Shirley Jackson Awards Winners By Year
science fiction awards database
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— 2025 — | |
| novel | Curdle Creek, Yvonne Battle-Felton |
| novella | Hollow Tongue, Eden Royce |
| novelette | The Thirteen Ways We Turned Darryl Datson into a Monster, Kurt Fawver |
| short fiction | “Three Faces of a Beheading”, Arkady Martine |
| single-author collection | Midwestern Gothic, Scott Thomas |
| edited anthology | Why Didn't You Just Leave, Nadia Bulkin & Julia Rios, eds. |
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— 2024 — | |
| novel | The Reformatory, Tananarive Due |
| novella | To the Woman in the Pink Hat, LaToya Jordan |
| novelette | “Six Versions of My Brother Found Under the Bridge”, Eugenia Triantafyllou |
| short fiction | “The First Mrs. Edward Rochester Would Like a Word”, Laura Blackwell |
| single-author collection | They Will Dream in the Garden, Gabriela Damián Miravete, translated by Adrian Demopulos |
| edited anthology | Aseptic and Faintly Sadistic, Jolie Toomajan, ed. |
| special award | A Haunting on the Hill, Elizabeth Hand |
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— 2023 — | |
| novel | (tie) Where I End, Sophie White |
| novel | (tie) The Devil Takes You Home, Gabino Iglesias |
| novella | The Bone Lantern, Angela Slatter |
| novelette | What the Dead Know, Nghi Vo |
| short fiction | “Pre-Simulation Consultation XF007867”, Kim Fu |
| collection | We Are Here to Hurt Each Other, Paula D. Ashe |
| anthology | The Hideous Book of Hidden Horrors, Doug Murano, ed. |
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— 2022 — | |
| novel | My Heart Is a Chainsaw, Stephen Graham Jones |
| novella | Flowers for the Sea, Zin E. Rocklyn |
| novelette | “We, the Girls Who Did Not Make It”, E. A. Petricone |
| short story | “You'll Understand When You're a Mom Someday”, Isabel J. Kim |
| collection | Folk Songs for Trauma Surgeons: Stories, Keith Rosson |
| anthology | (tie) Unfettered Hexed: Queer Tales of Insatiable Darkness, dave ring, ed. |
| anthology | (tie) Professor Charlatan Bardot's Travel Anthology to the Most (Fictional) Haunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World, Eric J. Guignard, ed. |
| special award | Ellen Datlow |
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— 2021 — | |
| novel | The Only Good Indians, Stephen Graham Jones |
| novella | Night of the Mannequins, Stephen Graham Jones |
| novelette | The Attic Tragedy, J. Ashley-Smith |
| short fiction | “Not the Man I Married”, R. A. Busby |
| collection | Velocities, Kathe Koja |
| anthology | Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women, Lee Murray & Geneve Flynn, eds. |
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— 2020 — | |
| novel | The Book of X, Sarah Rose Etter |
| novella | Ormeshadow, Priya Sharma |
| novelette | Luminous Body, Brooke Warra |
| short fiction | “Kali_Na”, Indrapramit Das |
| collection | Song for the Unraveling of the World, Brian Evenson |
| anthology | The Twisted Book of Shadows, Christopher Golden & James A. Moore, eds. |
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— 2019 — | |
| novel | Little Eve, Catriona Ward |
| novella | The Taiga Syndrome, Cristina Rivera Garza |
| novelette | Help the Witch, Tom Cox |
| short fiction | “The Astronaut”, Christina Wood Martinez |
| collection | All the Fabulous Beasts, Priya Sharma |
| anthology | Robots vs Fairies, Dominik Parisien & Navah Wolfe, eds. |
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— 2018 — | |
| novel | The Hole, Hye-young Pyun |
| novella | (tie) The Lost Daughter Collective, Lindsey Drager |
| novella | (tie) Fever Dream, Samanta Schweblin |
| novelette | “Take the Way Home That Leads Back to Sullivan Street”, Chavisa Woods |
| short fiction | “The Convexity of Our Youth”, Kurt Fawver |
| collection | Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado |
| anthology | Shadows and Tall Trees Volume 7, Michael Kelly, ed. |
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— 2017 — | |
| novel | The Girls, Emma Cline |
| novella | The Ballad of Black Tom, Victor LaValle |
| novelette | “Waxy”, Camilla Grudova |
| short fiction | “Postcards from Natalie”, Carrie Laben |
| collection | A Natural History of Hell, Jeffrey Ford |
| anthology | The Starlit Wood, Dominik Parisien & Navah Wolfe, eds. |
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— 2016 — | |
| novel | Experimental Film, Gemma Files |
| novella | Wylding Hall, Elizabeth Hand |
| novelette | “Even Clean Hands Can Do Damage”, Steve Duffy |
| short fiction | “The Dying Season”, Lynda E. Rucker |
| collection | The Bazaar of Bad Dreams, Stephen King |
| anthology | Aickman's Heirs, Simon Strantzas, ed. |
| special award | Ruth Franklin, for the biography Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life |
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— 2015 — | |
| novel | Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer |
| novella | We Are All Completely Fine, Daryl Gregory |
| novelette | “The End of the End of Everything”, Dale Bailey |
| short fiction | “The Dog's Home”, Alison Littlewood |
| collection | Gifts for the One Who Comes After, Helen Marshall |
| anthology | Fearful Symmetries, Ellen Datlow, ed. |
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— 2014 — | |
| novel | American Elsewhere, Robert Jackson Bennett |
| novella | “Burning Girls”, Veronica Schanoes |
| novelette | Cry Murder! In a Small Voice, Greer Gilman |
| short fiction | “57 Reasons for the Slate Quarry Suicides”, Sam J. Miller |
| collection | (tie) Before and Afterlives, Christopher Barzak |
| collection | (tie) North American Lake Monsters, Nathan Ballingrud |
| anthology | The Grimscribe's Puppets, Joseph S. Pulver, Sr., ed. |
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— 2013 — | |
| novel | Edge, Koji Suzuki |
| novella | “Sky”, Kaaron Warren |
| novelette | “Reeling for the Empire”, Karen Russell |
| short fiction | “A Natural History of Autumn”, Jeffrey Ford |
| collection | Crackpot Palace, Jeffrey Ford |
| anthology | Exotic Gothic 4: Postscripts #28/29, Danel Olson, ed. |
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— 2012 — | |
| novel | Witches on the Road Tonight, Sheri Holman |
| novella | “Near Zennor”, Elizabeth Hand |
| novelette | “The Summer People”, Kelly Link |
| short story | “The Corpse Painter's Masterpiece”, M. Rickert |
| collection | After the Apocalypse: Stories, Maureen F. McHugh |
| anthology | Ghosts by Gaslight, Jack Dann & Nick Gevers, eds. |
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— 2011 — | |
| novel | Mr. Shivers, Robert Jackson Bennett |
| novella | “Mysterium Tremendum”, Laird Barron |
| novelette | “The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains”, Neil Gaiman |
| short story | “The Things”, Peter Watts |
| collection | Occultation, Laird Barron |
| anthology | Stories: All-New Tales, Neil Gaiman & Al Sarrantonio, eds. |
| special award | Joyce Carol Oates, for editing the Library of America edition of Shirley Jackson: Novels & Stories |
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— 2010 — | |
| novel | Big Machine, Victor LaValle |
| novella | Midnight Picnic, Nick Antosca |
| novelette | “Morality”, Stephen King |
| short story | “The Pelican Bar”, Karen Joy Fowler |
| collection | (tie) Love Songs for the Shy and Cynical, Robert Shearman |
| collection | (tie) Tunneling to the Center of the Earth, Kevin Wilson |
| anthology | Poe, Ellen Datlow, ed. |
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— 2009 — | |
| novel | The Shadow Year, Jeffrey Ford |
| novella | Disquit, Julia Leigh |
| novelette | “Pride and Prometheus”, John Kessel |
| short story | “The Pile”, Michael Bishop |
| collection | The Diving Pool, Yoko Ogawa |
| anthology | The New Uncanny, Sarah Eyre & Ra Page, eds. |
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— 2008 — | |
| novel | Generation Loss, Elizabeth Hand |
| novella | “Vacancy”, Lucius Shepard |
| novelette | “The Janus Tree”, Glen Hirshberg |
| short story | “The Monsters of Heaven”, Nathan Ballingrud |
| collection | The Imago Sequence and Other Stories, Laird Barron |
| anthology | Inferno, Ellen Datlow, ed. |
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