Shirley Jackson Award for Best Single-Author Collection

Shirley Jackson Award for Best Single-Author Collection
Awarded forThe best psychological suspense, horror, or dark fantastic collection of at least 40,000 words, published in English in the same calendar year
LocationMassachusetts
CountryUnited States
Presented byReadercon
First award2007
Most recent winnerScott Thomas (Midwestern Gothic)
Websiteshirleyjacksonawards.org

The Shirley Jackson Award for Best Single-Author Collection is a literary award given annually at Readercon as part of their Shirley Jackson Awards.

Terminology

In 2007, the inaugural award was given as the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Collection.[1] Beginning in 2010, the award has been entitled the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Single-Author Collection.[2]

Criteria

To be eligible for the award, a collection must total at least 40,000 words. The collection may contain a combination of fiction, nonfiction, and collaborative works. At least 50% of the collection must be fiction.[3]

Winners and Finalists

  *   Winners

Year Author Novel Publisher Ref.
2007 Laird Barron* The Imago Sequence and Other Stories Night Shade Books [1]
Sarah Monette The Bone Key Prime Books [1]
Lucy Corin The Entire Predicament Tin House [1]
Jim Shepard Like You’d Understand, Anyway Knopf [1]
Christopher Fowler Old Devil Moon Serpent's Tail [1]
2008 Yōko Ogawa* The Diving Pool Picador [4]
Chris Adrian A Better Angel Farrar, Straus and Giroux [4]
Steven Millhauser Dangerous Laughter: 13 Stories Knopf [4]
Etgar Keret The Girl on the Fridge Farrar, Straus and Giroux [4]
Stephen King Just After Sunset Scribner [4]
Joyce Carol Oates Wild Nights! Ecco Press [4]
2009 Robert Shearman* Love Songs for the Shy and Cynical Big Finish Productions [5]
Kevin Wilson* Tunneling to the Center of the Earth Harper Perennial [5]
Brian Evenson Fugue State Coffee House Press [5]
Otsuichi Zoo Haikasoru [5]
Lyudmila Petrushevskaya There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales Penguin Books [5]
Paul Witcover Everland and Other Stories PS Publishing [5]
2010 Laird Barron* Occultation Night Shade Books [2]
Stephen Graham Jones The Ones That Got Away Prime Books [2]
Jeff VanderMeer The Third Bear Tachyon Publications [2]
Karen Joy Fowler What I Didn't See and Other Stories Small Beer Press [2]
Scott Edelman What Will Come After PS Publishing [2]
2011 Maureen F. McHugh* After the Apocalypse: Stories Small Beer Press [6]
Christopher Fowler Red Gloves PS Publishing [6]
Glen Hirshberg The Janus Tree Subterranean Press [6]
Livia Llewellyn Engines of Desire: Tales of Love & Other Horrors Lethe Press [6]
Joyce Carol Oates The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares Mysterious Press [6]
Kit Reed What Wolves Know PS Publishing [6]
2012 Jeffrey Ford* Crackpot Palace Morrow [7]
Jonathan Carroll The Woman Who Married a Cloud Subterranean Press [7]
Andy Duncan The Pottawatomie Giant and Other Stories PS Publishing [7]
Brian Evenson Windeye Coffee House Press [7]
Elizabeth Hand Errantry Small Beer Press [7]
Robert Shearman Remember Why You Fear Me ChiZine [7]
2013 Nathan Ballingrud* North American Lake Monsters Small Beer Press [8]
Christopher Barzak* Before and Afterlives Lethe Press [8]
Michael Marshall Smith Everything You Need Earthling Publications [8]
Will Ludwigsen In Search Of and Others Lethe Press [8]
Kit Reed The Story Until Now Wesleyan [8]
2014 Helen Marshall* Gifts for the One who Comes After ChiZine [9]
Mike Allen Unseaming Antimatter [9]
Stephen Graham Jones After the People Lights Have Gone Off Dark House [9]
Robert Shearman They Do The Same Things Different There ChiZine [9]
Simon Strantzas Burnt Black Suns Hippocampus Press [9]
2015 Stephen King* The Bazaar of Bad Dreams Scribner [10]
Dale Bailey The End of the End of Everything: Stories Arche [10]
T. E. Grau The Nameless Dark: A Collection Lethe Press [10]
Amelia Gray Gutshot FSG Originals [10]
Kelly Link Get in Trouble Random House [10]
Mary Rickert You Have Never Been Here Small Beer Press [10]
2016 Jeffrey Ford* A Natural History of Hell Small Beer Press [11]
Clare Beams We Show What We Have Learned Lookout [11]
Livia Llewellyn Furnace Word Horde [11]
D. P. Watt Almost Insentient, Almost Divine Undertow [11]
Michael Wehunt Greener Pastures Shock Totem [11]
2017 Carmen Maria Machado* Her Body and Other Parties Graywolf Press [12]
Nadia Bulkin She Said Destroy Word Horde [12]
Camilla Grudova The Doll's Alphabet Coffee House Press [12]
Samantha Hunt The Dark Dark FSG Originals [12]
Chavisa Woods Things to Do When You're Goth in the Country Seven Stories [12]
2018 Priya Sharma* All the Fabulous Beasts Undertow [13]
Gemma Files Drawn Up from Deep Places Trepidatio [13]
Michael Griffin The Human Alchemy Word Horde [13]
Sean O'Brien Quartier Perdu Comma Press [13]
Lucy A. Snyder Garden of Eldritch Delights Raw Dog Screaming [13]
2019 Brian Evenson* Song for the Unraveling of the World Coffee House Press [14]
J. S. Breukelaar Collision: Stories Meerkat [14]
Joanna Pearson Every Human Love: Stories Acre Books [14]
Nino Cipri Homesick Dzanc Books [14]
Samanta Schweblin Mouthful of Birds Riverhead Books [14]
Nathan Ballingrud Wounds Saga Press [14]
2020 Kathe Koja* Velocities Meerkat [15]
Mike Allen Aftermath of an Industrial Accident Mythic Delirium [15]
Kay Chronister Thin Places Undertow [15]
Jen Fawkes Mannequin and Wife LSU Press [15]
M. John Harrison Settling the World Comma Press [15]
JD Scott Moonflower, Nightshade, All the Hours of the Day Lake Forest College Press [15]
2021 Keith Rosson* Folk Songs for Trauma Surgeons Meerkat [16]
Hiromi Kawakami (author)
Ted Goossen (translator) 		People From My Neighborhood Soft Skull [16]
Kurt Kawver We are Happy, We are Doomed Grimscribe [16]
John Linwood Grant Where All is Night, and Starless Trepidatio [16]
J. A. W. McCarthy Sometimes We're Cruel Cemetery Gates [16]
2022 Paula D. Ashe* We Are Here to Hurt Each Other Nictitating [17]
Kim Fu Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century Tin House [17]
RJ Joseph Hell Hath No Sorrow Like a Woman Haunted The Seventh Terrace [17]
Cassandra Khaw Breakable Things Undertow [17]
Nicolay And At My Back I Always Hear Word Horde [17]
Allison Wyss Splendid Anatomies Veliz [17]
2023 Gabriela Damián Miravete (author)*
Adrian Demopulos (translator)* 		They Will Dream in the Garden Rosarium [18]
Paola Ferrante Her Body Among Animals Book*hug [18]
Yvette Lisa Ndlovu Drinking from Graveyard Wells University Press of Kentucky [18]
Tobi Ogundiran Jackal, Jackal Undertow [18]
Rebecca Rowland White Trash & Recycled Nightmares Dead Sky [18]
2024 Scott Thomas* Midwestern Gothic Inkshares [19]
Eugen Bacon A Place Between Waking and Forgetting Raw Dog Screaming [19]
Carina Bissett Dead Girl, Driving and Other Devastations Trepidatio [19]
Devon A. Mihesuah The Bone Picker: Native Stories, Alternate Histories University of Oklahoma Press [19]
David Surface These Things That Walk Behind Me Lethe Press [19]

References

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  18. ^ a b c d e "2023 Shirley Jackson Awards Winners". Locus. 13 July 2024. Retrieved 18 Dec 2025.
  19. ^ a b c d e "2024 Shirley Jackson Awards Winners". Locus. 21 Jul 2025. Retrieved 11 Dec 2025.
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