The Bram Stoker Award for Poetry Collection is an award presented by the Horror Writers Association (HWA) for "superior achievement" in horror writing for a poetry collection.
| Year of Eligibility | Recipient | Title | Result | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Tom Piccirilli | A Student of Hell | Won | [2] [3] |
| Michael A. Arnzen | Paratabloids | Nominated | [2] [3] | |
| Bruce Boston | The Complete Accursed Wives | |||
| Sandy DeLuca | Burial Plot in Sagittarius | |||
| 2001 | Linda Addison | Consumed, Reduced to Beautiful Grey Ashes | Won | [4] [5] |
| Bruce Boston | White Space | Nominated | [4] [5] | |
| Chad Hensley | What the Cacodaemon Whispered | |||
| Charlee Jacob | Taunting the Minotaur | |||
| 2002 | Rain Graves , Mark McLaughlin, and David Niall Wilson | The Gossamer Eye | Won | [6] [7] |
| Bruce Boston and Marge Simon | Night Smoke | Nominated | [6] [7] | |
| Charlee Jacob | Guises (Poetry Section "Night Unmasked") | |||
| Tom Piccirilli | This Cape Is Red Because I've Been Bleeding | |||
| 2003 | Bruce Boston | Pitchblende | Won | [8] [9] |
| Michael A. Arnzen | Gorelets: Unpleasant Poems | Nominated | [8] [9] | |
| Daphne Gottlieb | Final Girl | |||
| Charlee Jacob | Cardinal Sins | |||
| Mark McLaughlin | Professor LaGungo's Exotic Artifacts & Assorted Mystic Collectibles | |||
| Marge Simon | Artist of Antithesis | |||
| 2004 | Corrine de Winter | The Women at the Funeral | Won | [10] [11] |
| Charlee Jacob | The Desert | Nominated | [10] [11] | |
| Mark McLaughlin | Men Are From Hell, Women Are From The Galaxy Of Death | |||
| Tom Piccirilli | Waiting My Turn to Go Under the Knife | |||
| 2005 | Michael A. Arnzen | Freakcidents | Won (tie) | [12] [13] |
| Charlee Jacob | Sineater | |||
| Gary William Crawford | The Shadow City | Nominated | [12] [13] | |
| Daniel Shields | Seasons: A Series of Poems Based on the Life and Death of Edgar Allan Poe | |||
| 2006 | Bruce Boston | Shades Fantastic | Won | [14] [15] |
| Corrine de Winter | Valentine: Short Love Poems | Nominated | [14] [15] | |
| John Edward Lawson | The Troublesome Amputee | |||
| Bobbi Sinha-Morey | Songs of a Sorceress | |||
| 2007 | Linda Addison | Being Full of Light, Insubstantial | Won (tie) | [16] [17] |
| Charlee Jacob & Marge Simon | VECTORS: A Week in the Death of a Planet | |||
| Charlee Jacob | Heresy | Nominated | [16] [17] | |
| Mark McLaughlin | PHANTASMAPEDIA | |||
| JoSelle Vanderhooft | Ossuary | |||
| 2008 | Bruce Boston | The Nightmare Collection | Won | [18] [19] |
| Gary William Crawford | The Phantom World | Nominated | [18] [19] | |
| Corrine de Winter | Virgin of the Apocalypse | |||
| Michael McCarty and Mark McLaughlin | Attack of the Two-Headed Poetry Monster | |||
| 2009 | Lucy A. Snyder | Chimeric Machines | Won | [20] [21] [22] |
| Rain Graves | Barfodder | Nominated | [20] [21] [22] | |
| Bruce Boston | Double Visions | |||
| Bruce Boston | North Left of Earth | |||
| 2010 | Bruce Boston | Dark Matters | Won | [23] [24] [25] |
| Ann K. Schwader | Wild Hunt of the Stars | Nominated | [23] [24] [26] [25] | |
| Robin Spriggs | Diary of a Gentleman Diabolist | |||
| Wrath James White | Vicious Romance | |||
| 2011 | Linda Addison | How to Recognize a Demon Has Become Your Friend | Won | [27] [28] [29] [30] |
| Maria Alexander | At Louche Ends: Poetry for the Decadent, the Damned & the Absinthe-Minded | Nominated | [27] [28] [29] [30] | |
| Bruce Boston | Surrealities | |||
| G. O. Clark | Shroud of Night | |||
| Marge Simon | The Mad Hattery | |||
| Marge Simon | Unearthly Delights | |||
| 2012 | Marge Simon | Vampires, Zombies & Wanton Souls | Won | [31] [32] [33] |
| Linda Addison and Stephen M. Wilson | Dark Duet | Nominated | [31] [32] [33] | |
| Bruce Boston and Gary William Crawford | Notes from the Shadow City | |||
| Michael R. Collings | A Verse to Horrors | |||
| Mary A. Turzillo | Lovers & Killers | |||
| 2013 | Linda Addison , Rain Graves, Charlee Jacob, and Marge Simon | Four Elements | Won | [34] [35] [36] |
| Bruce Boston | Dark Roads: Selected Long Poems 1971-2012 | Nominated | [34] [35] [36] | |
| Helen Marshall | The Sex Lives of Monsters | |||
| Sandy DeLuca and Marge Simon | Dangerous Dreams | |||
| Stephanie M. Wytovich | Hysteria: A Collection of Madness | |||
| 2014 | Tom Piccirilli | Forgiving Judas | Won | [37] [38] [39] [40] |
| Robert Payne Cabeen | Fearworms: Selected Poems | Nominated | [37] [38] [39] [40] | |
| Corrine de Winter and Alessandro Manzetti | Venus Intervention | |||
| Marge Simon and Mary Turzillo | Sweet Poison | |||
| Stephanie M. Wytovich | Mourning Jewelry | |||
| 2015 | Alessandro Manzetti | Eden Underground | Won | [41] [42] [43] |
| Ann K. Schwader | Dark Energies | Nominated | [41] [42] [43] | |
| Stephanie M. Wytovich | An Exorcism of Angels | |||
| Marge Simon | Naughty Ladies | |||
| Bruce Boston | Resonance Dark and Light | |||
| 2016 | Stephanie M. Wytovich | Brothel | Won | [44] [45] [46] [47] |
| Michael R. Collings | Corona Obscura | Nominated | [44] [45] [46] [48] [47] | |
| Jeannine Hall Gailey | Field Guide to the End of the World | |||
| Bruce Boston and Alessandro Manzetti | Sacrificial Nights | |||
| Marge Simon | Small Spirits | |||
| 2017 | Christina Sng | A Collection of Nightmares | Won | [49] [50] [51] [52] [53] |
| Bruce Boston and Robert Frazier | Visions of the Mutant Rain Forest | Nominated | [49] [50] [51] [52] [53] | |
| Alessandro Manzetti | No Mercy | |||
| Marge Simon and Mary Turzillo | Satan's Sweethearts | |||
| Stephanie M. Wytovich | Sheet Music to My Acoustic Nightmare | |||
| 2018 | Sara Tantlinger | The Devil's Dreamland | Won | [54] [55] [56] [57] |
| Bruce Boston | Artifacts | Nominated | [54] [55] [56] [57] | |
| David E. Cowen | Bleeding Saffron | |||
| Donna Lynch | Witches | |||
| Alessandro Manzetti and Marge Simon | War | |||
| 2019 | Linda Addison and Alessandro Manzetti | The Place of Broken Things | Won | [58] [59] [60] [61] |
| Octavia Cade | Mary Shelley Makes a Monster | Nominated | [58] [59] [60] [61] | |
| Donna Lynch | Choking Back the Devil | |||
| Michelle Scalise | Dragonfly and Other Songs of Mourning | |||
| Bryan D. Dietrich and Marge Simon | The Demeter Diaries | |||
| Stephanie M. Wytovich | The Apocalyptic Mannequin | |||
| 2020 | Christina Sng | A Collection of Dreamscapes | Won | [62] [63] [64] [65] [66] |
| Alessandro Manzetti | Whitechapel Rhapsody: Dark Poems | Nominated | [62] [63] [64] [65] [66] | |
| Jessica McHugh | A Complex Accident of Life | |||
| Cynthia Pelayo | Into the Forest and All the Way Through | |||
| Sara Tantlinger | Cradleland of Parasites | |||
| 2021 | Geneve Flynn , Lee Murray, Angela Yuriko Smith, and Christina Sng | Tortured Willows: Bent. Bowed. Unbroken. | Won | [67] [68] [69] [70] |
| Joe R. Lansdale | Apache Witch and Other Poetic Observations | Nominated | [67] [71] [68] [69] [70] | |
| Jessica McHugh | Strange Nests | |||
| Marge Simon and Mary Turzillo | Victims | |||
| Lucy A. Snyder | Exposed Nerves | |||
| 2022 | ||||
| Cynthia Pelayo | Crime Scene | Winner | ||
| Michael Bailey and Marge Simon | Sifting the Ashes | Nominated | [73] | |
| Donna Lynch | Girls from the County | |||
| Sumiko Saulson | The Rat King: A Book of Dark Poetry | |||
| Christina Sng | The Gravity of Existence | |||
| 2023 | ||||
| Stephanie M. Wytovich | On the Subject of Blackberries | Winner | [74] | |
| Maxwell Ian Gold | Bleeding Rainbows and Other Broken Spectrums | Nominee | [74] | |
| Jessica McHugh | The Quiet Ways I Destroy You | |||
| Marisca Pichette | Rivers in Your Skin, Sirens in Your Hair | |||
| Holly Lyn Walrath | Numinous Stones | |||
| 2024 | ||||
| Pedro Iniguez | Mexicans on the Moon: Speculative Poetry from a Possible Future | Winner | [75] | |
| Jamal Hodge | The Dark Between the Twilight | Nominee | [75] | |
| Lee Murray | Fox Spirit on a Distant Cloud | |||
| Sumiko Saulson | Melancholia: A Book of Dark Poetry | |||
| L. Marie Wood | Imitation of Life |