Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novelette

Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novellette
Awarded forThe best psychological suspense, horror, or dark fantastic novella of 7,500-17,499 words, published in English in the same calendar year
LocationMassachusetts
CountryUnited States
Presented byReadercon
First award2007
Most recent winnerKurt Fawver (The Thirteen Ways We Turned Darryl Datson into a Monster)
Websiteshirleyjacksonawards.org

The Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novelette is a literary award given annually at Readercon as part of their Shirley Jackson Awards.

Winners and Finalists

  *   Winners

Year Author Novel Originally Published In: Ref.
2007 Glen Hirshberg* "The Janus Tree" Inferno, Tor Books [1]
Laird Barron "The Forest" Inferno, Tor Books [1]
Don Tumasonis "The Swing" At Ease with the Dead, Ash-Tree Press [1]
William Browning Spencer "The Tenth Muse" Subterranean #6, 2007 [1]
Joe Hill "Thumbprint" Postscripts #10, March 2007 [1]
2008 John Kessel* "Pride and Prometheus" F&SF [2]
Deborah Noyes "Hunger Moon" The Ghosts of Kerfol [2]
Laird Barron "The Lagerstatte" The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy [2]
William Browning Spencer "Penguins of the Apocalypse" Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy [2]
Jeff VanderMeer The Situation PS Publishing [2]
2009 Stephen King* "Morality" Esquire [3]
Laird Barron "Catch Hell" Lovecraft Unbound [3]
Andy Duncan The Night Cache PS Publishing [3]
Gemma Files
Stephen J. Barringer 		"each thing i show you is a piece of my death" Clockwork Phoenix 2 [3]
Stephen Graham Jones "Lonegan's Luck" New Genre 6 [3]
2010 Neil Gaiman* "The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains" Stories [4]
Laird Barron "-30-" Occultation [4]
Laird Barron "The Broadsword" Black Wings [4]
Richard Butner "Holderhaven" Crimewave 11: Ghosts [4]
Laird Barron "The Redfield Girls" Haunted Legends [4]
2011 Kelly Link* "The Summer People" Tin House 49 / Steampunk! [5]
Livia Llewellyn "Omphalos" Engines of Desire: Tales of Love & Other Horrors [5]
Lucius Shepard "Ditch Witch" Supernatural Noir [5]
Peter Straub "The Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine" Conjunctions #56 [5]
2012 Karen Russell* Reeling for the Empire Tin House, Winter 2012 [6]
Nathan Ballingrud "Wild Acre" Visions, Fading Fast [6]
Jeffrey Ford "The Wish Head" Crackpot Palace [6]
Bruce McAllister "The Crying Child"[a] Cemetery Dance #68 [6]
Ian Rogers "The House on Ashley Avenue" Every House is Haunted [6]
2013 Greer Gilman* Cry Murder! In a Small Voice Small Beer Press [7]
Tanith Lee "A Little of the Night" Clockwork Phoenix 4 [7]
Megan Abbott "My Heart is Either Broken" Dangerous Women [7]
Veronica Schanoes "Phosphorus" Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells: An Anthology of Gaslamp Fantasy [7]
Conrad Williams "Raptors" Subterranean, Winter 2013 [7]
2014 Dale Bailey* "The End of the End of Everything" Tor.com, April 2014 [8]
Kate Bernheimer
Laird Hunt 		Office at Night Coffee House Press [8]
V.H. Leslie "The Quiet Room" Shadows & Tall Trees, 2014 [8]
Carmen Maria Machado "The Husband Stitch" Granta #129 [8]
Stephen Volk "Newspaper Heart" The Spectral Book of Horror Stories [8]
Kai Ashante Wilson "The Devil in America" Tor.com, April 2014 [8]
2015 Steve Duffy* "Even Clean Hands Can Do Damage" Supernatural Tales #30 [9]
Jeffrey Ford "The Thyme Fiend" Tor.com, March 2015 [9]
Deborah Kalin "The Briskwater Mare" Cherry Crow Children [9]
Tamsyn Muir "The Deepwater Bride" F&SF, June-July 2015 [9]
Priya Sharma "Fabulous Beasts" Tor.com, July 2015 [9]
2016 Camilla Grudova* "Waxy" Granta, September 2016 [10]
Laird Barron "Andy Kaufman Creeping Through the Trees" Autumn Cthulhu [10]
Indrapramit Das "Breaking Water" Tor.com, February 2016 [10]
Stephen Graham Jones "The Night Cyclist" Tor.com, September 2016 [10]
Sam J. Miller "Angel, Monster, Man" Nightmare Magazine, January 2016 [10]
Helen Oyeyemi "Presence" What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours [10]
2017 Chavisa Woods* "Take the Way Home That Leads Back to Sullivan Street" Things to Do When You're Goth in the Country [11]
Kathleen Kayembe "You Will Always Have Family: A Triptych" Nightmare Magazine, March 2017 [11]
Carmen Maria Machado "The Resident" Her Body and Other Parties [11]
Laura Mauro "Sun Dogs" Shadows & Tall Trees, Volume 7 [11]
Jeremiah Tolbert "The West Topeka Triangle" Lightspeed, January 2017 [11]
2018 Tom Cox* Help the Witch Unbound [12]
Maria Dahvana Headley "Adriftica" Robots vs Fairies [12]
Chris Mason "The Black Sea" Beneath the Waves: Tales from the Deep [12]
Maria Romasco Moore Ghostographs: An Album Rose Metal [12]
D.P. Watt "Blood and Smoke, Vinegar and Ashes" The Silent Garden [12]
2019 Brooke Warra* Luminous Body Dim Shores [13]
Simon Strantzas Black Bequeathments Dim Shores [13]
Joanna Koch The Couvade Demain Publishing [13]
Steve Dillon "Deeper, Darker Things" Deeper, Darker Things and Other Oddities [13]
Kurt Fawver Pwdre Ser Dim Shores [13]
M.R. Carey "Taproot" Ten-Word Tragedies [13]
2020 J. Ashley-Smith* The Attic Tragedy Meerkat [14]
Gayle Brandeis Many Restless Concerns: The Victims of Countess Bathory Speak in Chorus (A Testimony) Black Lawrence Press [14]
Matthew R. Davis "Heritage Hill" Outback Horrors Down Under [14]
Bernardo Esquinca (author)
James D. Jenkins (translator) 		"Señor Ligotti" The Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories [14]
Marko Hautala (author)
Sanna Terho (translator) 		"Pale Toes" The Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories [14]
Jessica Landry "I Will Find You, Even in the Dark" Dim Shores Presents, Volume 1 [14]
Sayaka Murata (author)
Ginny Tapley Takemori (translator) 		"Faith" Granta, November 2020 [14]
2021 E.A. Petricone* "We, the Girls Who Did Not Make It" Nightmare Magazine, February 2021 [15]
Margaret Jameson "The Women" F(r)iction, Spring 2021 [15]
Jess Landry "The Night Belongs to Us" The Mother Wound [15]
Lisa Unger House of Crows Amazon Original [15]
A.C. Wise "The Nag Bride" The Ghost Sequences [15]
2022 Nghi Vo* What the Dead Know Amazon Original [16]
Thomas Ha "Sweetbaby" Clarkesworld Magazine, October 2022 [16]
Usman T. Malik "Challawa" Dark Stars: New Tales of Darkest Horror [16]
Lisa Moore Azeman or, the Testament of Quincey Morris Black Shuck [16]
David Erik Nelson "This Place is Best Shunned" Tor.com, July 2022 [16]
2023 Eugenia Triantafyllou* "Six Versions of My Brother Found Under the Bridge" Uncanny Magazine, Sep-Oct 2023 [17]
Joe Hill "The Pram" Amazon Original [17]
Minka Kent People Like Them Amazon Original [17]
Silvia Moreno-Garcia The Lover Amazon Original [17]
Lynn C. Pitts "The Swan" Infinite Constellations [17]
Cat Powell "What’s He Building in There" Fairy Tale Review: The Rainbow Issue, Vol. 19, 2023 [17]
Michael Wehunt "Vampire Fiction" The Inconsolables [17]
2024 Kurt Fawver* The Thirteen Ways We Turned Darryl Datson into a Monster Dim Shores [18]
Lyndsey Croal "The Girl with Barnacles for Eyes" Split Scream, Volume 5 [18]
Eric LaRocca "All the Parts of You That Won’t Easily Burn" This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances [18]
David Sandner His Unburned Heart Raw Dog Screaming [18]
M. Shaw "Ready Player (n+1)" All Your Friends Are Here [18]
Clay McLeod Chapman Stay on the Line Shortwave [18]

Notes

  1. ^ Originally entitled "The Bleeding Child"

References

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  12. ^ a b c d e "2018 Shirley Jackson Awards Winners". Locus. 15 Jul 2019. Retrieved 18 Dec 2025.
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  17. ^ a b c d e f g "2023 Shirley Jackson Awards Winners". Locus. 13 July 2024. Retrieved 18 Dec 2025.
  18. ^ a b c d e f "2024 Shirley Jackson Awards Winners". Locus. 21 Jul 2025. Retrieved 11 Dec 2025.
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