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 the dark fantastic are presented at Readercon, an annual conference on imaginative literature.
Writing in Salon in 2010, Laura Miller noted, "The awards are only 3 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."
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.
Novel: Generation Loss by Elizabeth Hand
Novella: "Vacancy" by Lucius Shepard
Novelette: "The Janus Tree" by Glen Hirshberg
Short Story: "The Monsters of Heaven" by Nathan Ballingrud
Collection: The Imago Sequence and Other Stories by Laird Barron
Anthology: Inferno edited by Ellen Datlow
Novel: The Shadow Year by Jeffrey Ford
Novella: "Disquiet" by Julia Leigh
Novelette: "Pride and Prometheus" by John Kessel
Short Story: "The Pile" by Michael Bishop
Collection: The Diving Pool by Yoko Ogawa
Anthology: The New Uncanny edited by Sarah Eyre and Ra Page
Novel: Big Machine by Victor LaValle
Novella: "Midnight Picnic" by Nick Antosca
Novelette: "Morality" by Stephen King
Short Story: "The Pelican Bar" by Karen Joy Fowler
Collection: Tunneling to the Center of the Earth by Kevin Wilson
Collection: Love Songs for the Shy and Cynical by Robert Shearman
Anthology: Poe: 19 New Tales Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe edited by Ellen Datlow
Novel: Mr. Shivers by Robert Jackson Bennett
Novella: "Mysterium Tremendum" by Laird Barron
Novelette: "Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains" by Neil Gaiman
Short Story: "The Things" by Peter Watts
Collection: Occultation by Laird Barron
Anthology: Stories: All New Tales edited by Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio
Novel: Witches on the Road Tonight, Sheri Holman (Grove Press)
Novella: “Near Zennor,” Elizabeth Hand (A Book of Horrors, Jo Fletcher Books)
Novelette: “The Summer People,” Kelly Link (Tin House 49/Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories, Candlewick Press)
Short Fiction: “The Corpse Painter’s Masterpiece,” M. Rickert (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Sept/Oct, 2011)
Single-Author Collection: After the Apocalypse: Stories, Maureen F. McHugh (Small Beer Press)
Edited Anthology: Ghosts by Gaslight, edited by Jack Dann and Nick Gevers (Harper Voyager)
Novel: Edge, Koji Suzuki (Vertical, Inc)
Novella: "Sky," Kaaron Warren (Through Splintered Walls, Twelfth Planet Press)
Novelette: "Reeling for the Empire," Karen Russell (Tin House, Winter 2012)
Short Fiction: "A Natural History of Autumn," Jeffrey Ford (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, July/August 2012)
Single Author Collection: Crackpot Palace, Jeffrey Ford (William Morrow)
Edited Anthology: Exotic Gothic 4: Postscripts #28/29, edited by Daniel Olson (PS Publishing)
Novel: American Elsewhere, Robert Jackson Bennett (Orbit)
Novella: "Burning Girls", Veronica Schanoes (Tor.com)
Novellette: "Cry Murder! In a Small Voice", Greer Gilman (Small Beer Press)
Short Fiction: "57 Reasons for the Slate Quarry Suicides", Sam J. Miller (Nightmare Magazine, December 2013)
Single Author Collection (two Winners): Before and Afterlives, Christopher Barzak (Lethe Press) and North American Lake Monsters, Nathan Ballingrud (Small Beer Press)
Edited Anthology: The Grimscribe’s Puppets, edited by Joseph S. Pulver, Sr. (Miskatonic River Press)
Novel: Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer (FSG Originals)
Novella: We Are All Completely Fine, Daryl Gregory (Tachyon)
Novellette: “The End of the End of Everything”, Dale Bailey (Tor.com, April 2014)
Short Fiction: “The Dogs Home”, Alison Littlewood (The Spectral Book of Horror Stories, Spectral Press)
Single Author Collection: Gifts for the One who Comes After, Helen Marshall (ChiZine Publications)
Edited Anthology: Fearful Symmetries, edited by Ellen Datlow (ChiZine Publications)
Novel: "Experimental Film" Gemma Files (ChiZine Publications)
Novella: "Wylding Hall" Elizabeth Hand (PS Publishing / Open Road Media)
Novellette: "Even Clean Hands Can Do Damage" Steve Duffy ("Supernatural Tales" #30)
Short Fiction: "The Dying Season" Lynda E. Rucker (Aickman's Heirs)
Single Author Collection: "The Bazaar of Bad Dreams" Stephen King (Scribner)
Edited Anthology: "Aickman's Heirs", edited by Simon Strantzas (Undertow Publications)
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