Waggoner, Tim

Awards:

Writing in the Dark: The Workbook (Guide Dog Books), Non-Fiction, 2022

Writing in the Dark (Guide Dog Books/Raw Dog Screaming Press), Non-Fiction, 2020

“Speaking of Horror” (The Writer), Short Non-Fiction, 2020

The Winter Box (DarkFuse), Long Fiction, 2016

Mentor of the Year Award, 2016

Nominations:

“A Touch of Madness” (The Pulp Horror Book of Phobias) (LVP Publications), Short Fiction, 2019

Dark and Distant Voices: A Story Collection (Nightscape Press), Fiction Collection, 2018

A Kiss of Thorns (DarkFuse), Long Fiction, 2017

BIO: Tim Waggoner’s first novel came out in 2001, and since then he’s published nearly sixty novels and eight collections of short stories. He writes original dark fantasy and horror, as well as media tie-ins. He’s written tie-in fiction based on Supernatural, Grimm, The X-Files, Alien, Doctor Who, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and Transformers, among others, and he’s written novelizations for films such as Halloween Kills, Terrifier 2, Resident Evil: The Final Chapter and Kingsman:The Golden Circle. His articles on writing have appeared in Writer’s Digest, The Writer, and The Writer’s Chronicle. He’s the author of the acclaimed horror-writing guide Writing in the Dark, which won the Bram Stoker Award for Nonfiction in 2021. The follow-up, Writing in the Dark: The Workbook, also won a Stoker in the same category in 2023. He won another Stoker in 2021 in the category of Short Nonfiction for his article “Speaking of Horror,” and in 2017 he received the Stoker for Long Fiction for his novella The Winter Box. In addition, he’s won the Scribe Award, given by the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers. He’s also been a multiple finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award and a one-time finalist for the Splatterpunk Award. His fiction has received numerous Honorable Mentions in volumes of Best Horror of the Year, and he’s had several stories selected for inclusion in volumes of Year’s Best Hardcore Horror. His work has been translated into Russian, Portuguese, Japanese, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Hungarian, and Turkish. He’s also a full-time tenured professor who teaches creative writing and composition at Sinclair College in Dayton, Ohio. His papers are collected by the University of Pittsburgh’s Horror Studies Program.

Website: www.timwaggoner.com
Blog: http://writinginthedarktw.blogspot.com/
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Twitter: @timwaggoner