Shirley Jackson Award
{{short description|Literary award for works of dark fantasy and psychological suspense}}
The Shirley Jackson Awards are literary awards named after Shirley Jackson in recognition of her legacy in writing. These awards for outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror and dark fantasy are presented at Readercon, an annual conference on imaginative literature.{{cite news|last=Gardner|first=Jan|title=Shelf Life|url=http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2010/06/27/shelf_life/|accessdate=16 October 2010|newspaper=Boston Globe|date=27 June 2010|archive-date=23 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923220102/http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2010/06/27/shelf_life/|url-status=live}}
Writing in Salon in 2010, Laura Miller noted, "The awards...have already proved a fitting tribute to a writer who roamed freely over similar ground and has never quite gotten the respect she deserves."{{cite web|last=Miller|first=Laura|title=Is Shirley Jackson a great American writer?|url=http://www.salon.com/books/laura_miller/2010/07/14/shirley_jackson/|work=Salon.com|date=14 July 2010 |accessdate=16 October 2010|archive-date=24 January 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110124114331/http://www.salon.com/books/laura_miller/2010/07/14/shirley_jackson|url-status=live}}
Award winners are selected by a jury of professional writers, editors, critics and academics, with input from a board of advisors. 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 on July 20, 2007, at the Readercon Conference on Imaginative Literature in Burlington, Massachusetts. The jurors were John Langan, Sarah Langan, Paul G. Tremblay and F. Brett Cox, who now form the board of directors along with JoAnn Cox.
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Winners
References
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External links
- [http://www.shirleyjacksonawards.org/ Official site]
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Category:American literary awards
Category:Awards established in 2007
Category:American fiction awards
Category:Horror fiction awards
Category:Speculative fiction award–winning novellas