Shirley Jackson Award

  Shirley Jackson won the Edgar award for best short story. The Shirley Jackson Awards are literary awards named after Shirley Jackson in recognition of her legacy in writing. These awards for outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror and the dark fantastic are presented at Readercon, an annual conference on imaginative literature.

  Award-winners are selected by a jury of professional writers, editors, critics and academics, with input from a Board of Advisors. The awards are given for the best work published in the preceding calendar year in the following categories: Novel, Novella, Novelette, Short Story, Single-Author Collection and Edited Anthology. The first annual Shirley Jackson Awards were presented July 20, 2007 at the Readercon Conference on Imaginative Literature in Burlington, Massachusetts.


2015 winners
Novel: "Experimental Film" Gemma Files (ChiZine Publications)
Novella: "Wylding Hall" Elizabeth Hand (PS Publishing / Open Road Media)
Novellette: "Even Clean Hands Can Do Damage" Steve Duffy ("Supernatural Tales" #30)
Short Fiction: "The Dying Season" Lynda E. Rucker (Aickman's Heirs)
Single Author Collection: "The Bazaar of Bad Dreams" Stephen King (Scribner)
Edited Anthology: "Aickman's Heirs", edited by Simon Strantzas (Undertow Publications)

 http://www.shirleyjacksonawards.org

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