2019 Shirley Jackson Awards Nominees

Novel

• Ninth House, Leigh Bardugo (Flatiron; Gollancz)
• The Book of X, Sarah Rose Etter (Two Dollar Radio)
• Goodnight Stranger, Miciah Bay Gault (Park Row)
• Curious Toys, Elizabeth Hand (Mulholland)
• Tinfoil Butterfly, Rachel Eve Moulton (MCD x FSG Originals)
• Nothing to See Here, Kevin Wilson (Ecco)

Novella

• This Is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone (Saga)
• The Monster of Elendhaven, Jennifer Giesbrecht (Tor.com Publishing)
• “Late Returns”, Joe Hill (Full Throttle)
• Ormeshadow, Priya Sharma (Tor.com Publishing)
• Into Bones Like Oil, Kaaron Warren (Meerkat)

Novelette

• “Taproot”, M.R. Carey (Ten-Word Tragedies)
• “Deeper, Darker Things,” Steve Dillon (Deeper, Darker Things and Other Oddities)
• Pwdre Ser, Kurt Fawver (Dim Shores)
• The Couvade, Joanna Koch (Demain)
• Black Bequeathments, Simon Strantzas (Dim Shores)
• Luminous Body, Brooke Warra (Dim Shores)

Short Fiction

• “Kali_Na”, Indrapramit Das (The Mythic Dream)
• “The Well”, Mariana Enríquez (The Southern Review 55.1)
• “How to Become a Witch-Queen”, Theodora Goss (Hex Life: Wicked New Tales of Witchery)
• “Whistle, My Lad, and I Will Come”, Gina Ochsner (Fairy Tale Review: The Pink Issue)
• “The Truth About Josh Enloe”, Nick Straatmann (Parhelion Fall ’19)

Single-Author Collection

• Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell, Nathan Ballingrud (Saga)
• Collision, J.S. Breukelaar (Meerkat)
• Homesick, Nino Cipri (Dzanc)
• Song for the Unraveling of the World, Brian Evenson (Coffee House)
• Every Human Love: Stories, Joanna Pearson (Acre)
• Mouthful of Birds, Samanta Schweblin (Riverhead; Oneworld)

Edited Anthology

• Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Saga)
• The Twisted Book of Shadows, Christopher Golden & James A. Moore, eds. (Twisted)
• The Unquiet Dreamer: A Tribute to Harlan Ellison, Preston Grassmann, ed. (PS)
• Wonderland: An Anthology of Works Inspired by Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Marie O’Regan & Paul Kane, eds. (Titan)
• The Mythic Dream, Dominik Parisien & Navah Wolfe, eds. (Saga)

Details on the award ceremony will be released later.

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