I thought it was time to pull together my awards eligibility post for 2020. This also serves as a nice round up of things I achieved throughout this incredibly strange and surprising year.

Most of these are eligible for any horror and speculative fiction awards including the New Zealand Sir Julius Vogel Awards, and the Australian Shadows Awards, and possibly anything with a queer, own-voices rep.

Thank you for reading. ?

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My first published nonfiction article of 2020 was with Ginger Nuts of Horror @GNutsofHorror where I talk about the Horror of Humanity and mental health in darker fiction.

https://gingernutsofhorror.com/features/the-horror-of-humanity-tabatha-wood-and-the-tao-of-the-black-dog

My second published nonfiction article was with The Horror Tree @HorrorTree for Women in Horror Month (Feb 2020) and was An Exploration of Menstruation in Horror and Dark Fiction

https://horrortree.com/wihm-an-exploration-of-menstruation-in-horror-and-dark-fiction/

Also for Women in Horror Month, ‘Who Is Ellen Ripley?’ was first published by Ginger Nuts of Horror (Feb 2020) and reprinted as the lead story in the DIGITAL DEAD magazine (April 2020)

https://issuu.com/thedigitaldead/docs/020420_issue16draft008kirstyprooffinal

‘Fake Meat’ from my SJV-shortlisted collection DARK WINDS OVER WELLINGTON was reprinted in INFECTED, TALES TO READ AT HOME another charity anthology also published by Things In The Well (April 2020).

I co-edited BLACK DOGS, BLACK TALES with @JCHart in May 2020. This was a charity anthology published by @ThingsInTheWell with all proceeds going to the Mental Health Foundation of New Zealand.

mybook.to/BlackDogsBook

My story ‘Night Wolves’ is included in BLACK DOGS, BLACK TALES and is a quiet, revenge horror with a grieving sister and mysterious black dog. ? ?

‘An Ocean of Stars’ was featured on the HUTT RADIO in June 2020 and is a very short SpecFic/fantasy piece written as a tie in to DARK WINDS OVER WELLINGTON.

https://m.mixcloud.com/johnmacdonaldnz/huttzone-20200611-ocean-of-stars-by-tabatha-wood-and-jogging-by-maggie-rainey-smith/

Also in June I wrote ‘Becoming,’ an original story for @DivinationBlog to celebrate Pride in Horror. This is a weird, queer, own-voices, coming of age story.

[Pride In Horror Month] – Becoming: A Short Story — Divination Hollow Reviews

Another one for Pride in Horror Month and Divination Hollow was a nonfiction piece ‘Queer Vampires in Modern Cinema.’

[Pride In Horror Month] – Queer Vampires in Modern Cinema — Divination Hollow Reviews

ALL THE LAIRD’S MEN is a novelette set in a dystopian, future Scotland. It’s a creature-feature, military horror/dark speculative fiction story, and is the first of a trilogy. (August 2020)

Mybook.to/ATLM

Another short story, this time in two parts for Divination Hollows is a queer, girl-gang, part revenge horror/part weird fiction featuring an all-female trio with unusual abilities.

Nightwatchers: Part One; A Short Story by Tabatha Wood — Divination Hollow Reviews

‘Long Drop’ is a New Zealand-focused short horror/weird fantasy story featured in the antipodean anthology OUTBACK HORRORS DOWN UNDER from Things In The Well (September 2020)

Outback Horrors Down Under

Finally, although it doesn’t come out until February 2021, I am also including my story ‘Little Teeth’ from @ScifiandScary charity anthology TWISTED ANATOMY

https://www.scifiandscary.com/twisted-anatomy-cover-and-toc/