Shirley Jackson Award Explained

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		Inferno		[3]
	Collection
	Novel		Generation Loss
	Novelette
	Novella		Vacancy		[4]
	Short Story		""
2008	Anthology	and Ra Page			[5] [6]
	Collection
	Novel		The Shadow Year
	Novelette		Pride and Prometheus
	Novella		Disquiet
	Short Story		""
2009	Anthology		Poe: 19 New Tales Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe		[7] [8] [9]
	Collection		Love Songs for the Shy and Cynical
			Tunneling to the Center of the Earth
	Novel		Big Machine
	Novelette		Morality
	Novella		Midnight Picnic
	Short Story		""
2010	Anthology	and Al Sarrantonio	Stories: All New Tales		[10] [11]
	Collection		Occultation
	Novel		Mr. Shivers
	Novelette		Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains
	Novella		Mysterium Tremendum
	Short Story		""
2011	Edited Anthology	and Nick Gevers (ed.)	Ghosts by Gaslight	Harper Voyager	[12] [13] [14]
	Novel		Witches on the Road Tonight	Grove Press
	Novelette			Tin House 49/Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories, Candlewick Press
	Novella		Near Zennor	A Book of Horrors, Jo Fletcher Books
	Short Fiction		""	The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Sept/Oct, 2011
	Single-Author Collection		After the Apocalypse: Stories	Small Beer Press
2012	Edited Anthology		Exotic Gothic 4: Postscripts #28/29	PS Publishing	[15] [16] [17]
	Novel		Edge	Vertical
	Novelette		Reeling for the Empire	Tin House, Winter 2012
	Novella		Sky	Twelfth Planet Press
	Short Fiction			The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, July/August 2012
	Single Author Collection		Crackpot Palace	William Morrow & Co.
2013	Edited Anthology			Miskatonic River Press	[18] [19] [20]
	Novel		American Elsewhere	Orbit
	Novella		Burning Girls	Tor.com
	Novelette		Cry Murder! In a Small Voice	Small Beer Press
	Short Fiction		"57 Reasons for the Slate Quarry Suicides"	Nightmare Magazine, December 2013
	Single Author Collection		North American Lake Monsters	Small Beer Press	[21]
			Before and Afterlives	Lethe Press
2014	Edited Anthology		Fearful Symmetries	ChiZine Publications	[22] [23] [24]
	Novel		Annihilation	FSG Originals
	Novella		We Are All Completely Fine	Tachyon
	Novelette			Tor.com, April 2014	[25]
	Short Fiction		""	The Spectral Book of Horror Stories, Spectral Press
	Single Author Collection		Gifts for the One who Comes After	ChiZine Publications
2015	Edited Anthology		Aickman's Heirs	Undertow Publications	[26] [27]
	Novel		Experimental Film	ChiZine Publications
	Novella		Wylding Hall	PS Publishing / Open Road Media
	Novelette		Even Clean Hands Can Do Damage	Supernatural Tales #30
	Short Fiction		""	Aickman's Heirs
	Single Author Collection			Scribner
2016	Board of Directors Award		Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life		[28] [29] [30]
	Edited Anthology	and Navah Wolfe (ed.)		Saga Press
	Novel		The Girls	Random House
	Novelette		"Waxy"	Granta
	Novella			Tor.com
	Short Fiction		"Postcards from Natalie"	The Dark
	Single-Author Collection			Small Beer Press
2017	Edited Anthology		Shadows and Tall Trees Volume 7	Undertow Publications	[31] [32]
	Novel			Arcade Publishing
	Novelette		Take the Way Home That Leads Back to Sullivan Street	Things to Do When You’re Goth in the Country
	Novella			Dzanc Books
			Fever Dream	Riverhead Books
	Short Fiction		""	Looming Low
	Single-Author Collection		Her Body and Other Parties	Graywolf Press	[33]
2018	Edited Anthology	and Navah Wolfe (ed.)	Robots vs Fairies	Saga	[34] [35]
	Novel		Little Eve	Weidenfeld & Nicolson
	Novelette		Help the Witch	Unbound
	Novella			Dorothy, a publishing project
	Short Fiction		""	Granta, Winter ’18
	Single-Author Collection		All the Fabulous Beasts	Undertow
2019	Edited Anthology	and James A. Moore (ed.)		Twisted Publishing	[36] [37] [38]
	Novel			Two Dollar Radio
	Novelette		Luminous Body	Dim Shores
	Novella		Ormeshadow	Tor.com
	Short Fiction		"Kali_Na"	The Mythic Dream
	Single-Author Collection		Song for the Unraveling of the World	Coffee House Press
2020	Edited Anthology	and Geneve Flynn (ed.)	Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women	Omnium Gatherum	[39] [40] [41]
	Novel			Saga
	Novelette			Meerkat
	Novella		Night of the Mannequins	Tor.com
	Short Fiction		"Not the Man I Married"	Black Petals
	Single-Author Collection		Velocities	Meerkat
2021	Edited Anthology		Professor Charlatan Bardot’s Travel Anthology to the Most (Fictional) Haunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World	Dark Moon	[42] [43]
			Unfettered Hexes: Queer Tales of Insatiable Darkness	Neon Hemlock
	Novel		My Heart is a Chainsaw	Saga
	Novelette		We, the Girls Who Did Not Make It	Nightmare
	Novella		Flowers for the Sea	Tor.com
	Short Fiction		"You’ll Understand When You're a Mom Someday"	Khoréo
	Single-Author Collection		Folk Songs for Trauma Surgeons	Meerkat
2022	Edited Anthology		The Hideous Book of Hidden Horrors	Bad Hand	[44]
	Novel		The Devil Takes You Home	Mulholland Books
			Where I End	Tramp Press
	Novelette		What the Dead Know	Amazon Original Stories
	Novella		The Bone Lantern	PS Publishing
	Short Fiction		"Pre-Simulation Consultation XF007867"	Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century
	Single-Author Collection		We Are Here to Hurt Each Other	Nictitating
2023	Edited Anthology		Aseptic and Faintly Sadistic	Cosmic Horror Monthly	[45]
	Novel		The Reformatory	Saga Press
	Novelette		"Six Versions of My Brother Found Under the Bridge"	Uncanny Magazine
	Novella		To the Woman in the Pink Hat	Aqueduct
	Short Fiction		"The First Mrs. Edward Rochester Would Like a Word"	Aseptic and Faintly Sadistic
	Single-Author Collection		They Will Dream in the Garden	Rosarium

External links

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Notes and References

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