This Year’s Shirley Jackson Awards Nominees Are Here!

Novel

• Curdle Creek: A Novel by Yvonne Battle-Felton

• The Eyes are the Best Part by Monika Kim

• Eynhallow by Tim McGregor

• The Haunting of Velkwood by Gwendolyn Kiste

• The House of Last Resort by Christopher Golden

• Smothermoss by Alisa Alering 

Novella

• Coup de Grâce by Sofia Ajram

• Hollow Tongue by Eden Royce

• Red Skies in the Morning by Nadia Bulkin

• A Scout is Brave by Will Ludwigsen

• A Voice Calling by Christopher Barzak 

Novelette

• “All the Parts of You That Won’t Easily Burn” by Eric LaRocca (This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances)

• “The Girl with Barnacles for Eyes” by Lyndsey Croal (Split Scream Volume Five)

• His Unburned Heart by David Sandner

• “Ready Player (n+1)” by M. Shaw (All Your Friends Are Here)

• Stay on the Line by Clay McLeod Chapman

• The Thirteen Ways We Turned Darryl Datson Into A Monster by Kurt Fawver

Short Fiction

• “Kamchatka” by Kristina Ten (Washington Square Review, Issue 51, Spring 2024)

• “Strike” by Jessica P. Wick (Monsters in the Mills)

• “MAMMOTH” by Manish Melwani (Nightmare Magazine, June 2024)

• “Moon Rabbit Song” by Caroline Hung (Nightmare Magazine, November 2024)

• “Three Faces of a Beheading” by Arkady Martine (Uncanny Magazine #58)

Single-Author Collection

• The Bone Picker: Native Stories, Alternate Histories by Devon A. Mihesuah

• Dead Girl, Driving and Other Devastations by Carina Bissett

• Midwestern Gothic by Scott Thomas

• A Place Between Waking and Forgetting by Eugen Bacon

• These Things That Walk Behind Me by David Surface

Edited Anthology

• Bury Your Gays: An Anthology of Tragic Queer Horror edited by Sofia Ajram

• The Crawling Moon edited by dave ring

• Monsters in the Mills edited by Christa Carmen and L.E. Daniels

• The White Guy Dies First edited by Terry J. Benton-Walker

• Why Didn’t You Just Leave edited by Julia Rios and Nadia Bulkin

Winners for each category will be announced at Readercon 34, held in Quincy, Massachusetts, on July 19. You can learn more about the awards, including past winners, criteria, jurors, and more on the Shirley Jackson Awards website.