Shirley Jackson Awards 2025
science fiction awards database
Where and When:
Readercon 34,
Burlington MA :
July 19, 2025
Eligibility Year: 2024
Eligibility Year: 2024
Novel
- Winner: Curdle Creek, Yvonne Battle-Felton (Henry Holt)
- The Eyes Are the Best Part, Monika Kim (Erewhom)
- Eynhallow, Tim McGregor (Raw Dog Screaming)
- The Haunting of Velkwood, Gwendolyn Kiste (Saga)
- The House of Last Resort, Christopher Golden (St. Martin's US; Titan UK)
- Smothermoss, Alisa Alering (Tin House)
Novella
- Winner: Hollow Tongue, Eden Royce (Raw Dog Screaming)
- Coup de Grāce, Sofia Ajram (Titan)
- Red Skies in the Morning, Nadia Bulkin (Dim Shores)
- A Scout Is Brave, Will Ludwigsen (Lethe)
- A Voice Calling, Christopher Barzak (Psychopomp)
Novelette
- Winner: The Thirteen Ways We Turned Darryl Datson into a Monster, Kurt Fawver (Dim Shores)
- “All the Parts of You That Won't Easily Burn”, Eric LaRocca (This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances)
- “The Girl with Barnacles for Eyes”, Lyndsey Croal (Split Scream Vol. 5)
- His Unburned Heart, David Sandner (Raw Dog Screaming)
- “Ready Player (n+1)”, M. Shaw (All Your Friends are Here)
- Stay on the Line, Clay McLeod Chapman (Shortwave)
Short Fiction
- Winner: “Three Faces of a Beheading”, Arkady Martine (Uncanny May/Jun 2024)
- “Kamchatka”, Kristina Ten (Washington Square Review Spr 2024)
- “MAMMOTH”, Manish Melwani (Nightmare Jun 2024)
- “Moon Rabbit Song”, Caroline Hung (Nightmare Nov 2024)
- “Strike”, Jessica P. Wick (Monster in the Mills)
Single-author Collection
- Winner: Midwestern Gothic, Scott Thomas (Inkshares)
- The Bone Picker: Native Stories, Alternate Histories, Devon A. Mihesuah (University of Oklahoma Press)
- Dead Girl, Driving and Other Devastations, Carina Bissett (Trepidatio)
- A Place Between Waking and Forgetting, Eugen Bacon (Raw Dog Screaming)
- These Things That Walk Behind Me, David Surface (Lethe)
Edited Anthology
- Winner: Why Didn't You Just Leave, Nadia Bulkin & Julia Rios, eds. (Cursed Morsels)
- Bury Your Gays: An Anthology of Tragic Queer Horror, Sofia Ajram, ed. (Ghoulish)
- The Crawling Moon: Queer Tales of Inescapable Dread, dave ring, ed. (Neon Hemlock)
- Monsters in the Mills, Christa Carmen & L. E. Daniels, eds. (Interactive Publications Pty Ltd)
- The White Guy Dies First: 13 Scary Stories of Fear and Power, Terry J. Benton-Walker, ed. (Tor)
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