The Ladies of Horror Fiction team is pleased to announce the 2021 Ladies of Horror Fiction Award for Best Poetry.
Strange Nests by Jessica McHugh
…the secret of dying arrived scrawny. it’s growing stronger & fatter though & whispers, “go mad.”
Beyond ancient gates, among thorny overgrowth and carnivorous blooms, a raven called Death waits tirelessly for its chance to roost within us. Using scraps of love, remorse, anger, and pain, it weaves. With erasure, memory, and discovery, it binds. And from the garden of wounds that grows within our broken hearts, it builds Strange Nests.
In the follow-up to her Bram Stoker and Elgin Award nominated collection, A Complex Accident of Life, Jessica McHugh uses poetry, design, and illustration to unearth the horrific, consumptive, and transformative nature of grief from the pages of the Frances Hodgson Burnett classic, The Secret Garden.
Published August 18th 2021 by Apokrupha | Goodreads | Bookshop
Congratulations to Jessica McHugh and the 2021 nominees for Best Poetry:
Tortured Willows: Bent. Bowed. Unbroken., Angela Yuriko Smith, Lee Murray, Christina Sng, & Geneve Flynn
Exposed Nerves, Lucy A. Snyder
The Smallest of Bones, Holly Walrath
Monstrum Poetica, Jezzy Wolfe
Stay tuned as we continue to announce the 2021 Ladies of Horror Fiction Awards!
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