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I am stoke(re)d to see Qualia Nous, Vol. 2 on the Bram Stoker Award Preliminary Ballot for Superior Achievement in an Anthology. I’m “the editor,” so focus goes on me for a bit, but the following and their work are responsible for this book being what it is:

“Interstices” (found poem(s) from Vol. 1 as an intro) – Pat R. Steiner
“A Story That Must Be Read Alone but Never at Night” (short story) – Chuck Palahniuk
“Shattered in Daylight” (poem) – Linda D. Addison
“We Come Apart and Then We Arrive” (short story) – Eric LaRocca
“Here We Are” (poem) – Elizabeth Massie
“An Invitation for the Uninvited” (novelette) – Scott Edelman
“Set Me on Fire” (poem) – Cynthia Pelayo
“Twice as Many Stars” (short story) – Paul Michael Anderson
“Playground of the Gods” (poem) – Christina Sng
“The Fallen Man” (short story) – Geneve Flynn
“Lullabies of a Distant World” (poem) – Pedro Iniguez
“Other” (short story) – Gordon Linzner
“Vessel” (poem) – Lee Murray
“Come Find Me” (short story) – Zoje Stage
“Self-Discovery” (poem) – Ngo Binh Anh Khoa
“The Song of Fools” (novelette) – Patrick Freivald
“A Particle Accelerator Love Song” (poem) – Brent Baldwin
“Blue-Red-Green” (novelette) – Peter Hagelslag
“Sacrificing for the Path of Orbits” (poem) – Christopher Collingwood
“Investigations into Hypnagogia” (novelette) – Sachin Baliga
“My Memory Is as Time Is” (poem) – Mark Granger
“The Infinite Hourglass” (short story) – Kehkashan Khalid
“Common Sense, No More” (prose poem) – Maxwell I. Gold
“The Sum of Our Parts Needs Only One Heart” (short story) – Michael Paul Gonzalez
“Alive / Real / Exists / Human” (collection of poems) – Eugen Bacon
“Bilocation in Liminal Space” (short story) – Erik Williams
“Danse Sanguinaire” (poem) – Deborah L. Davitt
“Choose Your Own Demise” (short story) – Richard Thomas & Repo Kempt
“Crazy” (poem) – Jeffrey Oliver
“Stuff She Put in a Box for Her New Room” (novelette) – Gary A. Braunbeck
“What Weird Weather We Had” (poem) – Josh Malerman
“Oil on Water” (short story) – Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
“Nightmare” (poem) – L. Marie Wood
“Once, I Dreamed I Was Dead” (short story) – Rebecca J. Allred
“Paranoid: A Chant” (poem) – Stephen King
“Lucid Interval” (novelette) – Michael J. Riser
“Deeply You” (poem) – Max Booth III
“The Thing That Laughs in the Dark” (short story) – Gabino Iglesias
“Some Days, Most Days” (poem) – Kaaron Warren
“Dog-Whistles” (short story) – Cody Goodfellow
“Ghost in the Machine” (poem) – Karen Poppy
“Everyday Horror” (short story) – Steve Rasnic Tem
“Me” (poem) – Jamal Hodge

The original Qualia Nous made the final ballot and was nominated for Superior Achievement in an Anthology, with two of its stories winning for Superior Achievement in Short Fiction (Usman T. Malik and Rena Mason, in a tie). The anthology also won the Benjamin Franklin Award. Let’s hope the second volume finds its way onto the final ballot as well!