Horror Writers Association's Lifetime Achievement Award Winner for 2017

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Jan. 4, 2018 - PRLog -- The Horror Writers Association announces the Lifetime Achievement Award winner for 2017. Linda Addison will be on hand to accept her award at StokerCon 2018® held March 1^st – 4^th at the historic Biltmore Hotel, located in Providence, Rhode Island. Ms. Addison has provided many years of dedicated commitment to HWA and the writing and publishing industry.

"I don't have words to respond to this incredible news!" Ms. Addison expounded upon learning of the award. "Like so many writers, I just write and give back to others what has been given to me over the years, without expectation of recognition. Wow!!" President of HWA, Lisa Morton, expressed her utmost pleasure in bestowing Linda Addison with the Lifetime Achievement Award, as Linda has helped so many writers over the years, and she has remained humble while becoming legendary in the dark fiction community.

HWA, the premier organization of writers and publishers of horror and dark fantasy and home of the iconic Bram Stoker Awards®, presents the Lifetime Achievement Award annually to individuals whose work has substantially influenced the horror and dark fantasy genres. While the award is often presented to a writer, it may also be given to an individual for influential accomplishments in other creative fields. HWA employs a hard-working committee for the selection process and recipients are chosen through stringent criteria.

Linda D. Addison is an American poet and writer of horror, fantasy, and science fiction. She grew up in Philadelphia and received a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from Carnegie-Mellon University. Addison is the first African-American winner of the Bram Stoker Award, which she has won four times. The first two awards were for her poetry collections Consumed, Reduced to Beautiful Grey Ashes (2001), and Being Full of Light, Insubstantial (2007). Her poetry and fiction collection How To Recognize A Demon Has Become Your Friend won the 2011 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection. She received a fourth Stoker for the collection The Four Elements, written with Marge Simon, Rain Graves, and Charlee Jacob.

Addison is a member of the Horror Writers Association and annually attends StokerCon and the Northeastern Writers' Conference. She is also a member of SFWA and SEPA and has been on the honorable mention list for Year's Best Fantasy and Horror and Year's Best Science Fiction. She has participated in panels with Harlan Ellison, Jack Ketchum, and L. A. Banks. She was "Poet Guest of Honor" at The World Horror Convention in 2005. Her writing has been featured in Essence Magazine, and she is currently poetry editor for Space and Time Magazine. Addison has also participated in Ellen Datlow's Fantastic Fiction Reading Series at KGB Bar in NYC. And she is a founding member of the CITH (Circles in the Hair) writing group. Linda Addison can be found at her website: http://www.cith.org/linda/

For more information about the Lifetime Achievement Award and the Bram Stoker Awards, please visit the StokerCon 2018® webpage at http://www.stokercon2018.org/.