Mentor of the Year Award

HWA’s Mentor Program is available to all members of the organization. This popular program pairs a newer writer with an established professional for an intensive four-month long partnership. For new writers, the Program offers mentees a personal, one-on-one experience with a professional writer, tailor-made to help them grow in their writing and teach them how to better market their work. […]

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Karen Lansdale Silver Hammer Award

The HORROR WRITERS ASSOCIATION is delighted to announce the immediate renaming of the Silver Hammer award to the Karen Lansdale Silver Hammer award in honor of the tremendous amount of work Karen did starting the HWA. This information will now be a part of the HWA’s permanent archives at Horror.org and elsewhere.Our physical award will also be updated. Instead of […]

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Richard Laymon President’s Award

THE RICHARD LAYMON PRESIDENT’S AWARD FOR SERVICE was instituted in 2001 and is named in honor of Richard Laymon, who died in 2001 while serving as HWA’s President. As its name implies, it is given by HWA’s sitting President. The award is presented to a volunteer who has served HWA in an especially examplary manner and has shown extraordinary dedication […]

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