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Nominees for the 2020 Shirley Jackson Award Announced!

The Shirley Jackson Awards have announced the slate of nominees for their 2020 award. The annual awards are handed out to works that exemplify “outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic,” in the spirit of Jackson’s work. Here are the finalists for best novel:

Sisters by Daisy Johnson
Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
True Story by Kate Reed Petty

Festival of Literary Diversity (FOLD)

The Festival of Literary Diversity (FOLD) devotes their programming to the work of marginalized and underrepresented authors and storytellers and takes place annually in Brampton, Ontario, Canada.

Read the 2021 FOLD list Part 1

Read the 2021 FOLD list Part 2

First Nation Communities Read - YA/Adult Nominees 2020

Book cover of Chasing painted horses with photo of author Drew Hayden Taylor

Chasing painted horses by Drew Hayden Taylor Winner!
Crow winter by Karen McBride
If I go missing by Brianna Jonnie Check at your public library!
In my own moccasins by Helen Knott
A mind spread out on the ground by Alicia Elliott

Governor General's Poetry Award 2020

Book cover of Norma Jeane Baker of Troy with photo of author

Norma Jeane Baker of Troy by Anne Carson Winner!

Norma Jeane Baker of Troy is a meditation on the destabilizing and destructive power of beauty, drawing together Helen of Troy and Marilyn Monroe, twin avatars of female fascination separated by millennia but united in mythopoeic force. Norma Jeane Baker was staged in the spring of 2019 at The Shed’s Griffin Theater in New York, starring actor Ben Whishaw and soprano Renée Fleming and directed by Katie Mitchell.