Shirley Jackson winners!
Shirley Jackson winners! I did end up "attending" virtual Readercon - not a huge amount of it, but I watched Ursula Vernon read the beginning of something new and unfinished, and Malka Older read a 2019 short story that I liked a lot at the time, Sturdy Lanterns and Ladders (link goes to text of story; it made my shortlist and just narrowly missed being one of my Hugo nominees), and I watched good panels about Vonda McIntyre and about action-adventure and comedy, and I have an interview with Ursula Vernon queued up to watch at some point. And the Shirley Jacksons! If you can do a satisfying 6-category award ceremony in 20 minutes, I feel like you should be able to do a 20-category award ceremony in about an hour and a quarter, not to point fingers at anyone in particular, ahem. Although I guess in fact here everything was prerecorded, which the Hugos don't want to do? Anyways. Winners behind the cut.
NOVEL
Sisters by Daisy Johnson (Jonathan Cape)
Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh (Penguin Press)
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey / Penguin Random House)
Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth (William Morrow)
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones (Saga Press, Gallery Books)
True Story by Kate Reed Petty (Viking)
NOVELLA
The Best of Both Worlds by S. P. Miskowski (Trepidatio Publishing)
History of an Executioner by Clancy McGilligan (Miami University Press)
Night of the Mannequins by Stephen Graham Jones (Tordotcom Publishing)
Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark (Tordotcom Publishing)
Agatha’s Barn: A Carpenter’s Farm Story by Michael Bailey (Written Backwards)
Her Mad Song by C J Halbard (Man on Fire Press)
I'm surprised to see Ring Shout lose!
NOVELETTE
“I Will Find You, Even in the Dark” by Jessica Landry (Dim Shores Presents Vol. 1)
Many Restless Concerns: The Victims of Countess Bathory Speak in Chorus (A Testimony) by Gayle Brandeis (Black Lawrence Press)
The Attic Tragedy by J. Ashley-Smith (Meerkat Press)
Faith by Sayaka Murata, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori (Granta)
“Heritage Hill” by Matthew R. Davis (Outback Horrors Down Under: An Anthology of Antipodean Terrors)
“Pale Toes” by Marko Hautala, translated by Sanna Terho (The Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories)
“Señor Ligotti” by Bernardo Esquinca, translated by James D. Jenkins (The Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories)
SHORT FICTION
“Holes” by R.A. Busby (Graveyard Smash: Women of Horror Anthology Vol.2 collection)
Graceful Burdens by Roxane Gay (Amazon Original Stories)
“Isn’t Your Daughter Such a Doll” by Tobi Ogundiran (Shoreline of Infinity 18)
“Not the Man I Married” by R. A. Busby (Black Petals Issue #93 Autumn, 2020)
“Room and Board Included, Demonology Extra” by Eden Royce (Broken Eye Books)
“The Memory Game” by Franki Haber (The Gravity of the Thing)
Ha, I almost misreported this, I wrote down that it was Busby and now I see that there are two Busby stories. Luckily I could go back and check which one actually won. :)
SINGLE-AUTHOR COLLECTION
Settling the World: Selected Stories by M. John Harrison (Comma Press)
Mannequin and Wife by Jen Fawkes (LSU Press)
Thin Places by Kay Chronister (Undertow Publications)
Velocities: Stories by Kathe Koja (Meerkat Press)
Moonflower, Nightshade, All the Hours of the Day by JD Scott (Lake Forest College Press)
Aftermath of an Industrial Accident: Stories by Mike Allen (Mythic Delirium Books)
EDITED ANTHOLOGY
After Sundown, edited by Mark Morris (Flame Tree Press)
Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women, edited by Lee Murray & Geneve Flynn (Omnium Gatherum)
Miscreations: Gods, Monstrosities & Other Horrors, edited by Doug Murano & Michael Bailey (Written Backwards)
The Night Bazaar Venice: Thirteen Tales of Forbidden Wishes and Dangerous Desires, edited by Lenore Hart (Northampton House Press)
Lullabies for Suffering: Tales of Addiction Horror, edited by Mark Matthews (Wicked Run Press)
Shadows & Tall Trees, Vol. 8, edited by Michael Kelly (Undertow Publications)
Tiny Nightmares, edited by Lincoln Michel and Nadxieli Nieto (Catapult)
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NOVEL
Sisters by Daisy Johnson (Jonathan Cape)
Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh (Penguin Press)
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey / Penguin Random House)
Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth (William Morrow)
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones (Saga Press, Gallery Books)
True Story by Kate Reed Petty (Viking)
NOVELLA
The Best of Both Worlds by S. P. Miskowski (Trepidatio Publishing)
History of an Executioner by Clancy McGilligan (Miami University Press)
Night of the Mannequins by Stephen Graham Jones (Tordotcom Publishing)
Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark (Tordotcom Publishing)
Agatha’s Barn: A Carpenter’s Farm Story by Michael Bailey (Written Backwards)
Her Mad Song by C J Halbard (Man on Fire Press)
I'm surprised to see Ring Shout lose!
NOVELETTE
“I Will Find You, Even in the Dark” by Jessica Landry (Dim Shores Presents Vol. 1)
Many Restless Concerns: The Victims of Countess Bathory Speak in Chorus (A Testimony) by Gayle Brandeis (Black Lawrence Press)
The Attic Tragedy by J. Ashley-Smith (Meerkat Press)
Faith by Sayaka Murata, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori (Granta)
“Heritage Hill” by Matthew R. Davis (Outback Horrors Down Under: An Anthology of Antipodean Terrors)
“Pale Toes” by Marko Hautala, translated by Sanna Terho (The Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories)
“Señor Ligotti” by Bernardo Esquinca, translated by James D. Jenkins (The Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories)
SHORT FICTION
“Holes” by R.A. Busby (Graveyard Smash: Women of Horror Anthology Vol.2 collection)
Graceful Burdens by Roxane Gay (Amazon Original Stories)
“Isn’t Your Daughter Such a Doll” by Tobi Ogundiran (Shoreline of Infinity 18)
“Not the Man I Married” by R. A. Busby (Black Petals Issue #93 Autumn, 2020)
“Room and Board Included, Demonology Extra” by Eden Royce (Broken Eye Books)
“The Memory Game” by Franki Haber (The Gravity of the Thing)
Ha, I almost misreported this, I wrote down that it was Busby and now I see that there are two Busby stories. Luckily I could go back and check which one actually won. :)
SINGLE-AUTHOR COLLECTION
Settling the World: Selected Stories by M. John Harrison (Comma Press)
Mannequin and Wife by Jen Fawkes (LSU Press)
Thin Places by Kay Chronister (Undertow Publications)
Velocities: Stories by Kathe Koja (Meerkat Press)
Moonflower, Nightshade, All the Hours of the Day by JD Scott (Lake Forest College Press)
Aftermath of an Industrial Accident: Stories by Mike Allen (Mythic Delirium Books)
EDITED ANTHOLOGY
After Sundown, edited by Mark Morris (Flame Tree Press)
Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women, edited by Lee Murray & Geneve Flynn (Omnium Gatherum)
Miscreations: Gods, Monstrosities & Other Horrors, edited by Doug Murano & Michael Bailey (Written Backwards)
The Night Bazaar Venice: Thirteen Tales of Forbidden Wishes and Dangerous Desires, edited by Lenore Hart (Northampton House Press)
Lullabies for Suffering: Tales of Addiction Horror, edited by Mark Matthews (Wicked Run Press)
Shadows & Tall Trees, Vol. 8, edited by Michael Kelly (Undertow Publications)
Tiny Nightmares, edited by Lincoln Michel and Nadxieli Nieto (Catapult)
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