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. Beginning in 2010, the award has been entitled the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Single-Author Collection.
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.
Winners and Finalists
* Winners
Year Author Novel Publisher Ref. 2007 * Night Shade Books Prime Books Tin House Like You’d Understand, Anyway Knopf Old Devil Moon Serpent's Tail 2008 * Picador Farrar, Straus and Giroux Dangerous Laughter: 13 Stories Knopf Farrar, Straus and Giroux Just After Sunset Scribner Wild Nights! Ecco Press 2009 * Love Songs for the Shy and Cynical Big Finish Productions * Tunneling to the Center of the Earth Harper Perennial Fugue State Coffee House Press Otsuichi Zoo Haikasoru There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales Penguin Books Everland and Other Stories PS Publishing 2010 * Occultation Night Shade Books Prime Books Tachyon Publications What I Didn't See and Other Stories Small Beer Press What Will Come After PS Publishing 2011 * After the Apocalypse: Stories Small Beer Press Red Gloves PS Publishing Subterranean Press Engines of Desire: Tales of Love & Other Horrors Lethe Press Mysterious Press What Wolves Know PS Publishing 2012 * Crackpot Palace Morrow Subterranean Press PS Publishing Windeye Coffee House Press Errantry Small Beer Press Remember Why You Fear Me ChiZine 2013 * North American Lake Monsters Small Beer Press * Before and Afterlives Lethe Press Everything You Need Earthling Publications In Search Of and Others Lethe Press Wesleyan 2014 * Gifts for the One who Comes After ChiZine Unseaming Antimatter After the People Lights Have Gone Off Dark House They Do The Same Things Different There ChiZine Burnt Black Suns Hippocampus Press 2015 * Scribner Arche Lethe Press Gutshot FSG Originals Get in Trouble Random House You Have Never Been Here Small Beer Press 2016 * Small Beer Press We Show What We Have Learned Lookout Furnace Word Horde Almost Insentient, Almost Divine Undertow Greener Pastures Shock Totem 2017 * Her Body and Other Parties Graywolf Press She Said Destroy Word Horde Coffee House Press FSG Originals Things to Do When You're Goth in the Country Seven Stories 2018 * All the Fabulous Beasts Undertow Drawn Up from Deep Places Trepidatio Word Horde Quartier Perdu Comma Press Garden of Eldritch Delights Raw Dog Screaming 2019 * Song for the Unraveling of the World Coffee House Press Collision: Stories Meerkat Every Human Love: Stories Acre Books Homesick Dzanc Books Mouthful of Birds Riverhead Books Wounds Saga Press 2020 * Velocities Meerkat Aftermath of an Industrial Accident Mythic Delirium Thin Places Undertow Mannequin and Wife LSU Press Settling the World Comma Press Moonflower, Nightshade, All the Hours of the Day Lake Forest College Press 2021 * Folk Songs for Trauma Surgeons Meerkat (author) (translator) People From My Neighborhood Soft Skull We are Happy, We are Doomed Grimscribe Where All is Night, and Starless Trepidatio Sometimes We're Cruel Cemetery Gates 2022 * We Are Here to Hurt Each Other Nictitating Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century Tin House Hell Hath No Sorrow Like a Woman Haunted The Seventh Terrace Breakable Things Undertow And At My Back I Always Hear Word Horde Splendid Anatomies Veliz 2023 (author)* (translator)* They Will Dream in the Garden Rosarium Her Body Among Animals Book*hug Drinking from Graveyard Wells University Press of Kentucky Jackal, Jackal Undertow White Trash & Recycled Nightmares Dead Sky 2024 * Midwestern Gothic Inkshares Raw Dog Screaming Dead Girl, Driving and Other Devastations Trepidatio University of Oklahoma Press These Things That Walk Behind Me Lethe Press 2025 * Issues with Authority Ghoulish Books Good and Evil and Other Stories Alfred A. Knopf (translator) Moon Songs: The Selected Stories of Carol Emshwiller Third Man Books Portalmania: Stories Simon & Schuster Clairviolence: Tales of Tarot and Torment Tenebrous Press
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