A different kind of "lottery"
The Shirley Jackson Awards will hold a “lottery” to raise funds for the award. This on-line event takes place from February 9, 2009 through February 23, 2009. Persons buy as many “lottery tickets” as they want in hopes of being selected the winner for any of an array of donated prizes from well-known authors, editors, artists, and agents.
“Lottery” tickets are $1 each and can be purchased from http://www.shirleyjacksonawards.org/lottery/
Persons may purchase as many tickets as desired. Tickets will be available from February 9th, 2009 through February 23rd, 2009. At midnight on February 23rd, “lottery” winners will be selected randomly for each item and announced on the website. Prizes will be mailed to the lucky winners.
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 psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic.
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.
Partial List of Donations to be Awarded
· From Ash-Tree Press: Collections of Sheridan Le Fanu: Mr. Justice Harbottle; The Haunted Baronet; Schalkin the Painter.
· From
imago1 : A signed/personalized copy of his award winning short story collection, The Imago Sequence (Nightshade), plus an original piece of short fiction, in a separate, unbound manuscript.
· From Elizabeth Bear: Personally inscribed copy of The Chains That You Refuse, an out of print collection of short stories
· From James Blaylock: Signed copy (by James Blaylock and Tim Powers) of The Devils in the Details (Subterranean Press)
· From Douglas Clegg: Signed copy of the Vampyricon trilogy
· From 14theditch: Keyboard used to write several novels & collections, signed by Jeffrey Ford, to the winner.
· From Neil Gaiman: Computer keyboard, signed to the winner.
· From Elizabeth Hand: Signed galley for Wonderwall, her forthcoming novel
· From Brian Keene: Signed galley for Scratch, his forthcoming novel
· From Jack Ketchum: Signed afterwords, with handwritten comments for Only Child, Hide and Seek, and the anthology The Darker State
· From Nightshade Books: Limited edition of Tim Lebbon's Light and other tales of Ruin
· From Stewart O’Nan: Signed copy of unproduced screenplay, POE
· From Payseur and Schmidt: Signed copies of Paul DiFilippo’s Cosmocopia, Nicola Griffith’s And Now We Are Going to Have a Party, and John Clute’s The Darkening Garden - A Lexicon of Horror
· From Paul Riddell: Carnivorous plant terrarium
· From Peter Straub: A reading copy of The Skylark, Part 1, read at ICFA in Orlando 3/2008.
· Tuckerizations by Ekaterina Sedia, Laura Anne Gilman, Nick Mamatas
· Subscriptions to On Spec and Sybil’s Garage
“Lottery” Rules
Tickets will be on sale from February 9th through February 23rd, midnight, Eastern Daylight Time. The lottery will be held on February 23rd at midnight. Items will be raffled off individually. Persons may purchase as many tickets per item as desired. For example, a person may purchase ten tickets for the “ITEM” and fifty tickets for “ITEM 2.” Each ticket purchase increases your chances of winning. For example, if you purchase five tickets of the “ITEM 3” and a total of ten tickets have been sold, your odds of winning are 5 out of 10.
For each item, one winner will be chosen using a computerized random number generator. The winning names and prizes will be announced on the Shirley Jackson Awards website. The donating party will mail or deliver the prize to the lucky winner.
All proceeds support the Shirley Jackson Awards.
Lottery Information website:
http://www.shirleyjacksonawards.org/lottery/
List of All Lottery Items:
http://www.shirleyjacksonawards.org/store/