Shirley Jackson Award for Best Short Fiction
2025




winner

Bitter Skin
by
Kaaron Warren

nominee

Lapse
by
Kirsty Logan

nominee

Mother's Mother's Daughter
by
Audrey Zhou

nominee

Room 24
by
Caroline Kepnes

nominee

Silver Boots
by
Donna Lynch

About the Shirley Jackson Awards
The Shirley Jackson Awards honor outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic. Named after the acclaimed writer Shirley Jackson, these awards recognize exceptional works published in the preceding calendar year.

Years when the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Short Fiction was given
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