Over the years—11 now for the Supernatural Fiction Award, and 10 for The Screw Turn Flash Fiction Competition—we’ve had a handful of writers who have won or earned honorable mentions twice or more in one or both of our contests. The competition here is invariably stiff, and it takes uncommon writing and storytelling ability to win or end up with an honorable mention even a single time; people who land in the winners circle two or more times are special, and especially talented, and we’ve decided to honor them all with recognition in our Ghost Story Awards Hall of Fame. All of our multiple winners and honorable mentions are listed below, with links to their fine stories. We hope you spend some time enjoying this diverse mixture of fine supernatural tales and magic realism—and perhaps also draw some inspiration from them. Cheers — The Editor
Rowan Bowman was our first-ever two-time winner in The Ghost Story Supernatural Fiction Award competition. Her story, The Beast of Blanchland, won the summer 2018 contest, and she won the fall 2019 competition with Ford Moss. Bowman spent her early childhood in Uganda, but has lived in the Northeast of England since the age of five. Her first novel, Checkmate, was published in 2015.
Maura Stanton, of Bloomington, Indiana, is one of only two two-time winners in The Ghost Story Supernatural Fiction Award. She won the Fall 2015 competition for House Ghosts, and then again nearly ten years later, in the spring of 2025, for School for Robots.
Joseph Bathanti is the former North Carolina Poet Laureate (2012-14) and recipient of the North Carolina Award in Literature, the state’s highest civilian honor and is the author of 20 books. He won the Fall 2025 Ghost Story Supernatural Fiction Award for his story, Kesh. In the fall 2023 Ghost Story contest, he won an honorable mention for The Cobbler’s Daughter. In addition, his flash-fiction piece, Jesus, was the winner in our Summer 2022 Screw Turn Flash Fiction Competition. (Author photo: David Silver.)
Mona Susan Power is an enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, currently residing in Minnesota. She’s the author of four books of fiction: The Grass Dancer, Roofwalker, Sacred Wilderness, and her most recent, A Council of Dolls, which was published by Mariner in August 2023. The Grass Dancer was awarded the PEN/Hemingway prize in 1995. Her story, Straw Dogs, was the winner of the 2021 Screw Turn Flash Fiction Competition, her flash piece War Bundle was an honorable mention in the Winter 2022 Screw Turn Flash Fiction Competition, and her flash piece Beat The Devil was an honorable mention in the Winter 2023 Screw Turn contest.
Robert Garner McBrearty, a Pushcart Prize winner and the author of six books of fiction, won our Summer 2025 Screw Turn Flash Fiction Competition with his flash piece, Starving. His flash piece, Keep Your Head On, won him an honorable mention in the winter 2024 Screw Turn contest.
William Jay Weissinger won the 2019 Screw Turn Flash Fiction Competition for his flash piece, The Family China. He took honorable mention our winter 2024 flash contest with The Rocking Chair. He lives on San Juan Island in the State of Washington, USA.
Gerard J Waggett won the Winter 2024 Screw Turn Flash Fiction Competition with his flash piece, He Loved His Mamma and His Mayonnaise. He took an honorable mention in the Spring 2024 Ghost Story Supernatural Fiction Award with The Witchcraft Defense, and another Supernatural Fiction Award honorable mention in fall 2025 for Blonde the Night We Met.
Wesley Schaller lives and writes horror fiction in the upper Midwest. He has won two honorable mentions in The Ghost Story Supernatural Fiction Award competition, the first for What About You? in the fall 2021 contest, and the second, for That’s Never Happened Before, in fall 2022.
Iqbal Hussain’s debut novel, Northern Boy, was published in 2024. His short story, Look Not Backwards, won an honorable mention in the Fall 2022 Ghost Story Supernatural Fiction Award contest. He won an honorable mention in the Summer 2025 Screw Turn Flash Fiction Competition for He’ll Be Back Soon.
Janice Egry taught music and special education before retiring to write full time. She lives in Dutchess County, New York. Her short story, A Well-Urned Talent, was an honorable mention in the Fall 2017 Ghost Story Supernatural Fiction Award competition. Her flash piece, She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not, was an honorable mention in the Summer 2022 Screw Turn Flash Fiction Competition.
Ridge Carpenter won two honorable mentions in the Fall 2015 Ghost Story Supernatural Fiction Award competition for his stories Yamanba and The Haunted Still.