Shirley Jackson Award for Best Single-Author Collection

Shirley Jackson Award for Best Single-Author Collection
Awarded for	The best psychological suspense, horror, or dark fantastic collection of at least 40,000 words, published in English in the same calendar year
Location	Massachusetts
Country	United States
Presented by	Readercon
First award	2007
Most recent winner	Scott Thomas (Midwestern Gothic)
Website	shirleyjacksonawards.org

The Shirley Jackson Award for Best Single-Author Collection is a literary award given annually at Readercon as part of their Shirley Jackson Awards.

Terminology

In 2007, the inaugural award was given as the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Collection. ^[1] Beginning in 2010, the award has been entitled the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Single-Author Collection. ^[2]

Criteria

To be eligible for the award, a collection must total at least 40,000 words. The collection may contain a combination of fiction, nonfiction, and collaborative works. At least 50% of the collection must be fiction. ^[3]

Winners and Finalists

  *   Winners

Year	Author	Novel	Publisher	Ref.
2007	Laird Barron *	The Imago Sequence and Other Stories	Night Shade Books	[1]
	Sarah Monette	The Bone Key	Prime Books	[1]
	Lucy Corin	The Entire Predicament	Tin House	[1]
	Jim Shepard	Like You’d Understand, Anyway	Knopf	[1]
	Christopher Fowler	Old Devil Moon	Serpent's Tail	[1]
2008	Yōko Ogawa *	The Diving Pool	Picador	[4]
	Chris Adrian	A Better Angel	Farrar, Straus and Giroux	[4]
	Steven Millhauser	Dangerous Laughter: 13 Stories	Knopf	[4]
	Etgar Keret	The Girl on the Fridge	Farrar, Straus and Giroux	[4]
	Stephen King	Just After Sunset	Scribner	[4]
	Joyce Carol Oates	Wild Nights!	Ecco Press	[4]
2009	Robert Shearman *	Love Songs for the Shy and Cynical	Big Finish Productions	[5]
	Kevin Wilson *	Tunneling to the Center of the Earth	Harper Perennial	[5]
	Brian Evenson	Fugue State	Coffee House Press	[5]
	Otsuichi	Zoo	Haikasoru	[5]
	Lyudmila Petrushevskaya	There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales	Penguin Books	[5]
	Paul Witcover	Everland and Other Stories	PS Publishing	[5]
2010	Laird Barron *	Occultation	Night Shade Books	[2]
	Stephen Graham Jones	The Ones That Got Away	Prime Books	[2]
	Jeff VanderMeer	The Third Bear	Tachyon Publications	[2]
	Karen Joy Fowler	What I Didn't See and Other Stories	Small Beer Press	[2]
	Scott Edelman	What Will Come After	PS Publishing	[2]
2011	Maureen F. McHugh *	After the Apocalypse: Stories	Small Beer Press	[6]
	Christopher Fowler	Red Gloves	PS Publishing	[6]
	Glen Hirshberg	The Janus Tree	Subterranean Press	[6]
	Livia Llewellyn	Engines of Desire: Tales of Love & Other Horrors	Lethe Press	[6]
	Joyce Carol Oates	The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares	Mysterious Press	[6]
	Kit Reed	What Wolves Know	PS Publishing	[6]
2012	Jeffrey Ford *	Crackpot Palace	Morrow	[7]
	Jonathan Carroll	The Woman Who Married a Cloud	Subterranean Press	[7]
	Andy Duncan	The Pottawatomie Giant and Other Stories	PS Publishing	[7]
	Brian Evenson	Windeye	Coffee House Press	[7]
	Elizabeth Hand	Errantry	Small Beer Press	[7]
	Robert Shearman	Remember Why You Fear Me	ChiZine	[7]
2013	Nathan Ballingrud *	North American Lake Monsters	Small Beer Press	[8]
	Christopher Barzak *	Before and Afterlives	Lethe Press	[8]
	Michael Marshall Smith	Everything You Need	Earthling Publications	[8]
	Will Ludwigsen	In Search Of and Others	Lethe Press	[8]
	Kit Reed	The Story Until Now	Wesleyan	[8]
2014	Helen Marshall*	Gifts for the One who Comes After	ChiZine	[9]
	Mike Allen	Unseaming	Antimatter	[9]
	Stephen Graham Jones	After the People Lights Have Gone Off	Dark House	[9]
	Robert Shearman	They Do The Same Things Different There	ChiZine	[9]
	Simon Strantzas	Burnt Black Suns	Hippocampus Press	[9]
2015	Stephen King *	The Bazaar of Bad Dreams	Scribner	[10]
	Dale Bailey	The End of the End of Everything: Stories	Arche	[10]
	T. E. Grau	The Nameless Dark: A Collection	Lethe Press	[10]
	Amelia Gray	Gutshot	FSG Originals	[10]
	Kelly Link	Get in Trouble	Random House	[10]
	Mary Rickert	You Have Never Been Here	Small Beer Press	[10]
2016	Jeffrey Ford *	A Natural History of Hell	Small Beer Press	[11]
	Clare Beams	We Show What We Have Learned	Lookout	[11]
	Livia Llewellyn	Furnace	Word Horde	[11]
	D. P. Watt	Almost Insentient, Almost Divine	Undertow	[11]
	Michael Wehunt	Greener Pastures	Shock Totem	[11]
2017	Carmen Maria Machado *	Her Body and Other Parties	Graywolf Press	[12]
	Nadia Bulkin	She Said Destroy	Word Horde	[12]
	Camilla Grudova	The Doll's Alphabet	Coffee House Press	[12]
	Samantha Hunt	The Dark Dark	FSG Originals	[12]
	Chavisa Woods	Things to Do When You're Goth in the Country	Seven Stories	[12]
2018	Priya Sharma *	All the Fabulous Beasts	Undertow	[13]
	Gemma Files	Drawn Up from Deep Places	Trepidatio	[13]
	Michael Griffin	The Human Alchemy	Word Horde	[13]
	Sean O'Brien	Quartier Perdu	Comma Press	[13]
	Lucy A. Snyder	Garden of Eldritch Delights	Raw Dog Screaming	[13]
2019	Brian Evenson *	Song for the Unraveling of the World	Coffee House Press	[14]
	J. S. Breukelaar	Collision: Stories	Meerkat	[14]
	Joanna Pearson	Every Human Love: Stories	Acre Books	[14]
	Nino Cipri	Homesick	Dzanc Books	[14]
	Samanta Schweblin	Mouthful of Birds	Riverhead Books	[14]
	Nathan Ballingrud	Wounds	Saga Press	[14]
2020	Kathe Koja *	Velocities	Meerkat	[15]
	Mike Allen	Aftermath of an Industrial Accident	Mythic Delirium	[15]
	Kay Chronister	Thin Places	Undertow	[15]
	Jen Fawkes	Mannequin and Wife	LSU Press	[15]
	M. John Harrison	Settling the World	Comma Press	[15]
	JD Scott	Moonflower, Nightshade, All the Hours of the Day	Lake Forest College Press	[15]
2021	Keith Rosson*	Folk Songs for Trauma Surgeons	Meerkat	[16]
	Hiromi Kawakami (author) Ted Goossen (translator)	People From My Neighborhood	Soft Skull	[16]
	Kurt Kawver	We are Happy, We are Doomed	Grimscribe	[16]
	John Linwood Grant	Where All is Night, and Starless	Trepidatio	[16]
	J. A. W. McCarthy	Sometimes We're Cruel	Cemetery Gates	[16]
2022	Paula D. Ashe*	We Are Here to Hurt Each Other	Nictitating	[17]
	Kim Fu	Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century	Tin House	[17]
	RJ Joseph	Hell Hath No Sorrow Like a Woman Haunted	The Seventh Terrace	[17]
	Cassandra Khaw	Breakable Things	Undertow	[17]
	Nicolay	And At My Back I Always Hear	Word Horde	[17]
	Allison Wyss	Splendid Anatomies	Veliz	[17]
2023	Gabriela Damián Miravete (author)* Adrian Demopulos (translator)*	They Will Dream in the Garden	Rosarium	[18]
	Paola Ferrante	Her Body Among Animals	Book*hug	[18]
	Yvette Lisa Ndlovu	Drinking from Graveyard Wells	University Press of Kentucky	[18]
	Tobi Ogundiran	Jackal, Jackal	Undertow	[18]
	Rebecca Rowland	White Trash & Recycled Nightmares	Dead Sky	[18]
2024	Scott Thomas*	Midwestern Gothic	Inkshares	[19]
	Eugen Bacon	A Place Between Waking and Forgetting	Raw Dog Screaming	[19]
	Carina Bissett	Dead Girl, Driving and Other Devastations	Trepidatio	[19]
	Devon A. Mihesuah	The Bone Picker: Native Stories, Alternate Histories	University of Oklahoma Press	[19]
	David Surface	These Things That Walk Behind Me	Lethe Press	[19]

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