Shirley Jackson Awards and HWA Bram Stoker Awards for 2022 work, winners and shortlists (updated)

https://www.shirleyjacksonawards.org/nominees/

***Winners

NOVEL (tie)

Beulah by Christi Nogle (Cemetery Gates Media)

The Dead Friends Society by Paul Gandersman and Peter Hall (Encyclopocalypse Publications)

***The Devil Takes You Home by Gabino Iglesias (Mulholland Books)

Jackal by Erin E. Adams (Bantam)

Unwieldy Creatures by Addie Tsai (Jaded Ibis Press)

***Where I End by Sophie White (Tramp Press)

 NOVELLA

***The Bone Lantern by Angela Slatter (PS Publishing)

Bound Feet by Kelsea Yu (Cemetery Gates Media)

Catastrophe by Deirdre Danklin (Texas Review Press)

Lure by Tim McGregor (Tenebrous Press)

Pomegranates by Priya Sharma (PS Publishing)

The Wehrwolf by Alma Katsu (Amazon Original Stories)

 NOVELETTE

Azeman or, the Testament of Quincey Morris by Lisa Moore (Black Shuck Books)

“Challawa” by Usman T. Malik (Dark Stars:  New Tales of Darkest Horror)

“Sweetbaby” by Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld, October 2022)

“This Place is Best Shunned” by David Erik Nelson (Tor.com)

***What the Dead Know by Nghi Vo (Amazon Original Stories)

 SHORT FICTION

“Brother Maternitas” by Viktor Athelstan (Your Body is Not Your Body)

“The Church of Divine Electricity” by Emily Mitchell (The Southern Review)

“Dick Pig” by Ian Muneshwar (Nightmare Magazine, Issue 112)

“Halogen Sky” by Wendy N. Wagner (VASTARIEN:  A Literary Journal, vol. 5, issue 1)

***“Pre-Simulation Consultation XF007867” by Kim Fu (Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century)

 SINGLE-AUTHOR COLLECTION

And At My Back I Always Hear by Scott Nicolay (Word Horde)

Breakable Things by Cassandra Khaw (Undertow Publications)

Hell Hath No Sorrow Like a Woman Haunted by RJ Joseph (The Seventh Terrace)

Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century by Kim Fu (Tin House)

Splendid Anatomies by Allison Wyss (Veliz Books)

***We Are Here to Hurt Each Other by Paula D. Ashe (Nictitating Books)

EDITED ANTHOLOGY

Chiral Mad 5, edited by Michael Bailey (Written Backwards)

***The Hideous Book of Hidden Horrors, edited by Doug Murano (Bad Hand Books)

Other Terrors, edited by Vince A. Liaguno and Rena Mason (William Morrow)

Screams From the Dark:  29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous, edited by Ellen Datlow (Tor Nightfire)

Your Body is Not Your Body, edited by Alex Woodroe and Matt Blairstone (Tenebrous Press)

The 2022 Shirley Jackson Awards were presented in-person on Saturday, July 15, 2023 at Readercon 32, Conference on Imaginative Literature, in Quincy, Massachusetts.

***denotes winner. Presented at the StokerCon, 17 June 2023 in Pittsburgh.  Link to video: 2022 (awarded 2023) Bram Stoker Awards Ceremony

Novel

• Daphne, Josh Malerman (Del Rey)
• ***The Devil Takes You Home, Gabino Iglesias (Mulholland)
• The Fervor, Alma Katsu (Putnam)
• Reluctant Immortals, Gwendolyn Kiste (Saga)
• Sundial, Catriona Ward (Nightfire)

First Novel

• All the White Spaces, Ally Wilkes (Emily Bestler/Atria)
• ***Beulah, Christi Nogle (Cemetery Gates)
• Black Tide, KC Jones (Nightfire)
• The Hacienda, Isabel Cañas (Berkley)
• Jackal, Erin Adams (Bantam)

Young Adult Novel

• Burn Down, Rise Up, Vincent Tirado (Sourcebooks Fire)
• Gallant, V. E. Schwab (Greenwillow)
• These Fleeting Shadows, Kate Alice Marshall (Viking)
• ***The Triangle, Robert P. Ottone (Raven Tale)
• The Weight of Blood, Tiffany D. Jackson (Katherine Tegen)
• What We Harvest, Ann Fraistat (Delacorte)

Middle Grade Novel

• Camp Scare, Delilah S. Dawson (Delacorte)
• The Clackity, Lora Senf (Atheneum )
• A Comb of Wishes, Lisa Stringfellow (Quill Tree)
• ***They Stole Our Hearts, Daniel Kraus (Holt)
• This Appearing House, Ally Malinenko (Katherine Tegen)

Long Fiction

• And in Her Smile, the World, Rebecca J. Allred & Gordon B. White (Trepidatio)
• Below, Laurel Hightower (Ghoulish)
• Three Days in the Pink Tower, EV Knight (Creature)
• Through the Looking Glass and Straight into Hell, Christa Carmen (Orphans of Bliss: Tales of Addiction Horror)
• ***The Wehrwolf, Alma Katsu (Amazon Original)

Short Fiction

• ***“Fracture”, Mercedes M. Yardley (Mother: Tales of Love and Terror)
• “Nona Doesn't Dance”, Aaron Dries (Cut to Care: A Collection of Little Hurts)
• “The Only Thing Different Will Be the Body”, J. A. W. McCarthy (A Woman Built by Man)
• “Poppy's Poppy”, Douglas Gwilym (Penumbrice Speculative Fiction Magazine)
• “A Song for Barnaby Jones”, Anna Taborska (Zagava)
• “The Star”, Anna Taborska (Great British Horror 7: Major Arcane)

Collection

• The Black Maybe, Attila Veres (Valancourt)
• ***Breakable Things, Cassandra Khaw (Undertow)
• Hell Hath No Sorrow Like a Woman Haunted, RJ Joseph (The Seventh Terrace)
• Spontaneous Human Combustion, Richard Thomas (Keylight)
• We Are Here to Hurt Each Other, Paula D. Ashe (Nictitating)

Anthology

• Chromophobia: A Strangehouse Anthology of Women in Horror, Sara Tantlinger, ed. (Strangehouse)
• Human Monsters: A Horror Anthology, Sadie Hartmann & Ashley Saywers, eds. (Dark Matter Ink)
• Into the Forest: Tales of the Baba Yaga, Lindy Ryan, ed. (Black Spot)
• Mother: Tales of Love and Terror, Christi Nogle & Willow Becker, eds. (Weird Little Words)
• ***Screams from the Dark: 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Nightfire)

Nonfiction

• A Haunted History of Invisible Women: True Stories of American's Ghosts, Leanna Renee Hieber & Andrea Janes (Citadel)
• Toil and Trouble: A Women's History of the Occult, Lisa Kröger & Melanie R. Anderson (Quirk)
• Weird Fiction: A Genre Study, Michael Cisco (Palgrave)
• ***Writing in the Dark: The Workbook, Tim Waggoner (Guide Dog)
• Writing Poetry in the Dark, Stephanie M. Wytovich (Raw Dog Screaming)

Short Nonfiction

• “African American Horror Authors and Their Craft: The Evolution of Horror Fiction from African Folklore”, L. Marie Wood (Conjuring Worlds: An Afrofuturist Textbook for Middle and High School Students)
• “A Clown in the Living Room: The Sinister Clown on Television”, Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. (The Many Lives of Scary Clowns: Essays on Pennywise, Twisty, the Joker, Krusty and More)
• “The H Word: The Horror of Hair”, L. Marie Wood (Nightmare Magazine Jul 2022)
• ***“I Don't Read Horror (& Other Weird Tales)”, Lee Murray (Interstellar Flight Magazine 24 Oct 2022)
• “This is Not a Poem”, Cynthia Pelayo (Writing Poetry in the Dark)

Graphic Novel

• Eat the Rich, Sarah Gailey, art by Pius Bak (Boom!)
• ***Kolchak: The Night Stalker: 50th Anniversary, James Aquilone, ed. (Moonstone)
• Kraken Inferno: The Last Hunt, Alessandro Manzetti, art by Stefano Cardoselli (Independent Legions)
• The Me You Love in the Dark, Skottie Young, art by Jorge Corona (Image Comics)
• Something is Killing the Children Vol 4, James IV Tynion, art by Werther Dell'Edera (Boom!)

Screenplay (a tie)

• ***The Black Phone, Scott Derrickson & C. Robert Cargill (Blumhouse Productions, Crooked Highway, Universal Pictures)
• Men, Alex Garland (DNA Films)
• The Pale Blue Eye, Scott Cooper (Cross Creek Pictures, Grisbi Productions, Streamline Global Group)
• Pearl, Mia Goth & Ti West (A24, Bron Creative, Little Lamb, New Zealand Film Commission)
• ***Stranger Things: “s4e1: Chapter One: The Hellfire Club”, The Duffer Brothers (21 Laps Entertainment, Monkey Massacre, Netflix, Upside Down Pictures)

Poetry Collection

• ***Crime Scene, Cynthia Pelayo (Raw Dog Screaming)
• Girls from the County, Donna Lynch (Raw Dog Screaming)
• The Gravity of Existence, Christina Sng (Interstellar Flight)
• The Rat King: A Book of Dark Poetry, Sumiko Saulson (self-published)
• Sifting the Ashes, Michael Bailey & Marge Simon (Crystal Lake)

Also presented at the ceremony:

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS 

• Elizabeth Massie
• Nuzo Onoh
• John Saul

SPECIALTY PRESS AWARD

• Undertow Publications

THE RICHARD LAYMON PRESIDENT’S AWARD

• Meghan Arcuri

THE KAREN LANSDALE SILVER HAMMER AWARD

• Karen Lansdale

MENTOR OF THE YEAR AWARD

• David Jeffery

Courtesy File 770 and SFADB.

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https://socialistjazz.blogspot.com/2023/06/short-story-wednesday-from-28th.html

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The Shirley Jackson Awards, for work published in 2021:

 ***indicates the winner

to see video of the ceremony: https://www.facebook.com/shirleyjacksonawards

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NOVEL

All the Murmuring Bones by A.G. Slatter (Titan Books)

Hummingbird Salamander by Jeff VanderMeer (MCD)

***My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones (Saga Press-US/Titan Books-UK)

No Gods, No Monsters by Cadwell Turnbull (Blackstone Publishing-US/Titan Books-UK)

Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw (Nightfire-US/Titan Books-UK)

NOVELLA

Comfort Me with Apples by Catherynne M. Valente (Tordotcom)

Dirty Heads: A novella of cosmic coming-of-age horror by Aaron Dries (Black T-Shirt Books)

***Flowers for the Sea by Zin E. Rocklyn (Tordotcom)

A Rose / Arose by Michael Bailey (Written Backwards)

The Route of Ice and Salt by José Luis Zárate, translated by David Bowles (Innsmouth Free Press)

NOVELETTE

House of Crows by Lisa Unger (Amazon Original Stories)

“The Nag Bride” by A.C. Wise (The Ghost Sequences, Undertow Publications)

The Night Belongs to Us by Jess Landry (Independent Legions Publishing)

***“We, the Girls Who Did Not Make It” by E. A. Petricone (Nightmare Magazine, February 2021)

The Women by Margaret Jameson (F(r)iction)

SHORT FICTION

“Dizzy in the Weeds” by L.D. Lewis (Unfettered Hexes: Queer Tales of Insatiable Darkness)

“Forward, Victoria” by Carlie St. George (The Dark Magazine, April 2021)

“Gordon B. White is Creating Haunting Weird Horror” by Gordon B. White (Nightmare Magazine, July 2021)

“Human Reason” by Nicasio Andres Reed (Unfettered Hexes: Queer Tales of Insatiable Darkness)

***“You’ll Understand When You’re a Mom Someday” by Isabel J. Kim (khōréō magazine, August 2021)

 SINGLE-AUTHOR COLLECTION

***Folk Songs for Trauma Surgeons: Stories by Keith Rosson (Meerkat Press)

People from My Neighborhood by Hiromi Kawakami, translated by Ted Goossen (Soft Skull Press)

Sometimes We’re Cruel by J.A.W. McCarthy (Cemetery Gates Media)

We are Happy, We are Doomed by Kurt Fawver (Grimscribe Press)

Where All is Night, and Starless by John Linwood Grant (Trepidatio Publishing)

EDITED ANTHOLOGY--a tied vote, thus two winners

Giving The Devil His Due: A Charity Anthology, edited by Rebecca Brewer (Running Wild Press)

***Professor Charlatan Bardot’s Travel Anthology to the Most (Fictional) Haunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World, edited by Eric J. Guignard (Dark Moon Books)

Stitched Lips: An Anthology of Horror from Silenced Voices, edited by Ken MacGregor (Dragon’s Roost Press)

There Is No Death, There Are No Dead, edited by Jess Landry & Aaron J. French (Crystal Lake Publishing)

***Unfettered Hexes: Queer Tales of Insatiable Darkness, edited by dave ring (Neon Hemlock)

SPECIAL AWARD

The Shirley Jackson Awards, Inc., also is committed to promoting the legacy of Shirley Jackson and, as part of this mission, will present a Special Award to Ms. Ellen Datlow in recognition of the anthology When Things Get Dark: Stories inspired by Shirley Jackson (Titan Books, 2021).

Ms. Datlow was a nominee for the Shirley Jackson Award for Edited Anthology for the years 2011, 2013 (with Terri Windling), 2015, 2017, and 2019, and won the award in this category for the years 2007, 2009, and 2014.

Previous recipients of a Special Award from the Shirley Jackson Awards are Joyce Carol Oates as editor of the Library of America edition of Shirley Jackson:  Novels & Stories (Library of America, 2010) and Ruth Franklin in recognition of her biography Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life (Liveright/W.W. Norton, 2016).