I am hugely honoured that “Pomegranates” was nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award. I will treasure my nominee pebble.
I owe thanks to my editor, Marie O’Regan, to Jeffrey Alan Love for his cover art, and tothe team at PS Publishing- Tamsin Traves, Michael Smith, snd Nicky and Peter Crowther.
Boston, MA (July 15, 2023) — In recognition of the legacy of Shirley Jackson’s writing, and with permission of the author’s estate, The Shirley Jackson Awards, Inc. has been established for outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic.
The 2022 Shirley Jackson Awards were presented in-person on Saturday, July 15 at Readercon 32, Conference on Imaginative Literature, in Quincy, Massachusetts.
The awards ceremony was hosted by Jeff VanderMeer, Readercon 32 Guest of Honor and past Shirley Jackson Award winner, and Ann VanderMeer, Readercon 32 Special Guest and a member of the Shirley Jackson Awards Board of Advisors.
My HUGE congratulations to all the nominees and winners. I am proud to be in the novella category and genuinely delighted for the superb Angela Slatter.
The winners for the 2022 Shirley Jackson Awards are:
NOVEL — Tie
The Devil Takes You Home by Gabino Iglesias (Mulholland Books)
Where I End by Sophie White (Tramp Press)
NOVELLA
The Bone Lantern by Angela Slatter (PS Publishing)
NOVELETTE
What the Dead Know by Nghi Vo (Amazon Original Stories)
SHORT FICTION
“Pre-Simulation Consultation XF007867” by Kim Fu (Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century)
SINGLE-AUTHOR COLLECTION
We Are Here to Hurt Each Other by Paula D. Ashe (Nictitating Books)
EDITED ANTHOLOGY
The Hideous Book of Hidden Horrors, edited by Doug Murano (Bad Hand Books)
The nominees for the 2022 Shirley Jackson Awards are:
NOVEL
Beulah by Christi Nogle (Cemetery Gates Media)
The Dead Friends Society by Paul Gandersman and Peter Hall (Encyclopocalypse Publications)
The Devil Takes You Home by Gabino Iglesias (Mulholland Books)
Jackal by Erin E. Adams (Bantam)
Unwieldy Creatures by Addie Tsai (Jaded Ibis Press)
Where I End by Sophie White (Tramp Press)
NOVELLA
The Bone Lantern by Angela Slatter (PS Publishing)
Bound Feet by Kelsea Yu (Cemetery Gates Media)
Catastrophe by Deirdre Danklin (Texas Review Press)
Lure by Tim McGregor (Tenebrous Press)
Pomegranates by Priya Sharma (PS Publishing)
The Wehrwolf by Alma Katsu (Amazon Original Stories)
NOVELETTE
Azeman or, the Testament of Quincey Morris by Lisa Moore (Black Shuck Books)
“Challawa” by Usman T. Malik (Dark Stars: New Tales of Darkest Horror)
“Sweetbaby” by Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld, October 2022)
“This Place is Best Shunned” by David Erik Nelson (Tor.com)
What the Dead Know by Nghi Vo (Amazon Original Stories)
SHORT FICTION
“Brother Maternitas” by Viktor Athelstan (Your Body is Not Your Body)
“The Church of Divine Electricity” by Emily Mitchell (The Southern Review)
“Dick Pig” by Ian Muneshwar (Nightmare Magazine, Issue 112)
“Halogen Sky” by Wendy N. Wagner (VASTARIEN: A Literary Journal, vol. 5, issue 1)
“Pre-Simulation Consultation XF007867” by Kim Fu (Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century)
SINGLE-AUTHOR COLLECTION
And At My Back I Always Hear by Scott Nicolay (Word Horde)
Breakable Things by Cassandra Khaw (Undertow Publications)
Hell Hath No Sorrow Like a Woman Haunted by RJ Joseph (The Seventh Terrace)
Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century by Kim Fu (Tin House)
Splendid Anatomies by Allison Wyss (Veliz Books)
We Are Here to Hurt Each Other by Paula D. Ashe (Nictitating Books)
EDITED ANTHOLOGY
Chiral Mad 5, edited by Michael Bailey (Written Backwards)
The Hideous Book of Hidden Horrors, edited by Doug Murano (Bad Hand Books)
Other Terrors, edited by Vince A. Liaguno and Rena Mason (William Morrow)
Screams From the Dark: 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous, edited by Ellen Datlow (Tor Nightfire)
Your Body is Not Your Body, edited by Alex Woodroe and Matt Blairstone (Tenebrous Press)
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The 2022 Shirley Jackson Awards will be presented in-person on Saturday, July 15 at 8pm at Readercon 32, Conference on Imaginative Literature, in Quincy, Massachusetts.
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I am thrilled to be on this list with “Pomegranates”. My thanks to PS Publishing and editor Marie O’Regan.
Congratulations and thanks also to Ellen Datlow, editor of “Screams From The Dark”, who including one of my stories (“The Ghost of a Flea”).
The awards are handed out annually to the works of horror, dark fantasy and psychological suspense that best exemplify the legacy of horror author Shirley Jackson. Due to Covid-19, this year’s ceremony was a virtual one rather than its normal venue at ReaderCon in Massachusetts, USA. I was delighted just to be listed in the novella category alongside an amazing list of writers and genuinely suprised to win.
Congratulations to everyone on the list.
Here are this year’s winners (listed in bold) and nominees:
NOVEL
NOVELLA
NOVELETTE
SHORT FICTION
SINGLE-AUTHOR COLLECTION
EDITED ANTHOLOGY
The nominees for the 2019 Shirley Jackson Awards have been announced. I am absolutely thrilled to be included in the novella 
category for “Ormeshadow”. I haven’t a cat in hell’s chance, but it’s really something to be in there alongside some amazing authors. My congratulations to all.
NOMINATIONS:
NOVEL
The Book of X, Sarah Rose Etter (Two Dollar Radio)
Curious Toys, Elizabeth Hand (Little, Brown and Co)
Goodnight Stranger, Miciah Bay Gault (Park Row Books)
Ninth House, Leigh Bardugo (Gollancz)
Nothing to See Here, Kevin Wilson (Ecco)
Tinfoil Butterfly, Rachel Eve Moulton (MCD x FSG Originals)
NOVELLA
Into Bones Like Oil, Kaaron Warren (Meerkat Press)
“Late Returns,” Joe Hill (Full Throttle)
“The Monster of Elenhaven,” Jennifer Giesbrecht (Tor.com)
“Ormeshadow,” Priya Sharma (Tor.com)
This is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone (Gallery/Saga Press)
NOVELETTE
Black Bequeathments, Simon Strantzas (Dim Shores)
The Couvade, Joanna Koch (Demain Publishing)
“Deeper, Darker Things,” Steve Dillon (Deeper, Darker Things and Other Oddities)
Luminous Body, Brooke Warra (Dim Shores)
Pwdre Ser, Kurt Fawver (Dim Shores)
“Taproot,” M. R. Carey (Ten-Word Tragedies)
SHORT FICTION
“How to Become a Witch-Queen,” Theodora Goss (Hex Life: Wicked New Tales of Witchery)
“Kali_Na,” Indrapramit Das (The Mythic Dream)
“The Truth About Josh Enloe,” Nick Straatmann (Parhelion)
“The Well,” Mariana Enríquez, translated by Megan McDowell (issue 55.1 of The Southern Review)
“Whistle, My Lad, and I Will Come,” Gina Ochsner (The Pink Issue of Fairy Tale Review)
SINGLE-AUTHOR COLLECTION
Collision: Stories, J. S. Breukelaar (Meerkat Press, LLC)
Every Human Love: Stories, Joanna Pearson (Acre Books)
Homesick, Nino Cipri (Dzanc Books)
Mouthful of Birds, Samanta Schweblin (Riverhead Books)
Song for the Unraveling of the World, Brian Evenson (Coffee House Press)
Wounds, Nathan Ballingrud (Saga Press)
EDITED ANTHOLOGY
Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories, edited by Ellen Datlow (Saga Press)
The Mythic Dream, edited by Rivers Solomon (Saga Press)
The Twisted Book of Shadows, edited by Christopher Golden & James A. Moore (Twisted Publishing)
The Unquiet Dreamer: A Tribute to Harlan Ellison, edited by Preston Grassmann (PS Publishing)
Wonderland: An Anthology of Works Inspired by Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, edited by Marie O’Regan and Paul Kane (Titan Books)
My huge congratulations to ALL the winners and nominees of the 2018 Shirley Jackson Awards. The awards — for outstanding achievement in horror, psychological suspense, and dark fantasy fiction — were presented on 14th July 2019 at Readercon 30 Quincy MA, USA.
I feel very honoured to have been listed alongside Gemma Files, Michael Griffin, Lucy A. Snyder, and Sean O’Brien in the Single Author Short fiction Collection group. And I also can’t believe that I’ve won. Is this real? Will someone announce they’ve made a mistake?? (If so it’s too late, you can’t take it back).
Novel
WINNER: Little Eve, Catriona Ward (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
In the Night Wood, Dale Bailey (John Joseph Adams)
Social Creature, Tara Isabella Burton (Double Day)
We Sold Our Souls, Grady Hendrix (Quirk)
Everything Under, Daisy Johnson (Jonathan Cape)
Novella
WINNER: The Taiga Syndrome, Cristina Rivera Garza (Dorothy)
The Only Harmless Great Thing, Brooke Bolander (Tor.com Publishing)
The Sea Dreams It Is the Sky, John Hornor Jacobs (HarperCollins)
Judderman, D.A. Northwood (Dead Ink)
The Atrocities, Jeremy C. Shipp (Tor.com Publishing)
Novelette
WINNER: Help the Witch, Tom Cox (Unbound)
“Adriftica”, Maria Dahvana Headley (Robots vs Fairies)
“The Black Sea”, Chris Mason (Beneath the Waves: Tales from the Deep)
Ghostographs: An Album, Maria Romasco Moore (Rose Metal)
“Blood and Smoke, Vinegar and Ashes”, D.P. Watt (The Silent Garden)
Short Fiction
WINNER: “The Astronaut”, Christina Wood Martinez (Granta Winter ’18)
“Hell”, David Hansen (Fairy Tale Review 3/18)
“Back Seat”, Bracken MacLeod (Lost Highways)
“The Woman Dies”, Aoko Matsuda (Granta Summer ’18)
“How to be a Horror Writer”, Tim Waggoner (Vastarien Summer ’18)
Single-Author Collection
WINNER: All the Fabulous Beasts, Priya Sharma (Undertow)
Drawn Up from Deep Places, Gemma Files (Trepidatio)
The Human Alchemy, Michael Griffin (Word Horde)
Quartier Perdu, Sean O’Brien (Comma)
Garden of Eldritch Delights, Lucy A. Snyder (Raw Dog Screaming)
Edited Anthology
WINNER: Robots vs Fairies, Dominik Parisien & Navah Wolfe, eds. (Saga)
Chiral Mad 4: An Anthology of Collaborations, Michael Bailey & Lucy A. Snyder, eds. (Written Backwards)
This Dreaming Isle, Dan Coxon, ed. (Unsung Stories)
Tiny Crimes: Very Short Tales of Mystery and Murder, Lincoln Michel & Nadxieli Nieto, eds. (Black Balloon)
The Silent Garden: A Journal of Esoteric Fabulism, The Silent Garden Collective, ed. (Undertow)
Thank you to all the WONDERFUL people in the writing community who have sent messages
This was my speech:
My huge thanks to everyone at the Shirley Jackson Awards- the Board of Directors, the Members of the Advisory Board, and the Jurors, for this tremendous honour.
I owe a massive thanks to Undertow Publications- to Mike Kelly for his encouragement and editor’s eye, and to Carolyn McDonnell-Kelly and Courtney Kelly. Also to Jeffrey Alan Love and C7 – Shiina for the use of their beautiful artwork and the multi-talented Vince Haig for his cover design.
I’m still amazed that I’ve had the chance to work with the tremendous Ellen Datlow, who has been a huge part of my life as a reader as well as a writer. Thank you so much, Ellen. Thanks also to the warm and wise Paula Guran. I am grateful to the publications who have supported my work, such as TTA Press, Albedo One, Nightmare, The Dark and Tor.com.
Thanks to my parents and brother, who filled my life with stories. And to my partner, Mark Greenwood, who is first, last and always.
Finally, thank you to the genre writing community, who never fail to astonish me with their generosity and kindness. You are all fabulous beasts.
The nominees for the 2018 Shirley Jackson Award have been announced. Awarded every year in recognition of Shirley Jackson’s legacy, the awards honor exceptional work in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and dark fantasy.
The 2018 Shirley Jackson Awards will be presented on Sunday, July 14, at Readercon 30, Conference on Imaginative Literature, in Quincy, Massachusetts.
Congratulations to everyone on the list and my huge thanks to everyone at Undertow Publications, without whom I would never have made the shortlist.
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NOVELLA
NOVELETTE
SHORT FICTION
SINGLE-AUTHOR COLLECTION
EDITED ANTHOLOGY
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