{"id":25425,"date":"2025-04-29T20:05:54","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T00:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/?page_id=25425"},"modified":"2025-08-02T23:34:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T03:34:05","slug":"2025-splatterpunk-awards","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/lists-and-reading-challenges\/splatterpunk-awards-list\/2025-splatterpunk-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 Splatterpunk Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Jurors<\/h4>\n<p>Not listed<\/p>\n<h4>J. F. Gonzalez Lifetime Achievement Award<\/h4>\n<p>Joe R. Lansdale &#038; Lucy Taylor<\/p>\n<h4>Best Novel<\/h4>\n<table align=\"center\" width=\"100%\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"10%\"><strong>Winner<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"45%\"><strong>Title<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"45%\"><strong>Author(s)<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Benjamin<\/td>\n<td>Aron Beauregard &#038; Shane McKenzie<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>This Wretched Valley<\/td>\n<td>Jenny Kiefer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>American Rapture<\/td>\n<td>C. J. Leede<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>The Home<\/td>\n<td>Judith Sonnet (disqualified due to being a 2025 release)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\u2605<\/td>\n<td>The Old Lady<\/td>\n<td>Kristopher Triana<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<h4>Best Novella<\/h4>\n<table align=\"center\" width=\"100%\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"10%\"><strong>Winner<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"45%\"><strong>Title<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"45%\"><strong>Author(s)<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>A Life of Crime<\/td>\n<td>Aron Beauregard<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Master of Bodies<\/td>\n<td>Robert Essig<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\u2605<\/td>\n<td>Living Death Race: Beauty &#038; the Brains<\/td>\n<td>John Everson<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Nipping Them In the Bud<\/td>\n<td>Edward Lee<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>For The Better<\/td>\n<td>Daniel J. Volpe<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<h4>Best Short Story<\/h4>\n<table align=\"center\" width=\"100%\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"10%\"><strong>Winner<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"45%\"><strong>Title<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"45%\"><strong>Author(s)<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>The Old College<br \/>\n(Fear of Clowns)<\/td>\n<td>Aron Beauregard<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Genital Grinder 2.5<br \/>\n(Y\u2019all Ain\u2019t Right)<\/td>\n<td>Ryan Harding<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\u2605<\/td>\n<td>Together Forever<br \/>\n(The Obituaries #6: Red Romance)<\/td>\n<td>C.V. Hunt<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Fulfillment<br \/>\n(Where Devils Dance)<\/td>\n<td>Sidney Shiv<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Baby, I\u2019d Die 4 U<br \/>\n(The Obituaries #6: Red Romance)<\/td>\n<td>Kristopher Triana<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<h4>Best Collection<\/h4>\n<table align=\"center\" width=\"100%\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"10%\"><strong>Winner<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"45%\"><strong>Title<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"45%\"><strong>Author(s)<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<td>\u2605<\/td>\n<td>This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances<\/td>\n<td>Eric LaRocca<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Gold and Gore<\/td>\n<td>Candace Nola<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Every Night In The Bone Orchard<\/td>\n<td>Judith Sonnet<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Sucking Chest Wound and Other Horrors<\/td>\n<td>Daniel J. Volpe<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Wrecks &#038; Violets<\/td>\n<td>Mehitobel Wilson<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<h4>Best Anthology<\/h4>\n<table align=\"center\" width=\"100%\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"10%\"><strong>Winner<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"45%\"><strong>Title<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"45%\"><strong>Editor(s)<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Dethfest Confessions: The Devil\u2019s Playlist<\/td>\n<td>Mark Tullius &#038; Lyndsey Smith<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>The Obituaries #6: Red Romance<\/td>\n<td>Aron Beauregard, Daniel J. Volpe, Kristopher Triana, C.V. Hunt<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Shocking Sojourns<\/td>\n<td>Sidney Shiv<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\u2605<\/td>\n<td>Splatology 2.0<\/td>\n<td>Sidney Shiv &#038; Chisto Healy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Y\u2019all Ain\u2019t Right<\/td>\n<td>K Trap Jones<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jurors Not listed J. F. Gonzalez Lifetime Achievement Award Joe R. Lansdale &#038; Lucy Taylor Best Novel Winner Title Author(s) Benjamin Aron Beauregard &#038; Shane McKenzie This Wretched Valley Jenny&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":23106,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-25425","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25425"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26482,"href":"https:\/\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25425\/revisions\/26482"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}