Knock Knock by S.P. Miskowski Nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award

May 2, 2012 - PRLog -- Knock Knock, S.P. Miskowski’s debut novel published by Omnium Gatherum Media was nominated for a Shirley Jackson award  in the novel category. The winner of the award will be announced at Readercon 23 Conference on Imaginative Literature in Burlington Massachusetts.

At the center of S.P. Miskowski's novel-length fairy tale are three restless girls, best friends stuck in the backwater of Skillute, Washington in the late 1960s. Their neighbors and families are petty or poor or both. They warn the girls not to wander into Skillute's dense forest; something evil lurks there, people say. The girls are not convinced. They wander too far into the woods and perform a playful oath, Their mistake unleashes a malignant spirit that terrorizes Skillute for the next fifty years.

S.P. Miskowski's stories have been published by Identity Theory, Horror Bound Online Magazine, The Absent Willow Review, Other Voices, The Stranger and New Times, and will appear in Supernatural Tales 21 and the Omnium Gatherum anthology Detritus. She received two Swarthout prizes for fiction as an undergraduate, and two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, one for short stories and one for drama. Her play "my new friends (are so much better than you)" was nominated for the American Theatre Critics Association/Steinberg New Play Award. Her latest play "Emerald City" will be produced by Live Girls! Theater in Spring 2012. She is a member of Wily Writers.

To find out more about Knock Knock visit http://omniumgatherumedia.com.