🏆 2024 Shirley Jackson Award Winners

In recognition of the legacy of Shirley Jackson’s writing, and with permission of the author’s estate, The Shirley Jackson Awards, Inc. has been established for outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic.

The Shirley Jackson Awards are voted upon by a jury of professional writers, editors, critics, and academics. The awards are given for the best work published in the preceding calendar year in the following categories: Novel, Novella, Novelette, Short Fiction, Single-Author Collection, and Edited Anthology.

The 2024 Shirley Jackson Awards were presented in-person on Saturday, July 19, 2025 at Readercon 34, Conference on Imaginative Literature, in Burlington, Massachusetts.