BSC-favorite and book friend Jeffrey Ford headlines this year’s Shirley Jackson Award winners. In April we posted the nominees, an Ford’s The Shadow Year took home best novel honors.
Novel: The Shadow Year by Jeffrey Ford (William Morrow)
Novella: Disquiet by Julia Leigh (Penguin/Hamish Hamilton)
Novelette: Pride and Prometheus by John Kessel (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 2008)
Short Story: The Pile by Michael Bishop (Subterranean Online, Winter 2008)
Collection: The Diving Pool by Yoko Ogawa (Picador)
Anthology: The New Uncanny, edited by Sarah Eyre and Ra Page (Comma Press)
BSCreview would like to congratulate all of the winners! BSC reviewed Ford’s The Shadow Year last year.
The awards were presented on Sunday, July 12th, at the Readercon Conference on Imaginative Literature in Burlington, Massachusetts. The award is given 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.
