2017 Shirley Jackson Awards Winners

Novel

• WINNER: The Hole, Hye-young Pyun (Arcade)

• Ill Will, Dan Chaon (Ballantine)
• The Bone Mother, David Demchuk (ChiZine)
• The Night Ocean, Paul La Farge (Penguin)
• The Changeling, Victor LaValle (Spiegel & Grau)

Novella (tie)

• WINNER: The Lost Daughter Collective, Lindsey Drager (Dzanc)
• WINNER: Fever Dream, Samantha Schweblin (Riverhead)

• 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)
• The Murders of Molly Southbourne, Tade Thompson (Tor.com Publishing)

Novelette

• WINNER: “Take the Way Home That Leads Back to Sullivan Street”, Chavisa Woods (Things to Do When You’re Goth in the Country)

• “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)

Short Fiction

• WINNER: “The Convexity of Our Youth”, Kurt Fawver (Looming Low Volume 1)

• “Live Through This”, Nadia Bulkin (Looming Low Volume 1)
• “The Second Door”, Brian Evenson (Looming Low Volume 1)
• “The Mouse Queen”, Camilla Grudova (The Doll’s Alphabet)
• “Blur”, Carmen Maria Machado (Tin House Summer ’17)

Single-Author Collection

• WINNER: Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado (Graywolf)

• She Said Destroy, Nadia Bulkin (Word Horde)
• The Doll’s Alphabet, Camilla Grudova (Coffee House)
• The Dark Dark, Samantha Hunt (FSG Originals)
• Things to Do When You’re Goth in the Country, Chavisa Woods (Seven Stories)

Edited Anthology

• WINNER: Shadows and Tall Trees Volume 7, Michael Kelly, ed. (Undertow)

• 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)
• Tales From a Talking Board, Ross E. Lockhart, ed. (Word Horde)