The 2017 Shirley Jackson Awards winners were announced July 15, 2018 during Readercon 29 at the Quincy Marriott in Quincy MA. The awards are presented for outstanding achievement in horror, psychological suspense, and dark fantasy fiction.
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The 2017 Shirley Jackson Awards nominees have been announced. The awards are presented for outstanding achievement in horror, psychological suspense, and dark fantasy fiction.
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The 2016 Shirley Jackson Awards winners for outstanding achievement in horror, psychological suspense, and dark fantasy fiction were announced at a ceremony, July 16, 2017 at Readercon 28 at the Quincy Marriott in Quincy MA.
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WINNER: The Girls, Emma Cline (Random House)
The 2016 Shirley Jackson Awards nominees have been announced. The awards are presented for outstanding achievement in horror, psychological suspense, and dark fantasy fiction.
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The 2015 Shirley Jackson Awards were presented on July 10, 2016 at Readercon 27, Conference on Imaginative Literature, in Quincy MA. Readercon guests of honor Catherynne M. Valente and Tim Powers hosted the ceremony.
The winners for the 2015 Shirley Jackson Awards are:
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The 2015 Shirley Jackson Awards nominees have been announced. The awards are presented for outstanding achievement in horror, psychological suspense, and dark fantasy fiction.
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The 2014 Shirley Jackson Awards winners were announced on July 12, 2015 at Readercon 22 in Burlington MA. The awards are presented for outstanding achievement in horror, psychological suspense, and dark fantasy fiction.
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The 2014 Shirley Jackson Awards nominees have been announced. The awards are presented for outstanding achievement in horror, psychological suspense, and dark fantasy fiction.
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The 2012 Shirley Jackson Awards were presented at a ceremony at Readercon 24 on July 14, 2013 in Burlington MA, for outstanding achievement in horror, psychological suspense, and dark fantasy fiction. The ceremony was hosted by Maureen McHugh. The winners are:
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The 2011 Shirley Jackson Awards were presented at a ceremony at Readercon 23 on July 15, 2012 in Burlington MA, for outstanding achievement in horror, psychological suspense, and dark fantasy fiction. The ceremony was co-hosted by Peter Straub and Caitlín R. Kiernan. The winners are:
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The 2011 Shirley Jackson Awards nominees have been announced. The awards are presented for outstanding achievement in horror, psychological suspense, and dark fantasy fiction.
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The 2010 Shirley Jackson Awards nominees have been announced. The awards are presented for outstanding achievement in horror, psychological suspense, and dark fantasy fiction.
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The 2009 Shirley Jackson Awards winners have been announced. The awards are presented for outstanding achievement in horror, psychological suspense, and dark fantasy fiction.
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The 2008 Shirley Jackson Awards winners were announced on Sunday, July 12, 2009, at Readercon 20, the Conference on Imaginative Literature, in Burlington, Massachusetts. Winners and finalist are:
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The Shadow Year, Jeffrey Ford (William Morrow)
Alive in Necropolis, Doug Dorst (Riverhead Hardcover)
The Man on the Ceiling, Steve Rasnic Tem & Melanie Tem (Wizards of the Coast Discoveries)
Pandemonium, Daryl Gregory (Del Rey)
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The Shirley Jackson Awards will be presented on Sunday, July 12th 2009, at Readercon 20, Conference on Imaginative Literature, in Burlington, Massachusetts. Guest of honor Elizabeth Hand, whose Generation Loss won the 2007 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel, will emcee.
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The administrators of the Shirley Jackson Awards are holding an “online lottery” fundraiser. Lottery tickets are a dollar each, and prizes range from rare signed books to Tuckerizations by various authors to a keyboard signed by Neil Gaiman. Tickets will be available for purchase February 9-23, 2009. For the list of available prizes, see www.shirleyjacksonawards.org/store/. ...Read More
Read moreThe Locus Science Fiction Foundation has announced winners in each category of the 2017 Locus Awards.
The Locus Awards are chosen by a survey of readers in an open online poll that runs from February 1 to April 15. We welcome and invite everyone to vote in the poll. Our recommended list for 2016 can be found here.
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The Locus Science Fiction Foundation has announced the top ten finalists in each category of the 2017 Locus Awards.
Winners will be announced during the Locus Awards Weekend in Seattle WA, June 23-25, 2017; Connie Willis will MC the awards ceremony. Additional weekend events include author readings with Connie Willis and Carrie Vaughn; a kickoff Clarion West party honoring first week instructor Daryl Gregory, Clarion West supporters, awards weekend ticket ...Read More
Read moreThe Horror Writers Association (HWA) announced the winners for the 2016 Bram Stoker Awards on April 29, 2017 at a gala held aboard the Queen Mary in Long Beach CA during StokerCon 2017.
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Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin (Liveright) won the 2017 Edgar Award for Best Critical/ Biographical.
Several authors and works of genre interest were on the 2017 Edgar Awards shortlist, including Peter Ackroyd, Ally Condie, Stephen King, Justine Larbalestier, Joyce Carol Oates, and Bram Stoker, among others. Max Allan Collins was made Grand Master.
The Edgar Allan Poe Awards, “honoring the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction and ...Read More
Read moreThe Horror Writers Association (HWA) announced the finalists for the 2016 Bram Stoker Awards on February 23, 2017.
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Several authors and works of genre interest are on the 2017 Edgar Awards shortlist, including Peter Ackroyd, Ally Condie, Shirley Jackson, Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates, and Bram Stoker, among others. Max Allan Collins has been named a Grand Master.
The Edgar Allan Poe Awards, “honoring the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction and television,” will be presented April 27, 2017 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York NY.
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Read moreThere are a few works and authors of genre interest among the 2016 Edgar Awards nominations, presented annually by the Mystery Writers of America:
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Canary, Duane Swierczynski (Mulholland)
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Robert Jackson Bennett was born June 22, 1984 in Baton Rouge LA and lived all over the deep south before settling in Houston TX when he was ten. He attended college at the University of Texas at Austin, where he studied English and Government.
Bennett’s debut novel Mr. Shivers (2010) won a Shirley Jackson Award, was a finalist for the Crawford Award, and earned him the Sydney J. Bounds Award
...Read MoreThe 2013 Shirley Jackson Awards nominees have been announced. The awards are presented for outstanding achievement in horror, psychological suspense, and dark fantasy fiction.
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The 2012 Shirley Jackson Awards nominees have been announced. The awards are presented for outstanding achievement in horror, psychological suspense, and dark fantasy fiction.
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The 2010 Shirley Jackson Awards winners were presented during a ceremony at Readercon 22 in Burlington, Massachusetts on Sunday, July 18th, 2011. The awards are given for outstanding achievement in horror, psychological suspense, and dark fantasy fiction.
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The Sea Dreams It Is the Sky, John Hornor Jacobs (Harper Voyager $3.99 127pp, eb) October 2018.
John Hornor Jacobs’s The Sea Dreams It Is the Sky is an excellently written, Lovecraft-inflected novella concerned with the history of an invented South American nation and the life of its most famous poet. It begins in Malaga, Spain, in 1987, with Isabel, the first-person narrator, noticing an older man wearing an ...Read More
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Cross Her Heart, Sarah Pinborough (HarperCollins UK 978-0008132019, £12.99, 384pp, hc) May 2018. (Morrow 9780062856791 $26.99, 352pp, hc) September 2018.
As was the case with Behind Her Eyes, Sarah Pinborough’s previous bestseller, there’s a significant plot twist in Cross Her Heart, her new novel. The difference is, this crook in the narrative arrives at roughly its halfway point and is only the first of several which accelerate ...Read More
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