2018 Shirley Jackson Awards Winners

Novel

• WINNER: Little Eve, Catriona Ward (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)

• In the Night Wood, Dale Bailey (John Joseph Adams)
• Social Creature, Tara Isabella Burton (Double Day)
• We Sold Our Souls, Grady Hendrix (Quirk)
• Everything Under, Daisy Johnson (Jonathan Cape)

Novella

• WINNER: The Taiga Syndrome, Cristina Rivera Garza (Dorothy)

• The Only Harmless Great Thing, Brooke Bolander (Tor.com Publishing)
• The Sea Dreams It Is the Sky, John Hornor Jacobs (HarperCollins)
• Judderman, D.A. Northwood (Dead Ink)
• The Atrocities, Jeremy C. Shipp (Tor.com Publishing)

Novelette

• WINNER: Help the Witch, Tom Cox (Unbound)

• “Adriftica”, Maria Dahvana Headley (Robots vs Fairies)
• “The Black Sea”, Chris Mason (Beneath the Waves: Tales from the Deep)
• Ghostographs: An Album, Maria Romasco Moore (Rose Metal)
• “Blood and Smoke, Vinegar and Ashes”, D.P. Watt (The Silent Garden)

Short Fiction

• WINNER: “The Astronaut”, Christina Wood Martinez (Granta Winter ’18)

• “Hell”, David Hansen (Fairy Tale Review 3/18)
• “Back Seat”, Bracken MacLeod (Lost Highways)
• “The Woman Dies”, Aoko Matsuda (Granta Summer ’18)
• “How to be a Horror Writer”, Tim Waggoner (Vastarien Summer ’18)

Single-Author Collection

• WINNER: All the Fabulous Beasts, Priya Sharma (Undertow)

• Drawn Up from Deep Places, Gemma Files (Trepidatio)
• The Human Alchemy, Michael Griffin (Word Horde)
• Quartier Perdu, Sean O’Brien (Comma)
• Garden of Eldritch Delights, Lucy A. Snyder (Raw Dog Screaming)

Edited Anthology

• WINNER: Robots vs Fairies, Dominik Parisien & Navah Wolfe, eds. (Saga)
• Chiral Mad 4: An Anthology of Collaborations, Michael Bailey & Lucy A. Snyder, eds. (Written Backwards)
• This Dreaming Isle, Dan Coxon, ed. (Unsung Stories)
• Tiny Crimes: Very Short Tales of Mystery and Murder, Lincoln Michel & Nadxieli Nieto, eds. (Black Balloon)
• The Silent Garden: A Journal of Esoteric Fabulism, The Silent Garden Collective, ed. (Undertow)