The Shirley Jackson Awards are holding an online "lottery" as a fund raiser. From 9 to 23 February, they'll be selling "lottery tickets" for $1 each at shirleyjacksonawards.org/store. At the end of the lottery, winners will be selected randomly for each item.
Donated prizes include:
* Tuckerizations by Richard Bowes, Laura Anne Gilman, Nick Mamatas, and others
* signed books by Laird Barron, James Blaylock, John Clute, Paul Di Filippo, John Grant, Paul Tremblay, Gahan Wilson, and others
* manuscript critiques by Don D'Auria, John Douglas, Alice Turner, and others
* personally inscribed keyboards from Jeffrey Ford and Neil Gaiman
* a carnivorous plant terrarium
We described the Shirley Jackson Award when it was first established in this article. The award honors "outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic."
For a more in-depth description of the lottery, see this page.
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