Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novella

Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novella
Awarded forThe best psychological suspense, horror, or dark fantastic novella of 17,500-39,999 words, published in English in the same calendar year
LocationMassachusetts
CountryUnited States
Presented byReadercon
First award2007
Most recent winnerEden Royce (Hollow Tongue)
Websiteshirleyjacksonawards.org


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

Winners and Finalists

  *   Winners

Year Author Novel Publisher Ref.
2007 Lucius Shepard* Vacancy Subterranean Magazine #7 [1]
Zoran Živković 12 Collections PS Publishing [1]
Elizabeth Hand Illyria PS Publishing [1]
Robert Edric The Mermaids PS Publishing [1]
Laird Barron "Procession of the Black Sloth" The Imago Sequence and Other Stories, Night Shade Books [1]
Conrad Williams The Scalding Rooms PS Publishing [1]
2008 Julia Leigh* Disquiet Penguin Books / Hamish Hamilton [2]
Yōko Ogawa "Dormitory" The Diving Pool, Picador [2]
Darrell Schweitzer Living with the Dead PS Publishing [2]
Stephen Graham Jones The Long Trial of Nolan Dugatti Chiasmus [2]
Stephen King N. Just After Sunset, Scribner [2]
2009 Nick Antosca* Midnight Picnic Word Riot [3]
Quentin S. Crisp Shrike PS Publishing [3]
Margo Lanagan "Sea-Hearts" X6 [3]
Joel Lane The Witnesses Are Gone PS Publishing [3]
Sarah Pinborough The Language of Dying PS Publishing [3]
Stephen Volk Vardøger Gray Friar [3]
2010 Laird Barron* Tremendum Occultation [4]
Michael Byers The Broken Man PS Publishing [4]
Nicholas Kaufmann Chasing the Dragon ChiZine [4]
Joey Comeau One Bloody Thing After Another ECW Press [4]
Peter Dubé Subtle Bodies Lethe Press [4]
Tim Lebbon The Thief of Broken Toys ChiZine [4]
2011 Elizabeth Hand* "Near Zennor" A Book of Horrors, Jo Fletcher Books [5]
Deborah Biancotti "And the Dead Shall Outnumber the Living" Ishtar [5]
Michael Marano "Displacement" Stories from the Plague Years [5]
Reggie Oliver "A Child's Problem" A Book of Horrors [5]
Lucius Shepard "Rose Street Attractors" Ghosts by Gaslight [5]
Tim Waggoner The Men Upstairs Delirium [5]
2012 Kaaron Warren* "Sky" Twelfth Planet Press [6]
Ennis Drake 28 Teeth of Rage Omnium Gatherum Media [6]
Project Itoh "The Indifference Engine" The Future is Japanese [6]
Jack Ketchum
Lucky McKee 		I'm Not Sam Sinister Grin [6]
S. P. Miskowski Delphine Dodd Omnium Gatherum Media [6]
2013 Veronica Schanoes* Burning Girls Tor.com [7]
Nicole Cushing Children of No One DarkFuse [7]
Rosanne Rabinowitz Helen's Story PS Publishing [7]
Mark Morris It Sustains Earthling Publications [7]
Nina Allan The Gateway Stardust [7]
Ramsey Campbell The Last Revelation of Gla'aki PS Publishing [7]
Brian Hodge Whom the Gods Would Destroy DarkFuse [7]
2014 Daryl Gregory* We Are All Completely Fine Tachyon Publications [8]
Kate Jonez Ceremony of Flies DarkFuse [8]
Mary Rickert "The Mothers of Voorhisville" Tor.com [8]
Robert Sharp The Good Shabti Jurassic London [8]
Aliya Whiteley The Beauty Unsung Stories [8]
2015 Elizabeth Hand* Wylding Hall PS Publishing / Open Road Media [9]
Nathan Ballingrud The Visible Filth This Is Horror [9]
Lisa Mannetti The Box Jumper Smart Rhino [9]
S.J. Spurrier Unusual Concentrations Self-published [9]
Steve Rasnic Tem In the Lovecraft Museum PS Publishing [9]
2016 Victor LaValle* The Ballad of Black Tom Tor.com [10]
Nina Allan "Maggots" Five Stories High [10]
Nicole Cushing The Sadist's Bible 01 Publishing [10]
Brian Evenson The Warren Tor.com [10]
Kij Johnson The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe Tor.com [10]
S.P. Miskowski Muscadines Dunhams Manor [10]
2017 Lindsey Drager* The Lost Daughter Collective Dzanc Books [11]
Samanta Schweblin* Fever Dream Riverhead Books [11]
Stephen Graham Jones Mapping the Interior Tor.com [11]
Margaret Killjoy The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion Tor.com [11]
James K. Morrow The Asylum of Dr. Caligari Tachyon Publications [11]
Tade Thompson The Murders of Molly Southbourne Tor.com [11]
2018 Cristina Rivera Garza* The Taiga Syndrome Dorothy, a publishing project [12]
Brooke Bolander The Only Harmless Great Thing Tor.com [12]
John Hornor Jacobs The Sea Dreams It Is the Sky HarperCollins [12]
D.A. Northwood Judderman Dead Ink [12]
Jeremy C. Shipp The Atrocities Tor.com [12]
2019 Priya Sharma* Ormeshadow Tor.com [13]
Kaaron Warren Into Bones Like Oil Meerkat Press [13]
Joe Hill "Late Returns" Full Throttle [13]
Jennifer Giesbrecht "The Monster of Elenhaven" Tor.com [13]
Amal El-Mohtar
Max Gladstone 		This Is How You Lose the Time War Tor.com [13]
2020 Stephen Graham Jones* Night of the Mannequins Tor.com [14]
Michael Bailey "Agatha's Barn: A Carpenter's Farm Story" Written Backwards 4/20 [14]
P. Djèlí Clark Ring Shout Tor.com [14]
CJ Halbard Her Mad Song Man on Fire [14]
Clancy McGilligan History of an Executioner Miami University Press [14]
S.P. Miskowski The Best of Both Worlds Trepidatio [14]
2021 Zin E. Rocklyn* Flowers for the Sea Tor.com [15]
Michael Bailey A Rose / Arose Written Backwards [15]
Aaron Dries Dirty Heads Black T-Shirt [15]
Catherynne M. Valente Comfort Me with Apples Tor.com [15]
José Luis Zárate, author
David Bowles, translator 		The Route of Ice and Salt Innsmouth Free Press [15]
2022 A.G. Slatter* The Bone Lantern PS Publishing [16]
Deirdre Danklin Catastrophe Texas Review [16]
Alma Katsu The Wehrwolf Amazon Original Stories [16]
Tim McGregor Lure Tenebrous [16]
Priya Sharma Pomegranates PS Publishing [16]
Kelsea Yu Bound Feet Cemetery Gates [16]
2023 LaToya Jordan* To the Woman in the Pink Hat Aqueduct [17]
Eugen Bacon Broken Paradise Luna Press Publishing [17]
Roppotucha Greenberg Getting by in Tligolian Arachne [17]
Cassandra Khaw The Salt Grows Heavy Tor Nightfire [17]
J.A.W. McCarthy Sleep Alone Off Limits [17]
Tiffany Morris Green Fuse Burning Stelliform [17]
2024 Eden Royce* Hollow Tongue Raw Dog Screaming Press [18]
Sofia Ajram Coup de Grâce Titan Books [18]
Christopher Barzak A Voice Calling Psychopomp [18]
Nadia Bulkin Red Skies in the Morning Dim Shores [18]
Will Ludwigsen A Scout is Brave Lethe Press [18]

References

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