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I have two short stories that are eligible for awards consideration this year:

1. “Coriander for the Hidden” – published in Interzone #280, March-April 2019, fantasy, 5400 words.
2. “Spawning Season” – published in the audio-only anthology Come Join Us By the Fire (Tor/Nightfire), edited by Theresa DeLucci,  October 2019, horror/weird fiction, 2600 words (if that matters for audio).

If you’re interested in reading either of them for awards consideration, please email me at nick DOT kaufmann AT gmail DOT com. Or you can listen to “Spawning Season” for free here. Many thanks!

Friends, I’m delighted to inform you that 100 Fathoms Below is up for a 2019 Dragon Award in the Best Horror Novel category!

You can see the full ballot here.

I fully expect Grady Hendrix’s masterful We Sold Our Souls to win, but it’s an honor just to make the ballot. Voting is open to the public, even if you’re not attending Dragon Con, so if you feel like voting for 100 Fathoms Below, please do! Instructions can be found at the link above.

Also, please consider voting for my pal David Mack’s awesome novel The Iron Codex in Best Alternate History Novel!

Thank you for your consideration!

This is my awards eligibility list for 2018!

Stories:
“The Fire and the Stag,” Black Static 63, May 2018, 7,300 words
“The Fifth Horseman,” Black Static 66, November 2018, 11,800 words

Boston, MA (May 2015) – In recognition of the legacy of Shirley Jackson’s writing, and with permission of the author’s estate, The Shirley Jackson Awards, Inc. has been established for outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic.

The Shirley Jackson Awards are voted upon by a jury of professional writers, editors, critics, and academics, with input from a Board of Advisors. The awards are given for the best work published in the preceding calendar year in the following categories: Novel, Novella, Novelette, Short Story, Single-Author Collection, and Edited Anthology.

The nominees for the 2014 Shirley Jackson Awards are:

NOVEL

• Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer (FSG Originals)
• Bird Box, Josh Malerman (Ecco)
• Broken Monsters, Lauren Beukes (Mulholland)
• Confessions, Kanae Minato (Mulholland)
• The Lesser Dead, Christopher Buehlman (Berkley)
• The Unquiet House, Alison Littlewood (Jo Fletcher Books)

NOVELLA

• The Beauty, Aliya Whiteley (Unsung Stories)
• Ceremony of Flies, Kate Jonez (DarkFuse)
• The Good Shabti, Robert Sharp (Jurassic London)
• The Mothers of Voorhisville, Mary Rickert (Tor.com, April 2014)
• We Are All Completely Fine, Daryl Gregory (Tachyon)

NOVELETTE

• “The Devil in America,” Kai Ashante Wilson (Tor.com, April 2014)
• “The End of the End of Everything,” Dale Bailey (Tor.com, April 2014)
• “The Husband Stitch,” Carmen Maria Machado (Granta)
• “Newspaper Heart,” Stephen Volk (The Spectral Book of Horror Stories, Spectral Press)
• “Office at Night,” Kate Bernheimer and Laird Hunt (Walker Art Center/ Coffee House Press)
• “The Quiet Room,” V H Leslie (Shadows & Tall Trees 2014, Undertow Publications/ChiZine Publications)

SHORT FICTION

• “Candy Girl,” Chikodili Emelumadu (Apex Magazine, November 2014)
• “The Dogs Home,” Alison Littlewood (The Spectral Book of Horror Stories, Spectral Press)
• “The Fisher Queen,” Alyssa Wong (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, May/June 2014)
• “Shay Corsham Worsted,” Garth Nix (Fearful Symmetries, ChiZine Publications)
• “Wendigo Nights,” Siobhan Carroll (Fearful Symmetries, ChiZine Publications)

SINGLE-AUTHOR COLLECTION

• After the People Lights Have Gone Off, Stephen Graham Jones (Dark House)
• Burnt Black Suns:  A Collection of Weird Tales, Simon Strantzas (Hippocampus)
• Gifts for the One who Comes After, Helen Marshall (ChiZine Publications)
• They Do The Same Things Different There, Robert Shearman (ChiZine Publications)
• Unseaming, Mike Allen (Antimatter Press)

EDITED ANTHOLOGY

• Letters to Lovecraft, edited by Jesse Bullington (Stone Skin Press)
• Fearful Symmetries, edited by Ellen Datlow (ChiZine Publications)
• The Spectral Book of Horror Stories, edited by Mark Morris (Spectral Press)
• Shadows & Tall Trees 2014, edited by Michael Kelly (Undertow Publications/ChiZine Publications)
• The Children of Old Leech: A Tribute to the Carnivorous Cosmos of Laird Barron, edited by Ross E. Lockhart and Justin Steele (Word Horde)

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.

Congratulations to all the nominees.

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And don’t forget, I’m teaching a horror-writing LitReactor class in June that directly benefits the Shirley Jackson Awards!  For more information, click here.