2022 Shirley Jackson Awards Winners

Novel

• WINNER (TIE): The Devil Takes You Home, Gabino Iglesias (Mulholland)
• WINNER (TIE): Where I End, Sophie White (Tramp)

• Jackal, Erin E. Adams (Bantam)
• The Dead Friends Society, Paul Gandersman and Peter Hall (Encyclopocalypse)
• Beulah, Christi Nogle (Cemetery Gates)
• Unwieldy Creatures, Addie Tsai (Jaded Ibis)

Novella

• WINNER: The Bone Lantern, Angela Slatter (PS)

• Catastrophe, Deirdre Danklin (Texas Review)
• The Wehrwolf, Alma Katsu (Amazon Original Stories)
• Lure, Tim McGregor (Tenebrous)
• Pomegranates, Priya Sharma (PS)
• Bound Feet, Kelsea Yu (Cemetery Gates)

Novelette

• WINNER: What the Dead Know, Nghi Vo (Amazon Original Stories)

• “Sweetbaby”, Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld 10/22)
• “Challawa”, Usman T. Malik (Dark Stars: New Tales of Darkest Horror)
• Azeman or, the Testament of Quincey Morris, Lisa Moore (Black Shuck)
• “This Place is Best Shunned”, David Erik Nelson (Tor.com 7/27/22)

Short Fiction

• WINNER: “Pre-Simulation Consultation XF007867”, Kim Fu (Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century)

• “Brother Maternitas”, Viktor Athelstan (Your Body is Not Your Body)
• “The Church of Divine Electricity”, Emily Mitchell (The Southern Review)
• “Dick Pig”, Ian Muneshwar (Nightmare 1/22)
• “Halogen Sky”, Wendy N. Wagner (Vastarien 6/22)

Single-Author Collection

• WINNER: We Are Here to Hurt Each Other, Paula D. Ashe (Nictitating)

• Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, Kim Fu (Tin House)
• Hell Hath No Sorrow Like a Woman Haunted, RJ Joseph (The Seventh Terrace)
• Breakable Things, Cassandra Khaw (Undertow)
• And At My Back I Always Hear, Scott Nicolay (Word Horde)
• Splendid Anatomies, Allison Wyss (Veliz)

Edited Anthology

• WINNER: The Hideous Book of Hidden Horrors, Doug Murano, ed. (Bad Hand)

• Chiral Mad 5, Michael Bailey, ed. (Written Backwards)
• Your Body is Not Your Body, Matt Blairstone & Alex Woodroe, eds. (Tenebrous)
• Screams From the Dark: 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Nightfire)
• Other Terrors, Vince A. Liaguno & Rena Mason, eds. (William Morrow)

Winners were announced at the 2022 Shirley Jackson Awards Ceremony on July 15, 2023 at Readercon 32 in Quincy, Massachusetts. The ceremony was hosted by guest of honor Jeff VanderMeer and special guest Ann VanderMeer, who is also a member of the Shirley Jackson Awards Board of Advisors. For more information, see the award website.

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