Shirley Jackson Award

The Shirley Jackson Awards are literary awards named after Shirley Jackson in recognition of her legacy in writing. These awards for outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror and dark fantasy are presented at Readercon, an annual conference on imaginative literature.[1]

Writing in Salon in 2010, Laura Miller noted, "The awards...have already proved a fitting tribute to a writer who roamed freely over similar ground and has never quite gotten the respect she deserves."[2]

The first annual Shirley Jackson Awards were presented on July 20, 2007, at the Readercon Conference on Imaginative Literature in Burlington, Massachusetts. The jurors were John Langan, Sarah Langan, Paul G. Tremblay and F. Brett Cox, who now form the board of directors along with JoAnn Cox.

Categories

Award winners are selected by a jury of professional writers, editors, critics and academics, with input from a board of advisors. The awards are given for the best work published in the preceding calendar year.[3]

Category Description
Best Novel Fictional work of 40,000 words or more
Best Novella Fictional work of between 17,500 and 39,999 words
Best Novelette Fictional work of between 7,500 and 17,499 words
Best Short Story Fictional work of less than 7,500 words
Best Collection At least 40,000 words, consisting of at least 3 fictional works by a single author. At least half of the collection’s contents must be fiction.
Best Anthology At least 40,000 words, consisting of at least 3 stories by 3 or more authors. At least half of the included works must have been previously unpublished.

Winners

Shirley Jackson Award winners
Year Category Author Title Publisher Ref.
2007 Anthology Ellen Datlow Inferno [4]
Collection Laird Barron The Imago Sequence and Other Stories
Novelette Glen Hirshberg The Janus Tree
Short Story Nathan Ballingrud "The Monsters of Heaven" [4]
2008 Anthology Sarah Eyre and Ra Page The New Uncanny [5]
Collection Yōko Ogawa The Diving Pool
Novelette John Kessel Pride and Prometheus
Short Story Michael Bishop "The Pile"
2009 Anthology Ellen Datlow Poe: 19 New Tales Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe [6]
Collection Robert Shearman Love Songs for the Shy and Cynical
Kevin Wilson Tunneling to the Center of the Earth
Novelette Stephen King Morality
Short Story Karen Joy Fowler "The Pelican Bar"
2010 Anthology Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio Stories: All New Tales [7]
Collection Laird Barron Occultation
Novelette Neil Gaiman Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains
Short Story Peter Watts "The Things"
2011 Edited Anthology Jack Dann and Nick Gevers (ed.) Ghosts by Gaslight Harper Voyager [8]
Novelette Kelly Link The Summer People Tin House 49/Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories, Candlewick Press
Short Fiction M. Rickert "The Corpse Painter’s Masterpiece" The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Sept/Oct, 2011
Single-Author Collection Maureen F. McHugh After the Apocalypse: Stories Small Beer Press
2012 Edited Anthology Danel Olson Exotic Gothic 4: Postscripts #28/29 PS Publishing [9]
Novelette Karen Russell Reeling for the Empire Tin House, Winter 2012
Short Fiction Jeffrey Ford "A Natural History of Autumn" The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, July/August 2012
Single Author Collection Jeffrey Ford Crackpot Palace William Morrow & Co.
2013 Edited Anthology Joseph S. Pulver, Sr. The Grimscribe’s Puppets Miskatonic River Press [10]
Novelette Greer Gilman Cry Murder! In a Small Voice Small Beer Press
Short Fiction Sam J. Miller "57 Reasons for the Slate Quarry Suicides" Nightmare Magazine, December 2013
Single Author Collection Nathan Ballingrud North American Lake Monsters Small Beer Press [11]
Christopher Barzak Before and Afterlives Lethe Press
2014 Edited Anthology Ellen Datlow Fearful Symmetries ChiZine Publications [12]
Novelette Dale Bailey The End of the End of Everything Tor.com, April 2014 [13]
Short Fiction Alison Littlewood "The Dogs Home" The Spectral Book of Horror Stories, Spectral Press
Single Author Collection Helen Marshall Gifts for the One who Comes After ChiZine Publications
2015 Edited Anthology Simon Strantzas Aickman's Heirs Undertow Publications [14]
Novelette Steve Duffy Even Clean Hands Can Do Damage Supernatural Tales #30
Short Fiction Lynda E. Rucker "The Dying Season" Aickman's Heirs
Single Author Collection Stephen King The Bazaar of Bad Dreams Scribner
2016 Board of Directors Award Ruth Franklin Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life [15]
Edited Anthology Dominik Parisien and Navah Wolfe (ed.) The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales Saga Press
Novelette Camilla Grudova "Waxy" Granta
Short Fiction Carrie Laben "Postcards from Natalie" The Dark
Single-Author Collection Jeffrey Ford A Natural History of Hell Small Beer Press
2017 Edited Anthology Michael Kelly Shadows and Tall Trees Volume 7 Undertow Publications [16]
Novelette Chavisa Woods Take the Way Home That Leads Back to Sullivan Street Things to Do When You’re Goth in the Country
Short Fiction Kurt Fawver "The Convexity of Our Youth" Looming Low
Single-Author Collection Carmen Maria Machado Her Body and Other Parties Graywolf Press [17]
2018 Edited Anthology Dominik Parisien and Navah Wolfe (ed.) Robots vs Fairies Saga [18]
Novelette Tom Cox Help the Witch Unbound
Short Fiction Christina Wood Martinez "The Astronaut" Granta, Winter '18
Single-Author Collection Priya Sharma All the Fabulous Beasts Undertow
2019 Edited Anthology Christopher Golden and James A. Moore (ed.) The Twisted Book of Shadows Twisted Publishing [19]
Novelette Brooke Warra Luminous Body Dim Shores
Short Fiction Indrapramit Das "Kali_Na" The Mythic Dream
Single-Author Collection Brian Evenson Song for the Unraveling of the World Coffee House Press
2020 Edited Anthology Lee Murray and Geneve Flynn (ed.) Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women Omnium Gatherum [20]
Novelette J. Ashley-Smith The Attic Tragedy Meerkat
Short Fiction R. A. Busby Not the Man I Married Black Petals
Single-Author Collection Kathe Koja Velocities Meerkat
2021 Edited Anthology Eric J. Guignard Professor Charlatan Bardot’s Travel Anthology to the Most (Fictional) Haunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World Dark Moon Books [21]
dave ring Unfettered Hexes: Queer Tales of Insatiable Darkness Neon Hemlock
Novelette E. A. Petricone We, the Girls Who Did Not Make It Nightmare
Short Fiction Isabel J. Kim You’ll Understand When You're a Mom Someday Khoréo
Single-Author Collection Keith Rosson Folk Songs for Trauma Surgeons Meerkat
2022 Edited Anthology Doug Murano The Hideous Book of Hidden Horrors Bad Hand [22]
Novelette Nghi Vo What the Dead Know Amazon Original Stories
Short Fiction Kim Fu Pre-Simulation Consultation XF007867 Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century
Single-Author Collection Paula D. Ashe We Are Here to Hurt Each Other Nictitating
2023 Edited Anthology Jolie Toomajan Aseptic and Faintly Sadistic Cosmic Horror Monthly [23]
Novelette Eugenia Triantafyllou Six Versions of My Brother Found Under the Bridge Uncanny Magazine
Short Fiction Laura Blackwell The First Mrs. Edward Rochester Would Like a Word Aseptic and Faintly Sadistic
Single-Author Collection Gabriela Damián Miravete They Will Dream in the Garden Rosarium
2024 Edited Anthology Julia Rios and Nadia Bulkin Why Didn’t You Just Leave Cursed Morsels Press [24]
Novelette Kurt Fawver The Thirteen Ways We Turned Darryl Datson into a Monster Dim Shores
Short Fiction Arkady Martine Three Faces of a Beheading Uncanny Magazine
Single-Author Collection Scott Thomas Midwestern Gothic Inkshares

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