2017 Shirley Jackson Awards Nominees
The 2017 Shirley Jackson Awards nominees have been announced. The awards are presented for outstanding achievement in horror, psychological suspense, and dark fantasy fiction.
Novel
- Ill Will, Dan Chaon (Ballantine)
- The Bone Mother, David Demchuk (ChiZine)
- The Night Ocean, Paul La Farge (Penguin)
- The Changeling, Victor LaValle (Spiegel & Grau)
- The Hole, Hye-young Pyun (Arcade)
Novella
- The Lost Daughter Collective, Lindsey Drager (Dzanc)
- Mapping the Interior, Stephen Graham Jones (Tor.com Publishing)
- The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion, Margaret Killjoy (Tor.com Publishing)
- The Asylum of Dr. Caligari, James Morrow (Tachyon)
- Fever Dream, Samantha Schweblin (Riverhead)
- The Murders of Molly Southbourne, Tade Thompson (Tor.com Publishing)
Novelette
- “You Will Always Have Family: A Triptych”, Kathleen Kayembe (Nightmare 3/17)
- “The Resident”, Carmen Maria Machado (Her Body and Other Parties)
- “Sun Dogs”, Laura Mauro (Shadows and Tall Trees Volume 7)
- “The West Topeka Triangle”, Jeremiah Tolbert (Lightspeed 1/17)
- “Take the Way Home That Leads Back to Sullivan Street”, Chavisa Woods (Things to Do When You’re Goth in the Country)
Short Fiction
- “Live Through This”, Nadia Bulkin (Looming Low Volume 1)
- “The Second Door”, Brian Evenson (Looming Low Volume 1)
- “The Convexity of Our Youth”, Kurt Fawver (Looming Low Volume 1)
- “The Mouse Queen”, Camilla Grudova (The Doll’s Alphabet)
- “Blur”, Carmen Maria Machado (Tin House Summer ’17)
Single-Author Collection
- She Said Destroy, Nadia Bulkin (Word Horde)
- The Doll’s Alphabet, Camilla Grudova (Coffee House)
- The Dark Dark, Samantha Hunt (FSG Originals)
- Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado (Graywolf)
- Things to Do When You’re Goth in the Country, Chavisa Woods (Seven Stories)
Edited Anthology
- Black Feathers: Dark Avian Tales, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Pegasus)
- The Djinn Falls in Love, Mahvesh Murad & Jared Shurin, eds. (Rebellion/Solaris)
- Looming Low Volume 1, Justin Steele & Sam Cowan, ed. (Dim Shores)
- Shadows and Tall Trees Volume 7, Michael Kelly, ed. (Undertow)
- Tales From a Talking Board, Ross E. Lockhart, ed. (Word Horde)
The awards will be presented July 15, 2018 at Readercon 29 at the Quincy Marriott in Quincy MA.
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