Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novella

Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novella
Awarded for	The best psychological suspense, horror, or dark fantastic novella of 17,500-39,999 words, published in English in the same calendar year
Location	Massachusetts
Country	United States
Presented by	Readercon
First award	2007
Most recent winner	Eden Royce (Hollow Tongue)
Website	shirleyjacksonawards.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]

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