2007 Shirley Jackson Awards Winners

NOVEL

Winner:

GENERATION LOSS, Elizabeth Hand
(Small Beer Press)

Finalists:

Baltimore, Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden (Bantam Spectra)
Sharp Teeth, Toby Barlow (William Heinemann Ltd)
The Terror, Dan Simmons (Little, Brown)
Tokyo Year Zero, David Peace (Knopf)

NOVELLA

Winner:

VACANCY, Lucius Shepard
(Subterranean #7, 2007)

Finalists:

12 Collections, Zoran Živkovic (PS Publishing)
Illyria, Elizabeth Hand (PS Publishing)
The Mermaids, Robert Edric (PS Publishing)
"Procession of the Black Sloth," Laird Barron (The Imago Sequence and Other Stories, Night Shade Books)
The Scalding Rooms, Conrad Williams (PS Publishing)

NOVELETTE

Winner:

THE JANUS TREE, Glen Hirshberg
(Inferno, Tor)

Finalists:

"The Forest," Laird Barron (Inferno, Tor)
"The Swing," Don Tumasonis (At Ease with the Dead, Ash-Tree Press)
"The Tenth Muse," William Browning Spencer (Subterranean #6, 2007)
"Thumbprint," Joe Hill (Postscripts #10, March 2007)

SHORT STORY

Winner:

THE MONSTERS OF HEAVEN, Nathan Ballingrud
(Inferno, Tor)

Finalists:

"Holiday," M. Rickert (Subterranean #7, 2007)
"A Murder of Crows," Elizabeth Ziemska (Tin House 31, Spring 2007)
"Something in the Mermaid Way," Carrie Laben (Clarkesworld, March 2007)
"The Third Bear," Jeff VanderMeer (Clarkesworld, April 2007)
"Unique Chicken Goes in Reverse," Andy Duncan (Eclipse One, Night Shade Books)

COLLECTION

Winner:

THE IMAGO SEQUENCE AND OTHER STORIES, Laird Barron
(Night Shade Books)

Finalists:

The Bone Key, Sarah Monette (Prime Books)
The Entire Predicament, Lucy Corin (Tin House)
Like You'd Understand, Anyway, Jim Shepard (Knopf)
Old Devil Moon, Christopher Fowler (Serpent's Tail)

ANTHOLOGY

Winner:

INFERNO, edited by Ellen Datlow
(Tor)

Finalists:

At Ease with the Dead, edited by Barbara and Christopher Roden (Ash-Tree Press)
Dark Delicacies 2, edited by Del Howison and Jeff Gelb (Running Press)
Logorrhea, edited by John Klima (Bantam Spectra)
Wizards, edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois (Berkley)