The Wonderland Book Awards are a recognition presented annually at BizarroCon for superior achievement in bizarro fiction writing. BizarroCon will not be held this year due to Covid-19, but the 2020 awards, for books published in 2019, will be presented online. Voting for the Wonderland Book Award preliminary ballot begins now for the Best Bizarro Novel and Best Bizarro Collection of 2019. Below is a list of all eligible titles. Please send your 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place votes in the Novel and Collection categories to bizarrocon@gmail.com with the subject line “Wonderland Book Award Preliminary Ballot.” Preliminary voting ends November 30, 2020.
NOTE TO AUTHORS AND PUBLISHERS: We have done our best to correctly list all eligible books, but let us know if you notice any errors or missing titles. Please do not solicit or campaign for votes. Appearance on this list does not indicate the book has been nominated for the award.
NOVEL
THE BONE CUTTERS by Renee S. DeCamillis (NBAS)
BREATHING DARKNESS by Matt Bailer (Bizarro Pulp Press)
CENOTE CITY by Monique Quintana (Clash Books)
CHERRY BLOSSOM EYES by S.T. Cartledge (Eraserhead Press)
THE DRIVE-THRU CREMATORIUM by Jon Bassoff (Eraserhead Press)
EVERYBODY LIES IN HELL by Dave Zeltserman (Eraserhead Press)
THE FLESH MOLDER’S LOVESONG by Roland Blackburn (NBAS)
FROZEN DISPLAY by Don Armfield (NihilismRevised)
FUCK HAPPINESS by Kirk Jones (Atlatl)
GENOCIDE ON THE INFINITE EXPRESS by Kevin Sweeney (NBAS)
GIRL LIKE A BOMB by Autumn Christian (Clash Books)
GODDAMN KILLING MACHINES by David Agranoff (Clash Books)
GRIND YOUR BONES TO DUST by Nicholas Day (Excession Press)
A HAWK IN THE WOODS by Carrie Laben (Word Horde)
I’M NOT EVEN SUPPOSED TO BE HERE TODAY by Brian Asman (NBAS)
IMPOSSIBLE JAMES by Danger Slater (Fungasm Press)
JAH HILLS by Unathi Slasha (Clash Books)
JESUS OF SCUMBERG by Leo X. Robertson (NihilismRevised)
LAZER HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE by David W. Barbee (Excession Press)
LITTLE PEOPLE, BIG GUNS by Matthew Quinn (Deadite Press)
MEMENTO MORI: THE FATHOMLESS SHADOWS by Brian Hauser (Word Horde)
MOUSE TRAP by Carlton Mellick III (Eraserhead Press)
THE MUMMY OF CANAAN by Maxwell Bauman (Clash Books)
SCUM OF THE EARTH by Cody Goodfellow (Eraserhead Press)
A SICK GRAY LAUGH by Nicole Cushing (Word Horde)
SOCIAL JUSTICE WARRIOR SNUFF FILM by Mandy De Sandra (Independently Published)
SOOTHING THE SAVAGE SWAMP BEAST by Zakary McGaha (Bizarro Pulp Press)
SPARKY THE SPUNKY ROBOT by Dani Brown (Bizarro Pulp Press)
A SPECTRAL HUE by Craig Laurence Gidney (Word Horde)
SPLATTER VON RAINBOW by Nicholaus Patnaude (NihilismRevised)
THE STORY OF Y by Ben Arzate (Cabal Books)
TERROR MANNEQUIN by Douglas Hackle (Independently Published)
UNAMERICA by Cody Goodfellow (King Shot Press)
COLLECTION
BORN IN BLOOD by George Daniel Lee (Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing)
CYBERPUNK ZOMBIE JIHAD by Mark Zirbel (NihilismRevised)
THE EIGHT EYES THAT WATCH YOU DIE by W.P. Johnson (Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing)
IN DREAMS WE ROT by Betty Rocksteady (Trepidatio)
MY BIRTH AND OTHER REGRETS by Ben Fitts (NihilismRevised)
PACIFIER by Ira Rat (NihilismRevised)
SARIN BEGGAR by SC Burke (NihilismRevised)
THE SATANIC RITES OF SASQUATCH AND OTHER WEIRD STORIES by Nick Cato (Bizarro Pulp Press)
UNNAMED COUNTRY by Jeffery Thomas (Word Horde)
TO WALLOW IN ASH AND OTHER SORROWS by Sam Richard (NihilismRevised)
WHISPERS IN THE EAR OF A DREAMING APE by Joshua Chaplinsky (Clash Books)
THE WORST THAT COULD HAPPEN by S.G. Murphy (Fungasm Press)
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