The 2008 Shirley Jackson Awards winners were announced on Sunday, July 12th 2009, at Readercon 20, Conference on Imaginative Literature, in Burlington, Massachusetts. Congratulations to all winners.

NOVEL

Winner:

THE SHADOW YEAR, Jeffrey Ford
(William Morrow)

Finalists:

  • Alive in Necropolis, Doug Dorst (Riverhead Hardcover)
  • The Man on the Ceiling, Steve Rasnic Tem and Melanie Tem (Wizards of the Coast Discoveries)
  • Pandemonium, Daryl Gregory (Del Rey)
  • The Resurrectionist, Jack O’Connell (Algonquin Books)
  • Tender Morsels, Margo Lanagan (Knopf Books for Young Readers)

NOVELLA

Winner:

DISQUIET, Julia Leigh
(Penguin/Hamish Hamilton)

Finalists:

  • “Dormitory,” Yoko Ogawa (The Diving Pool, Picador)
  • Living With the Dead, Darrell Schweitzer (PS Publishing)
  • The Long Trial of Nolan Dugatti, Stephen Graham Jones (Chiasmus Press)
  • “N,”, Stephen King (Just After Sunset, Scribner)

NOVELETTE

Winner:

“PRIDE AND PROMETHEUS,” John Kessel
(The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction)

Finalists:

  • “Hunger Moon,” Deborah Noyes (The Ghosts of Kerfol, Candlewick Press)
  • “The Lagerstatte,” Laird Barron (The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Ballantine Books/Del Rey)
  • “Penguins of the Apocalypse,” William Browning Spencer (Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy, Subterranean Press)
  • The Situation, Jeff VanderMeer (PS Publishing)

SHORT STORY

Winner:

“THE PILE,” Michael Bishop
(Subterranean Online, Winter 2008)

Finalists:

  • “68° 07’ 15″N, 31° 36’ 44″W,” Conrad Williams (Fast Ships, Black Sails, Night Shade Books)
  • “The Dinner Party,” Joshua Ferris (The New Yorker, August 11, 2008)
  • “Evidence of Love in a Case of Abandonment: One Daughter’s Personal Account,” M. Rickert (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Oct/Nov 2008)
  • “The Inner City,” Karen Heuler (Cemetery Dance #58, 2008)
  • “Intertropical Convergence Zone,” Nadia Bulkin (ChiZine, Issue 37, 2008)

COLLECTION

Winner:

THE DIVING POOL, Yoko Ogawa
(Picador)

Finalists:

  • A Better Angel, Chris Adrian (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)
  • Dangerous Laughter, Steven Millhauser (Knopf)
  • The Girl on the Fridge, Etgar Keret (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)
  • Just After Sunset, Stephen King (Scribner)
  • Wild Nights!, Joyce Carol Oates (Ecco)

ANTHOLOGY

Winner:

THE NEW UNCANNY, Edited by Sarah Eyre and Ra Page
(Comma Press)

Finalists:

  • Bound for Evil, edited by Tom English (Dead Letter Press)
  • Exotic Gothic 2: New Tales of Taboo, edited by Danel Olson (Ash-Tree Press)
  • Fast Ships, Black Sails, edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (Night Shade Books)
  • Shades of Darkness, edited by Barbara and Christopher Roden (Ash-Tree Press)