2023 Shirley Jackson Awards Winners

Novel

• WINNER: The Reformatory, Tananarive Due (Saga Press)
• The Daughters of Block Island, Christa Carmen (Thomas & Mercer)
• Every Version Ends in Death, Aliya Chaudhry (Haunt)
• Don’t Fear the Reaper, Stephen Graham Jones (Saga)
• The Militia House, John Milas (Henry Holt & Company)
• Brainwyrms, Alison Rumfitt (Nightfire)

Novella

• WINNER: To the Woman in the Pink Hat, LaToya Jordan (Aqueduct)
• Broken Paradise, Eugen Bacon (Luna Press Publishing)
• Getting by in Tligolian, Roppotucha Greenberg (Arachne)
• The Salt Grows Heavy, Cassandra Khaw (Nightfire)
• Sleep Alone, J.A.W. McCarthy (Off Limits)
• Green Fuse Burning, Tiffany Morris (Stelliform)

Novelette

• WINNER: “Six Versions of My Brother Found Under the Bridge”, Eugenia Triantafyllou (Uncanny 9-10/23)
• The Pram, Joe Hill (Amazon Original Stories)
• People Like Them, Minka Kent (Amazon Original Stories)
• The Lover, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Amazon Original Stories)
• “The Swan”, Lynn C. Pitts (Infinite Constellations)
• “What’s He Building in There”, Cat Powell (Fairy Tale Review: The Rainbow Issue Vol. 19 2023)
• “Vampire Fiction”, Michael Wehunt (The Inconsolables)

Short Fiction

• WINNER: “The First Mrs. Edward Rochester Would Like a Word”, Laura Blackwell (Aseptic and Faintly Sadistic)
• “Invasion of the Baby Snatchers”, Lesley Nneka Arimah (Out There Screaming)
• Kazti Girls, Sciascia DeKay (The Fabulist)
• “Something is Rotten”, Jo Kaplan (Shakespeare Unleashed)
• “The Dizzy Room”, Kristina Ten (Nightmare 3/23)

Single-Author Collection

• WINNER: They Will Dream in the Garden, Gabriela Damián Miravete, translated by Adrian Demopulos (Rosarium)
• Her Body Among Animals, Paola Ferrante (Book*hug)
• Drinking from Graveyard Wells, Yvette Lisa Ndlovu (University Press of Kentucky)
• Jackal, Jackal, Tobi Ogundiran (Undertow)
• White Trash & Recycled Nightmares, Rebecca Rowland (Dead Sky)

Edited Anthology

• WINNER: Aseptic and Faintly Sadistic, Jolie Toomajan, ed. (Cosmic Horror Monthly)
• Shakespeare Unleashed, James Aquilone, ed. (Monstrous)
• Never Whistle at Night, Shane Hawk & Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr., eds. (Vintage)
• Out There Screaming:  An Anthology of New Black Horror, Jordan Peele & John Joseph Adams, eds. (Penguin Random House)
• Mooncalves, John WM Thompson, ed. (NO Press)

A special award was presented to Elizabeth Hand for A Haunting on the Hill: A Novel (Mullholland), “a novel authorized by the Jackson Estate which returns readers to the world created by Shirley Jackson in The Haunting of Hill House.”

Winners were announced July 13, 2024 at Readercon 33 in Quincy MA. The awards ceremony was hosted by Readercon Guests of Honor Amal El-Mohtar and Rebecca Roanhorse. For more information, see the award website.

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