| Shirley Jackson Award for Best Short Fiction | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | The best psychological suspense, horror, or dark fantastic novel of at under 7,500 words, published in English in the same calendar year |
| Location | Massachusetts |
| Country | United States |
| Presented by | Readercon |
| First award | 2007 |
| Most recent winner | Arkady Martine ("Three Faces of a Beheading") |
| Website | shirleyjacksonawards |
The Shirley Jackson Award for Best Short Fiction is a literary award given annually at Readercon as part of their Shirley Jackson Awards.
In 2007, the inaugural award was given as the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Short Story. [1] Since 2012, the award has been entitled the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Short Fiction. [2]
* Winners
| Year | Author | Novel | Originally Published In: | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Nathan Ballingrud * | "The Monsters of Heaven" | Inferno, Tor Books | [1] |
| M. Rickert | "Holiday" | Subterranean #7, 2007 | [1] | |
| Elizabeth Ziemska | "A Murder of Crows" | Tin House #31, Spring 2007 | [1] | |
| Carrie Laben | "Something in the Mermaid Way" | Clarkesworld Magazine , March 2007 | [1] | |
| Jeff VanderMeer | "The Third Bear" | Clarkesworld Magazine , April 2007 | [1] | |
| Andy Duncan | "Unique Chicken Goes in Reverse" | Eclipse One, Night Shade Books | [1] | |
| 2008 | Michael Bishop * | "The Pile" | Subterranean Online, Winter 2008 | [3] |
| Conrad Williams | "68° 07' 15'N, 31° 36' 44'W" | Fast Ships, Black Sails | [3] | |
| Joshua Ferris | "The Dinner Party" | The New Yorker , August 2008 | [3] | |
| M. Rickert | "Evidence of Love in a Case of Abandonment: One Daughter’s Personal Account" | F&SF , Oct/Nov 2008 | [3] | |
| Karen Heuler | "The Inner City" | Cemetery Dance #58, 2008 | [3] | |
| Nadia Bulkin | "Intertropical Convergence Zone" | Chizine #37, 2008 | [3] | |
| 2009 | Karen Joy Fowler * | "The Pelican Bar" | Eclipse #3 | [4] |
| Dale Bailey Nathan Ballingrud | "The Crevasse" | Lovecraft Unbound | [4] | |
| Laird Barron | "Strappado" | Poe | [4] | |
| Aimee Bender | "Faces" | The Paris Review , Winter 2009 | [4] | |
| Gemma Files | "The Jacaranda Smile" | Apparitions | [4] | |
| Jonathan Lethem | "Procedure in Plain Air" | The New Yorker , October 2009 | [4] | |
| 2010 | Peter Watts * | "The Things" | Clarkesworld Magazine , Jan 2010 | [5] |
| Caitlín R. Kiernan | "As Red As Red" | Haunted Legends | [5] | |
| Karen Joy Fowler | "Booth's Ghost" | What I Didn’t See and Other Stories | [5] | |
| Lily Hoang | "The Foxes" | Haunted Legends | [5] | |
| Laird Barron | "six six six" | Occultation | [5] | |
| 2011 | M. Rickert * | "The Corpse Painter's Masterpiece" | SF&F , Sept/Oct 2011 | [6] |
| Joan Aiken | "Hair" | The Monkey's Wedding and Other Stories | [6] | |
| Nathan Ballingrud | "Sunbleached" | Teeth | [6] | |
| Nadia Bulkin | "Absolute Zero" | Creatures: Thirty Years of Monsters | [6] | |
| Jason Ockert | "Max" | The Iowa Review | [6] | |
| Genevieve Valentine | "Things to Know About Being Dead" | Teeth | [6] | |
| 2012 | Jeffrey Ford * | "A Natural History of Autumn" | F&SF , July/August 2012 | [2] |
| Dan Chaon | "How We Escaped Our Certain Fate" | 21st Century Dead | [2] | |
| Dan Chaon | "Little America" | Shadow Show: All New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury, Morrow | [2] | |
| Margo Lanagan | "Bajazzle" | Cracklescape | [2] | |
| Kelly Link | "Two Houses" | Shadow Show: All New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury, Morrow | [2] | |
| Tamsyn Muir | "The Magician's Apprentice" | Weird Tales #359 | [2] | |
| 2013 | Sam J. Miller * | "57 Reasons for the Slate Quarry Suicides" | Nightmare Magazine , December 2013 | [7] |
| Livia Llewellyn | "Furnace" | Grimscribe’s Puppets | [7] | |
| Maureen McHugh | "The Memory Book" | Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells: An Anthology of Gaslamp Fantasy | [7] | |
| Paul Park | "The Statue in the Garden" | Exotic Gothic 5 | [7] | |
| Robert Shearman | "That Tiny Flutter of the Heart" | Psycho-Mania! | [7] | |
| Maria Dahvana Headley | "The Traditional" | Lightspeed , May 2013 | [7] | |
| 2014 | Alison Littlewood * | "The Dogs Home" | The Spectral Book of Horror Stories, Spectral Press | [8] |
| Siobhan Carroll | "Wendigo Nights" | Fearful Symmetries | [8] | |
| Chikodili Emelumadu | "Candy Girl" | Apex Magazine , November 2014 | [8] | |
| Garth Nix | "Shay Corsham Worsted" | Fearful Symmetries | [8] | |
| Alyssa Wong | "The Fisher Queen" | F&SF , May/June 2014 | [8] | |
| 2015 | Lynda E. Rucker * | "The Dying Season" | Aickman's Heirs | [9] |
| Nadia Bulkin | "Seven Minutes in Heaven" | Aickman's Heirs | [9] | |
| Shannon Peavey | "A Beautiful Memory" | Apex Magazine , March 2015 | [9] | |
| Letitia Trent | "Wilderness" | Exigencies | [9] | |
| Alyssa Wong | "Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers" | Nightmare Magazine , October 2015 | [9] | |
| 2016 | Carrie Laben* | "Postcards from Natalie" | The Dark, July 2016 | [10] |
| Karen Heuler | "The Apartments" | Other Places | [10] | |
| Katie Knoll | "Red" | The Masters Review , October 2016 | [10] | |
| Sam J. Miller | "Things With Beards" | Clarkesworld Magazine , June 2016 | [10] | |
| Irenosen Okojie | "Animal Parts" | Speak, Gigantular | [10] | |
| 2017 | Kurt Fawver* | "The Convexity of Our Youth" | Looming Low, Volume 1 | [11] |
| Nadia Bulkin | "Live Through This" | Looming Low, Volume 1 | [11] | |
| Brian Evenson | "The Second Door" | Looming Low, Volume 1 | [11] | |
| Camilla Grudova | "The Mouse Queen" | The Doll's Alphabet | [11] | |
| Carmen Maria Machado | "Blur" | Tin House , Summer 2017 | [11] | |
| 2018 | Christina Wood Martinez* | "The Astronaut" | Granta , Winter 2018 | [12] |
| David Hansen | "Hell" | Fairy Tale Review, March 2018 | [12] | |
| Bracken MacLeod | "Back Seat" | Lost Highways | [12] | |
| Aoko Matsuda | "The Woman Dies" | Granta , Summer 2018 | [12] | |
| Tim Waggoner | "How to be a Horror Writer" | Vastarien, Summer 2018 | [12] | |
| 2019 | Indrapramit Das * | "Kali_Na" | The Mythic Dream | [13] |
| Theodora Goss | "How to Become a Witch-Queen" | Hex Life: Wicked New Tales of Witchery | [13] | |
| Nick Straatmann | "The Truth About Josh Enloe" | Parhelion | [13] | |
| Mariana Enríquez (author) Megan McDowell (translator) | "The Well" | The Southern Review , Issue 55.1 | [13] | |
| Gina Ochsner | "Whistle, My Lad, and I Will Come" | The Pink Issue of Fairy Tale Review | [13] | |
| 2020 | R. A. Busby* | "Not the Man I Married" | Black Petals, Autumn 2020 | [14] |
| R. A. Busby | "Holes" | Graveyard Smash | [14] | |
| Roxane Gay | "Graceful Burdens" | Amazon Original Stories | [14] | |
| Franki Haber | "The Memory Game" | The Gravity of the Thing, Spring 2020 | [14] | |
| Tobi Ogundiran | "Isn't Your Daughter Such a Doll" | Shoreline of Infinity #18 | [14] | |
| Eden Royce | "Room and Board Included, Demonology Extra" | Eyedolon, June 2020 | [14] | |
| 2021 | Isabel J. Kim * | "You’ll Understand When You're a Mom Someday" | khōréō, August 2021 | [15] |
| L.D. Lewis | "Dizzy in the Weeds" | Unfettered Hexes: Queer Tales of Insatiable Darkness | [15] | |
| Nicasio Andres Reed | "Human Reason" | Unfettered Hexes: Queer Tales of Insatiable Darkness | [15] | |
| Carlie St. George | "Forward, Victoria" | The Dark, April 2021 | [15] | |
| Gordon B. White | "Gordon B. White is Creating Haunting Weird Horror" | Nightmare Magazine , July 2021 | [15] | |
| 2022 | Kim Fu * | "Pre-Simulation Consultation XF007867" | Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century | [16] |
| Viktor Athelstan | "Brother Maternitas" | Your Body is Not Your Body | [16] | |
| Emily Mitchell | "The Church of Divine Electricity" | The Southern Review | [16] | |
| Ian Muneshwar | "Dick Pig" | Nightmare Magazine , January 2022 | [16] | |
| Wendy N. Wagner | "Halogen Sky" | Vastarien, June 2022 | [16] | |
| 2023 | Laura Blackwell* | "The First Mrs. Edward Rochester Would Like a Word" | Aseptic and Faintly Sadistic | [17] |
| Lesley Nneka Arimah | "Invasion of the Baby Snatchers" | Out There Screaming | [17] | |
| Sciascia DeKay | "Kazti Girls" | The Fabulist | [17] | |
| Jo Kaplan | "Something is Rotten" | Shakespeare Unleashed | [17] | |
| Kristina Ten | "The Dizzy Room" | Nightmare Magazine , March 2023 | [17] | |
| 2024 | Arkady Martine * | "Three Faces of a Beheading" | Uncanny Magazine , May-June 2024 | [18] |
| Caroline Hung | "Moon Rabbit Song" | Nightmare Magazine , November 2024 | [18] | |
| Manish Melwani | "MAMMOTH" | Nightmare Magazine , June 2024 | [18] | |
| Kristina Ten | "Kamchatka" | Washington Square Review , Spring 2024 | [18] | |
| Jessica P. Wick | "Strike" | Monsters in the Mills | [18] |