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# Here are the finalists for the 2023 Shirley Jackson Awards
- URL: https://www.andrewliptak.com/shirley-jackson-awards-2023-horror-books-fiction/
- Published: 2024-06-10T16:00:10.000Z
- Updated: 2024-06-10T16:00:10.000Z
- Description: Some of the best horror from 2023
- Author: Andrew Liptak
- Tags: News, Books, Book List, Horror

Each year, the [Shirley Jackson Awards](https://www.shirleyjacksonawards.org/?ref=transfer-orbit.ghost.io) names the best works of literature of horror, the dark fantastic, and psychological suspense, honoring the legacy of author Shirley Jackson. 

I've always found the nominees to be an excellent mix of novels and stories, and there are some excellent nominees on the list this year. This year's awards will be presented on Saturday, July 13 at 8pm at Readercon 33 in Quincy, Massachusetts.

Here are the finalists: 

### Novel

- *Brainwyrms* by Alison Rumfitt
- *The Daughters of Block Island* by Christa Carmen
- *Don’t Fear the Reaper* by Stephen Graham Jones
- *Every Version Ends in Death* by Aliya Chaudhry
- *The Militia House* by John Milas
- *The Reformatory* by Tananarive Due

###  Novella

- *Broken Paradise* by Eugen Bacon
- *Getting by in Tligolian* by Roppotucha Greenberg
- *Green Fuse Burning* by Tiffany Morris
- *The Salt Grows Heavy* by Cassandra Khaw
- *Sleep Alone* by J.A.W. McCarthy
- *To the Woman in the Pink Hat* by LaToya Jordan

###  Novelette

- *The Lover* by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- *People Like Them* by Minka Kent
- *The Pram* by Joe Hill
- “[Six Versions of My Brother Found Under the Bridge](https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/six-versions-of-my-brother-found-under-the-bridge/?ref=andrewliptak.com)” by Eugenia Triantafyllou
- “The Swan” by Lynn C. Pitts (*Infinite Constellations*)
- “Vampire Fiction” by Michael Wehunt (*The Inconsolables*)
- “What’s He Building in There” by Cat Powell (*Fairy Tale Review: The Rainbow Issue*)

###  Short Fiction

- “[The Dizzy Room](https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/the-dizzy-room/?ref=andrewliptak.com)” by Kristina Ten (Adamant Press / *Nightmare Magazine*)
- “The First Mrs. Edward Rochester Would Like a Word” by Laura Blackwell (*Aseptic and Faintly Sadistic*)
- “Invasion of the Baby Snatchers” by Lesley Nneka Arimah (*Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror*)
- *Kazti Girls* by Sciascia DeKay (*The Fabulist*)
- “Something is Rotten” by Jo Kaplan (*Shakespeare Unleashed*)

###  Single-Author Collection

- *Drinking from Graveyard Wells: Stories* by Yvette Lisa Ndlovu
- *Her Body Among Animals* by Paola Ferrante
- *Jackal, Jackal: Tales of the Dark and Fantastic* by Tobi Ogundiran
- *They Will Dream in the Garden* by Gabriela Damián Miravete, translated by Adrian Demopulos
- *White Trash & Recycled Nightmares* by Rebecca Rowland

### Edited Anthology

- *Aseptic and Faintly Sadistic* edited by Jolie Toomajan
- *Mooncalves* edited by John WM Thompson
- *Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology* edited by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.
- *Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror* edited by Jordan Peele & John Joseph Adams
- *Shakespeare Unleashed* edited by James Aquilone (Monstrous Books)