Shirley Jackson Awards 2015
science fiction awards database
Where and When:
Readercon,
Burlington MA :
July 12, 2015
Eligibility Year: 2014
Eligibility Year: 2014
Novel
- Winner: Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer (FSG Originals)
- Bird Box, Josh Malerman (Ecco)
- Broken Monsters, Lauren Beukes (Mulholland)
- Confessions, Kanae Minato (Mulholland)
- The Lesser Dead, Christopher Buehlman (Berkley)
- The Unquiet House, Alison Littlewood (Jo Fletcher)
Novella
- Winner: We Are All Completely Fine, Daryl Gregory (Tachyon)
- The Beauty, Aliya Whiteley (Unsung Stories)
- Ceremony of Flies, Kate Jonez (DarkFuse)
- The Good Shabti, Robert Sharp (Jurassic London)
- “The Mothers of Voorhisville”, Mary Rickert (Tor.com 30 Apr 2014)
Novelette
- Winner: “The End of the End of Everything”, Dale Bailey (Tor.com 23 Apr 2014)
- “The Devil in America”, Kai Ashante Wilson (Tor.com 2 Apr 2014)
- “The Husband Stitch”, Carmen Maria Machado (Granta #129)
- “Newspaper Heart”, Stephen Volk (The Spectral Book of Horror Stories)
- Office at Night, Kate Bernheimer & Laird Hunt (Coffee House)
- “The Quiet Room”, V. H. Leslie (Shadows & Tall Trees 2014)
Short Fiction
- Winner: “The Dog's Home”, Alison Littlewood (The Spectral Book of Horror Stories)
- “Candy Girl”, Chikodili Emelumadu (Apex Nov 2014)
- “The Fisher Queen”, Alyssa Wong (F&SF May/Jun 2014)
- “Shay Corsham Worsted”, Garth Nix (Fearful Symmetries)
- “Wendigo Nights”, Siobhan Carroll (Fearful Symmetries)
Collection
- Winner: Gifts for the One Who Comes After, Helen Marshall (ChiZine)
- After the People Lights Have Gone Off, Stephen Graham Jones (Dark House)
- Burnt Black Suns, Simon Strantzas (Hippocampus)
- They Do the Same Things Different There, Robert Shearman (ChiZine)
- Unseaming, Mike Allen (Antimatter)
Anthology
- Winner: Fearful Symmetries, Ellen Datlow, ed. (ChiZine)
- The Children of Old Leech, Ross E. Lockhart & Justin Steele, eds. (Word Horde)
- Letters to Lovecraft, Jesse Bullington, ed. (Stone Skin)
- Shadows & Tall Trees 2014, Michael Kelly, ed. (Undertow/ChiZine)
- The Spectral Book of Horror Stories, Mark Morris, ed. (Spectral)
Remarks:
Winners:
This is Ellen Datlow's third Shirley Jackson win; she won previously for Inferno in 2008 and Poe in 2010. All others this year are first time Shirley Jackson Award winners. Jeff VanderMeer's novel Annihilation also won the Nebula Award.
Finalists:
Ellen Datlow has 8 prior Shirley Jackson nominations, with two wins, in 2008 and 2010. Her nominated anthology here just won a Bram Stoker Award. Jeff VanderMeer has 5 prior nominations, with no wins. His nominated novel here is also a finalist for the Locus and Nebula awards. Daryl Gregory's nominated novella is also a Locus and Nebula finalist. Stories by Carmen Maria Machado, Mary Rickert, Kai Ashante Wilson, and Alyssa Wong are also Nebula finalists.
Winners:
This is Ellen Datlow's third Shirley Jackson win; she won previously for Inferno in 2008 and Poe in 2010. All others this year are first time Shirley Jackson Award winners. Jeff VanderMeer's novel Annihilation also won the Nebula Award.
Finalists:
Ellen Datlow has 8 prior Shirley Jackson nominations, with two wins, in 2008 and 2010. Her nominated anthology here just won a Bram Stoker Award. Jeff VanderMeer has 5 prior nominations, with no wins. His nominated novel here is also a finalist for the Locus and Nebula awards. Daryl Gregory's nominated novella is also a Locus and Nebula finalist. Stories by Carmen Maria Machado, Mary Rickert, Kai Ashante Wilson, and Alyssa Wong are also Nebula finalists.
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