Shirley Jackson and VELOCITIES

It’s an absolute thrill to announce that VELOCITIES has won a Shirley Jackson Award for Single-Author Collection! The finalists made up a stellar ballot, and a must-read reading list too. Delighted to add that fellow Meerkat Press author J.Ashley-Smith won as well, for his novelette THE ATTIC TRAGEDY! Watch the awards ceremony here. The beautiful award itself (photo courtesy Rick Lieder) references Jackson’s mordant and comic The Sundial.

VELOCITIES has also been a finalist for this year’s Bram Stoker Award, is on the final ballot for the World Fantasy Award, and the preliminary ballot for the Locus Award. Stories are written to be read, and the judges’ and readers’ acclaim for these stories is a joy for me. And the congratulatory flowers from a dear friend and collaborator are the cherry on top!