The Karl Edward Wagner Award for 'important contribution to the genre or the Society' is given at the discretion of the BFS committee.Best Horror Novel (the August Derleth Award).Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award).First awarded in 1972 (to The Knight of Swords by Michael Moorcock) only for novels, the number of award categories increased and in 1976 the BFS renamed them collectively to the British Fantasy Awards. Prior to that they were known as The August Derleth Fantasy Awards (see August Derleth Award). Sing Your Sadness Deep Follow Dispatches from the Sinister Room on WordPress.The British Fantasy Awards ( BFA) are awarded annually by the British Fantasy Society (BFS), first in 1976.

Rowan Fortune reviews On The Shoulders of Otava.“With its well-honed prose, this collection shows us a writer who is focused intimately on the seams in a naturalistic present through which otherworldly pains-and a few pleasures-leak.” – Locus Magazine Recent Posts

Her language is evocative but clear her characterisation is compelling.” – Grey Dog Tales “It’s easy enough to state that the debut collection by Laura Mauro, Sing Your Sadness Deep (Undertow), is a work of fine and accomplished writing, as near to flawless in its execution as you might wish for. Mauro weaves love through the horror of many of the stories which such ease which says a lot about her as a writer.” – Toni the Reader

“Personally, I think that love and acceptance take the center stage in many of the stories that Mauro writes. “ Sing Your Sadness Deep, will have you running through every emotion, from joy to despair, from warmth to revulsion, with its transcendent look at the human condition.” – Ginger Nuts of Horror

“Mauro distorts quaint divides between the inhuman and the human too often a source of deep anxiety, but also of curiosity about ourselves unexpectedly exposed as alien, as always having been alien.” – Rowan Fortune, The strangeness is magical as a reader because it deliberately alters your perception, rendering you more curious and open to what a story has to say.” – Gemma Webster, Fiction Unbound “Mauro has a lot of literary knack on top of her weird fiction capacities making her stories well formed, beautiful, sometimes scary and always strange.

Sing Your Sadness Deep by Laura Mauro