Shirley Jackson Award

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The Shirley Jackson Award is a literary prize that has been awarded since 2008 for works in the field of psychological horror literature and fantasy , which are in the tradition of the works of Shirley Jackson , the author of The Haunting of Hill House , who died in 1965 .

They are awarded annually at the Readercon Conference on Imaginative Literature in Burlington, Massachusetts for works published in the previous year. The price categories are:

  • novel ,
  • novella (short novel),
  • novelette (novella),
  • short story (short story)
  • collection (collection of stories by one author) and
  • anthology (compilation of stories from several authors).

A jury made up of writers, editors, critics and literary scholars, taking into account the recommendations of an advisory board, decides on the awards . If the vote results in a tie, awards will be made several times in the relevant category.

The first award ceremony took place at Readercon 19 on July 20, 2008. The jury members were John Langan, Sarah Langan, Paul G. Tremblay and F. Brett Cox, who have since formed the award committee together with JoAnn Cox.

List of award winners

The annual data refer to the award ceremony.

category author title
2019
novel Catriona Ward Little Eve
novella Cristina Rivera Garza The Taiga Syndrome
novelette Tom Cox Help the witch
short fiction Christina Wood Martinez The astronaut
collection Priya Sharma All the Fabulous Beasts
anthology Dominik Parisien & Navah Wolfe (Eds.) Robots vs Fairies
2018
novel Hye-young Pyun The Hole
novella Samantha Schweblin Fever Dream
Lindsey Drager The Lost Daughter Collective
novelette Chavisa Woods Take the Way Home That Leads Back to Sullivan Street
short fiction Kurt Fawver The Convexity of Our Youth
collection Carmen Maria Machado Her Body and Other Parties
anthology Michael Kelly (Ed.) Shadows and Tall Trees Volume 7
2017
novel Emma Cline The Girls
novella Victor LaValle The Ballad of Black Tom
novelette Camilla Grudova Waxy
short fiction Carrie Laben Postcards from Natalie
collection Jeffrey Ford A Natural History of Hell
anthology Dominik Parisien , Navah Wolfe (Ed.) The Starlit Wood
2016
novel Gemma Files Experimental film
novella Elizabeth hand Wylding Hall
novelette Steve Duffy Even Clean Hands Can Do Damage
short fiction Lynda E. Rucker The Dying Season
collection Stephen King The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
anthology Simon Strantzas (Ed.) Aickman's Heirs
2015
novel Jeff VanderMeer Annihilation
novella Daryl Gregory We Are All Completely Fine
novelette Dale Bailey The End of the End of Everything
short fiction Alison Littlewood The Dogs Home
collection Helen Marshall Gifts for the One Who Comes After
anthology Ellen Datlow (Ed.) Fearful Symmetries
2014
novel Robert Jackson Bennett American Elsewhere
novella Veronica Schanoes Burning Girls
novelette Greer Gilman Cry Murder! In a Small Voice
short fiction Sam J. Miller 57 Reasons for the Slate Quarry Suicides
collection Nathan Ballingrud North American Lake Monsters
Christopher Barzak Before and Afterlives
anthology Joseph S. Pulver, Sr. (Ed.) The Grimscribe's Puppets
2013
novel Kōji Suzuki Edge
novella Kaaron Warren Sky
novelette Karen Russell Reeling for the Empire
short fiction Jeffrey Ford A Natural History of Autumn
collection Jeffrey Ford Crackpot Palace
anthology Danel Olson (Ed.) Exotic Gothic 4: Postscripts # 28/29
2012
novel Sheri Holman Witches on the Road Tonight
novella Elizabeth hand Near Zennor
novelette Kelly Link The Summer People
short story M. Rickert The Corpse Painter's Masterpiece
collection Maureen F. McHugh After the Apocalypse: Stories
anthology Jack Dann , Nick Gevers (Ed.) Ghosts by Gaslight
2011
novel Robert Jackson Bennett Mr. Shivers
novella Laird Barron Mystery Tremendum
novelette Neil Gaiman The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains
short story Peter Watts The Things
collection Laird Barron Occultation
anthology Neil Gaiman , Al Sarrantonio (Eds.) Stories: All-New Tales
special award Joyce Carol Oates
2010
novel Victor LaValle Big machine
novella Nick Antosca Midnight Picnic
novelette Stephen King Morality
short story Karen Joy Fowler The Pelican Bar
collection Robert Shearman Love Songs for the Shy and Cynical
Kevin Wilson Tunneling to the Center of the Earth
anthology Ellen Datlow (Ed.) Poe
2009
novel Jeffrey Ford The Shadow Year
novella Julia Leigh Disquit
novelette John Kessel Pride and Prometheus
short story Michael Bishop The Pile
collection Yogo Ogawa The diving pool
anthology Sarah Eyre , Ra Page (Ed.) The New Uncanny
2008
novel Elizabeth hand Generation Loss
novella Lucius Shepard Vacancy
novelette Glen Hirshberg The Janus Tree
short story Nathan Ballingrud The Monsters of Heaven
collection Laird Barron The Imago Sequence and Other Stories
anthology Ellen Datlow (Ed.) inferno

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