Literary award for works of dark fantasy and psychological suspense
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 are only three years old, but 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]
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 in the following categories: Novel , Novella , Novelette , Short Story , Single-Author Collection and Edited Anthology .
The first annual Shirley Jackson Awards were presented 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.
Winners
Shirley Jackson Award winners
Year
Category
Author
Title
Publisher
Ref.
2007
Anthology
Ellen Datlow
Inferno
[3]
Collection
Laird Barron
The Imago Sequence and Other Stories
Novel
Elizabeth Hand
Generation Loss
Novelette
Glen Hirshberg
The Janus Tree
Novella
Lucius Shepard
Vacancy
[3] [4]
Short Story
Nathan Ballingrud
"The Monsters of Heaven "
[3]
2008
Anthology
Sarah Eyre and Ra Page
The New Uncanny
[5] [6]
Collection
Yōko Ogawa
The Diving Pool
Novel
Jeffrey Ford
The Shadow Year
Novelette
John Kessel
Pride and Prometheus
Novella
Julia Leigh
Disquiet
Short Story
Michael Bishop
"The Pile "
2009
Anthology
Ellen Datlow
Poe: 19 New Tales Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe
[7] [8] [9]
Collection
Robert Shearman
Love Songs for the Shy and Cynical
Kevin Wilson
Tunneling to the Center of the Earth
Novel
Victor LaValle
Big Machine
Novelette
Stephen King
Morality
Novella
Nick Antosca
Midnight Picnic
Short Story
Karen Joy Fowler
"The Pelican Bar "
2010
Anthology
Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio
Stories: All New Tales
[10] [11]
Collection
Laird Barron
Occultation
Novel
Robert Jackson Bennett
Mr. Shivers
Novelette
Neil Gaiman
Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains
Novella
Laird Barron
Mysterium Tremendum
Short Story
Peter Watts
"The Things "
2011
Edited Anthology
Jack Dann and Nick Gevers (ed.)
Ghosts by Gaslight
Harper Voyager
[12] [13] [14]
Novel
Sheri Holman
Witches on the Road Tonight
Grove Press
Novelette
Kelly Link
The Summer People
Tin House 49/Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories , Candlewick Press
Novella
Elizabeth Hand
Near Zennor
A Book of Horrors , Jo Fletcher Books
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
[15] [16] [17]
Novel
Koji Suzuki
Edge
Vertical
Novelette
Karen Russell
Reeling for the Empire
Tin House , Winter 2012
Novella
Kaaron Warren
Sky
Twelfth Planet Press
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
[18] [19] [20]
Novel
Robert Jackson Bennett
American Elsewhere
Orbit
Novella
Veronica Schanoes
Burning Girls
Tor.com
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
[21] [18] [19]
Christopher Barzak
Before and Afterlives
Lethe Press
[18] [19]
2014
Edited Anthology
Ellen Datlow
Fearful Symmetries
ChiZine Publications
[22] [23] [24]
Novel
Jeff VanderMeer
Annihilation
FSG Originals
Novella
Daryl Gregory
We Are All Completely Fine
Tachyon
Novelette
Dale Bailey
The End of the End of Everything
Tor.com , April 2014
[25] [22] [23] [24]
Short Fiction
Alison Littlewood
"The Dogs Home "
The Spectral Book of Horror Stories , Spectral Press
[22] [23] [24]
Single Author Collection
Helen Marshall
Gifts for the One who Comes After
ChiZine Publications
2015
Edited Anthology
Simon Strantzas
Aickman's Heirs
Undertow Publications
[26] [27]
Novel
Gemma Files
Experimental Film
ChiZine Publications
Novella
Elizabeth Hand
Wylding Hall
PS Publishing / Open Road Media
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
[28] [29] [30]
Edited Anthology
Dominik Parisien and Navah Wolfe (ed.)
The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales
Saga Press
Novel
Emma Cline
The Girls
Random House
Novelette
Camilla Grudova
"Waxy"
Granta
Novella
Victor LaValle
The Ballad of Black Tom
Tor.com
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
[31] [32]
Novel
Pyun Hye-young
The Hole
Arcade Publishing
Novelette
Chavisa Woods
Take the Way Home That Leads Back to Sullivan Street
Things to Do When You’re Goth in the Country
Novella
Lindsey Drager
The Lost Daughter Collective
Dzanc Books
Samanta Schweblin
Fever Dream
Riverhead Books
Short Fiction
Kurt Fawver
"The Convexity of Our Youth "
Looming Low
Single-Author Collection
Carmen Maria Machado
Her Body and Other Parties
Graywolf Press
[33] [31] [32]
2018
Edited Anthology
Dominik Parisien and Navah Wolfe (ed.)
Robots vs Fairies
Saga
[34] [35]
Novel
Catriona Ward
Little Eve
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Novelette
Tom Cox
Help the Witch
Unbound
Novella
Cristina Rivera Garza
The Taiga Syndrome
Dorothy, a publishing project
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
[36] [37] [38]
Novel
Sarah Rose Etter
The Book of X
Two Dollar Radio
Novelette
Brooke Warra
Luminous Body
Dim Shores
Novella
Priya Sharma
Ormeshadow
Tor.com
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
[39] [40] [41]
Novel
Stephen Graham Jones
The Only Good Indians
Saga
Novelette
J. Ashley-Smith
The Attic Tragedy
Meerkat
Novella
Stephen Graham Jones
Night of the Mannequins
Tor.com
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
[42] [43]
dave ring
Unfettered Hexes: Queer Tales of Insatiable Darkness
Neon Hemlock
Novel
Stephen Graham Jones
My Heart is a Chainsaw
Saga
Novelette
E. A. Petricone
We, the Girls Who Did Not Make It
Nightmare
Novella
Zin E. Rocklyn
Flowers for the Sea
Tor.com
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
[44]
Novel
Gabino Iglesias
The Devil Takes You Home
Mulholland Books
Sophie White
Where I End
Tramp Press
Novelette
Nghi Vo
What the Dead Know
Amazon Original Stories
Novella
Angela Slatter
The Bone Lantern
PS Publishing
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
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