THE SHIRLEY JACKSON AWARDS

Shirley Jackson Awards "in recognition of the legacy of Shirley Jackson’s writing, and with permission of the author’s estate, The Shirley Jackson Awards, Inc. has been established for outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantasy."

NOVEL

• Everything Under, Daisy Johnson (Jonathan Cape)
• In the Night Wood, Dale Bailey (John Joseph Adams Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
• Little Eve, Catriona Ward (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, an imprint of The Orion Publishing Group)
• Social Creature, Tara Isabella Burton (Double Day/Raven Books)
• We Sold Our Souls, Grady Hendrix (Quirk Books)

NOVELLA

• Judderman, DA Northwood (Gary Budden) (Dead Ink Books/Cinder House Publishing)
• The Atrocities, Jeremy C. Shipp (Tor.com)
• The Only Harmless Great Thing, Brooke Bolander (Tor.com)
• The Sea Dreams It Is the Sky, John Hornor Jacobs (HarperCollins Publishers)
• The Taiga Syndrome, Cristina Rivera Garza (Dorothy, a Publishing Project)

NOVELETTE

• “Adriftica,” Maria Dahvana Headley (Robots vs. Fairies)
• “Blood and Smoke, Vinegar and Ashes,” D.P. Watt (The Silent Garden)
• Ghostographs: An Album, Maria Romasco Moore (Rose Metal Press)
• “Help the Witch,” Tom Cox (Help the Witch)
• “The Black Sea,” Chris Mason (Beneath the Waves – Tales from the Deep, April 2018)

SHORT FICTION

• “Back Seat,” Bracken MacLeod (Lost Highways)
• “Hell,” David Hansen (The Charcoal Issue of Fairy Tale Review, March 2018)
• “How to be a Horror Writer,” Tim Waggoner (Vastarien: A Literary Journal vol 1., issue 2 – Summer / Grimscribe Press)
• “The Astronaut,” Christina Wood Martinez (Granta 142: Animalia)
• “The Woman Dies,” Aoko Matsuda, translated from the Japanese by Polly Barton (online edition of Granta 144: genericlovestory)

SINGLE-AUTHOR COLLECTION

• All the Fabulous Beasts, Priya Sharma (Undertow Publications)
• Drawn up from Deep Places, Gemma Files (Trepidatio Publishing)
• Garden of Eldritch Delights, Lucy A. Snyder (Raw Dog Screaming Press)
• Quartier Perdu, Sean O’Brien (Comma Press)
• The Human Alchemy, Michael Griffin (Word Horde)

EDITED ANTHOLOGY

• Chiral Mad 4: An Anthology of Collaborations, edited by Michael Bailey and Lucy A. Snyder (Written Backwards)
• Robots vs. Fairies, edited by Navah Wolfe and Dominik Parisien (Saga Press)
• The Silent Garden: A Journal of Esoteric Fabulism, edited by The Silent Garden Collective (Undertow Publications)
• This Dreaming Isle, edited by Dan Coxon (Unsung Stories)
• Tiny Crimes: Very Short Tales of Mystery and Murder, edited by Lincoln Michel and Nadxieli Nieto (Black Balloon)

HT: The Rap Sheet

Shirley Jackson Awards

Shirley Jackson Awards, "in recognition of the legacy of Shirley Jackson’s writing, and with permission of the author’s estate, The Shirley Jackson Awards, Inc. has been established for outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic."
 
Best Novel:
Experimental Film, by Gemma Files (ChiZine Publications)

Also nominated: Eileen, by Ottessa Moshfegh (Penguin Press); The Glittering World, by Robert Levy (Gallery); Lord Byron’s Prophecy, by Sean Eads (Lethe Press); and When We Were Animals, by Joshua Gaylord (Mulholland)

Best Novella:
Wylding Hall, by Elizabeth Hand (PS Publishing/Open Road)

Also nominated: The Box Jumper, by Lisa Mannetti (Smart Rhino); In the Lovecraft Museum, by Steve Tem (PS Publishing); Unusual Concentrations, by S.J. Spurrier (Simon Spurrier); and The Visible Filth, by Nathan Ballingrud (This Is Horror)

Best Novelette:

“Even Clean Hands Can Do Damage,” Steve Duffy (Supernatural Tales #30, Autumn)

Also nominated: “The Briskwater Mare,” Deborah Kalin (Cherry Crow Children, Twelfth Planet Press); “The Deepwater Bride,” Tamsyn Muir (Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, July-August 2015); “Fabulous Beasts,” Priya Sharma (Tor.com, July 2015); “The Thyme Fiend,” Jeffrey Ford (Tor.com, March 2015)

Best Short Fiction:

“The Dying Season,” Lynda E. Rucker (Aickman’s Heirs)

Also nominated: “A Beautiful Memory,” Shannon Peavey (Apex Magazine), “Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers,” Alyssa Wong (Nightmare), “Seven Minutes in Heaven,” Nadia Bulkin (Aickman’s Heirs), “Wilderness,” Letitia Trent (Exigencies)

Best Single-Author Collection

The Bazaar of Bad Dreams, Stephen King (Scribner)

Also nominated: The End of the End of Everything, Dale Bailey (Arche Press), Get in Trouble, Kelly Link (Random House), Gutshot, Amelia Gray (FSG Originals), The Nameless Dark – A Collection, T.E. Grau (Lethe Press), You Have Never Been Here, Mary Rickert (Small Beer Press)

Best Edited AnthologyEDITED ANTHOLOGY

Aickman’s Heirs, edited by Simon Strantzas (Undertow Publications)

Also nominated:  Black Wings IV, edited by S.T. Joshi (PS Publishing), The Doll Collection, edited by Ellen Datlow (Tor), Exigencies, edited by Richard Thomas (Dark House Press), Seize the Night, edited by Christopher Golden (Gallery)

Shirley Jackson (1916-1965) wrote such classic novels as The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, as well as one of the most famous short stories in the English language, “The Lottery.” Her work continues to be a major influence on writers of every kind of fiction, from the most traditional genre offerings to the most innovative literary work.

HT: The Rap Sheet

Shirley Jackson Awards Nominees

In recognition of the legacy of Shirley Jackson’s writing, and with permission of the author’s estate, The Shirley Jackson Awards, Inc. has been established for outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic.

The Shirley Jackson Awards are voted upon by a jury of professional writers, editors, critics, and academics.  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 nominees for the 2015 Shirley Jackson Awards are:

NOVEL
Eileen, Ottessa Moshfegh (Penguin Press)
Experimental Film, Gemma Files (ChiZine Publications)
The Glittering World, Robert Levy (Gallery)
Lord Byron’s Prophecy, Sean Eads (Lethe Press)
When We Were Animals, Joshua Gaylord (Mulholland Books)

NOVELLA
The Box Jumper, Lisa Mannetti (Smart Rhino)
In the Lovecraft Museum, Steve Tem (PS Publishing)
Unusual Concentrations, S.J. Spurrier (Simon Spurrier)
The Visible Filth, Nathan Ballingrud (This Is Horror)
Wylding Hall, Elizabeth Hand (PS Publishing-UK/Open Road Media-US)

NOVELETTE
“The Briskwater Mare,” Deborah Kalin (Cherry Crow Children, Twelfth Planet Press)
“The Deepwater Bride,” Tamsyn Muir (Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, July-August 2015)
“Even Clean Hands Can Do Damage,” Steve Duffy (Supernatural Tales #30, Autumn)
“Fabulous Beasts,” Priya Sharma (Tor.com, July 2015)
“The Thyme Fiend,” Jeffrey Ford (Tor.com, March 2015)

SHORT FICTION
“A Beautiful Memory,” Shannon Peavey (Apex Magazine)
“Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers,” Alyssa Wong (Nightmare)
“Seven Minutes in Heaven,” Nadia Bulkin (Aickman’s Heirs)
“The Dying Season,” Lynda E. Rucker (Aickman’s Heirs)
“Wilderness,” Letitia Trent (Exigencies)

SINGLE-AUTHOR COLLECTION
The Bazaar of Bad Dreams, Stephen King (Scribner)
The End of the End of Everything, Dale Bailey (Arche Press)
Get in Trouble, Kelly Link (Random House)
Gutshot, Amelia Gray (FSG Originals)
The Nameless Dark – A Collection, T.E. Grau (Lethe Press)
You Have Never Been Here, Mary Rickert (Small Beer Press)

EDITED ANTHOLOGY
Aickman’s Heirs, edited by Simon Strantzas (Undertow Publications)
Black Wings IV, edited by S.T. Joshi (PS Publishing)
The Doll Collection, edited by Ellen Datlow (Tor)
Exigencies, edited by Richard Thomas (Dark House Press)
Seize the Night, edited by Christopher Golden (Gallery)

Shirley Jackson (1916-1965) wrote such classic novels as The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, as well as one of the most famous short stories in the English language, “The Lottery.”  Her work continues to be a major influence on writers of every kind of fiction, from the most traditional genre offerings to the most innovative literary work.

The 2015 Shirley Jackson Awards will be presented on Sunday, July 10, 2016, at Readercon 27, Conference on Imaginative Literature, in Quincy, Massachusetts.

Shirley Jackson Awards

Winners for the 2013 Shirley Jackson Awards. Awarded every year in recognition of the legacy of Shirley Jackson, the awards honor exceptional work in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and dark fantasy. The Shirley Jackson Awards were presented at Readercon 25
 
NOVEL
American Elsewhere, Robert Jackson Bennett (Orbit)

NOVELLA
Burning Girls, Veronica Schanoes (Tor.com)

NOVELETTE
Cry Murder! In a Small Voice, Greer Gilman (Small Beer Press)

SHORT FICTION
Winner: “57 Reasons for the Slate Quarry Suicides,” Sam J. Miller (Nightmare Magazine, December 2013)  

SINGLE-AUTHOR COLLECTION
Before and Afterlives, Christopher Barzak (Lethe Press) 
North American Lake Monsters, Nathan Ballingrud (Small Beer Press)

EDITED ANTHOLOGY
Grimscribe’s Puppets, edited by Joseph S. Pulver, Sr. (Miskatonic River Press)

HT: Tor via The RapSheet