Shirley Jackson Award nominees and I am pleased as punch! Congratulations to all the nominees and good luck to us all.

2009 Shirley Jackson Awards Nominees

Boston, MA (April 2010) -- In recognition of the legacy of Shirley Jackson’s writing, and with permission of the author’s estate, the Shirley Jackson Awards have been established for outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic.

The Shirley Jackson Awards are voted upon 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.

Shirley Jackson (1916-1965) wrote such classic novels as The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, as well as one of the most famous short stories in the English language, “The Lottery.” Her work continues to be a major influence on writers of every kind of fiction, from the most traditional genre offerings to the most innovative literary work.

The Shirley Jackson Awards will be presented at Readercon 21, Conference on Imaginative Literature, in Burlington, Massachusetts. Nalo Hopkinson, Readercon Guest of Honor, will act as host.

Previous years' nominees can be found here: 2008, 2007.
NOVEL

* Big Machine, Victor LaValle (Speigel & Grau)
* Last Days, Brian Evenson (Underland Press)
* The Little Stranger, Sarah Waters (Riverhead)
* The Owl Killers, Karen Maitland (Delacorte Press)
* The Red Tree, Caitlin R. Kiernan (Roc)
* White is for Witching, Helen Oyeyemi (Nan A. Talese)

NOVELLA

* The Language of Dying, Sarah Pinborough, (PS Publishing)
* Midnight Picnic, Nick Antosca (Word Riot Press)
* “Sea-Hearts,” Margo Lanagan (X6, coeur de lion)
* Shrike, Quentin Crisp (PS Publishing)
* Vardøger, Stephen Volk (Gray Friar Press)
* The Witnesses are Gone, Joel Lane (PS Publishing)

NOVELETTE

* “Catch Hell,” Laird Barron (Lovecraft Unbound, Dark Horse)
* “Each Thing I Show You Is a Piece of My Death,” Gemma Files and Stephen J. Barringer, (Clockwork Phoenix 2, Norilana Books)
* “Lonegan’s Luck,” Stephen Graham Jones (New Genre 6)
* “Morality,” Stephen King (Esquire)
* The Night Cache, Andy Duncan (PS Publishing)

SHORT STORY

* “The Crevasse,” by Dale Bailey and Nathan Ballingrud (Lovecraft Unbound, Dark Horse)
* “Faces,” Aimee Bender (The Paris Review, Issue 191, Winter 2009)
* “The Jacaranda Smile,” Gemma Files (Apparitions, Undertow Publications)
* “The Pelican Bar,” Karen Joy Fowler (Eclipse 3, Night Shade)
* “Procedure in Plain Air,” Jonathan Lethem (The New Yorker, April 5, 2010)
* “Strappado,” Laird Barron (Poe: 19 New Tales Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe, Solaris)

SINGLE-AUTHOR COLLECTION

* Everland and Other Stories, Paul Witcover (PS Publishing)
* Fugue State, Brian Evenson (Coffee House Press)
* Love Songs for the Shy and Cynical, Robert Shearman (Big Finish Productions)
* There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby: Scary Fairy Tales, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya (Penguin)
* Tunneling to the Center of the Earth, Kevin Wilson (Harper Perennial)
* Zoo, Otsuichi (Haikasoru/VIZ Media)

EDITED ANTHOLOGY

* Apparitions, edited by Michael Kelly (Undertow Publications)
* British Invasion, edited by Christopher Golden, Tim Lebbon, and James A. Moore (Cemetery Dance)
* Exotic Gothic 3: Strange Visitations, edited by Danel Olson (Ash Tree Press)
* Lovecraft Unbound, edited by Ellen Datlow (Dark Horse)
* Poe: 19 New Tales Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe, edite
A fifth juror has been added: Kelly Link.

In recognition of the legacy of Shirley Jackson’s writing, and with permission of the author’s estate, the Shirley Jackson Awards have been established for outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic.

Shirley Jackson (1916-1965) wrote such classic novels as The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, as well as one of the most famous short stories in the English language, “The Lottery.” Her work continues to be a major influence on writers of every kind of fiction, from the most traditional genre offerings to the most innovative literary work. National Book Critics Circle Award-winning novelist Jonathan Lethem has called Jackson “one of this century’s most luminous and strange American writers,” and multiple generations of authors would agree.

The Shirley Jackson Awards are voted upon 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 website, ShirleyJacksonAwards.org, provides information on the 2007 winners, the award categories, and the selection process.

The jurors for the 2008 Shirley Jackson Awards are, alphabetically:

F. Brett Cox, co-editor (with Andy Duncan) of Crossroads: Tales of the Southern Literary Fantastic (Tor, 2004); author of numerous short stories, critical essays, and reviews; English faculty at Norwich University in Northfield, Vermont.

Kelly Link, author of the collections Stranger Things Happen, Magic for Beginners, and Pretty Monsters; winner of three Nebula Awards, a Hugo Award, and a World Fantasy Award. Co-editor, with Gavin J. Grant, of the fantasy half of The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror; Co-founder, with Gavin J. Grant, of Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet.

John Langan, author of short story collection Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters (Prime Books) and House of Windows (Night Shade Books, forthcoming 2009) and numerous critical essays and reviews; English faculty at State University of New York-New Paltz.

Sarah Langan, author of novels The Keeper (Harper, 2006; finalist for Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel) and The Missing (Harper, 2007; winner of Bram Stoker Award Winner for Superior Achievement in a Novel); MFA in Creative Writing, Columbia University; freelance writer currently living in New York City.

Paul G. Tremblay, author of collection Compositions for the Young and Old (Prime Books), novella “City Pier: Above and Below” (Prime, 2007), and novel The Little Sleep (Henry Holt); co-editor of the anthologies Fantasy and Bandersnatch.

The Board of Advisors for the Shirley Jackson Awards includes editor Bill Congreve; award-winning editor and anthologist Ellen Datlow; renowned scholar and editor S.T. Joshi; author and teacher Jack M. Haringa (co-editor, with Joshi, of the critical journal Dead Reckonings); author Mike O’Driscoll; editor Ann VanderMeer; and award-winning and best-selling novelist Stewart O’Nan.

www.shirleyjacksonawards.org
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