2025 DBT LITERARY AWARDS
Second Place: Fiction, Literary
Will Barnes knows he is dying and tries to teach his granddaughter Manuela how to face the struggles he has been through so she can face the challenges ahead in her future.
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2025 DBT LITERARY AWARDS
Third Place: Fiction, Literary
As reality blurs with dreams and carefully laid plans unravel at every turn, thirty-four-year-old René Navarro is forced to confront the one thing he’s never dared to face: himself.
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2025 DBT LITERARY AWARDS
First Place: Fiction, Suspense
“Politics and personal beliefs collide in this taut thriller.” — The DBT Literary Awards Judges
A Texas millionaire, a private investigator, and a reclusive man pursue Rasputin to New Orleans in a race against time to foil his plan to bomb the Republican National Convention in the Superdome.
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2025 DBT LITERARY AWARDS
Second Place: Fiction, Suspense
To stay alive, Anika Raven and her little sister must overcome a jealous town, rabid adversaries bent on vigilante justice, and a monster hurricane . . . all coming at them with a vengeance.
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2025 DBT LITERARY AWARDS
Third Place: Fiction, Suspense
A fight against an international tyrant profiting from abducted children ensues as war hero Alton West and Odessa, a powerful woman on a quest for redemption, chase clues to the criminal while others try to stop them by death.
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2025 DBT LITERARY AWARDS
Honorable Mention: Fiction, Suspense
With the resources of his elite team of investigators, Commander Jonathan Meyers is determined to not only capture an international criminal but to save the beautiful Abigail Baxter from his clutches. Who will be the victor?
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2025 DBT LITERARY AWARDS
Honorable Mention: Fiction, Suspense
As the economy starts to surge to life again, neighborhood gossip and unexpected canine conduct escalates discord between the neighbors, resulting in a tragedy that changes everything.
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2025 DBT LITERARY AWARDS
First Place: Horror
“Intensity builds as ordinary people figure out how to survive in extraordinary circumstances.” — The DBT Literary Awards Judges
More than a third of the population is carrying the contagion and turning into hyper-aggressive predators, with their family, friends, and neighbors as their prey. Now a group of survivors must band together and face the chaos of the new world.
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2025 DBT LITERARY AWARDS
Second Place: Horror
It’s an El Niño summer in Tucson, and the burgeoning heat brings with it a single mirage of terror, a disturbing nightmare featuring a supernatural entity that grows from the body of a deceased animal. Who is this mysterious creature?
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2025 DBT LITERARY AWARDS
Third Place: Horror
Clay learns that his parents kept many secrets from him—not the least being there’s a family calling that involves monster-wrangling, and a family axe with a mind of its own that may or may not be trying to talk to him.
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2025 DBT LITERARY AWARDS
Honorable Mention: Horror
A Gripping, Dark, Southern Saga. In a 90s-era Kentucky fueled by sex, drugs, and violence, the Cunninghams will stop at nothing to find The Temple, a place of unimaginable wealth and glory.
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2025 DBT LITERARY AWARDS
First Place: Horror, Collection
“A frightening, fresh Etch-A-Sketch variety of horror shorts.” — The DBT Literary Awards Judges
Eleven tales of decade-spanning delirium housing monstrosities, murder and assorted depravity. These are the grotesque misdeeds of ghouls, monsters, freaks, werewolves and repulsive death dealers.
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2025 DBT LITERARY AWARDS
Second Place: Horror, Collection
Stories of old gods and new nightmares, of the evil men do, and of the terrors lingering in the dark. Each story is a descent into fear, madness, and the realization that the world is far more terrifying than we ever imagined.
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2025 DBT LITERARY AWARDS
Third Place: Horror, Collection
Dare to read and confront the terror that awaits in this chilling collection of flash fiction that drags you into the dark corners of the human soul, where betrayal, fear, and unspeakable horrors lurk.
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2025 DBT LITERARY AWARDS
First Place: Humor
“A humorous trip back to school from the principal’s perspective.” — The DBT Literary Awards Judges
Follow Dr. Joey Strat through all the behind the scenes and unexpected events that take place from graduation night through to the first day of the new school year, as he recalls his own fifth grade summer.
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2025 DBT LITERARY AWARDS
Second Place: Humor
Through intimate exchanges between pairs of creatures, from the regal lions to the unassuming turtles, pairs of creatures share their fears, hopes, and visions of a world reborn.
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