THE SHIRLEY JACKSON AWARDS
Jurors Announced for
the 2019 Shirley Jackson Awards
Boston, MA (September 2019) — In recognition of the legacy of Shirley Jackson’s writing, and with permission of the author’s estate, the Shirley Jackson Awards have been established for outstanding achievement in the literature of horror, the dark fantastic, and psychological suspense.
The Shirley Jackson Awards are voted upon 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 Fiction, Single-Author Collection, and Edited Anthology.
The jurors for the 2019 Shirley Jackson Awards are, alphabetically:
Australian author, artist, and award-winning filmmaker Aaron Dries “helps lead a new generation of Splatterpunk for a new dark age” (Brian Keene, author of The Rising). His debut novel House of Sighs was written whilst back-packing through South East Asia, including Thailand, where inspiration struck for his book A Place For Sinners. Aaron won the Leisure Books/ChiZine/Rue Morgue Magazine Fresh Blood contest, and later released The Fallen Boys, described by filmmaker Mick Garris (director of Stephen King’s The Stand and Masters of Horror) as “beautiful and brutal”. He collaborated with Mark Allan Gunnells on the apocalyptic thriller Where the Dead Go to Die, and recently published the novellas And the Night Growled Back and The Sound of His Bones Breaking. For more information visit aarondries.com or contact him on Twitter @AaronDries
Linda D. Addison is the award-winning author of four collections, including How To Recognize A Demon Has Become Your Friend, and the 2018 recipient of HWA Lifetime Achievement Award. Check out her latest poetry in The Place of Broken Things, written with Alessandro Manzetti (Crystal Lake Publishing, 2019). She is the first African-American recipient of the HWA Bram Stoker Award® and has published over 350 poems, stories, articles; and is a member of CITH, HWA, SFWA, and SFPA. Her site: www.lindaaddisonpoet.com.
Joshua Gaylord is the author of When We Were Animals and Hummingbirds. Under the pen name Alden Bell, he has also written the post-apocalyptic zombie novel The Reapers Are the Angels and its sequel, Exit Kingdom. For twenty years, he has taught English at a private high school in Manhattan. He has been twice nominated for the Shirley Jackson Award. Find him on Facebook or at his website joshuagaylord.com.
Gabino Iglesias is a writer, editor, translator, professor, and literary critic living in Austin, TX. His most recent novel, Zero Saints, was nominated to the Wonderland Book Award, optioned for film, and translated into Spanish and published in Spain. His fiction has appeared in a plethora of publications as well as in crime, horror, and bizarro fiction anthologies. His reviews have appeared in places like Electric Literature, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, HorrorTalk, Criminal Element, Marginalia, The Brooklyn Rail, Heavy Feather Review, Crimespree Magazine, Verbicide, PANK Magazine, The Collagist, and many other print and online venues. His nonfiction has been published in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, El Nuevo Dia, LitReactor, and others. He is the book reviews editor for PANK Magazine, the TV/film editor at Entropy Magazine, and a columnist for LitReactor. You can find him on Twitter at @Gabino_Iglesias.
Kate Maruyama‘s novel, Harrowgate was published by 47North in 2013 and her short story, “Akiko” is featured in Phantasma: Stories and “Crying Wolf” is featured in Winter Horror Days. “La Calavera” can be found in Halloween Carnival: Volume 3. Her short, non-genre fiction has been published in Arcadia Magazine, Stoneboat and on Role Reboot, Gemini Magazine, Salon, The Rumpus and Duende, among others. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles, where she is now affiliate faculty in their BA programs and teaches with their extended education online program, inspiration2publication.com. She is an instructor with Writing Workshops Los Angeles and co-founded and edits the literary website, Annotation Nation. Her website is katemaruyama.com. You can find her on Twitter at @katemaruyama or on Instagram at @katemaruyama.
Eligibility guidelines for the Shirley Jackson Awards can be found here:
http://shirleyjacksonawards.blogspot.com/2008_01_01_archive.html
We ask that submissions be sent no later than January 31, 2020. In cases of extreme weather, the deadline may be extended.
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Shirley Jackson (1916-1965) wrote such classic novels as The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, as well as one of the most famous short stories in the English language, “The Lottery.” Her work continues to be a major influence on writers of every kind of fiction, from the most traditional genre offerings to the most innovative literary work. National Book Critics Circle Award-winning novelist Jonathan Lethem has called Jackson “one of this century’s most luminous and strange American writers,” and multiple generations of authors would agree.
Website: ShirleyJacksonAwards.org