Shirley Jackson Awards 2021
science fiction awards database
Where and When:
Readercon 31,
August 15, 2021
Eligibility Year: 2020
Eligibility Year: 2020
Novel
- Winner: The Only Good Indians, Stephen Graham Jones (Saga)
- Death in Her Hands, Ottessa Moshfegh (Penguin)
- Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey)
- Plain Bad Heroines, Emily M. Danforth (Morrow)
- Sisters, Daisy Johnson (Jonathan Cape)
- True Story, Kate Reed Petty (Viking)
Novella
- Winner: Night of the Mannequins, Stephen Graham Jones (Tordotcom)
- “Agatha's Barn: A Carpenter's Farm Story”, Michael Bailey (Written Backwards Apr 2020)
- The Best of Both Worlds, S. P. Miskowski (Trepidatio)
- Her Mad Song, CJ Halbard (Man On Fire)
- History of an Executioner, Clancy McGilligan (Miami University Press)
- Ring Shout, P. Djèlí Clark (Tordotcom)
Novelette
- Winner: The Attic Tragedy, J. Ashley-Smith (Meerkat)
- “Faith”, Ginny Tapley Takemori (Granta 18 Nov 2020)
- “Heritage Hill”, Matthew R. Davis (Outback Horrors Down Under)
- “I Will Find You, Even in the Dark”, Jessica Landry (Dim Shores Present, Vol. 1)
- Many Restless Concerns: The Victims of Countess Bathory Speak in Chorus (A Testimony), Gayle Brandeis (Black Lawrence)
- “Pale Toes”, Marko Mautala, translated by Sanna Terho (The Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories)
- “Señor Ligotti”, Bernardo Esquinca, translated by James D. Jenkins (The Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories)
Short Fiction
- Winner: “Not the Man I Married”, R. A. Busby (Black Petals Aut 2020)
- Graceful Burdens, Roxane Gay (Amazon Original Stories)
- “Holes”, R. A. Busby (Graveyard Smash)
- “Isn't Your Daughter Such a Doll”, Tobi Ogundiran (Shoreline of Infinity #18)
- “The Memory Game”, Franki Haber (The Gravity of the Thing Spr 2020)
- “Room and Board Included, Demonology Extra”, Eden Royce (Eyedolon Jun 2020)
Collection
- Winner: Velocities, Kathe Koja (Meerkat)
- Aftermath of an Industrial Accident, Mike Allen (Mythic Delirium)
- Mannequin and Wife, Jen Fawkes (LSU Press)
- Moonflower, Nightshade, All the Hours of the Day, JD Scott (Lake Forest College Press)
- Settling the World, M. John Harrison (Comma)
- Thin Places, Kay Chronister (Undertow)
Anthology
- Winner: Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women, Lee Murray & Geneve Flynn, eds. (Omnium Gatherum)
- After Sundown, Mark Morris, ed. (Flame Tree)
- Lullabies for Suffering: Tales of Addiction Horror, Mark Matthews, ed. (Wicked Run)
- Miscreations: Gods, Monstrosities & Other Horrors, Doug Murano & Michael Bailey, eds. (Written Backwards)
- The Night Bazaar Venice: Thirteen Tales of Forbidden Wishes and Dangerous Desires, Lenore Hart, ed. (Northampton House)
- Shadows & Tall Trees, Vol. 8, Michael Kelly, ed. (Undertow)
- Tiny Nightmares, Lincoln Michel & Nadxieli Nieto, eds. (Catapult)
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