The 2008 Shirley Jackson Awards winners were announced on Sunday, July 12th 2009, at Readercon 20, Conference on Imaginative Literature, in Burlington, Massachusetts. Congratulations to all the winners
NOVEL
Winner:
THE SHADOW YEAR, Jeffrey Ford
(William Morrow)
Finalists:
* Alive in Necropolis, Doug Dorst (Riverhead Hardcover)
* The Man on the Ceiling, Steve Rasnic Tem and Melanie Tem (Wizards of the Coast Discoveries)
* Pandemonium, Daryl Gregory (Del Rey)
* The Resurrectionist, Jack O’Connell (Algonquin Books)
* Tender Morsels, Margo Lanagan (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
NOVELLA
Winner:
DISQUIET, Julia Leigh
(Penguin/Hamish Hamilton)
Finalists:
* "Dormitory," Yoko Ogawa (The Diving Pool, Picador)
* Living With the Dead, Darrell Schweitzer (PS Publishing)
* The Long Trial of Nolan Dugatti, Stephen Graham Jones (Chiasmus Press)
* "N,", Stephen King (Just After Sunset, Scribner)
NOVELETTE
Winner:
"PRIDE AND PROMETHEUS," John Kessel
(The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction)
Finalists:
* "Hunger Moon," Deborah Noyes (The Ghosts of Kerfol, Candlewick Press)
* "The Lagerstatte," Laird Barron (The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Ballantine Books/Del Rey)
* "Penguins of the Apocalypse," William Browning Spencer (Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy, Subterranean Press)
* The Situation, Jeff VanderMeer (PS Publishing)
SHORT STORY
Winner:
"THE PILE," Michael Bishop
(Subterranean Online, Winter 2008)
Finalists:
* "68° 07’ 15"N, 31° 36’ 44"W," Conrad Williams (Fast Ships, Black Sails, Night Shade Books)
* "The Dinner Party," Joshua Ferris (The New Yorker, August 11, 2008)
* "Evidence of Love in a Case of Abandonment: One Daughter’s Personal Account," M. Rickert (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Oct/Nov 2008)
* "The Inner City," Karen Heuler (Cemetery Dance #58, 2008)
* "Intertropical Convergence Zone," Nadia Bulkin (ChiZine, Issue 37, 2008)
COLLECTION
Winner:
THE DIVING POOL, Yoko Ogawa
(Picador)
Finalists:
* A Better Angel, Chris Adrian (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)
* Dangerous Laughter, Steven Millhauser (Knopf)
* The Girl on the Fridge, Etgar Keret (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)
* Just After Sunset, Stephen King (Scribner)
* Wild Nights!, Joyce Carol Oates (Ecco)
ANTHOLOGY
Winner:
THE NEW UNCANNY, Edited by Sarah Eyre and Ra Page
(Comma Press)
Finalists:
* Bound for Evil, edited by Tom English (Dead Letter Press)
* Exotic Gothic 2: New Tales of Taboo, edited by Danel Olson (Ash-Tree Press)
* Fast Ships, Black Sails, edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (Night Shade Books)
* Shades of Darkness, edited by Barbara and Christopher Roden (Ash-Tree Press)
NOVEL
Winner:
THE SHADOW YEAR, Jeffrey Ford
(William Morrow)
Finalists:
* Alive in Necropolis, Doug Dorst (Riverhead Hardcover)
* The Man on the Ceiling, Steve Rasnic Tem and Melanie Tem (Wizards of the Coast Discoveries)
* Pandemonium, Daryl Gregory (Del Rey)
* The Resurrectionist, Jack O’Connell (Algonquin Books)
* Tender Morsels, Margo Lanagan (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
NOVELLA
Winner:
DISQUIET, Julia Leigh
(Penguin/Hamish Hamilton)
Finalists:
* "Dormitory," Yoko Ogawa (The Diving Pool, Picador)
* Living With the Dead, Darrell Schweitzer (PS Publishing)
* The Long Trial of Nolan Dugatti, Stephen Graham Jones (Chiasmus Press)
* "N,", Stephen King (Just After Sunset, Scribner)
NOVELETTE
Winner:
"PRIDE AND PROMETHEUS," John Kessel
(The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction)
Finalists:
* "Hunger Moon," Deborah Noyes (The Ghosts of Kerfol, Candlewick Press)
* "The Lagerstatte," Laird Barron (The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Ballantine Books/Del Rey)
* "Penguins of the Apocalypse," William Browning Spencer (Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy, Subterranean Press)
* The Situation, Jeff VanderMeer (PS Publishing)
SHORT STORY
Winner:
"THE PILE," Michael Bishop
(Subterranean Online, Winter 2008)
Finalists:
* "68° 07’ 15"N, 31° 36’ 44"W," Conrad Williams (Fast Ships, Black Sails, Night Shade Books)
* "The Dinner Party," Joshua Ferris (The New Yorker, August 11, 2008)
* "Evidence of Love in a Case of Abandonment: One Daughter’s Personal Account," M. Rickert (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Oct/Nov 2008)
* "The Inner City," Karen Heuler (Cemetery Dance #58, 2008)
* "Intertropical Convergence Zone," Nadia Bulkin (ChiZine, Issue 37, 2008)
COLLECTION
Winner:
THE DIVING POOL, Yoko Ogawa
(Picador)
Finalists:
* A Better Angel, Chris Adrian (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)
* Dangerous Laughter, Steven Millhauser (Knopf)
* The Girl on the Fridge, Etgar Keret (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)
* Just After Sunset, Stephen King (Scribner)
* Wild Nights!, Joyce Carol Oates (Ecco)
ANTHOLOGY
Winner:
THE NEW UNCANNY, Edited by Sarah Eyre and Ra Page
(Comma Press)
Finalists:
* Bound for Evil, edited by Tom English (Dead Letter Press)
* Exotic Gothic 2: New Tales of Taboo, edited by Danel Olson (Ash-Tree Press)
* Fast Ships, Black Sails, edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (Night Shade Books)
* Shades of Darkness, edited by Barbara and Christopher Roden (Ash-Tree Press)
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