The 2008 Shirley Jackson Awards winners were announced on Sunday, July 12, 2009, at Readercon 20, the Conference on Imaginative Literature, in Burlington, Massachusetts. Winners are:
Novel
The Shadow Year, Jeffrey Ford (William Morrow)
Novella
Disquiet, Julia Leigh (Penguin/Hamish Hamilton)
Novelette
“Pride and Prometheus”, John Kessel (F&SF)
Short Story
“The Pile”, Michael Bishop (Subterranean Online, Winter 2008)
Collection
The Diving Pool, Yoko Ogawa (Picador)
Anthology
The New Uncanny, Sarah Eyre and Ra Page, eds. (Comma)