The Shirley Jackson Awards for 2011 were announced earlier this month in Burlington, Massachusetts at Readercon 23, Conference on Imaginative Literature. The awards honor outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic. There are a lot of familiar names on the list… some of the nominees were also candidates for the 2011 Stoker Awards (“The Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine” by Peter Straub, The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares by Joyce Carol Oates, Red Gloves by Christopher Fowler, Supernatural Noir edited by Ellen Datlow, Blood and Other Cravings edited by Ellen Datlow, and Ghosts by Gaslight edited by Jack Dann and Nick Gevers), and there are others that we reviewed on there as well (The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities edited by Jeff and Ann VanderMeer, The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan, and Teeth edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling). I was also excited to see that Kelly Link and Kit Reed appeared on the list. The entire list of nominees and winners is below. Congratulations, all!
2011 Shirley Jackson Awards Winners
NOVEL
WINNER:
Witches on the Road Tonight, Sheri Holman (Grove Press)
Finalists:
- The Devil All the Time, Donald Ray Pollock (Doubleday)
- The Dracula Papers, Reggie Oliver (Chômu Press)
- The Great Lover, Michael Cisco (Chômu Press)
- Knock Knock, S. P. Miskowski (Omnium Gatherum Media)
- The Last Werewolf, Glen Duncan (Canongate Books, Ltd.-UK / Alfred A. Knopf-US)
NOVELLA
WINNER:
“Near Zennor,” Elizabeth Hand (A Book of Horrors, Jo Fletcher Books)
Finalists:
- “And the Dead Shall Outnumber the Living,” Deborah Biancotti (Ishtar, Gilgamesh Press)
- “A Child’s Problem,” Reggie Oliver (A Book of Horrors, Jo Fletcher Books)
- “Displacement,” Michael Marano (Stories from the Plague Years, Cemetery Dance Publications)
- The Men Upstairs, Tim Waggoner (Delirium Books)
- “Rose Street Attractors,” Lucius Shepard (Ghosts by Gaslight, Harper Voyager)
NOVELETTE
WINNER:
“The Summer People,” Kelly Link (Tin House 49/Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories, Candlewick Press)
Finalists:
- “The Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine,” Peter Straub (Conjunctions 56)
- “Ditch Witch,” Lucius Shepard (Supernatural Noir, Dark Horse)
- “The Last Triangle,” Jeffrey Ford (Supernatural Noir, Dark Horse)
- “Omphalos,” Livia Llewellyn (Engines of Desire: Tales of Love & Other Horrors, Lethe Press)
SHORT FICTION
WINNER:
“The Corpse Painter’s Masterpiece,” M. Rickert (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Sept/Oct, 2011)
Finalists:
- “Absolute Zero,” Nadia Bulkin (Creatures: Thirty Years of Monsters, Prime Books)
- “Hair,” Joan Aiken (The Monkey’s Wedding and Other Stories, Small Beer Press/ The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, July/Aug, 2011)
- “Max,” Jason Ockert (The Iowa Review 41/1)
- “Sunbleached,” Nathan Ballingrud (Teeth, HarperCollins)
- “Things to Know About Being Dead,” Genevieve Valentine (Teeth, HarperCollins)
SINGLE-AUTHOR COLLECTION
WINNER:
After the Apocalypse: Stories, Maureen F. McHugh (Small Beer Press)
Finalists:
- The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares, Joyce Carol Oates (Mysterious Press)
- Engines of Desire: Tales of Love & Other Horrors, Livia Llewellyn (Lethe Press)
- The Janus Tree, Glen Hirshberg (Subterranean Press)
- Red Gloves, Christopher Fowler (PS Publishing)
- What Wolves Know, Kit Reed (PS Publishing)
EDITED ANTHOLOGY
WINNER:
Ghosts by Gaslight, edited by Jack Dann and Nick Gevers (Harper Voyager)
Finalists:
- Blood and Other Cravings, edited by Ellen Datlow (Tor)
- A Book of Horrors, edited by Stephen Jones (Jo Fletcher Books)
- Supernatural Noir, edited by Ellen Datlow (Dark Horse)
- Teeth, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (HarperCollins)
- The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities, edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (Harper Voyager)
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