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The awards are given for the best work published in the preceding calendar year in the following categories: Novel, Novella, Novelette, Short Story, Single-Author Collection and Edited Anthology. The first annual Shirley Jackson Awards were presented July 20, 2007, at the Readercon Conference on Imaginative Literature in Burlington, Massachusetts.
Shirley Hardie Jackson (December 14, 1916 – August 8, 1965) was an American writer known primarily for her works of horror and mystery.Her writing career spanned over two decades, during which she composed six novels, two memoirs, and more than 200 short stories.
For her short stories she has won the annual Shirley Jackson Award [1] and been nominated for the Astounding Award for Best New Writer. [2] Her short fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld Magazine, Lightspeed, Apex Magazine, Strange Horizons, Fantasy Magazine, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Cast of Wonders, and khōréō.
Come Along with Me is a posthumous collection of works by American writer Shirley Jackson.It contains the incomplete titular novel, on which Jackson was working at the time of her death, three lectures delivered by Jackson, and sixteen short stories, mostly in the gothic genre, including Jackson's best known work, "The Lottery".
It also won the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel in 2009, as well as the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence and an American Book Award in 2010. The Devil in Silver , published by Spiegel & Grau in August 21, 2012, is the story of Pepper, a sane man sent for observation to a mental hospital.
Her work has won every major Japanese literary award, including the Akutagawa Prize and the Yomiuri Prize. [1] Internationally, she has been the recipient of the Shirley Jackson Award and the American Book Award. [2] The Memory Police was also shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2020. [3]
Langan has been a finalist for International Horror Guild Award. In 2008, he was a Bram Stoker Award nominee for Best Collection, and in 2016, a Bram Stoker Award winner for his novel The Fisherman. He is on the board of directors for the Shirley Jackson Awards.
2013 Bram Stoker Award, Finalist for award in Superior Achievement in the Anthology Category. The Grimscribe's Puppets (Miskatonic River Press) 2016 World Fantasy Award, Finalist for World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology. Cassilda's Song ; 2016 Shirley Jackson Award nominee, for edited anthology. The Madness of Dr. Caligari (Fedogan & Bremer)