Shirley Jackson Awards 2026
science fiction awards database
Where and When:
Readercon 35,
Burlington MA :
July 11, 2026
Eligibility Year: 2025
Eligibility Year: 2025
Novel
- Winner: Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng, Kylie Lee Baker (Hanover Square)
- How to Fake a Haunting, Christa Carmen (Thomas & Mercer)
- The Lamb, Lucy Rose (HarperCollins)
- Moonflow, Bitter Karella (Run For It)
- Old Soul, Susan Barker (Putnam's)
- Witchcraft for Wayward Girls, Grady Hendrix (Berkley)
Novella
- Winner: The Death of Mountains, Jordan Kurella (Lethe)
- The Cold House, A. G. Slatter (Titan)
- DuMort, Michelle Tang (Ghost Orchid)
- The Glass Garden, Jessica Lévai (Lanternfish)
- Psychopomp & Circumstance, Eden Royce (Tordotcom)
Novelette
- Winner: “Emily”, Vanessa Santos (Make a Home of Me)
- The Confirmed Bachelors, Stephen Volk (Black Shuck)
- Letter Slot, Owen King (Amazon Original Stories)
- “The Millay Illusion”, Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny Nov/Dec 2025)
- “The Severity of Things”, Mo Moshaty (Clairviolence: Tales of Tarot and Torment)
Short Fiction
- Winner: “Bitter Skin”, Kaaron Warren (Night & Day)
- “Lapse”, Kirsty Logan (Unquiet Guests)
- “Mother's Mother's Daughter”, Audrey Zhou (Silk and Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror from the Asian Diaspora)
- “Room 24”, Caroline Kepnes (The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King’s The Stand)
- “Silver Boots”, Donna Lynch (HOWL: An Anthology of Werewolves from Women-in-Horror)
Single-author Collection
- Winner: Issues with Authority, Nadia Bulkin (Ghoulish)
- Clairviolence: Tales of Tarot and Torment, Mo Moshaty (Tenebrous)
- Good and Evil and Other Stories, Samanta Schweblin, translated by Megan McDowell (Knopf)
- Moon Songs, Carol Emshwiller (Third Man)
- Portalmania, Debbie Urbanski (Simon & Schuster)
Edited Anthology
- Winner (tie): Night & Day, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Saga)
- Winner (tie): Unquiet Guests, Dan Coxon, ed. (Dead Ink)
- Roots of My Fears, Gemma Amor, ed. (Titan)
- Silk & Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror from the Asian Diaspora, Kristy Park Kulski, ed. (Bad Hand)
- Were Wolf Short Stories, Catherine Taylor, Nick Wells & Gillian Whitaker, eds. (Flame Tree)
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