Shirley Jackson Awards 2022
science fiction awards database
Where and When:
Boston Book Festival,
October 29, 2022
Eligibility Year: 2021
Eligibility Year: 2021
Novel
- Winner: My Heart Is a Chainsaw, Stephen Graham Jones (Saga)
- All the Murmuring Bones, A. G. Slatter (Titan)
- Hummingbird Salamander, Jeff VanderMeer (MCD)
- No Gods, No Monsters, Cadwell Turnbull (Blackstone)
- Nothing But Blackened Teeth, Cassandra Khaw (Nightfire)
Novella
- Winner: Flowers for the Sea, Zin E. Rocklyn (Tordotcom)
- Comfort Me with Apples, Catherynne M. Valente (Tordotcom)
- Dirty Heads, Aaron Dries (Black T-Shirt)
- A Rose / Arose, Michael Bailey (Written Backwards)
- The Route of Ice and Salt, José Luis Zárate, translated by David Bowles (Innsmouth Free)
Novelette
- Winner: “We, the Girls Who Did Not Make It”, E. A. Petricone (Nightmare Feb 2021)
- House of Crows, Lisa Unger (Amazon Original)
- “The Nag Bride”, A. C. Wise (The Ghost Sequences)
- “The Night Belongs to Us”, Jess Landry (The Mother Wound)
- “The Women”, Margaret Jameson (F(r)iction Spr 2021)
Short Story
- Winner: “You'll Understand When You're a Mom Someday”, Isabel J. Kim (khoréo Aug 2021)
- “Dizzy in the Weeds”, L. D. Lewis (Unfettered Hexes: Queer Tales of Insatiable Darkness)
- “Forward, Victoria”, Carlie St. George (The Dark Apr 2021)
- “Gordon B. White is Creating Haunting Weird Horror”, Gordon B. White (Nightmare Jul 2021)
- “Human Reason”, Nicasio Andres Reed (Unfettered Hexes: Queer Tales of Insatiable Darkness)
Collection
- Winner: Folk Songs for Trauma Surgeons: Stories, Keith Rosson (Meerkat)
- People from My Neighborhood, Hiromi Kawakami, translated by Ted Goossen (Soft Skull)
- Sometimes We're Cruel, J. A. W. McCarthy (Cemetery Gates)
- We are Happy, We are Doomed, Kurt Kawver (Grimscribe)
- Where All is Night, and Starless, John Linwood Grant (Trepidatio)
Anthology
- Winner (tie): Professor Charlatan Bardot's Travel Anthology to the Most (Fictional) Haunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World, Eric J. Guignard, ed. (Dark Moon)
- Winner (tie): Unfettered Hexed: Queer Tales of Insatiable Darkness, dave ring, ed. (Neon Hemlock)
- Giving the Devil His Due: A Charity Anthology, Rebecca Brewer, ed. (Running Wild)
- Stitched Lips: An Anthology of Horror from Silenced Voices, Ken MacGregor, ed. (Dragon's Roost)
- There Is No Death, There Are No Dead, Jess Landry & Aaron J. French, eds. (Crystal Lake)
Special Award
- Winner: Ellen Datlow
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