The 2025 Shirley Jackson Award Winners
The 2025 Shirley Jackson Awards were announced on Saturday night, July 11, at Readercon 35. The awards are presented to the best horror, dark fantasy, and psychological suspense books published in the previous year. This year’s hosts and guests of honor at the ceremony were P. Djèlí Clark and David Gerrold.
Each year, the Shirley Jackson Awards are given to titles in seven categories: Novel, Novella, Novelette, Short Fiction, Single-Author Collection, and Edited Anthology. The judges in each are an array of professional writers, critics, editors, and academics.
Here’s who took home the awards this year in each category.
Short Fiction
- “Bitter Skin” by Kaaron Warren, from the collection Night & Day
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Single-Author Collection
Edited Anthology–this year, there was a tie!
Novel
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