Shirley Jackson Awards 2023
science fiction awards database
Winners announced: July 15, 2023
Convention: Readercon 32
Where: Quincy MA
Eligibility Year: 2022
Convention: Readercon 32
Where: Quincy MA
Eligibility Year: 2022
Novel
- Winner (tie): The Devil Takes You Home, Gabino Iglesias (Mulholland)
- Winner (tie): Where I End, Sophie White (Tramp Press)
- Beulah, Christi Nogle (Cemetery Gates)
- The Dead Friends Society, Paul Gandersman & Peter Hall (Encyclopocalypse)
- Jackal, Erin E. Adams (Bantam)
- Unwieldly Creatures, Addie Tsai (Jaded Ibis)
Novella
- Winner: The Bone Lantern, Angela Slatter (PS Publishing)
- Bound Feet, Kelsea Yu (Cemetery Gates)
- Catastrophe, Deirdre Danklin (Texas Review)
- Lure, Tim McGregor (Tenebrous)
- Pomegranates, Priya Sharma (PS Publishing)
- The Wehrwolf, Alma Katsu (Amazon Original Stories)
Novelette
- Winner: What the Dead Know, Nghi Vo (Amazon Original Stories)
- Azeman or, the Testament of Quincey Morris, Lisa Moore (Black Shuck)
- “Challawa”, Usman T. Malik (Dark Stars: New Tales of Darkest Horror)
- “Sweetbaby”, Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld Oct 2022)
- “This Place is Best Shunned”, David Erik Nelson (Tor.com)
Short Fiction
- Winner: “Pre-Simulation Consultation XF007867”, Kim Fu (Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century)
- “Brother Maternitas”, Viktor Athelstan (Your Body is Not Your Body)
- “The Church of Divine Electricity”, Emily Mitchell (The Southern Review)
- “Dick Pig”, Ian Muneshwar (Nightmare Jan 2022)
- “Halogen Sky”, Wendy N. Wagner (Vastarien Jun 2022)
Collection
- Winner: We Are Here to Hurt Each Other, Paula D. Ashe (Nictitating)
- And At My Back I Always Hear, Scott Nicolay (Word Horde)
- Breakable Things, Cassandra Khaw (Undertow)
- Hell Hath No Sorrow Like a Woman Haunted, RJ Joseph (The Seventh Terrace)
- Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, Kim Fu (Tin House)
- Splendid Anatomies, Allison Wyss (Veliz)
Anthology
- Winner: The Hideous Book of Hidden Horrors, Doug Murano, ed. (Bad Hand)
- Chiral Mad 5, Michael Bailey, ed. (Written Backwards)
- Other Terrors, Vince A. Liaguno & Rena Mason, eds. (William Morrow)
- Screams From the Dark: 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Nightfire)
- Your Body is Not Your Body, Matt Blairstone & Alex Woodroe, eds. (Tenebrous)
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