About / Honors
- Monsters in the Mills: More Tales of Horror from the Ocean State, nominated for the Shirley Jackson, Ditmar, and Australasian Shadows Awards for Edited Anthology.
- The Daughters of Block Island, winner of the Bram Stoker Award® for Superior Achievement in a First Novel
- The Daughters of Block Island, nominated for the Shirley Jackson Awards for Best Novel.
- "Through the Looking Glass and Straight into Hell," from Orphans of Bliss: Tales of Addiction Horror (Wicked Run Press), nominated for the 2022 Bram Stoker Award® for Superior Achievement in Long Fiction.
- We Are Providence: Tales of Horror from the Ocean State (Weird House Press), nominated for the 2022 Aurealis Award for Best Anthology.
- Mentioned in The Best Horror of the Year Volume 11, edited by Ellen Datlow, Summation: 2018, Collections: Something Borrowed, Something Blood-Soaked
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Indie Horror Book Award for Best Debut Collection, 2018:
Something Borrowed, Something Blood-Soaked - Best-Of Anthologies: Year's Best Hardcore Horror, Volume 2
Read more via Comet Press, or at Corner Bar Magazine, where "The Girl Who Loved Bruce Campbell" was originally published, or listen at Horror Hill, Chilling Tales for Dark Nights / The Simply Scary Podcast Network - The Haberdasher's Monster Mash Slash Fiction 4th Annual Halloween Writing Contest, 2017
Read more at The Haberdasher, or at C.S.E. Cooney's website, where "The Goblin's Abettor" was originally published - Best in Genre, Thriller/Horror, wordhaus' 2016 Trick or Treat Fall Story Contest
- PatZi, Creator & Host of JOY ON PAPER LIVE!, presents READERS MZINE, Issue 1 - May 2026, including a feature on Christa Carmen and Beneath the Poet's House.
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9 Thrilling and Spooky Reads for the Halloween Season
The Reading Lists Staff, Medium -
Halloween's Most Horrifying Horror
The Chill Quill, BookTrib - Dave Simms offers a stunning review of The Daughters of Block Island for Cemetery Dance: "The gothic horror novel just received a massive shot of adrenaline to its bleak-but-beautiful-heart...a stunning novel that arrives in the final month of the year, just in time for the calendar's longest nights of darkness. In this debut novel, Carmen doesn't attempt to top the classics; instead, she subverts them in a unique manner. She embraces the tropes that made the subgenre what it is and forges an enthralling tale of two sisters, a strange town, and a cast of characters that would make the masters proud...If this is any indication of what Christa Carmen can bring into the world, readers will be smiling under candlelight for years to come. An exceptional new talent has arrived."
Events
Nov 14, 2026
Time: 5:00 - 6:00 pm
Salem Lit Fest
Panel: Women Writing Horror: Bugs, Bodies, & Things That Go Bump with Christa Carmen, Rebecca Baum, & Tanya Eby. 50 Washington Street Salem, MA
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Time: 5:00 - 6:00 pm
Salem Lit Fest
Panel: Women Writing Horror: Bugs, Bodies, & Things That Go Bump with Christa Carmen, Rebecca Baum, & Tanya Eby. 50 Washington Street Salem, MA
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Dec 09, 2026
Time: 7:00pm
Fantastic Fiction at KGB:
A monthly speculative fiction reading series in New York City, hosted by Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel with Christa Carmen & Paul Tremblay. KGB Bar 85 East 4th Street New York, NY
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Time: 7:00pm
Fantastic Fiction at KGB:
A monthly speculative fiction reading series in New York City, hosted by Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel with Christa Carmen & Paul Tremblay. KGB Bar 85 East 4th Street New York, NY
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Feb 14, 2027
Boskone 64
Westin Boston Seaport District Boston, MA Event runs from February 12-14.
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Boskone 64
Westin Boston Seaport District Boston, MA Event runs from February 12-14.
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