Fresh off wins at the 2023 Bram Stoker Awards for their novels, Tananarive Due and Christa Carmen received nominations for the 2023 Shirley Jackson Awards, which were announced June 7.
The Reformatory by Due and The Daughters of Block Island by Carmen are two of the six books nominated in the Novel category for the Shirley Jackson Awards. On June 1, The Reformatory won Superior Achievement in a Novel, and The Daughters of Block Island won Superior Achievement in a First Novel at the Bram Stoker Awards.
The Shirley Jackson Awards recognize the best work published in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic in six categories: Novel, Novella, Novelette, Short Fiction, Single-Author Collection, and Edited Anthology.
The other four books nominated for Best Novel are Brainwyrms by Alison Rumfitt; Don’t Fear the Reaper by Stephen Graham Jones; Every Version Ends in Death by Aliya Chaudhry; and The Militia House by John Milas. Don’t Fear the Reaper was a Stoker Award nominee.
Last year, The Devil Takes You Home by Gabino Iglesias and Where I End by Sophie White tied for the win in the Novel category at the 2022 Shirley Jackson Awards.
One other Bram Stoker Award winner, Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror edited by Jordan Peele and John Joseph Adams, also earned a 2023 Shirley Jackson Award nomination for Edited Anthology.
Here is the complete list of nominees for the 2023 Shirley Jackson Awards, according to ShirleyJacksonAwards.org:
NOVEL
Brainwyrms by Alison Rumfitt
The Daughters of Block Island by Christa Carmen
Don’t Fear the Reaper by Stephen Graham Jones
Every Version Ends in Death by Aliya Chaudhry
The Militia House by John Milas
The Reformatory by Tananarive Due
NOVELLA
Broken Paradise by Eugen Bacon
Getting by in Tligolian by Roppotucha Greenberg
Green Fuse Burning by Tiffany Morris
The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw
Sleep Alone by J.A.W. McCarthy
To the Woman in the Pink Hat by LaToya Jordan
NOVELETTE
The Lover by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
People Like Them by Minka Kent
The Pram by Joe Hill
“Six Versions of My Brother Found Under the Bridge” by Eugenia Triantafyllou
“The Swan” by Lynn C. Pitts
“Vampire Fiction” by Michael Wehunt
“What’s He Building in There” by Cat Powell
SHORT FICTION
“The Dizzy Room” by Kristina Ten (Nightmare Magazine)
“The First Mrs. Edward Rochester Would Like a Word” by Laura Blackwell (Aseptic and Faintly Sadistic)
“Invasion of the Baby Snatchers” by Lesley Nneka Arimah (Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror)
Kazti Girls by Sciascia DeKay (The Fabulist)
“Something is Rotten” by Jo Kaplan (Shakespeare Unleashed)
SINGLE-AUTHOR COLLECTION
Drinking from Graveyard Wells: Stories by Yvette Lisa Ndlovu
Her Body Among Animals by Paola Ferrante
Jackal, Jackal: Tales of the Dark and Fantastic by Tobi Ogundiran
They Will Dream in the Garden by Gabriela Damián Miravete, translated by Adrian Demopulos
White Trash & Recycled Nightmares by Rebecca Rowland
EDITED ANTHOLOGY
Aseptic and Faintly Sadistic, edited by Jolie Toomajan
Mooncalves, edited by John WM Thompson
Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology, edited by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.
Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror, edited by Jordan Peele & John Joseph Adams
Shakespeare Unleashed, edited by James Aquilone
The 2023 Shirley Jackson Awards are scheduled for presentation July 13 at Readercon 33, Conference on Imaginative Literature, in Quincy, Massachusetts.
RELATED LINKS
The Official Website of Horror and Fantasy Writer Lionel Ray Green 