# Shirley Jackson Award

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.
Writing in Salon in 2010, Laura Miller noted, "The awards...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 on 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 |
| 2007 | Anthology | Ellen Datlow | Inferno | |
| 2007 | Collection | Laird Barron | The Imago Sequence and Other Stories | |
| 2007 | Novel | Elizabeth Hand | Generation Loss | |
| 2007 | Novelette | Glen Hirshberg | The Janus Tree | |
| 2007 | Novella | Lucius Shepard | Vacancy | |
| 2007 | Short Story | Nathan Ballingrud | "The Monsters of Heaven" | |
| 2008 | Anthology | Sarah Eyre and Ra Page | The New Uncanny | |
| 2008 | Collection | Yōko Ogawa | The Diving Pool | |
| 2008 | Novel | Jeffrey Ford | The Shadow Year | |
| 2008 | Novelette | John Kessel | Pride and Prometheus | |
| 2008 | Novella | Julia Leigh | Disquiet | |
| 2008 | Short Story | Michael Bishop | "The Pile" | |
| 2009 | Anthology | Ellen Datlow | Poe: 19 New Tales Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe | |
| 2009 | Collection | Robert Shearman | Love Songs for the Shy and Cynical | |
| 2009 | Collection | Kevin Wilson | Tunneling to the Center of the Earth | |
| 2009 | Novel | Victor LaValle | Big Machine | |
| 2009 | Novelette | Stephen King | Morality | |
| 2009 | Novella | Nick Antosca | Midnight Picnic | |
| 2009 | Short Story | Karen Joy Fowler | "The Pelican Bar" | |
| 2010 | Anthology | Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio | Stories: All New Tales | |
| 2010 | Collection | Laird Barron | Occultation | |
| 2010 | Novel | Robert Jackson Bennett | Mr. Shivers | |
| 2010 | Novelette | Neil Gaiman | Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains | |
| 2010 | Novella | Laird Barron | Mysterium Tremendum | |
| 2010 | Short Story | Peter Watts | "The Things" | |
| 2011 | Edited Anthology | Jack Dann and Nick Gevers (ed.) | Ghosts by Gaslight | Harper Voyager |
| 2011 | Novel | Sheri Holman | Witches on the Road Tonight | Grove Press |
| 2011 | Novelette | Kelly Link | The Summer People | Tin House 49/Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories, Candlewick Press |
| 2011 | Novella | Elizabeth Hand | Near Zennor | A Book of Horrors, Jo Fletcher Books |
| 2011 | Short Fiction | M. Rickert | "The Corpse Painter’s Masterpiece" | The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Sept/Oct, 2011 |
| 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 |
| 2012 | Novel | Koji Suzuki | Edge | Vertical |
| 2012 | Novelette | Karen Russell | Reeling for the Empire | Tin House, Winter 2012 |
| 2012 | Novella | Kaaron Warren | Sky | Twelfth Planet Press |
| 2012 | Short Fiction | Jeffrey Ford | "A Natural History of Autumn" | The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, July/August 2012 |
| 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 |
| 2013 | Novel | Robert Jackson Bennett | American Elsewhere | Orbit |
| 2013 | Novella | Veronica Schanoes | Burning Girls | Tor.com |
| 2013 | Novelette | Greer Gilman | Cry Murder! In a Small Voice | Small Beer Press |
| 2013 | Short Fiction | Sam J. Miller | "57 Reasons for the Slate Quarry Suicides" | Nightmare Magazine, December 2013 |
| 2013 | Single Author Collection | Nathan Ballingrud | North American Lake Monsters | Small Beer Press |
| 2013 | Single Author Collection | Christopher Barzak | Before and Afterlives | Lethe Press |
| 2014 | Edited Anthology | Ellen Datlow | Fearful Symmetries | ChiZine Publications |
| 2014 | Novel | Jeff VanderMeer | Annihilation | FSG Originals |
| 2014 | Novella | Daryl Gregory | We Are All Completely Fine | Tachyon |
| 2014 | Novelette | Dale Bailey | The End of the End of Everything | Tor.com, April 2014 |
| 2014 | Short Fiction | Alison Littlewood | "The Dogs Home" | The Spectral Book of Horror Stories, Spectral Press |
| 2014 | Single Author Collection | Helen Marshall | Gifts for the One who Comes After | ChiZine Publications |
| 2015 | Edited Anthology | Simon Strantzas | Aickman's Heirs | Undertow Publications |
| 2015 | Novel | Gemma Files | Experimental Film | ChiZine Publications |
| 2015 | Novella | Elizabeth Hand | Wylding Hall | PS Publishing / Open Road Media |
| 2015 | Novelette | Steve Duffy | Even Clean Hands Can Do Damage | Supernatural Tales #30 |
| 2015 | Short Fiction | Lynda E. Rucker | "The Dying Season" | Aickman's Heirs |
| 2015 | Single Author Collection | Stephen King | The Bazaar of Bad Dreams | Scribner |
| 2016 | Board of Directors Award | Ruth Franklin | Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life | |
| 2016 | Edited Anthology | Dominik Parisien and Navah Wolfe (ed.) | The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales | Saga Press |
| 2016 | Novel | Emma Cline | The Girls | Random House |
| 2016 | Novelette | Camilla Grudova | "Waxy" | Granta |
| 2016 | Novella | Victor LaValle | The Ballad of Black Tom | Tor.com |
| 2016 | Short Fiction | Carrie Laben | "Postcards from Natalie" | The Dark |
| 2016 | 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 |
| 2017 | Novel | Pyun Hye-young | The Hole | Arcade Publishing |
| 2017 | Novelette | Chavisa Woods | Take the Way Home That Leads Back to Sullivan Street | Things to Do When You’re Goth in the Country |
| 2017 | Novella | Lindsey Drager | The Lost Daughter Collective | Dzanc Books |
| 2017 | Novella | Samanta Schweblin | Fever Dream | Riverhead Books |
| 2017 | Short Fiction | Kurt Fawver | "The Convexity of Our Youth" | Looming Low |
| 2017 | Single-Author Collection | Carmen Maria Machado | Her Body and Other Parties | Graywolf Press |
| 2018 | Edited Anthology | Dominik Parisien and Navah Wolfe (ed.) | Robots vs Fairies | Saga |
| 2018 | Novel | Catriona Ward | Little Eve | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| 2018 | Novelette | Tom Cox | Help the Witch | Unbound |
| 2018 | Novella | Cristina Rivera Garza | The Taiga Syndrome | Dorothy, a publishing project |
| 2018 | Short Fiction | Christina Wood Martinez | "The Astronaut" | Granta, Winter '18 |
| 2018 | 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 |
| 2019 | Novel | Sarah Rose Etter | The Book of X | Two Dollar Radio |
| 2019 | Novelette | Brooke Warra | Luminous Body | Dim Shores |
| 2019 | Novella | Priya Sharma | Ormeshadow | Tor.com |
| 2019 | Short Fiction | Indrapramit Das | "Kali_Na" | The Mythic Dream |
| 2019 | 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 |
| 2020 | Novel | Stephen Graham Jones | The Only Good Indians | Saga |
| 2020 | Novelette | J. Ashley-Smith | The Attic Tragedy | Meerkat |
| 2020 | Novella | Stephen Graham Jones | Night of the Mannequins | Tor.com |
| 2020 | Short Fiction | R. A. Busby | "Not the Man I Married" | Black Petals |
| 2020 | 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 |
| 2021 | Edited Anthology | dave ring | Unfettered Hexes: Queer Tales of Insatiable Darkness | Neon Hemlock |
| 2021 | Novel | Stephen Graham Jones | My Heart Is a Chainsaw | Saga |
| 2021 | Novelette | E. A. Petricone | We, the Girls Who Did Not Make It | Nightmare |
| 2021 | Novella | Zin E. Rocklyn | Flowers for the Sea | Tor.com |
| 2021 | Short Fiction | Isabel J. Kim | "You’ll Understand When You're a Mom Someday" | Khoréo |
| 2021 | Single-Author Collection | Keith Rosson | Folk Songs for Trauma Surgeons | Meerkat |
| 2022 | Edited Anthology | Doug Murano | The Hideous Book of Hidden Horrors | Bad Hand |
| 2022 | Novel | Gabino Iglesias | The Devil Takes You Home | Mulholland Books |
| 2022 | Novel | Sophie White | Where I End | Tramp Press |
| 2022 | Novelette | Nghi Vo | What the Dead Know | Amazon Original Stories |
| 2022 | Novella | Angela Slatter | The Bone Lantern | PS Publishing |
| 2022 | Short Fiction | Kim Fu | "Pre-Simulation Consultation XF007867" | Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century |
| 2022 | Single-Author Collection | Paula D. Ashe | We Are Here to Hurt Each Other | Nictitating |
| 2023 | Edited Anthology | Jolie Toomajan | Aseptic and Faintly Sadistic | Cosmic Horror Monthly |
| 2023 | Novel | Tananarive Due | The Reformatory | Saga Press |
| 2023 | Novelette | Eugenia Triantafyllou | "Six Versions of My Brother Found Under the Bridge" | Uncanny Magazine |
| 2023 | Novella | LaToya Jordan | To the Woman in the Pink Hat | Aqueduct |
| 2023 | Short Fiction | Laura Blackwell | "The First Mrs. Edward Rochester Would Like a Word" | Aseptic and Faintly Sadistic |
| 2023 | Single-Author Collection | Gabriela Damián Miravete | They Will Dream in the Garden | Rosarium |