2017 Shirley Jackson Awards Nominees

The 2017 Shirley Jackson Awards nominees have been announced. The 2017 Shirley Jackson Awards will be presented on Sunday, July 15, 2018, at Readercon 29 in Quincy, Massachusetts.


NOVEL

• Ill Will, Dan Chaon (Ballantine Books)
• The Bone Mother, David Demchuk (ChiZine Publications)
• The Changeling, Victor Lavalle (Spiegel & Grau)
• The Hole, Hye-young Pyun (Arcade Publishing)
• The Night Ocean, Paul La Farge (Penguin Press)

NOVELLA

• Fever Dream, Samantha Schweblin (Riverhead Books)
• Mapping the Interior, Stephen Graham Jones (Tor.com)
• The Asylum of Dr. Caligari, James Morrow (Tachyon Publications LLC)
• The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion, Margaret Killjoy (Tor.com)
• The Lost Daughter Collective, Lindsey Drager (Dzanc Books)
• The Murders of Molly Southbourne, Tade Thompson (Tor.com)

NOVELETTE

• “Take the Way Home That Leads Back to Sullivan Street,” Chavisa Woods (Things to Do When You’re Goth in the Country)
• “The Resident,” Carmen Maria Machado (Her Body and Other Parties)
• “Sun Dogs,” Laura Mauro (Shadows and Tall Trees Volume 7)
• “The West Topeka Triangle,” Jeremiah Tolbert (Lightspeed Magazine)
• “You Will Always Have Family: A Triptych,” Kathleen Kayembe (Nightmare Magazine)

SHORT FICTION

• “Blur,” Carmen Maria Machado (Tin House, issue 72, Summer 2017)
• “Live Through This,” Nadia Bulkin (Looming Low)
• “The Convexity of Our Youth,” Kurt Fawver (Looming Low)
• “The Mouse Queen,” Camilla Grudova (The Doll’s Alphabet)
• “The Second Door,” Brian Evenson (Looming Low)

SINGLE-AUTHOR COLLECTION

• Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado (Graywolf Press)
• She Said Destroy, Nadia Bulkin (Word Horde)
• The Dark Dark, Samantha Hunt (FSG Originals)
• The Doll’s Alphabet, Camilla Grudova (Coffee House Press)
• Things to Do When You’re Goth in the Country, Chavisa Woods (Seven Stories Press)

EDITED ANTHOLOGY

• Black Feathers: Dark Avian Tales, edited by Ellen Datlow (Pegasus Books)
• The Djinn Falls in Love, edited by Mahvesh Murad and Jared Shurin (Rebellion Publishing / Solaris Books)
• Looming Low, edited by Justin Steele and Sam Cowan (Dim Shores)
• Shadows and Tall Trees Volume 7, edited by Michael Kelly (Undertow Publications)
• Tales From a Talking Board, edited by Ross E. Lockhart (Word Horde)

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.