The Shirley Jackson Award for Best Short Fiction is a literary award given annually at Readercon as part of their Shirley Jackson Awards.
Terminology
In 2007, the inaugural award was given as the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Short Story. Since 2012, the award has been entitled the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Short Fiction.
Winners and Finalists
* Winners
Year Author Novel Originally Published In: Ref. 2007 * Inferno, Tor Books "Holiday" Subterranean #7, 2007 Tin House #31, Spring 2007 "Something in the Mermaid Way" Clarkesworld Magazine, March 2007 Clarkesworld Magazine, April 2007 "Unique Chicken Goes in Reverse" Eclipse One, Night Shade Books 2008 * Subterranean Online, Winter 2008 "68° 07' 15'N, 31° 36' 44'W" Fast Ships, Black Sails The New Yorker, August 2008 "Evidence of Love in a Case of Abandonment: One Daughter’s Personal Account" F&SF, Oct/Nov 2008 Cemetery Dance #58, 2008 "Intertropical Convergence Zone" Chizine #37, 2008 2009 * Eclipse #3 Lovecraft Unbound "Strappado" Poe "Faces" The Paris Review, Winter 2009 Apparitions "Procedure in Plain Air" The New Yorker, October 2009 2010 * Clarkesworld Magazine, Jan 2010 "As Red As Red" Haunted Legends "Booth's Ghost" What I Didn’t See and Other Stories Haunted Legends "six six six" Occultation 2011 * SF&F, Sept/Oct 2011 "Hair" The Monkey's Wedding and Other Stories "Sunbleached" Teeth "Absolute Zero" Creatures: Thirty Years of Monsters "Max" The Iowa Review "Things to Know About Being Dead" Teeth 2012 * F&SF, July/August 2012 "How We Escaped Our Certain Fate" 21st Century Dead "Little America" Shadow Show: All New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury, Morrow "Bajazzle" Cracklescape "Two Houses" Shadow Show: All New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury, Morrow Weird Tales #359 2013 * "57 Reasons for the Slate Quarry Suicides" Nightmare Magazine, December 2013 "Furnace" Grimscribe’s Puppets Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells: An Anthology of Gaslamp Fantasy Exotic Gothic 5 "That Tiny Flutter of the Heart" Psycho-Mania! Lightspeed, May 2013 2014 * The Spectral Book of Horror Stories, Spectral Press "Wendigo Nights" Fearful Symmetries "Candy Girl" Apex Magazine, November 2014 "Shay Corsham Worsted" Fearful Symmetries F&SF, May/June 2014 2015 * Aickman's Heirs "Seven Minutes in Heaven" Aickman's Heirs Apex Magazine, March 2015 "Wilderness" Exigencies "Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers" Nightmare Magazine, October 2015 2016 * "Postcards from Natalie" The Dark, July 2016 Other Places "Red" The Masters Review, October 2016 "Things With Beards" Clarkesworld Magazine, June 2016 "Animal Parts" Speak, Gigantular 2017 * Looming Low, Volume 1 "Live Through This" Looming Low, Volume 1 Looming Low, Volume 1 The Doll's Alphabet "Blur" Tin House, Summer 2017 2018 * Granta, Winter 2018 "Hell" Fairy Tale Review, March 2018 "Back Seat" Lost Highways Granta, Summer 2018 "How to be a Horror Writer" Vastarien, Summer 2018 2019 * "Kali_Na" The Mythic Dream "How to Become a Witch-Queen" Hex Life: Wicked New Tales of Witchery Parhelion (author) (translator) The Southern Review, Issue 55.1 "Whistle, My Lad, and I Will Come" The Pink Issue of Fairy Tale Review 2020 * "Not the Man I Married" Black Petals, Autumn 2020 "Holes" Graveyard Smash "Graceful Burdens" Amazon Original Stories The Gravity of the Thing, Spring 2020 "Isn't Your Daughter Such a Doll" Shoreline of Infinity #18 "Room and Board Included, Demonology Extra" Eyedolon, June 2020 2021 * "You’ll Understand When You're a Mom Someday" khōréō, August 2021 "Dizzy in the Weeds" Unfettered Hexes: Queer Tales of Insatiable Darkness "Human Reason" Unfettered Hexes: Queer Tales of Insatiable Darkness "Forward, Victoria" The Dark, April 2021 "Gordon B. White is Creating Haunting Weird Horror" Nightmare Magazine, July 2021 2022 * "Pre-Simulation Consultation XF007867" Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century "Brother Maternitas" Your Body is Not Your Body The Southern Review "Dick Pig" Nightmare Magazine, January 2022 "Halogen Sky" Vastarien, June 2022 2023 * Aseptic and Faintly Sadistic "Invasion of the Baby Snatchers" Out There Screaming "Kazti Girls" The Fabulist "Something is Rotten" Shakespeare Unleashed Nightmare Magazine, March 2023 2024 * "Three Faces of a Beheading" Uncanny Magazine, May-June 2024 "Moon Rabbit Song" Nightmare Magazine, November 2024 "MAMMOTH" Nightmare Magazine, June 2024 "Kamchatka" Washington Square Review, Spring 2024 "Strike" Monsters in the Mills 2025 * Night & Day Unquiet Guests Silk and Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror from the Asian Diaspora HOWL: An Anthology of Werewolves from Women-in-Horror
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