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 the dark fantastic are presented at Readercon, an annual conference on imaginative literature.[1]
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."[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.
List of Shirley Jackson Award winners
2007
- 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
2008
- 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
2009
- 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
2010
- 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
2011
- 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)
2012
- 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 (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)
2013
- 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)
2014
- 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)
References
- ^ Gardner, Jan (27 June 2010). "Shelf Life". Boston Globe. Retrieved 16 October 2010.
- ^ Miller, Laura. "Is Shirley Jackson a great American writer?". Salon.com. Retrieved 16 October 2010.