The Imaginarium Convention is honored to announce a new annual award that will be given for the first time during the Imaginarium 2022 Awards Banquet! The Michael Knost Wings Award will focus on authors of speculative and/or dark fiction, specifically authors who are up-and-coming . . . or those who have been around a while but do not get the recognition they deserve.
The Michael Knost Wings Award reflects the enthusiastic dedication and support of the writing community given by the person that this exciting new award is named after: Michael Knost.
Michael Knost is the 2015 recipient of the Horror Writers Association’s Silver Hammer Award for his work as the organization’s mentorship chair. Michael is also a Bram Stoker Award-winner, and is known for his mentoring, writing classes, and bestselling works.
Nominees/finalists are chosen by a committee of editors and authors, and Michael Knost will choose the award recipient from those names.
This year’s nominees/finalists are (in alphabetical order):
• Michelle Renee Lane
• Donna J. W. Munro
• Bridgett Nelson
• Robert Ottone
• Andrew Wolter
The inaugural recipient will be named during the Imaginarium Awards Banquet on Saturday, July 9th, at the Holiday Inn Louisville East, 1325 S Hurstbourne Pkwy, Louisville, KY 40222.
About Michael Knost
Michael Knost is a Bram Stoker Award®-winning editor and author of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and supernatural thrillers. He has written in various genres and helmed multiple anthologies.
His Writers Workshop of Horror won the 2009 Bram Stoker Award® in England for superior achievement in non-fiction. His critically acclaimed Writers Workshop of Science Fiction & Fantasy is an Amazon #1 bestseller. Return of the Mothman, Barbers and Beauties, Author’s Guide to Marketing with Teeth, and Writers Workshop of Horror 2 were all finalists for the Bram Stoker Award®.
Michael received the Horror Writers Association’s Silver Hammer Award in 2015 for his work as the organization’s mentorship chair. He also received the prestigious J.U.G. (Just Uncommonly Good) Award from West Virginia Writer’s Inc.
His Return of the Mothman is currently being filmed as a movie adaption.
He has taught writing classes and workshops at several colleges, conventions, online, and currently resides in Chapmanville, West Virginia with his wife, daughter, and a zombie goldfish.