award).
www.whc2007.org /prog-banquet01.htm   (665 words)

  
 Bram Stoker Award Winners
The Bram Stoker Awards were presented May 26th, 2001 at the World Horror Convention in Seattle, Washington.
The Stoker Awards were given out at the HWA Conference in Los Angeles over the weekend of June 24-26, 2005.
The Stoker Awards were given out at the HWA Conference in Newark, NJ on June 17, 2006.
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 Awards
Awards will be presented during the World Fantasy Convention November 3-6 in Madison, Wisconsin.
Nominations in recognition of achievement in the field of horror/dark fantasy during 2004 are:
Along with other awards, Gahan Wilson has been honored with the Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award, the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement.
horrorworld.org /awards.htm   (678 words)

  
 Abebooks - Bram Stoker Award Winning Books
The Horror Writer's Association presents the Bram Stoker Awards, named in honor of the author of Dracula.
The award itself is an eight-inch replica of a fanciful haunted house, designed specifically for HWA by sculptor Steven Kirk.
In addition, Lifetime Achievement Stokers are occasionally presented to individuals.
www.www.abe.com /docs/Community/AwardWinners/stokerAward.shtml   (202 words)

  
 Category:Awards - AwardAnnals
For instance, “Pulitzer Prize” is a collection of awards for categories such as “Pulitzer Prize for Fiction”, all of which share the system of judging described in Pulitzer Prize.
If you are researching a particular award organization then these pages provide a good start.
Otherwise, a subcategory such as awards by genre will provide a list of award categories.
www.awardannals.com /award/stoker/awinfo   (76 words)

  
 Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame -- Advisory Board   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
He has won awards of almost every category, including the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Allan Poe Award (twice), the Horror Writers Association Bram Stoker Award (six times, including The Lifetime Achievement Award in 1996), the Nebula (three times), the Hugo (eight-and-a-half times), and the Silver Pen for Journalism.
In 1992 Harryhausen was presented with an honorary Academy Award for his life’s work, and in 2003 was presented with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
He is the author and editor of many influential genre books, and has won the Milford Award for Lifetime Achievement in Science Fiction, the World Fantasy Award, the Science Fiction Chronicle Poll, and been nominated for the Hugo Award seventeen times to date.
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 BRAM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Bram Stoker Award for Best Work for Young Readers
Search the BRAM Family Message Boards at Ancestry.com (if available).
Find graves of people named BRAM at Find-a-Grave.com (or add one that you know).
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 Writers Honored at 19th Annual Bram Stoker AwardsThe Horror Writers Association Honors Lifetime Achievement of Author ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Bestselling author Peter Straub received the night’s top honor, The Lifetime Achievement Award, and First Blood author David Morrell, was on hand to receive the outstanding novel award for his latest book, Creepers.
Charlee Jacob also won a second Stoker, for her poetry collection Sineater in a tie with literature professor Michael Arnzen, who won for his collection Freakcidents.
Lifetime Achievement Award winner Peter Straub is the author of seventeen novels, which have been translated into more then twenty languages.
www.mysan.de /article487223.html   (560 words)

  
 Bram Stoker Award at AllExperts
The Bram Stoker Award is a recognition presented by the Horror Writers Association (HWA) for "superior achievement" in horror writing.
The awards have been presented annually since 1987, and the winners are selected by ballot of the Active members of the HWA.
They are named after influential horror writer Bram Stoker, author of the novel Dracula, among others.
en.allexperts.com /e/b/br/bram_stoker_award.htm   (277 words)

  
 Children's Book Awards and Other Literary Prizes
Awards for nonprint media such as computer software or video for children and young adults are also included.
Award for a work of historical fiction from a U.S. publisher and set in the New World.
Award to a single volume of poetry published for children in a calendar year.
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 Awards and Nominations for Awards
PEN/Malamud Award for lifetime achievements in the short story.
Rea Award for the Short Story for significant contributions to the development of the genre.
Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Horror Writers of America, 1994.
www.wright.edu /~martin.kich/Oates/Primary/Awards.htm   (965 words)

  
 World Horror Convention News & Updates
The Horror Writers Association (HWA) is pleased to announce that the 20th Annual Presentation of the BRAM STOKER AWARDS for excellence in horror and fantasy fiction will be presented in conjunction with the World Horror Convention 2007 (WHC) in Toronto, Canada.
Most recent Lifeteime Achievement Award winner PETER STRAUB attended the 2006 Awards presentation in New York City, and is set to be one of the many horror celebrities also attending the 2007 event.
The annual WHC Grand Master Award will also be presented at the Award Banquet of the Saturday evening.
www.worldhorrorconvention.com /blogger/2006/10/stoker-awards-event-to-be-held-at.html   (554 words)

  
 Awards
Awards will be presented during the World Fantasy Convention November 3-6 in Madison, Wisconsin.
Nominations in recognition of achievement in the field of horror/dark fantasy during 2004 are:
Along with other awards, Gahan Wilson has been honored with the Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award, the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement.
www.horrorworld.org /awards.htm   (678 words)

  
 BRAM STOKER AWARDS - BOOK HELP WEB
So when the awards were established, it was to recognize superior achievement, not the “best” in a given year.
The awards are also given on a non-juried basis; the members of the association nominate works for the ballot which all of the membership then votes on.
The awards are given annually at the Horror Writers Association conference.
www.bookhelpweb.com /awards/bram/winners.htm   (156 words)

  
 Dragon*Con Biography: [Ray Bradbury]
Ray Bradbury is one of the immortals among us, whose classic works of SF, fantasy and horror will be read a thousand years from now by our descendents and the inhabitants of the planets of a thousand distant stars.
Ray is a winner of the Nebula, Prometheus, O.Henry Memorial, Balrog, Bram Stoker, Benjamin Franklin, Aviation-Space Writers and World Fantasy (Lifetime Achievement) Awards.
He has won the Gandalf Award for Lifetime Contribution to Fantasy (in 1980), and published his first story in 1941.
www.dragoncon.org /people/bradbur.html   (296 words)

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