Shirley Jackson Awards – Word Horde https://wordhorde.com Why follow the herd? Join the Horde! Sun, 15 Jul 2018 17:34:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 46840551 72-Hour Shirley Jackson Award Finalist Coupon https://wordhorde.com/72-hour-shirley-jackson-award-finalist-coupon/ Sun, 15 Jul 2018 17:34:28 +0000 https://wordhorde.com/?p=2922 Congratulations to all the winners in this year’s Shirley Jackson Awards. We had two books nominated, Nadia Bulkin’s collection She Said Destroy and Ross E. Lockhart’s anthology Tales from a Talking Board, and while neither book took the prize in its category, we are honored to have received this recognition, and to have been included among so many talented authors and remarkable books.

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]]> 2922 The Children of Old Leech Nominated for the Shirley Jackson Award https://wordhorde.com/the-children-of-old-leech-nominated-for-the-shirley-jackson-award/ Fri, 08 May 2015 15:00:03 +0000 http://wordhorde.com/?p=1404 It is with pleasure and gratitude that we announce the following: The Children of Old Leech: A Tribute to the Carnivorous Cosmos of Laird Barron has been nominated for the Shirley Jackson Award. Needless to say, we are over the moon.

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It requires an army of people to put together an anthology like The Children of Old Leech, so a huge THANK YOU! goes out to the following: Co-editor Justin Steele; authors Allyson Bird, Jesse Bullington, Michael Cisco, Jesse James Douthit-Nicolay, Gemma Files, Richard Gavin, J. T. Glover, Cody Goodfellow, T.E. Grau, Orrin Grey, Michael Griffin, Stephen Graham Jones, John Langan, Daniel Mills, Scott Nicolay, Joseph S. Pulver, Sr., Molly Tanzer, Jeffrey Thomas, and Paul Tremblay; copyeditor Marty Halpern; hardcover artist/designer Matthew Revert; softcover artist Dalton Rose; softcover designer Scott R. Jones; and, of course, Laird Barron, for letting all of us play in his universe. Thanks also to all of you who purchased the book (and other Word Horde titles), and to all of the readers and reviewers who have taken the time to recommend the book to others. Thanks to the Shirley Jackson Awards Board of Directors and jurors. And thanks to everyone who shared a toast to Old Leech with us back when we launched the book. Cheers!

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Read the full list of nominees here: http://www.shirleyjacksonawards.org/nominees/

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