Sarah Langan, as a new advisor for the Shirley Jackson Awards, is stoked about her recent Bram Stoker Award and mentions in Ellen Datlow’s Anthology, The Best Horror of the Year, 2009 (her short stories Fenstad’s End, The Burn Victim, The Dark Materials Project, and The Agathas) and says,
"Remember how 'SNL' used to be dominated by men, and then the ladies came along? It feels like that. A total sea change."
The Shirly Jackson Awards came out with the final ballot last week, and so many of the literary nominations are written by women, including The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters and The Red Tree by Caitlin R. Kiernan...
For Nest Novel: The Little Stranger, Sarah Waters (Riverhead) The Owl Killers, Karen Maitland (Delacorte Press) The Red Tree, Caitlin R. Kiernan (Roc) White is for Witching, Helen Oyeyemi (Nan A. Talese).
For Best Novella: The Language of Dying, Sarah Pinborough, (PS Publishing) “Sea-Hearts,” Margo Lanagan (X6, coeur de lion)
For Best Short Story: “Faces,” Aimee Bender (The Paris Review, Issue 191, Winter 2009) “The Jacaranda Smile,” Gemma Files (Apparitions, Undertow Publications) “The Pelican Bar,” Karen Joy Fowler (Eclipse 3, Night Shade)
For Best Single-Author Collection: There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby: Scary Fairy Tales, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya (Penguin)
For Best Anthology: Lovecraft Unbound, edited by Ellen Datlow (Dark Horse) Poe: 19 New Tales Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe, edited by Ellen Datlow (Solaris)
