Shirley Jackson Award for Best Short Fiction
Literary award for works of dark fantasy and psychological suspense
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The Shirley Jackson Award for Best Short Fiction is a literary award given annually at Readercon as part of their Shirley Jackson Awards.
Awarded forThe best psychological suspense, horror, or dark fantastic novel of at under 7,500 words, published in English in the same calendar year
LocationMassachusetts
CountryUnited States
Presented byReadercon
| 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 | Kaaron Warren (Bitter Skin) |
| Website | shirleyjacksonawards |
Terminology
Winners and Finalists
* 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] | |
| 2025 | Kaaron Warren* | "Bitter Skin" | Night & Day | [19] |
| Kirsty Logan | "Lapse" | Unquiet Guests | [19] | |
| Audrey Zhou | "Mother's Mother's Daughter" | Silk and Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror from the Asian Diaspora | [19] | |
| Caroline Kepnes | "Room 24" | The End of the World As We Know It | [19] | |
| Donna Lynch | "Silver Boots" | HOWL: An Anthology of Werewolves from Women-in-Horror | [19] |