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THE AWARDS Press release

Board of Advisors Bill Congreve For Immediate Release Stefan Dziemianowicz Contact: JoAnn F. Cox Jack M. Haringa Awards Administrator S.T. Joshi [email protected] Mike O’Driscoll Stewart O’Nan Nominees Announced for the Ann VanderMeer 2013 Shirley Jackson Awards

Jurors Chesya Burke Boston, MA (May 2014) -- In recognition of the legacy of Shirley Jack M. Haringa Jackson’s writing, and with permission of the author’s estate, The Shirley Jackson Awards, Inc. has been established for outstanding Graham Sleight achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and Paul Witcover the dark fantastic.

The Shirley Jackson Awards are voted upon by a jury of professional Board of Directors writers, editors, critics, and academics.* The awards are given for F. Brett Cox the best work published in the preceding calendar year in the JoAnn F. Cox following categories: Novel, , Novelette, , Single-Author Collection, and Edited Anthology. Paul Tremblay The nominees for the 2013 Shirley Jackson Awards are:

Administrator NOVEL JoAnn F. Cox The Accursed, (Ecco) American Elsewhere, Robert Jackson Bennett (Orbit) The Demonologist, Andrew Pyper (Orion-UK/ Simon & Schuster-US) The Ghost Bride, Yangsze Choo (William Morrow) Night Film, Marisha Pessl (Random House) Wild Fell, Michael Rowe (ChiZine Publications)

NOVELLA Burning Girls, Veronica Schanoes (Tor.com) Children of No One, Nicole Cushing (DarkFuse) Helen's Story, Rosanne Rabinowitz (PS Publishing) It Sustains, Mark Morris (Earthling Publications) “The Gateway,” (Stardust, PS Publishing) The Last Revelation of Gla'aki, (PS Publishing) Whom the Gods Would Destroy, Brian Hodge (DarkFuse)

NOVELETTE Cry Murder! In a Small Voice, (Small Beer Press) “A Little of the Night,” (Clockwork Phoenix 4, Mythic Delirium Books) “My Heart is Either Broken,” Megan Abbott (Dangerous Women, ) “Phosphorus,” Veronica Schanoes (Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells: An Anthology of Gaslamp , Tor Books) “Raptors,” Conrad Williams (Subterranean Press Magazine, Winter 2013) SHORT FICTION “57 Reasons for the Slate Quarry Suicides,” Sam J. Miller (Nightmare Magazine, December 2013) “Furnace,” Livia Llewellyn (Grimscribe’s Puppets, Miskatonic River Press) “The Memory Book,” Maureen McHugh (Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells: An Anthology of , Tor Books) “The Statue in the Garden,” Paul Park (Exotic Gothic 5, PS Publishing) “That Tiny Flutter of the Heart,” (Psycho-Mania!, Constable & Robinson) “The Traditional,” (Lightspeed, May 2013)

SINGLE-AUTHOR COLLECTION Before and Afterlives, Christopher Barzak (Lethe Press) Everything You Need, Michael Marshall Smith (Earthling Publications) In Search of and Others, Will Ludwigsen (Lethe Press) North American Lake Monsters, Nathan Ballingrud (Small Beer Press) The Story Until Now, Kit Reed (Wesleyan)

EDITED ANTHOLOGY The Book of the Dead, edited by Jared Shurin (Jurassic London) End of the Road, Jonathan Oliver (Solaris) Grimscribe’s Puppets, edited by Joseph S. Pulver, Sr. (Miskatonic River Press) Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells: An Anthology of Gaslamp Fantasy, edited by (Tor Books) Where thy Dark Eye Glances: Queering Edgar Allan Poe, edited by Steve Berman (Lethe Press)

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.

The 2013 Shirley Jackson Awards will be presented on Sunday, July 13, 2014, at Readercon 25, Conference on Imaginative Literature, in Burlington, .

Websites: ShirleyJacksonAwards.org Readercon.org ______Media representatives who are seeking further information or interviews should contact JoAnn F. Cox.

* Where a conflict of interest arises for a juror, the juror recuses himself/herself from voting for the particular work.