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