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Here is the ballot with the final nominees for the 2023 Robert E. Howard Awards and the link for Foundation members to vote for the winners.

The Awards committee had its work cut out for us this year, as several of the categories had too many great nominees made and we had to decide on the top five that were the best among such a fantastic field in those categories. To the nominators, we thank you for your help in bringing attention to the worthy scholars and artists.

To the final nominees and all of the other nominees who didn’t make the final list, congratulations! Final day to vote is by 11:59 PM, Central Standard Time, March 1, 2023, The link to vote is at the bottom of the list. You will be required to put in your email address that is on file with the REHF to be verified to vote as a current member of the REHF. Thank you for your help with the nominations and with the voting. Link at the bottom.

Dear Foundation Members,

It has been brought to the Foundation’s attention that the Award Committee made an error in the ballot, which has now been corrected. We apologize for any confusion this has caused and vow to do better in the future. We sincerely apologize to both Paul Herman and Dennis McHaney for our blunder. As you will see now when you go to the ballot page, the Poetry Book has been removed from the category. To those of you who have already voted for the Poetry book, we again sincerely apologize.

John Bullard
The Awards Committee

The Atlantean—Outstanding Achievement, Book

Dennis McHaney (Ed.): Robert E. Howard in the Pulps (Lulu.com):

The Valusian—Outstanding Achievement, Book (anthology/collection)

No Nominees

The Hyrkanian—Outstanding Achievement, Essay

Remco Van Straten: “Conan in Holland”

John Bullard & Bill Cavalier: “‘Is That Robert E. Howard?’: A Look At Two Photographs”

Nicole Emmelhainz: “Gender Performativity in Howard’s ‘Sword Woman'” – New Edge Sword & Sorcery #0

Willard M. Oliver: “Three Lost Interviews About Robert E. Howard”

The Cimmerian—Outstanding Achievement, Scholarship

Anthony Conrad Chieffalo: “Gendered and Genrefied: Transgressive Heroism in Sword and Sorcery” in The Dark Man vol. 12, no. 2, Mar 2022

Willard M. Oliver: “Howard and Strange Tales”

The Venarium—Emerging Scholar

Anthony Conrad Chieffalo (“Gendered and Genrefied: Transgressive Heroism in Sword and Sorcery”)

Antonio Marco Collares (Brazilian scholar focusing on Robert E. Howard, involved in many projects)

Nicole Emmelhainz (Co-editor of The Dark Man, “Gender Performativity in Howard’s ‘Sword Woman'”)

The Black Lotus—Outstanding Achievement, Web-based

The Cromcast: The Howard Days 2022 audio recordings and the Cromcast Chronicle #3.

Ståle Gismervik: The World of Robert E. Howard website and associated articles, interviews, and resources hosted there.

Gary Romeo: The L. Sprague de Camp Fan website and associated reviews and articles.

The Costigan—Literary achievement

Teel James Glenn (author): “The Cowboy and the Conqueror: A Bob Howard Adventure”

Steven Hubbard (author): A Conspiracy of Ravens

Andrew Leman & Sean Branney (writers): Dark Adventure Radio Theatre: The Black Stone

David C. Smith (author): “Shadow of the Serpent” in Terra Incognita: Lost Worlds of Fantasy and Adventure

M. Stirling (author): Blood of the Serpent

The Rankin—Artistic achievement

Mahmud Asrar – cover/page artist for King Conan #1-6 (Marvel)

Rodney Buchemi – page artist for Bêlit & Valeria: Swords vs. Sorcery #1-5 (Ablaze)

Gio Guimarães – cover artist for O Rebelde (Script Editora)

Stevan Subic – artist for Conan le Cimmérien–Xuthal la Crépusculaire (Éditions Glénat)

Darell Tuchton – cover artist for Dark Adventure Radio Theatre: The Black Stone

The Black River—Special Achievement

Jason Ray Carney – Editor of The Dark Man, organizer of SpiralCon and the Trigon Awards, promoted Robert E. Howard through a TED Talk and an article in the LA Review of Books – “Reading Sword-and-Sorcery to Make the Present Less Real”

Stephen Roelants, Alexis and Yannis Metzinger: “The Sources of Fantasy: Robert E. Howard”

The Crom Award

Nominees will be made, (if there are any nominations for it) and voted on only by the REHF Board of Directors.

The Black Circle Award

Fred Blosser

  1. Sprague De Camp (Posthumous)

Additional nominees may be made by the REHF Board, but the final list will only be voted on by the REHF Board of Directors

Voting has ended. The link for members to vote has been removed. 

Thanks again for your help in creating this year’s 2023 Robert E. Howard Foundation Awards.

The REHF Awards Committee

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