best science fiction novel year award designation author title series publisher winner Greg Egan Distress Millennium Sean McMullen Mirrorsun Rising Greatwinter #1.5 Aphelion 1995 Set Piece Doctor Who New finalists Kate Orman Adventures #35 Virgin
Sean Williams & The Unknown Soldier Shane Dix The Cogal #1 Aphelion winner Sean Williams Metal Fatigue HarperCollins Australia 1996 Simon Brown Privateer HarperCollins finalists Tess Williams Map of Power Random/Arrow
winner Damien Broderick The White Abacus Avon Eos
Damien Broderick & Zones HarperCollins Rory Barnes Australia/Moonstone 1997 finalists Simon Brown Winter HarperCollins Australia Greg Egan Diaspora Millennium
The Dark Edge The Eddon + Vail Richard Harland #1 Pan Macmillan winner Sean McMullen The Centurion’s Empire Tor Alison Goodman Singing the Dogstar Blues HarperCollins John Marsden The Night Is for Hunting Tomorrow #6 Pan Macmillan 1998 finalists The New Adventures: Walking to Doctor Who – Kate Orman Babylon Bernice Virgin Summerfield #10
Sean Williams The Resurrected Man HarperCollins winner Greg Egan Teranesia Victor Gollancz
Rory Barnes & The Book of Revelation Damien Broderick HarperCollins/Voyager
1999 Andrew Masterson The Letter Girl Picador finalists
Jonathan Blum & Doctor Who: Unnatural History Eigth Doctor Kate Orman Adventures #23 BBC Books
Sally Rogers- Spare Parts Davidson Penguin Books winner Sean McMullen The Miocene Arrow Greatwinter #2 Tor 2000 finalists James Bradley The Deep Field Sceptre Sean Williams & The Dying Light Shane Dix Evergence #2 HarperCollins/Voyager Tess Williams Sea as Mirror HarperCollins/Voyager
Sean Williams & A Dark Imbalance winner Shane Dix Evergence #3 HarperCollins/Voyager Peter McAllister Cosmonaut Penguin Books 2001 finalists Sean McMullen Eyes of the Calculor Greatwinter #3 Tor Crossover Cassandra Kresnov Joel Shepherd #1 HarperCollins/Voyager
winner Damien Broderick Transcension Tor
2002 Michelle Marquardt Blue Silence Bantam finalists Sean Williams & Echoes of Earth Shane Dix The Orphans #1 HarperCollins/Voyager
Jon Blum & Kate Fallen Gods Telos Doctor Who winner Orman #10 Telos Publishing Jay Caselberg Wyrmhole Jack Stein #1 Penguin/Roc
Terminator Gene Simon & Schuster/Earthlight Ian Irvine Human Rites #2 Australia 2003 finalists Doctor Who: Past Kate Orman Blue Box Doctor Adventures BBC Worldwide #59
Sean Williams & Orphans of Earth Shane Dix The Orphans #2 HarperCollins/Voyager
The Earthborn The Earthborn honourable mention Paul Collins Wars #1 Tor winner Maxine McArthur Less than Human Warner Aspect K. A. Bedford Orbital Burn Edge Jack Dann The Rebel HarperCollins/Flamingo 2004 finalists Marianne de Nylon Angel Pierres Parrish Plessis #1 Orbit
Sean Williams & Heirs of Earth Shane Dix The Orphans #3 HarperCollins/Voyager winner K. A. Bedford Eclipse Edge
John Birmingham Designated Targets World War #2.2 Pan Macmillan Australia 2005 Marianne de Crash Deluxe finalists Pierres Parrish Plessis #3 Orbit
Sean Williams with Ascent Shane Dix Geodesica #1 HarperCollins/Voyager
2006 winner Damien Broderick K-Machines Avalon K. A. Bedford Hydrogen Steel Edge
finalists Andrew McGahan Underground Allen & Unwin
Sean Williams with Descent Shane Dix Geodesica #2 HarperCollins/Voyager winner David Kowalski The Company of the Dead Pan Macmillan
Marianne De Dark Space Sentients of Orion Pierres #1 Orbit
2007 finalists Remote Control Agent Six of Hearts Jack Heath #2 Pan Macmillan Sean Williams Saturn Returns Astropolis #1 Orbit honourable mention Rose Michael The Asking Game Transit Lounge
Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait Edge Science Fiction and winner K. A. Bedford Fantasy Publishing
Marianne de Chaos Space Sentients of Orion Pierres #2 Orbit 2008 Simon Haynes Hal Spacejock: No Free Lunch Hal Spacejock #4 Fremantle Press finalists Kim Westwood The Daughters of Moab HarperVoyager Sean Williams Earth Ascendant Astropolis #2 Orbit
winner Andrew McGahan Wonders of a Godless World Allen & Unwin 2009 finalist Sean Williams The Grand Conjunction Astropolis #3 Orbit
Marianne de Teansformation Space Sentients of Orion 2010 winner Pierres #4 Orbit Sara Creasy Song of Scarabaeus Scarabaeus #1 EOS Books finalists Marianne de Mirror Space Sentients of Orion Pierres #3 Orbit winner Kim Westwood The Courier’s New Bicycle HarperCollins
Max Barry Machine Man Scribe Publications 2011 Sara Creasy Children of Scarabaeus Scarabaeus #2 HarperVoyager finalists Peter Docker The Waterboys Fremantle Press
Meg Mundell Black Glass Scribe Publications
The Rook The Checquy Files winner Daniel O’Malley #1 Harper Collins
Jo Anderton Suited The Veiled Worlds Angry Robot 2012 #2 finalists The Last City The Demon War Nina D’Aleo Chronicles #1 Momentum Andrea K. Höst And All the Stars Self-published Ambelin The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf Kwaymullina The Tribe #1 Walker Books Garth Nix A Confusion of Princes Allen & Unwin
winner Max Barry Lexicon Hachette
Andrew Macrae Trunksong Twelfth Planet Press A Wrong Turn at the Office of Unmade 2013 Jane Rawson Lists Transit Lounge finalists Graham Storrs True Path Timesplash #2 Momentum
Nike Sulway Rupetta Tartarus Press
Marianne de Peacemaker winner Pierres Angry Robot
Amanda Bridgeman Aurora: Meridian Momentum
LynC Nil by Mouth Satalyte 2014 finalists Nina D’Aleo The White List Momentum
Amie Kaufman & This Shattered World Meagan Spooner Allen & Unwin Graham Storrs Foresight Momentum best science fiction short story issue number publisher year award designation author story title publication title (if periodical) (if collection) winner Greg Egan ‘Luminous’ Asimov’s Sep-95
Stephen Dedman ‘From Whom All Blessings Flow’ Asimov’s Apr-95
1995 Greg Egan ‘Mr Volition’ Interzone #100 finalists New Legends Legend/Random Greg Egan ‘Wang’s Carpets’ House Sean Williams ‘A Map of the Mines of Barnath’ Eidolon #16 winner Leanne Frahm ‘Borderline’ Borderline MirrorDanse Simon Brown ‘The Mark of Thetis’ Eidolon #21
1996 Terry Dowling ‘The Ichneumon and the Dormeuse’ Interzone #106 finalists Terry Dowling ‘His Own, the Star Alphecca’ Eidolon #20
Geoffrey Maloney ‘The Embargo Traders’ Aurealis #16
Black Mist and winner Janeen Webb & ‘Niagara Falling’ Other Japanese DAW 1997 Jack Dann Futures
finalists Russell Blackford ‘Lucent Carbon’ Eidolon #25/26 Damien Broderick ‘Schrödinger’s Dog’ Eidolon #22/23
Greg Egan ‘Reasons to Be Cheerful’ Interzone #118 The Horns of Lucy Sussex ‘Merlusine’ Elfland Penguin/Roc Dreaming Down- HarperCollins/Voy winner David J Lake ‘The Truth About Weena’ Under ager
Stephen Dedman ‘Transit’ Asimov’s Mar-98
1998 Greg Egan ‘Oceanic’ Asimov’s Aug-98 finalists Dreaming Down- HarperCollins/Voy Rosaleen Love ‘Real Men’ Under ager Michael Pryor ‘Australian Visions’ Aurealis #20/21 winner Chris Lawson ‘Written in Blood’ Asimov’s Jun-99 Terry Dowling ‘The View in Nancy’s Window’ Interzone Sep-99 1999 Chris Lawson ‘Chinese Rooms’ Eidolon #28 finalists Kate Orman ‘The Bicycle Net’ Interzone Sep-99 Lucy Sussex ‘The Queen of Erewhon’ F&SF Sep-99
winner Damien Broderick ‘Infinite Monkey’ Eidolon #29/30
Adam Browne ‘Schrödinger’s Catamaran’ Orb #1
2000 Stephen Dedman ‘The Devotee’ Eidolon #29/30 finalists Margo Lanagan ‘White Time’ White Time Allen & Unwin Sean Williams ‘The Land Itself’ Eidolon #29/30 winner Adam Browne ‘The Weatherboard Spaceship’ Aurealis #27/28
Michael Barry ‘The Trojan Rocks’ Nor of Human... CSFG Publishing
F&SF Jun-01 2001 Jack Dann ‘The Diamond Pit’ finalists Jubilee HarperCollins/Voy ager Dirk Strasser ‘The Skerricks of Truth’ Aurealis #27/28 Lucy Sussex ‘Absolute Uncertainty’ F&SF Apr-01 winner Sean McMullen ‘Walk to the Full Moon’ F&SF Dec-02 Shane M Brown ‘Lucy Lucy’ Aurealis #29
2002 Shane M Brown ‘Late Returns’ Redsine #9 finalists ‘The Imperfect Instantaneous People Fantastic Fiction Geoffrey Maloney Mover’ Agog! Chris McMahon ‘Within Twilight’ Redsine #8 winner Brendan Duffy ‘Louder Echo’ Terrific Tales Agog!
Andromeda Stephen Dedman ‘Acquired Tastes’ Spaceways Inflight #9 Magazine
Sue Isle ‘Amy’s Stars’ Orb #5 finalists Martin Livings ‘Sigmund Freud and the Feral Freeway’ Terrific Tales Agog!
2003 Kaaron Warren ‘State of Oblivion’ Elsewhere CSFG Publishing
Glimpses Vision Writers Shane Brown ‘The Earth Equation’ Group
Glimpses Vision Writers Grace Dugan ‘The Wall’ Group honourable mentions Glimpses Vision Writers Trent Jamieson ‘Clockwork’ Group
Glimpses Vision Writers Cat Sparks ‘Cross the Nullabor to the Sea’ Group
winner Brendan Duffy ‘Come to Daddy’ Smashing Stories Agog!
Stephen Dedman ‘Desiree’ Oceans of the Mind #10
Tales from the 2004 Geoffrey Maloney ‘Bush of Ghosts’ Crypto-System Prime Books finalists Andromeda Barbara Robson ‘Absolution’ Spaceways Inflight #15 Magazine
Cat Sparks ‘Home by the Sea’ Orb #6 winner Trent Jamieson ‘Slow and Ache’ Aurealis #36
‘The Interminable Sufferings of Aurealis Rjurik Davidson Mysterious Mr Wu’ #33, 34, 35 Fables and Leanne Frahm ‘Skein Dogs’ Reflections #7 2005 finalists Andromeda Lyn Triffitt ‘The Memory of Breathing’ Spaceways Inflight #17 Magazine
Kim Westwood ‘Terning tha Weel’ Aurealis #36 highly commended Tess Williams ‘How Green Was Their Love’ Borderlands #4 Bulletin Summer winner Sean Williams ‘The Seventh Letter’ Reading Edition Lee Battersby ‘Dark Ages’ Through Soft Air Prime Books 2006 finalists David Conyers ‘Aftermath’ Ripping Reads Agog! Science Fiction Stephen Dedman ‘Down to the Tethys Sea’ Chronicle #266 winner Cat Sparks ‘Hollywood Roadkill’ On Spec #69 Fantastic Wonder Ticonderoga Simon Brown ‘Lonely as Life’ Stories Publications Penelope Love ‘Whitey’ Shadow Plays Elise Bunter
finalists Daikaiju! 2 – 2007 Chris McMahon ‘The Eyes of Erebus’ Revenge of the Agog! Press Giant Monsters Fantastic Wonder Ticonderoga Cat Sparks ‘Arctica’ Stories Publications Andromeda honourable mention Dirk Flinthart ‘Truckers’ Spaceways Inflight #30 Magazine
winner Simon Brown ‘The Empire’ Dreaming Again HarperVoyager The Workers’ Ticonderoga Nathan Burrage ‘Black and Bitter, Thanks’ Paradise Publications
2008 Trent Jamieson ‘Delivery’ Cosmos #21 finalists Margo Lanagan ‘The Fifth Star in the Southern Cross’ Dreaming Again HarperVoyager
Tansy Rayner 2012 Twelfth Planet Roberts ‘Fleshy’ Press winner Peter M Ball ‘Clockwork, Patchwork and Ravens’ Apex Magazine May-09
‘To Dream of Stars: An Astronomer’s Apex Magazine Peter M Ball Lament’ Oct-09
2009 Christopher Green ‘A Hundredth Name’ Abyss & Apex #31 finalists Greg Mellor ‘Defence of the Realm’ Cosmos #25
Mike Resnick & Asimov’s Lezli Robyn ‘Soulmates’ Sep-09 Subterranean winner K. J. Bishop ‘The Heart of a Mouse’ Online Winter 2010
The Company Articles of Edward Matthew Chrulew ‘The Angaelian Apocalypse’ Teacg/The Twelfth Planet Angaelian Press 2010 Apocalypse finalists Belong Ticonderoga Penelope Love ‘Border Crossing’ Publications Ian McHugh ‘Interloper’ Asimov’s Jan-11
Tansy Rayner Sprawl Twelfth Planet Roberts ‘Relentless Adaptions’ Press
Robert N. Anywhere but Earth 2011 winner Stephenson ‘Rains of la Strange’ Coeur de Lion Joanne Anderton ‘Flowers in the Shadow of the Garden’ Hope Kayelle Press
Robert Hood ‘Desert Madonna’ Anywhere but Earth Coeur de Lion finalists Penelope Love ‘SIBO’ Anywhere but Earth Coeur de Lion
Cat Sparks ‘Dead Low’ Midnight Echo #6
Cracklescape Twelfth Planet winner Margo Lanagan ‘Significant Dust’ Press
Review of James Bradley ‘Visitors’ Australian Fiction Volume 2, Issue 3 2012 Wild Chrome Ticonderoga finalists Greg Mellor ‘Beyond Winter’s Shadow’ Publications
Wild Chrome Ticonderoga Greg Mellor ‘The Trouble with Memes’ Publications Kaaron Warren ‘The Lighthouse Keepers’ Club’ Exotic Gothic 4 PD Publishing
The Lowest Heaven Pandemonium winner Kaaron Warren ‘Air, Water and the Grove’ Press Daily Science Joanne Anderton ‘The Last Tiger’ Fiction May 1st The Bone Chime Joanne Anderton ‘Mah Song’ Song and Other FabeCroft 2013 Stories Publishing finalists Asymmetry Twelfth pPanet Thoraiya Dyer ‘Seven Days in Paris’ Press Andromeda Lucy Stone ‘Version 4.3.0.1’ Spaceways Inflight #57 Magazine Vol CXXXIV nos 1&2 winner Thoraiya Dyer Wine, Women and Stars' Analog Jan/Feb
Review of Deborah Biancotti The Executioner Goes Home' Australian Fiction Vol 11, Issue 6 2014 Jason Fisher The Glorious Aerybeth' OnSpec 11-Sep-14 finalists Use Only as Peggy Bright Charlotte Nash Dellinger' Directed Books Twelfth Planet Garth Nix Happy Go Lucky' Kaleidoscope Press best fantasy novel year award designation author title series publisher
winner Garth Nix Sabriel The Old Kingdom HarperCollins 1995 #1 Australia/Moonstone finalists David Brooks The House of Balthus Allen & Unwin Sara Douglass Battle-Axe Axis Trilogy #1 HarperCollins/Voyager Paul Kidd Mus of Kerbridge TSR Tony Shillitoe The Last Wizard Pan Macmillan Jack Dann The Memory Cathedral Bantam joint winners Sara Douglass Enchanter Axis Trilogy #2 HarperCollins/Voyager Sara Douglass Starman Axis Trilogy #3 HarperCollins/Voyager
1996 The Price of Wisdom The Chronicles of Shannah Jay Tenebrak #4 Pan Macmillan Geoffrey Cairo Jim and the Alabastron of Hachette Children’s Books finalists McSkimming Forgotten Gods Australia
Equinox Books of Ascension Dirk Strasser #2 Pan Macmillan winner Kim Wilkins The Infernal Random House
Isobelle Carmody Darkfall The Legendsong #1 Penguin
1997 Sara Douglass Sinner The Wayfarer HarperCollins/Voyager finalists Redemption #1 Dragonclaw The Witches of Kate Forsyth Eileanan #1 Random House Lucy Sussex Black Ice Hodder Headline
Dave Luckett A Dark Winter Tenabran Trilogy #1 Omnibus joint winners Fire Angels The Chronicles of Jane Routley Dion #2 Avon Eos
1998 Pilgrim The Wayfarer Sara Douglass Redemption #2 HarperCollins/Voyager
finalists A Shadow on the Glass The View from the Ian Irvine Mirror #1 Penguin Sophie Masson Cold Iron Hodder
Aramaya The Chronicles of winner Jane Routley Dion #3 Avon Eos
Crusader The Wayfarer Sara Douglass Redemption #3 HarperCollins/Voyager
1999 Kate Forsyth The Cursed Towers The Witches of Random House finalists Eileanan #3 A Dark Journey/A Dark Victory Tenabran Trilogy Dave Luckett #2-3 Omnibus Juliet Marillier Daughter of the Forest Sevenwaters #1 Pan Macmillan winner Juliet Marillier Son of the Shadows Sevenwaters #2 Pan Macmillan 2000 Sara Douglass The Nameless Day The Crucible #1 HarperCollins/Voyager finalists Anthony Eaton The Darkness UQP Jennifer Fallon Medalon Demon Child #1 HarperCollins/Voyager
Hoa Pham Vixen Hodder Headline/Sceptre
winner Sara Douglass The Wounded Hawk The Crucible #2 HarperCollins/Voyager Juliet Marillier Child of the Prophecy Sevenwaters #3 Pan Macmillan
2001 Garth Nix Lirael The Old Kingdom Allen & Unwin finalists #2 Cameron Rogers The Music of Razors Penguin Sean Williams The Stone Mage and the Sea The Change #1 HarperCollins/Voyager winner Sean Williams The Storm Weaver and the Sand The Change #3 HarperCollins/Voyager
The Novice The Black Magician Trudi Canavan Trilogy #2 HarperCollins/Voyager
Alison Croggon The Gift Pellinor #1 Penguin 2002 finalists Sara Douglass Hades’ Daughter The Troy Game #1 HarperCollins/Voyager
Sara Douglass The Crippled Angel The Crucible #3 HarperCollins/Voyager
Blood Ashuak Chronicles Tony Shillitoe #1 HarperCollins/Voyager
Abhorsen The Old Kingdom winner Garth Nix #3 Allen & Unwin K. J. Bishop The Etched City Prime Books
Grass for His Pillow Tales of the Otori Lian Hearn #2 Hodder finalists The Aware The Isles of Glory 2003 Glenda Larke #1 HarperCollins/Voyager
Voyage of the Shadowmoon Moonworlds Saga Sean McMullen #1 Tor
Ian Irvine Scrutator Well of Echoes #3 Penguin/Viking honourable mentions Anthony O’Neil Lamplighter HarperCollins
The Crooked Letter Books of the winner Sean Williams Cataclysm #1 HarperCollins/Voyager
Brilliance of the Moon Tales of the Otori Lian Hearn #3 Hodder 2004 Glenda Larke Tainted The Isles of Glory HarperCollins/Voyager finalists #3 Sophie Masson Snow, Fire, Sword El Jisal #1 Random House Kim Wilkins Giants of the Frost HarperCollins/Voyager
Blade of Fortriu The Bridei 2005 winner Juliet Marillier Chronicles #2 Pan Macmillan Australia Sara Douglass Darkwitch Rising The Troy Game #3 HarperCollins/Voyager
Anthony Eaton Nightpeople Darklands #1 UQP finalists Sonya Hartnett Surrender Penguin
The Innocent Mage Kingmaker, Karen Miller Kingbreake #I HarperCollins/Voyager
Priestess of the White The Age of Five highly commended Trudi Canavan Trilogy # I HarperCollins/Voyager winner Juliet Marillier Wildwood Dancing Wildwood #1 Pan Macmillan Grace Dugan The Silver Road Penguin
Glenda Larke Heart of the Mirage Mirage Makers #1 HarperCollins/Voyager finalists Voidfarer Moonworlds Saga 2006 Sean McMullen #3 Tor
Blaze of Glory The Laws of Magic Michael Pryor #1 Random House Kylie Chan White Tiger Dark Heavens #1 HarperCollins/Voyager honourable mentions The Harsh Cry of the Heron Tales of the Otori Lian Hearn #4 Hachette Livre
Heaven’s Net is Wide Tales of the Otori winner Lian Hearn #0 Hachette
Jennifer Fallon The Gods of Amyrantha The Tide Lords #2 HarperCollins/Voyager
The Moving Water Rihannar Sylvia Kelso Chronicles #2 Thomson Gale finalists 2007 Song of the Shiver Barrens The Mirage Makers Glenda Larke #3 HarperCollins/Voyager
Heart of Gold The Laws of Magic Michael Pryor #2 Random House
Pamela Freeman Blood Ties Castings Trilogy #1 Hachette Australia honourable mentions Karen Miller Empress of Mijak Godspeaker #1 HarperCollins/Voyager winner Alison Goodman The Two Pearls of Wisdom Eon #1 HarperCollins Sylvia Kelso Amberlight Riverworld #1 Juno Books 2008 Margo Lanagan Tender Morsels Allen & Unwin finalists Juliet Marillier Heir to Sevenwaters Sevenwaters #4 Macmillan Australia Karen Miller The Riven Kingdom Godspeaker #2 HarperVoyager
The Magician’s Apprentice The Black Magician winner Trudi Canavan Trilogy #0.5 Orbit 2009 Peter M. Ball Horn Twelfth Planet Press finalists Glenda Larke The Last Stormlord Watergivers #1 HarperVoyager K. E. Mills Witches Incorporated Rogue Agent #2 HarperVoyager
K. J. Taylor The Dark Griffin The Fallon Moon #1 HarperVoyager
Tansy Rayner Power and Majesty winner Roberts Creature Court #1 HarperVoyager Andrea K. Höst The Silence of Medair Medair #1 Self-published
2010 Trent Jamieson Death Most Definite Death Works Orbit finalists Trilogy #1 Glenda Larke Stormlord Rising Watergivers #2 HarperVoyager Juliet Marillier Heart’s Blood Pan Macmillan winner Pamela Freeman Ember and Ash Hachette Jennifer Fallon The Undivided Rift Runners #1 HarperVoyager Glenda Larke Stormlord’s Exile Watergivers #3 HarperVoyager 2011 finalists Debris The Veiled Worlds Jo Anderton #1 Angry Robot
Tansy Rayner The Shattered City Roberts Creature Court #2 HarperVoyager winner Margo Lanagan Sea Hearts Allen & Unwin Kate Forsyth Bitter Greens Random House
2012 Jay Kristoff Stormdancer The Lotus War #1 Tor UK finalists Juliet Marillier Flame of Sevenwaters Sevenwaters #6 Pan Macmillan
Winter Be My Shield Children of the Jo Spurrier Black Sun #1 HarperVoyager
A Crucible of Souls Sorcery Ascendant winner Mitchell Hogan Sequence #1 Self-published
Max Barry Lexicon Hachette
2013 Amie Kaufman & These Broken Stars Meagan Spooner Starbound #1 Allen & Unwin finalists Newt’s Emerald Jill Grinberg Literary Garth Nix Management
Tansy Rayner Ink Black Magic Mocklore Roberts Chronicles #3 FableCroft Publishing winner Juliet Marillier Dreamer's Pool Hachette Australia Keri Arthur Fireborn Allen & Unwin
2014 Amie Kaufman & This Shattered World Hachette Australia finalists Meagan Spooner Glenda Larke The Lascar's Dagger Pan Macmillan Scott Westerfeld Afterworlds Penguin Books Daughters of the Storm Harlequin Enterprises Kim Wilkins Australia best fantasy short story issue number publisher year award designation author story title publication title (if periodical) (if collection) winner Karen Attard ‘Harvest Bay’ Eidolon #19 Petrina Smith ‘Angel Thing’ She’s Fantastical Sybylla
1995 John T Stolarczyk ‘Sail On, Sail On’ Aurealis #15 finalists Kaaron Warren ‘The Blue Stream’ Aurealis #14
Andrew Whitmore ‘On the Other Side of Paradise’ Eidolon #17/18
winner Russell Blackford ‘The Sword of God’ Dream Weavers Penguin Green Monkey Isobelle Carmody ‘Green Monkey Dreams’ Dreams Penguin/Viking 1996 Matthew Condon ‘Tattoo’ Original Sin UQP finalists Sara Douglass ‘Of Fingers and Foreskins’ Eidolon #21 Letters to Tim Richards ‘Our Swimmer’ Francesca Allen & Unwin The Horns of winner Lucy Sussex ‘Merlusine’ Elfland Penguin/Roc Chris Gregory ‘Jackie Chan’ Twins Penguin
Influence: Le Hang ‘The River of Dreams’ Australian Voices Anchor 1997 finalists Jodie Kewley ‘Nicholas Afalling’ Eidolon #24
Enter: HQ/Flamingo Janeen Webb ‘Death at the Blue Elephant’ Short Story HarperCollins Collection Australia
Dreaming Down- HarperCollins/Voy winner Stephen Dedman ‘A Walk-On Part in the War’ Under ager Dreaming Down- HarperCollins/Voy Kerry Greenwood ‘Jetsam’ Under ager Dreaming Down- Sean McMullen ‘Queen of Soulmates’ HarperCollins/Voy 1998 Under ager finalists Dreaming Down- HarperCollins/Voy Jane Routley ‘To Avalon’ Under ager HarperCollins Keith Taylor ‘The Bath House’ Fantastic Worlds Australia/Moonston e
1999 winner Trudi Canavan ‘Whispers of the Mist Children’ Aurealis #23 Adam Browne ‘Orlando’s Third Trance’ HQ Dec-99 Lisa Jacobson ‘The Language of Trees’ HQ Apr-99 finalists Lucy Sussex ‘The Queen of Erewhon’ F&SF Sep-99
HQ January 2000/released Janeen Webb ‘Incident on Wolfe St’ December 1999 ‘The World According to Kipling winner Geoffrey Maloney Aurealis #25/26 (A Plain Tale from the Hills)’
Mystery, Magic, Louise Cusack ‘Goddess and the Geek’ Voodoo & The Holy HarperCollins/Voy 2000 Grail ager
finalists Chris Kenworthy ‘The Fruits of Habit’ Altair #6/7 Margo Lanagan ‘The Boy Who Didn’t Yearn’ White Time Allen & Unwin Kaaron Warren ‘The Left Behind’ Orb #1 winner Sue Isle ‘The Woman of Endor’ Orb #2
Jubilee HarperCollins/Voy Jack Dann ‘The Diamond Pit’ ager 2001 Terry Dowling ‘The Lagan Fishers’ Scifi.com finalists Matthew Farrer ‘Tales from the True Desert’ Nor of Human... CSFG Publishing
Kaaron Warren ‘The Speaker of Heaven’ Orb #2 2002 NO AWARD
Southern Blood – New Australian Sandglass winner Lucy Sussex ‘La Sentinelle’ Tales of the Enterprises Supernatural
Fables and Lily Chrywenstrom ‘Tireki and the Wind’ Reflections #4
2003 Shelf Life: Fantastic finalists Marianne de ‘In the Bookshadow’ Stories Celebrating Dreamhaven Pierres Bookstores Books
Garth Nix ‘Hope Chest’ Firebirds Penguin Brendan Duffy ‘Louder Echo’ Terrific Tales Agog! honourable mentions Tracey Rolfe ‘Storm in a Chandelier’ Terrific Tales Agog! Richard Harland ‘Catabolic Magic’ Aurealis #32 joint winners Louise Katz ‘Weavers of Twilight’ Smashing Stories Agog! 2004 Lee Battersby ‘Tales of Nireym’ Orb #6 finalists K J Bishop ‘Alsisio’ The Alsisio Project Paul Haines ‘The Gift of Hindsight’ Aurealis #32 highly commended Trudi Canavan ‘A Room for Improvement’ Forever Shores Wakefield Press
The Travelling Tide Aqueduct Press Rosaleen Love ‘Once Giants Roamed the Earth’ Daikaiju! Giant joint winners Monster Tales Agog! Daikaiju! Giant Richard Harland ‘The Greater Death of Saito Saku’ Monster Tales Agog!
2005 Lenox Avenue Ezine Adam Browne ‘Heart of Saturday Night’
Andromeda Dirk Flinthart ‘The Red Priest’s Homecoming’ Spaceways Inflight #17 Magazine
winner Margo Lanagan ‘A Fine Magic’ Eidolon I Eidolon Books Lee Battersby ‘Dark Ages’ Through Soft Air Prime Books
Stephanie Campisi ‘Why the Balloon Man Floats Away’ Fantasy Magazine #4 finalists 2006 Lucy Sussex ‘The Revenant’ Eidolon I Eidolon Books Anna Tambour ‘See Here, See There’ Ripping Reads Agog!
Lily Chrywenstrom ‘Ghosts of 1930’ Borderlands #6 honourable mentions Carol Ryles ‘The Bridal Bier’ Eidolon I Eidolon Books ‘Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz Go To War Jim Baen’s winner Garth Nix Again’ Universe Apr-07
R J Astruc ‘The Perfume Eater’ Strange Horizons #16
Orb Speculative 2007 Adam Browne ‘An Account of an Experiment by Adam #7 finalists Browne’ Fiction Angela Slatter ‘The Angel Wood’ Shimmer Nov-06 Orb Speculative Cat Sparks ‘A Lady of Adestan’ Fiction #7 winner Cat Sparks ‘Sammarynda Deep’ Paper Cities Senses 5 Press
Andromeda Thoraiya Dyer ‘Night Heron’s Curse’ Spaceways Inflight #37 Magazine 2008 finalists Andromeda Karen Maric ‘The Last Deflowerer’ Spaceways Inflight #32 Magazine
Angela Slatter ‘Dresses Three’ Shimmer Vol 2 #4 Kim Westwood ‘Nightship’ Dreaming Again HarperVoyager Beneath Ceaseless Christopher Green ‘Father’s Kill’ Skies #24 joint winners Andromeda Ian McHugh ‘Once a Month, On a Sunday’ Spaceways Inflight #40 Magazine 2009 Tansy Rayner Roadkill/Siren Beat Twelfth Planet Roberts ‘Siren Beat’ Press finalists Angela Slatter ‘Words’ The Lifted Brow #5 Lucy Sussex ‘Something Better than Death’ Aurealis #42
Lisa L. Hannett & Scary Kisses Ticonderoga Angela Slatter ‘The February Drgaon’ Publications joint winners Sprawl Twelfth Planet Thoraiya Dyer ‘Yowie’ Press
Elizabeth Carroll ‘The Duke of Vertumn’s Fingerling’ Strange Horizons 2010
Macabre: A Journey finalists Andrew McKiernan ‘All the Clowns in Clowntown’ Through Australia’s Brimstone Press Darkest Fears
Angela Slatter ‘Sister, Sister’ Strange Tales III Tartarus Press
After the Rain FableCroft winner Thoraiya Dyer ‘Fruit of the Pipal Tree’ Publications
Margo Lanagan ‘The Proving of Smollett Standforth’ Ghosts by Gaslight HarperVoyager
2011 Margo Lanagan ‘Into the Clouds on High’ Yellowcake Allen & Unwin finalists Anthony Panegyres ‘Reading Coffee’ Overland 204 Spring 2011
More Scary Kisses Ticonderoga D. C. White ‘The Dark Night of Anton Weiss’ Publications
Cracklescape Twelfth Planet winner Margo Lanagan ‘Bajazzle’ Press
Bloodstones Ticonderoga Joanne Anderton ‘Sanaa’s Army’ Publications
Isobelle Carmody ‘The Stone Witch’ Under My Hat Random House 2012 finalists Andromeda Deborah Kalin ‘First They Came’ Spaceways Inflight 55 Magazine
Cracklescape Twelfth Planet Margo Lanagan The Isles of the Sun’ Press
winner Jay Kristoff ‘The Last Stormdancer’ Thomas Dunne 2013 Books finalists Tracie McBride ‘The Tough of the Taniwha’ Fish Dagan Books Beneath Ceaseless Ian McHugh ‘Cold, Cold War’ Skies Scott H. Andrews Oomph: A Little Kirstie Olley ‘Short Circuit’ Super Goes a Long Crossed Genres Way The Year of Ancient Ticonderoga Kim Wilkins ‘The Year of Ancient Ghosts’ Ghosts Publications The Review of winner Angela Slatter St Dymphna's School for Poison Girls' Australian Fiction Volume 9, Issue 3 Thoraiya Dyer The Oud' Long Hidden Crossed Genres 2014 Deborah Kalin Teratogen' Cemetery Dance #71, May 2014 finalists FableCroft Charlotte Nash The Ghost of Hephaestus' Phantazein Publications Angela Slatter The Badger Bride' Strange Tales IV Tartarus Press best horror novel year award designation author title series publisher winner Terry Dowling An Intimate Knowledge of the Night Aphelion Venero Armanno My Beautiful Friend Arrow/Random House 1995 David Brooks The House of Balthus Allen & Unwin finalists Carmel Bird The White Garden UQP Justine Ettler The River Ophelia Pan Macmillan/Picador 1996 NO AWARD winner Kim Wilkins The Infernal Random House
The Art of Arrow Cutting The Art of Arrow Stephen Dedman Curtting #1 Tor 1997 finalists The Dark Edge The Eddon + Vail Richard Harland #1 Pan Macmillan Emma Tom Deadset Random House 1998 NO AWARD winner Christine Harris Foreign Devils Random House Victor Kelleher Into the Dark Penguin/Viking 1999 finalists Victor Kelleher The Ivory Trail Penguin/Viking P. Scott-Bernard Deadly Sister Love HarperCollins winner Kim Wilkins The Resurrectionists HarperCollins/Voyager 2000 finalist Terry Dowling Blackwater Days Eidolon Publications winner Kim Wilkins Angel of Ruin HarperCollins/Voyager 2001 finalist Cameron Rogers The Music of Razors Penguin winner A. L. McCann The White Body of Evening HarperCollins/Flamingo
Shadows Bite The Art of Arrow Stephen Dedman Curtting #2 Tor 2002 finalists Alison Croggon The Gift Pellinor #1 Penguin
Daughter of the Dark Shadow Through Louise Cusack Time #2 Simon & Schuster winner Victor Kelleher Born of the Sea Penguin/Viking 2003 Anthony O’Neill The Lamplighter HarperCollins finalists Kim Wilkins The Autumn Castle Europa Suite #1 HarperCollins/Voyager winner Richard Harland The Black Crusade Chimaera Publications
2004 Josephine Fire in the Shell Circle of Nine #3 Simon & Schuster finalists Pennicott Kim Wilkins Giants of the Frost HarperCollins/Voyager NO AWARD 2005 Nine Letters Long The Red Cardigan highly commended J. C. Burke #2 Random House Australia Will Elliott The Pilo Family Circus ABC Books joint winners Edwina Grey Prismatic Lothian 2006 Martin Livings Carnies Lothian finalists Brett McBean The Mother Lothian winner Susan Parisi Blood of Dreams Penguin/Viking
Dangerous Games Riley Jenson Keri Arthur Guardian #4 Piatkus/Hachette Livre 2007 honourable mentions David Conyers & The Spiraling Worm John Sunseri Chaosium Jason Nahrung The Darkness Within Hachette Livre winner John Harwood The Séance Jonathan Cape 2008 Jack Dann The Economy of Light PS Publishing finalists Nick Gadd Ghostlines Scribe Publications winner Honey Brown Red Queen Penguin Australia Peter M. Ball Horn Twelfth Planet Press
2009 Stephen M. Irwin The Dead Path Hachette Australia finalists Night’s Cold Kiss HarperCollins Publishers Tracey O’Hara Dark Brethren #1 Australia Kaaron Warren Slights Angry Robot Books
winner Kirstyn McDermott Madigan Mine Pan Macmillan 2010 finalists Jason Fischer After the World: Gravesend Black House Comics Death Most Definite Death Works Trent Jamieson Trilogy #1 Orbit NO AWARD
2011 Stephen M. Irwin The Broken Ones Hachette honourable mentions Death Works Trent Jamieson The Business of Death Trilogy #3 Hachette
winner Kirstyn McDermott Perfections Xoum
finalists Jason Franks Bloody Waters Possible Press 2012 Jason Nahrung Blood and Dust Xoum Jason Nahrung Salvage Twelfth Planet Press winner Allyse Near Fairytales for Wilde Girls Random House
Lee Battersby The Marching Dead Marius don Angry Robot 2013 Hellespont #2 finalists Greig Beck The First Bird The First Bird #1 Momentum Dirk Flinthart Path of Night FableCroft Publishing
winner Justine Larbalestier Razorhurst Allen & Unwin
2014 Greig Beck Book of the Dead Momentum finalists Alan Baxter Obsidian HarperVoyager best horror short story issue number publisher year award designation author story title publication title (if periodical) (if collection) winner Francis Payne ‘Olympia’ Olympia Bambada Press The Man Who Lost Terry Dowling ‘Scaring the Train’ Red MirrorDanse 1995 Leanne Frahm ‘Entropy’ She’s Fantastical Sybylla finalists Philip Nielsen ‘Rock and Roll Has to Die’ Dark House Mammoth/Reed Kaaron Warren ‘Skin Holes’ Strange Fruit Penguin winner Sean Williams ‘Passing the Bone’ Eidolon #20
Stephen Dedman ‘Never Seen by Waking Eyes’ F&SF Aug-96
1996 Terry Dowling ‘Beckoning Nightframe’ Eidolon #22/23 finalists Patricia Bloodsongs MacCormack ‘The Bloom of Decay’ #7 Kaaron Warren ‘The Hanging People’ Bloodsongs #7 1997 winner Terry Dowling ‘Jenny Come Play’ Eidolon #25/26 Bill Congreve ‘The Mullet That Screwed John West’ Epiphanies of Blood MirrorDanse
finalists J M Earle ‘Ten Minutes of Midnight’ Aurealis #18 Sean Williams ‘The Freezing of Sarah’ Bloodsongs #9 winner Kaaron Warren ‘A Positive’ Bloodsongs #10 Dreaming Down- HarperCollins/Voy Paul Brandon ‘The Marsh Runners’ Under ager HarperCollins 1998 Glyn Parry ‘Dawn Chorus’ Fantastic Worlds Australia/Moonston finalists e Dreaming Down- HarperCollins/Voy Aaron Sterns ‘The Third Rail’ Under ager Kaaron Warren ‘The Glass Woman’ Aurealis #22 Sean Williams & New Adventures in winner Simon Brown ‘Atrax’ Sci-Fi Ticonderoga Allan Baillie ‘The Mouth’ SpinOuts Longman
1999 Stephen Dedman ‘Honest Ghosts’ www.gothic.net Jul-99 finalists Kain Massin ‘Escape From Stalingrad’ Harbinger #4
Alison Venugoban ‘Funeral Rights’ Harbinger #3
winner Deborah Biancotti ‘The First and Final Game’ Altair #6/7
Jack Dann ‘Marilyn’ Eidolon #29/30
2000 Stephen Dedman ‘A Sentiment Open to Doubt’ Ticonderoga Online May-00 finalists Tales from the Robert Hood ‘That Old Black Graffiti’ Wasteland Hodder Michael Pryor ‘Sewercide’ Aurealis #25/26 winner Simon Haynes ‘Sleight of Hand’ Potato Monkey #1
Stephen Dedman ‘Probable Cause’ Orb #2
Robert Hood ‘Rotten Times’ Aurealis #27/28 finalists Rick Kennett & Paul ‘Whispers’ Stalking Midnight Cosmos Books 2001 Collins Alison Venugoban ‘Happy Birthday to Me’ Nor of Human... CSFG Publishing
Kirsten McDermot ‘Smile for Me’ Redsine #6 honourable mentions Stephen Dedman ‘Ravens’ Interzone #164
2002 winner Kim Westwood ‘Oracle’ Redsine #9 Chris McMahon ‘Within Twilight’ Redsine #8 Fables and finalists Claire McKenna ‘What The Tide Brings’ Reflections #2
Stephen Dedman ‘Wastelands’ Fantastic Fiction Agog!
Robert Hood ‘# 7’ Immaterial MirrorDanse honourable mentions Deborah Biancotti ‘Silicon Cast’ Redsine #7
Gathering the HarperCollins winner Simon Brown ‘Love is a Stone’ Bones Australia Gathering the HarperCollins Stephen Dedman ‘The Wind Shall Blow For Ever Mair’ Bones Australia 2003 Sue Isle ‘Amy’s Stars’ Orb #5 finalists Kyla Ward ‘Kijin Tea’ Terrific Tales Agog! Gathering the HarperCollins Janeen Webb ‘Blake’s Angel’ Bones Australia winner Paul Haines ‘The Last Days of Kali Yuga’ NFG #14 Conqueror Stephen Dedman ‘Twilight of the Idols’ Fantastic DAW
Richard Harland ‘The Border’ Smashing Stories Agog! 2004 finalists ‘Dr Who (or the day I learned to love Tom Forever Shores Ben Peek Baker)’ Wakefield Press Alinta Thornton ‘Kathleen, Furnished with Bees’ Dark Animus #5
highly commended Paul Haines ‘They Say It’s Other People’ Smashing Stories Agog!
winner Lee Battersby ‘Pater Familias’ Shadowed Realms #3
James Cain ‘The Ride’ Dark Krypt May/June 2005 Paul Haines ‘Doof, Doof, Doof’ Dark Animus #7 finalists Chuck McKenzie ‘Eight-Beat Bar’ Aurealis #33, 34, 35
Cat Sparks ‘Macciato Lane’ Ticonderoga Online #5 2005 Peter Barber ‘Dust’ Aurealis #33, 34, 35
Shane Jiraiya Simulacrum Cummings ‘Revision Is Murder’ #11 highly commended Greg Guerin ‘The Deviation Road’ Borderlands #4 Paul Haines ‘The Light in Autumn’s Leaves’ Borderlands #5
Martin Livings ‘In Nomine Patris’ Shadowed Realms #5
2006 winner Stephen Dedman ‘Dead of Winter’ Weird Tales #339 Margo Lanagan ‘Winkie’ Red Spikes Allen & Unwin Chris Lawson ‘Hieronymous Boche’ Eidolon I Eidolon Books finalists Kaaron Warren ‘Dead Sea Fruit’ Fantasy Magazine #4
Kaaron Warren ‘Woman Train’ The Outcast CSFG Publishing
Jacinta Butterworth ‘Love Affair’ C0ck Coeur de Lion
Dirk Flinthart ‘One Night Stand’ Ripping Reads Agog! honourable mentions Margo Lanagan ‘Under Hell, Over Heaven’ Red Spikes Allen & Unwin
A M Muffaz ‘Mosquito Story’ Fantasy Magazine #4
winner Anna Tambour ‘The Jeweller of Second-Hand Roe’ Subterranean #7 Terry Dowling ‘Toother’ Eclipse #1 At Ease with the Richard Harland ‘Special Perceptions’ Dead Ash-Tree Press finalists Andromeda Rick Kennett ‘The Dark and What It Said’ Spaceways Inflight #28 Magazine 2007 Ben Peek ‘Black Betty’ Lone Star Stories #23
Margo Lanagan ‘She-Creatures’ Eclipse #1 Fantastic Wonder Ticonderoga honourable mentions Martin Livings ‘There was Darkness’ Stories Publications
Miranda Island Siemienowicz ‘Lion’s Breath’ #108
Greatest winner Kirstyn McDermott ‘Painlessness’ Uncommon #2 Denominator (GUD)
Lee Battersby ‘In From the Snow’ Dreaming Again HarperVoyager
Deborah Biancotti ‘Pale Dark Soldier’ Midnight Echo #1
2008 Trent Jamieson ‘Day Boy’ Murky Depths #4
finalists Greatest Kirstyn McDermott ‘Painlessness’ Uncommon #2 Denominator (GUD)
L Ron Hubbard Ian McHugh ‘Bitter Dreams’ Presents Writers of Vol XXIV Galaxy Press the Future
X6 Coeur de Lion 2009 joint winners Paul Haines ‘Wives’ Publishing Paul Haines ‘Slice of Life – A Spot of Liver’ Slice of Life The Mayne Press
Andromeda Felicity Dowker ‘Jesse’s Gift’ Spaceways Inflight #40 Magazine
finalists Christopher Green ‘Having Faith’ Nossa Morte Feb-09
Andrew J Midnight Echoes Australian Horror McKiernan ‘The Message’ Writers Association
Macabre: A Journey winner Richard Harland ‘The Fear’ Through Australia’s Brimstone Press Darkest Fears
Bob Franklin ‘Take the Free Tour’ Under Stones Affirm Press
2010 Sprawl Twelfth Planet Paul Haines ‘Her Gallant Needs’ Press
finalists Zombie Apocalypse Constable & Robert Hood ‘Wasting Matilda’ Robinson Ltd
Close Encounters Martin Livings ‘Lollo’ of the Urban Kind Apex Publishing
The Last Days of Paul Haines ‘The Past is a Bridge Best Left Burnt’ Kali Yuga Brimstone Press joint winners ‘The Short Go: a Future in Eight Bluegrass Ticonderoga Lisa L. Hannett Seconds’ Symphony Publications
‘And the Dead Shall Outnumber the Ishtar 2011 Deborah Biancotti Living’ Gilgamesh Press Blood and Other finalists Margo Lanagan ‘Mulburry Boys’ Cravings Tor
Angela Slatter ‘The Coffin Maker’s Daughter’ A Book of Horrors Quercus
Through Splintered Twelfth Planet winner Kaaron Warren ‘Sky’ Walls Press
Bloodstones Ticonderoga Joanne Anderton ‘Sanaa’s Army’ Publications
Review of 2012 Jodi Cleghorn ‘Elyora’ Rabbit Hole Special Issue finalists Australian Fiction
Bread and Circuses Ticonderoga Felicity Dowker ‘To Wish Upon a Clockwork Heart’ Publications Robert Hood ‘Escena de un Asesinato’ Exotic Gothic 4 PS Publishing The Year of Ancient Ticonderoga winner Kim Wilkins ‘The Year of Ancient Ghosts’ Ghosts Publications 2013 The Bone Chime finalists Joanne Anderton ‘Fencelines’ Song and Other FableCroft Stories Publishing Terry Dowling ‘The Sleepover’ Exotic Gothic 5 PS Publishing
Caution: Contains Twelfth Planet Kirstyn McDermott ‘The Home for Broken Dolls’ Small Parts Press
The Grimscribe’s Kaaron Warren ‘The Human Moth’ Puppets Miskatonic Press winner Angela Slatter Home and Hearth' Spectral Press Chizine
Review of Deborah Biancotti The Executioner Goes Home' Australian Fiction Vol 11, Issue 6
2014 James Bradley Skinsuit' Island Magazine 137 finalists Review of Kirstyn McDermott By the Moon's Good Grace' Australian Fiction Vol 12, Issue 3
Garth Nix Shay Corsham Worsted' Fearful Symmetries Chizine best anthology year award designation author title series publisher 1995-2007 NO AWARD
Jonathan Strahan The Starry Rift winner (editor) Viking Children’s Books
Bill Congreve & The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Fourth Annual 2008 Michelle Marquardt Science Fiction Volume MirrorDanse Books finalists (editors)
Jack Dann (editor) Dreaming Again HarperVoyager
Jonathan Strahan Eclipse 3 winner (editor) Night Shade Books
Alisa Krasnostein New Ceres Nights (editor) Twelfth Planet Press
Keith Stevenson X6 2009 (editor) Coeur de Lion Publishing finalists Jonathan Strahan Eclipse 2 (editor) Night Shade Books
Jonathan Strahan The New Space Opera 2 (editor) Harper Eos
Jonathan Strahan & Wings of Fire winner Marianne S. Jablon Night Shade Books 2010 Macabre: A Journey Through Australia’s Angela Challis & Dr Brimstone Press finalists Marty Young Darkest Fears Alisa Krasnostein Sprawl Twelfth Planet Press Amanda Pillar & Scenes from the Second Storey Pete Kempshall Morrigan Books
Jonathan Strahan Godlike Machines SF Book Club
Jack Dann and Nick Ghosts by Gaslight winner Gevers HarperVoyager Liz Grzyb and Talie The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Helene Horror 2010 Ticonderoga Publications
Amanda Pillar and Ishtar 2011 K. V. Taylor Gilgamesh Press finalists The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of Jonathan Strahan the Year Volume Five Night Shade Books
Jonathan Strahan Life on Mars Viking
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of winner Jonathan Strahan the Year Volume Six Night Shade Books Liz Grzyb and Talie The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Helene Horror 2011 Ticonderoga Publications 2012 Amanda Pillar Bloodstones Ticonderoga Publications finalists Jonathan Strahan Under My Hat Random House
Jonathan Strahan Edge of Infinity Solaris Books
Liz Grzyb & Talie The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Helene Horror 2012 Ticonderoga Publications joint winners One Small Step: An Anthology of Tehani Wessley Discoveries FableCroft Publishing 2013 Liz Grzyb Dreaming of Djinn Ticonderoga Publications The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of finalists Jonathan Strahan the Year Volume 7 Night Shade Books Focus 2012: Highlights of Australian Tehani Wessley Short Fiction FableCroft Publishing Alisa Krasnostein winner and Julia Rios Kaleidoscope Twelfth Planet Press
Liz Grzyb Kisses by Clockwork Ticonderoga Publications
Dominica Malcolm Amok: An Anthology of Asia-Pacific Spec Solarwyrm Press 2014 Fiction finalists Jonathan Strahan Reach for Infinity Solaris Books
Jonathan Strahan Fearsome Magics Solaris Books
Tehani Wessley Phantazein FableCroft Publishing best collection year award designation author title series publisher 1995-2007 NO AWARD
Sean Williams & winner Russell B Farr Magic Dirt: The Best of Sean Williams Ticonderoga Publications 2008 (editor)
finalist Robert Hood Creeping in Reptile Flesh Altair Australia Books winner Greg Egan (please note: the author declined to accept this Oceanic Gollancz award)
Deborah Biancotti & Alisa Krasnostein A Book of Endings Twelfth Planet Press (editor) 2009
finalists Paul Haines & Geoff Maloney Slice of Life The Mayne Press (editor)
Robbie Matthews & Donna Hanson Johnny Phillips Werewolf Detective Australian Speculative Fiction (editor)
winner Angela Slatter The Girl with No Hands Ticonderoga Publications Rjurik Davidson The Library of Forgotten Books PS Publishing 2010 finalists Angela Slatter Sourdough and Other Stories Tartarus Press Kaaron Warren Dead Sea Fruit Ticonderoga Publications winner Lisa L. Hannett Bluegrass Symphony Ticonderoga Publications
Deborah Biancotti Bad Power Twelfth Planet Press
2011 Paul Haines Last Days of Kali Yuga Brimstone Press finalists Sue Isle Nightsiders Twelfth Planet Press
Tansy Rayner Love and Romanpunk Roberts Twelfth Planet Press
winner K. J. Bishop That Book Your Mad Ancestor Wrote Self-published
Isobele Carmody Metro Winds Allen & Unwin
2012 Lisa L. Hannett & Midnight and Moonshine Ticonderoga Publications finalists Angela Slatter Martin Livings Living with the Dead Dark Prints Press Kaaron Warren Through Splintered Walls Twelfth Planet Press
winner Joanne Anderton The Bone Chime Song and Other Stories FableCroft Publishing
2013 Thoraiya Dyer Asymmetry Twelfth Planet Press finalists Kirstyn McDermott Caution: Contains Small Parts Twelfth Planet Press Cat Sparks The Bride Price Ticonderoga Publications Kim Wilkins The Year of Ancient Ghosts Ticonderoga Publications Lisa L. Hannett & winner Angela Slatter The Female Factory Twelfth Planet Press Rosaleen Love Secret Lives Twelfth Planet Press
Ian McHugh Angel Dust Ticonderoga Publications 2014 finalists Simon Petrie Difficult Second Album Peggy Bright Books The Bitterwood Bible and other Angela Slatter Recountings Tartarus Press
Angela Slatter Black-Winged Angels Ticonderoga Publications best illustrated book/graphic novel year award designation author title series publisher 1995-2007 NO AWARD winner Shaun Tan Tales from Outer Suburbia Allen & Unwin
Steve Hunt & David The Cloudchasers ABC Books 2008 Richardson finalists Colin Thompson The Floods Family Files Random House Australia Julie Watts The Art of Graeme Base Penguin/Viking
winner Nathan Jurevicius Scarygirl Allen & Unwin
Bruce Mutard The Silence Allen & Unwin 2009 Emily Rodda & Secrets of Deltora finalists Marc McBride Scholastic Australia Madeleine Rosca Hollow Fields Seven Seas Entertainment winner Justin Randall Changing Ways #1 Gestalt Publishing Nicki Greenberg Shakespeare’s Hamlet Allen & Unwin EEEK!: Weird Australian Tales of Jason Paulos et all Suspense Black House Comics 2010 finalists Jonathan Walker & Five Wounds Dan Hallett Allen & Unwin
Rocky Wood & Horrors: Great Stories of Fear and Their Glenn Chadbourne Creators McFarlane & Co
Mirranda Burton Hidden Black Pepper 2011 joint winners Tom Taylor & The Deep: Here be Dragons James Brouwer Gestalt Publishing Andrew Constant & Joh James & Nicola Torn Gestalt Publishing Scott, Emily Smith finalists Mozchops Salsa Invertebraxa Pecksniff Press
Christian Read & The Eldritch Kid: Whiskey and Hate Michael Maier Gestalt Publishing winner Pat Grant Blue Top Shelf Comix 2012 finalists Tim Molloy It Shines and Shakes and Laughs Milk Shadow Books Justin Randall Changing Ways #2 Gestalt Publishing Jackie Ryan Burger Force Self-published joint winners Tom Taylor & The Deep: The Vanishing Island James Brouwer #2 Gestalt Publishing
2013 Steve Carter & Savage Bitch Antoinette Rydyr Scar Studios finalists Tim Molloy Mr Unpronounceable Adventures Milk Shadow Books Shane W. Smith Peaceful Tomorrows #2 Zetabella Publishing Mr Unpronounceable and the Sect of winner Tim Molloy the Bleeding Eye Milk Shadow Books Jason Franks & Paul Abstruse Left Hand Path #1 Winter City Production 2014 Jase Harper Awkwood Milk Shadow Books finalists Monstrous Kathleen Jennings A Small Wild Magic Affections Candlewick Press Deeper Meanings Shane W. Smith The Game Publishing best young adult novel year award designation author title series publisher
Garth Nix Sabriel The Old Kingdom HarperCollins joint winners #1 Australia/Moonstone Brian Caswell Deucalion UQP 1995 Catherine Jinks Witch Bank Penguin/Puffin
finalists John Marsden A Killing Frost Tomorrow #3 Pan Macmillan Ashling Obernewtyn Isobelle Carmody Chronicles #3 Penguin/Viking Hillary Bell Mirror, Mirror Hodder Headline joint winners Kerry Greenwood The Broken Wheel HarperCollins 1996 Australia/Moonstone Sara Douglass Beyond the Hanging Wall HarperCollins/Voyager finalists Victor Kelleher Fire Dancer Parkland #3 Penguin Michael Pryor The Mask of Caliban Hodder Headline
Isobelle Carmody Greylands Penguin/Puffin joint winners Catherine Jinks Eye to Eye Penguin/Puffin
Patricia Bernard The Outcast Outcast #1 HarperCollins 1997 Australia/Moonstone
finalists Damien Broderick & Zones HarperCollins Rory Barnes Australia/Moonstone
Garth Nix Shade’s Children Allen & Unwin winner Alison Goodman Singing the Dogstar Blues HarperCollins
Rory Barnes Horsehead Boy Horsehead Boy #1 HarperCollins
1998 Melissa Killing Darcy UQP finalists Lucashenko Dave Luckett A Dark Winter Tenabran Trilogy #1 Omnibus
John Marsden The Night Is for Hunting Tomorrow #6 Pan Macmillan
winner Dave Luckett A Dark Victory Tenabran Trilogy #3 Omnibus
Rory Barnes Horsehead Man Horsehead Boy #2 HarperCollins
1999 Damien Broderick & Stuck in Fast Forward HarperCollins finalists Rory Barnes
Victor Kelleher The Ivory Trail Penguin/Viking Victor Kelleher Into the Dark Penguin/Viking winner Sonya Hartnett Thursday’s Child Penguin
Rory Barnes Horsehead Soup Horsehead Boy #3 HarperCollins
2000 Richard Harland Ferren and the Angel Penguin finalists Christine Harris Omega Random House Sophie Masson The Green Prince Hodder Headline
The Other Face of Janus Angus & winner Louise Katz Robertson/HarperCollins Anna Fienberg The Witch in the Lake Allen & Unwin
Lirael The Old Kingdom 2001 Garth Nix Trilogy #2 Allen & Unwin finalists Cameron Rogers The Music of Razors Penguin Books
Gillian Rubinstein Terra-Farma Galax-Arena #2 Penguin/Viking winner Sophie Masson The Hand of Glory Hodder Headline
Fireworks and Darkness Angus & Natalie Jane Prior Robertson/HarperCollins 2002 Mum, Me, the 19C Angus & finalists David McRobbie Roberston/HarperCollins
The Starthorn Tree The Starkin Crown Kate Forsyth #1 Pan Australia
Abhorsen The Old Kingdom Garth Nix Trilogy #3 Allen & Unwin joint winners 2003 Carole Wilkinson Dragon Keeper Dragon Keeper #1 Black Dog Books
The Silken Road to Samarkand The Sinbad finalist Janeen Webb Chronicles #2 HarperCollins winner Scott Westerfeld The Secret Hour Midnighters #1 HarperCollins/Eos Jackie French Flesh and Blood Outlands #3 HarperCollins 2004 finalists Penni Russon Undine Undine #1 Random House Matt Zurbo Hot Nights, Cool Dragons Allen & Unwin
winner Isobelle Carmody Alyzon Whitestarr Penguin
Anthony Eaton Nightpeople Darklands #1 UQP
Justine Larbalestier Magic or Madness Magic or Madness Penguin finalists #1 Scott Westerfeld Peeps Peeps #1 Penguin 2005 Scott Westerfeld Uglies Uglies #1 Simon & Schuster
Kerry Greenwood The Rat and the Raven Stormbringer #1 Lothian
highly commended Penni Russon Breathe Undine #2 Random House Australia
Scott Westerfeld Pretties Uglies #2 Simon & Schuster
Foundling Monster Blood winner D M Cornish Tattoo #1 Omnibus Amanda Holohan The King’s Fool Perry Brightfield ABC Books
2006 Justine Larbalestier Magic Lessons Magic or Madness Penguin finalists #2 Juliet Marillier Wildwood Dancing Wildwood #1 Pan Macmillan Scott Westerfeld The Last Days Peeps #2 Penguin winner Anthony Eaton Skyfall Darklands #2 UQP 2007 Kate Constable Taste of Lightning Allen & Unwin finalists Juliet Marillier Cybele’s Secret Wildwood #2 Pan Macmillan Heart of Gold The Laws of Magic Michael Pryor #2 Random House Scott Westerfeld Extras Uglies #4 Simon Pulse
Finnikin of the Rock Lumatere winner Melina Marchetta Chronicles #1 Penguin/Viking
The Stone Key Obernewtyn Isobelle Carmody Chronicles #5 Penguin/Viking
2008 David Cornish Lamplighter Monster Blood Omnibus Books finalists Tattoo #2 Alison Goodman The Two Pearls of Wisdom Eon #1 HarperCollins
Sean Williams The Changeling The Changeling #1 Angus & Robertson
winner Scott Westerfeld Leviathan Leviathan #1 Penguin Kate Forsyth The Puzzle Ring Pan Macmillan
2009 Cassandra Golds The Museum of Mary Child Puffin Books finalists Glenda Millard A Small Free Kiss in the Dark Allen & Unwin
The Scarecrow The Broken Land HarperCollins Publishers Sean Williams #3 Australia winner Karen Healey Guardian of the Dead Allen & Unwin
Ananda Braxton- Merrow Secrets of Carrick Smith #1 Black Dog Books 2010 Sonya Hartnett The Midnight Zoo Penguin finalists Doug MacLeod The Life of a Teenage Body-Snatcher Penguin
Scott Westerfeld Behemoth Leviathan #2 Penguin winner Penni Russon Only Ever Always Allen & Unwin Em Bailey Shift Hardie Grant Egmont
2011 Ananda Braxton- Tantony Secrets of Carrick Black Dog Books finalists Smith #2 Karen Healey The Shattering Allen & Unwin Meg Mundell Black Glass Scribe Publications Kaz Delaney Dead, Actually Allen & Unwin joint winners Margo Lanagan Sea Hearts Allen & Unwin
2012 Andrea K. Höst And All the Stars Self-published Ambelin The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf finalists Kwaymullina The Tribe #1 Walker Books Louis Nowra Into That Forest Allen & Unwin
Amie Kaufman & These Broken Stars Starbound #1 Allen & Unwin 2013 joint winners Meahan Spooner Allyse Near Fairytales for Wilde Girls Random House Tony Davies The Big Dry Harper Collins
finalists Andrea K. Höst Hunting Self-published The Sky so Heavy University of Queensland Claire Zorn Press winner Jaclyn Moriarty The Cracks in the Kingdom Pan Macmillan Australia Rebecca Lim The Astrologer's Daughter Text Publishing
Lynnette Lounsbury Afterworld Allen & Unwin 2014 finalists Garth Nix Clariel Allen & Unwin Nova Weetman The Haunting of Lily Frost UQP Scott Westerfeld Afterworlds Penguin Books best young adult short story issue number publisher year award designation author story title publication title (if periodical) (if collection) 1995 NO AWARD Green Monkey winner Isobelle Carmody ‘Green Monkey Dreams’ Dreams Penguin/Viking
Dave Luckett The Wizard and Me Omnibus
1996 James Moloney The Pipe Lothian finalists Annie’s Brother’s Gillian Rubenstein ‘B’ku, B’ku’ Suit Hyland House Keith Taylor ‘At the Edge of the Sea’ Dreamweavers Penguin The Twist in the winner Ruth Starke Tale Lothian The Peppercorn Sheryl Gardner Lothian 1997 Tree finalists Hanging by a Julie Ireland ‘Hanging by a Thread’ Thread and Other HarperCollins Stories
1998 NO AWARD 1999 NO AWARD winner Margo Lanagan ‘The Queen’s Notice’ White Time Allen & Unwin Tales from the Brian Caswell ‘Avalon’ Wasteland Hodder 2000 Margo Lanagan ‘The Boy Who Didn’t Yearn’ White Time Allen & Unwin finalists Margo Lanagan ‘Midsummer Mission’ White Time Allen & Unwin Margo Lanagan ‘White Time’ White Time Allen & Unwin winner Isobelle Carmody Dreamwalker Lothian 2001 Love & Sex: Ten finalist Garth Nix ‘Lightning Bringer’ Stories of Truth Simon & Schuster 2002 NO AWARD 2003 NO AWARD winner Margo Lanagan ‘Singing My Sister Down’ Black Juice Allen & Unwin
Encounters: An Anthology of Chris Barnes ‘The Glass Flower’ Australian CSFG Publishing 2004 Speculative Fiction finalists
Bill Congreve ‘The Shooter at Heartrock Waterhole’ The Faery Reel Penguin/Viking
Margo Lanagan ‘Rite of Spring’ Black Juice Allen & Unwin
Across the Wall: ‘Nicholas Sayre and the Creature in the Tales of the Old winner Garth Nix Case’ Kingdom and Allen & Unwin Elsewhere 2005 Andromeda finalist Dirk Flinthart ‘The Red Priest’s Homecoming’ Spaceways Inflight #17 Magazine
winner Shaun Tan The Arrival Lothian
Deborah Biancotti ‘The Dying Light’ Eidolon I Eidolon Books
Simon Brown ‘Leviathan’ Eidolon I Eidolon Books 2006 finalists Margo Lanagan ‘A Feather in the Breast of God’ Red Spikes Allen & Unwin Margo Lanagan ‘Baby Jane’ Red Spikes Allen & Unwin Margo Lanagan ‘Forever Upward’ Red Spikes Allen & Unwin Fantastic Wonder Ticonderoga winner Deborah Biancotti ‘A Scar for Leida’ Stories Publications Shane Jiraiya ‘Yamabushi Kaidan and the Smoke Fantastic Wonder Ticonderoga Cummings Dragon’ Stories Publications
2007 Garth Nix ‘Bad Luck, Trouble, Death and Vampire Eclipse #1 finalists Sex’ Garth Nix ‘Holly and Iron’ Dark Alchemy Allen & Unwin Fantastic Wonder Ticonderoga Tracey Rolfe ‘Cast Off’ Stories Publications winner Trent Jamieson ‘Cracks’ Shiny #2 2008 finalists Deborah Biancotti ‘The Tailor of Time’ Clockwork Phoenix Norilana Books Andromeda Dirk Flinthart ‘This Is Not My Story’ Spaceways Inflight #37 Magazine
Kevin MacLean ‘Eye of the Beholder’ Misspelled DAW Books winner Cat Sparks ‘Seventeen’ Masques CSFG
Andromeda Joanne Anderton ‘Dragon Bones’ Spaceways Inflight #39 Magazine
Shiny #5 Twelfth Planet 2009 Sue Isle ‘Paper Dragons’ Press finalists Andromeda Ian McHugh ‘Once A Month, On A Sunday’ Spaceways Inflight #40 Magazine
Tansy Rayner Shiny #5 Twelfth Planet Roberts ‘Like Us’ Press Zombies vs winner Margo Lanagan ‘A Thousand Flowers’ Unicorns Allen & Unwin
Worlds Next Door FableCroft Aiden Doyle ‘Inksucker’ Publishing
Dirk Flinthart ‘One Story, No Refunds’ Shiny #6 Twelfth Planet 2010 Press finalists Kaia Landelius & Tansy Rayner ‘Nine Times’ Worlds Next Door FableCroft Roberts Publishing
The Tangled Bank Tangled Bank Jen White ‘An Ordinary Boy’ Press
Nightsiders Twelfth Planet winner Sue Isle ‘Nation of the Night’ Press
Steampunk! An Anthology of Kathleen Jennings ‘Finishing School’ Fantastically Rich Candlewick Press and Strange Stories
2011 The Wicked Wood finalists Cate Kennedy ‘Seventy-Two Derwents’ – Tales from the Volume 2 Allen and Unwin Tower
The Wilful Eye – Martine Murray ‘One Window’ Tales from the Volume 1 Allen and Unwin Tower Tansy Rayner Love and Twelfth Planet Roberts ‘The Patrician’ Romanpunk Press winner Thoraiya Dyer ‘The Wisdom of the Ants’ Clarkesworld Dec-12
Trust Me Too Ford Street 2012 Justin D’Ath ‘Stilled Lifes x11’ Publishing finalists Trust Me Too Ford Street Jack Heath ‘Rats’ Publishing Andromeda Jack Nicholls ‘The Statues of Melbourne’ Spaceways Inflight #56 Magazine
Untitled Issue BusyBird Adrienne Tam ‘The Worry Man’ #5 Publishing
Prickle Moon Ticonderoga winner Juliet Marillier ‘By Bone-Light’ Publications The Bone Chime Song and Other FableCroft Joanne Anderton ‘Mah Song’ Publishing 2013 Stories finalists One Small Step FableCroft D. K. Mok ‘Morning Star’ Publishing The Year of Ancient Ticonderoga Kim Wilkins ‘The Year of Ancient Ghosts’ Ghosts Publications Twelfth Planet winner Dirk Flinthart Vanilla' Kaleidoscope Press Goldie Alexander In Hades' Celepene Press
2014 Liz Argyll Falling Leaves' Apex Magazine finalists Tales from the Half- David Cornish The Fuller and the Bogle' Continent Omnibus Books Twelfth Planet Faith Mudge Signature' Kaleidoscope Press best children’s (8-12 years) long fiction year award designation author title series publisher 1995-2000 NO AWARD
Candle Iron Angus & winner Sally Odgers Robertson/HarperCollins Kirsty Murray Market Blues Allen & Unwin 2001 finalists Blat Magic Angus & Michael Stephens Robertson/HarperCollins
Sailing to Atlantis Angus & honourable mention Janeen Webb Robertson/HarperCollins winner Gabrielle Wang In the Garden of Empress Cassia Penguin/Puffin Catherine Jinks Eglantine Allen & Unwin Dave Luckett Rhianna and the Dogs of Iron Scholastic 2002 finalists Lily Quench and the Treasure of Mote Natalie Jane Prior Ely Hodder Headline Australia
Justin d’Ath & Astrid Fixologist Spark Allen & Unwin
Mister Monday Keys of the winner Garth Nix Kingdom #1 Allen & Unwin 2003 Max Remy Superspy: The Hollywood finalists Deborah Abela Mission Random House Catherine Jinks Eustace Allen & Unwin James Valentine Jumpman Rule 2 Random House Carole Wilkinson Dragonkeeper Black Dog Books winner Colin Thompson How to Live Forever Random House
The Ruins of Gorlan Ranger’s John Flanagan Apprentice #1 Random House Cassandra Golds Claire de Lune Penguin 2004 finalists Sophie Masson Snow, Fire, Sword Random House Gabrielle Wang The Pearl of Tiger Bay Penguin highly commended James Moloney Tunnel of Ferdinand HarperCollins
Drowned Wednesday Keys of the winner Garth Nix Kingdom #3 Allen & Unwin
Little Fur The Legend of Little Isobelle Carmody Fur #1 Penguin finalists Morris Gleitzman Worm Story Penguin 2005 Richard Harland Sassycat: The Night of the Dead Omnibus Carole Wilkinson Garden of the Purple Dragon Black Dog Books highly commended The Icebound Land Ranger’s John Flanagan Apprentice #3 Random House Australia
winner Mardi McConnochie Melissa, Queen of Evil Pan Australia
A Fox Called Sorrow The Legend of Little Isobelle Carmody Fur #2 Penguin/Viking 2006 John Flanagan Oakleaf Bearers Ranger’s Random House Australia finalists Apprentice #4 Nury Vittachi Twilight in the Land of Nowhen Allen & Unwin Kim Wilkins The Sunken Kingdom Quartet Fantastica Omnibus
The Silver Horse, The Herb of Grace, winners Kate Forsyth The Cat’s Eye Shell, The Lightning Bolt, The Chain of Pan Macmillan The Butterfly in Amber Charms #2-6
Isobelle Carmody A Mystery of Wolves Penguin Books 2007 finalists Emily Rodda The Key to Rondo Omnibus Books Carole Wilkinson Dragon Moon Black Dog Books
Alexandra The Shadow Thief honourable mention Adornetto HarperCollins winner Emily Rodda The Wizard of Rondo Omnibus Books 2008 finalists Simon Higgins Moonshadow Eye of the Beast Random House Australia Sophie Masson Thomas Trew and the Island of Ghosts Hodder Children’s
Carole Wilkinson Dragon Dawn Black Dog Books
The Changeling and The Dust Devils The Changeling Sean Williams series #1-2 Angus & Robertson winner Gabrielle Wang A Ghost in My Suitcase Puffin Books The Remarkable Secret of Aurelie Deborah Abela Bonhoffen Random House Australia 2009 finalists Kate Constable Cicada Summer Allen & Unwin Tensy Farlow and the Home for Mislaid Jen Storer Children Penguin/Viking winner Lian Tanner The Keepers Allen & Unwin Deborah Abela Grimsdon Random House
Halt’s Peril Ranger’s 2010 John Flanagan Apprentice #9 Random House finalists Stephen M. Giles The Vulture of Sommerset Pan Macmillan Jen Storer & Gus Haggis MacGregor and the Night of the Gordon Skull Penguin winner Lian Tanner City of Lies Allen & Unwin John Flanagan The Outcasts Random House Catherine Jinks The Paradise Trap Allen & Unwin 2011 finalists Thalia Kalkapsakis ‘It Began with a Tingle’ Headspinners Allen & Unwin
Andrew McGahan The Coming of the Whirlpool Allen & Unwin
winner John Flanagan Brotherband: The Hunters Random House Pamela Freeman Princess Betony and the Unicorn Walker Books 2012 finalists Emily Rodda The Silver Door Scholastic Leah Swann Irina the Wolf Queen Xoum Publishing
winner Kirstie Murray The Four Seasons of Lucy McKenzie Allen & Unwin
Cloud Road #2 Kingdom of the Isobelle Carmody Lost Penguin
2013 Jackie French Refuge Harper Collins finalists Julie Hunt Song for a Scarlet Runner Allen & Unwin Shaun Tan Rules of Summer Hachette Lian Tanner Ice Breaker The Hidden #1 Allen & Unwin
2014 winner Carole Wilkinson Dragon Keeper Shadow Sister #5 Black Dog Books John Flanagan Slaves of Socorro Brotherband #4 Random House Australia
Karen Foxlee Ophelia and the Marvellous Boy Hot Key Books
finalists Norman Jorgensen The Last Viking Returns and James Foley Fremantle Press
Judith Rossell Withering-by-Sea ABC Books Lian Tanner Sunker's Deep The Hidden #2 Allen & Unwin best children’s (8-12 years) short fiction issue number publisher year award designation author story title publication title (if periodical) (if collection) 1995-2000 NO AWARD winner Jackie French Cafe on Callisto Koala
Zip Zap Random House Kim Caraher Australia
Saving Aunt Alice Random House finalists Claire Carmichael Australia 2001 Hairy Legs Random House Christine Harris Australia Paul Collins Movie World Longman honourable mentions Andrew Whitmore The Ark of Dreams Black Dog Books
Tashi and the winner Anna Fienberg & Allen & Unwin Kim Gamble Haunted House
Terry Denton The Golden Udder Allen & Unwin
Reel Trouble, Justin d’Ath ‘The Two Natalies’ Longman 2002 Spinouts Sapphire finalists Reel Trouble, Andrew Chapman ‘In the Blink of an Eye’ Spinouts Sapphire Longman
Gary Crew & Marc Old Ridley McBride Hodder Lily Quench and the winner Natalie Jane Prior Lighthouse of Hodder Headline Skellig Mor Australia
2003 Emily Eyefinger and Duncan Ball the Balloon Bandits HarperCollins finalists
Roseanne Hawke Wolfchild Lothian Anna Fienberg & Tashi and the Royal Barbara Fienberg Tombs Allen & Unwin
Lily Quench and the Hodder Headline Natalie Jane Prior Magicians’ Pyramid Australia
Gary Crew & Beneath the winner Steven Wollman Surface Hodder The Very Messy Stephen Axelsen Inspection Random House
Emily Eyefinger and Duncan Ball the Ghost Ship HarperCollins
2004 finalists Anna Fienberg & There Was Once a Barbara Fienberg Boy Called Tashi Allen & Unwin
The Boy, The Bear, Gregory Rogers The Baron, The Allen & Unwin Bard
highly commended John Marsden A Roomful of Magic Pan Macmillan
Piccolo & Annabel winner Stephen Axelsen 2: The Disastrous Random House Party Australia The School Goldie Alexander ‘The Space Gypsies’ Magazine #7 2005 Piccolo & Annabel finalists Stephen Axelsen 3: The Stinky Random House Cheese Gypsies Australia
Gary Crew & The Mystery of Jeremy Geddes Eilean Mor Lothian
The True Story of Mary Who Wanted Jane Godwin to Stand on Her Allen & Unwin joint winners Head 2006 Margaret Wild & Woolvs in the Sitee Anne Spudvilas Penguin Victor Kelleher & finalist Stephen Michael The Magic Violin Penguin King
World of Monsters Scholastic Marc McBride Australia joint winners 2007 Kumiko and the Briony Stewart Dragon UQP finalists Luke Edwards Ock Von Fiend Omnibus Books Anna Fienberg & Tashi and The Barbara Fienberg Mixed Up Monster Allen & Unwin
[Note: From 2008, this category is known as Best Children’s (8-12 years) Illus best children’s (8-12 years) illustrated work/picture book issue number publisher year award designation author story title publication title (if periodical) (if collection)
Escape!, Under Richard Harland & Siege, Race to the winner Laura Peterson Ruins, The Heavy Omnibus Books (illustrator) Crown, The Wolf Kingdom series
Anna Fienberg, Tashi and the Barbara Fienberg & Phoenix Allen & Unwin Kim Gamble
Thorn Castle, Giant’s Lair, Black Ian Irvine & David Crypt, Wizardry 2008 Cornish (illustrator) Crag, The Omnibus Books Sorcerer’s Tower series finalists
Sally Morgan with Ezekiel, Ambelin and Blaze Curly and the Fent Random House Kwaymullina & Australia Adam Hill (illustrator)
Richard Tulloch & Terry Denton Twisted Tales Random House (illustrator) Australia
Pamela Freeman winner (author), Kim Victor’s Challenge Walker Books Gamble (illustrator) Australia
Graeme Base Enigma Penguin/Viking 2009 Anna Fienberg, Kim Tashi and the Gamble Golem Allen & Unwin finalists Dan McGuiness Pilot and Huxley Omnibus Books The Hero of Little Gregory Rogers Street Allen & Unwin Sonya Hartnett (author), Lucia The Boy and the winner Masciullo Toy (Viking) Penguin (illustrator)
Isobelle Carmody (author), Anne Night School Spudvilas (Viking) Penguin (illustrator)
2010 Luke Davies (author), Inari Kiuru Magpie (ABC Books) (illustrator) HarperColins finalists Julie Hunt & Sue Moss (authors), Precious Little Gaye Chapman Alllen & Unwin (illustrator)
David Richardson (author), Steven The Cloudchasers (ABC Books) Hunt (illustrator) HarperCollins
Christopher Cheng winner (author), Sarah Sounds Spooky Random House Davis (illustrator) Australia
The Ghost of Aaron Blabey Annabel Spoon (Viking) Penguin
Norman Jorgensen (author), James The Last Viking Fremantle Press 2011 Foley (illustrator)
finalists Tom Taylor The Deep: Here be (author), James Dragons Gestalt Publishing Brouwer (illustrator)
Margaret Wild (author), Andrew Vampyre Walker Books Yeo (illustrator)
winner Graeme Base Little Elephants (Viking) Penguin
Gary Crew (author), The Boy Who Grew Ross Watkins Into a Tree Penguin (illustrator) 2012 finalists Gary Crew (author), Den Scheer In the Beech Forest Ford Street (illustrator) Publishing Inside the World of Lothian Children’s Mark Wilson Tom Roberts Books [Note: from 2013, the two Children’s categories were combined into one, named Best Children’s Work] best children’s (8-12 years) work
The Four Seasons winner Kirsty Murry of Lucy McKenzie Allen & Unwin
Kingdom of the Isobelle Carmody Lost, book 2: Cloud Penguin Group road Australia
2013 Jackie French Refuge Harper Collins
finalists Song for a Scarlet Julie Hunt Runner Allen & Unwin
Shaun Tan Rules of Summer Hachette Australia
Ice Breaker: The Lian Tanner Hidden 1 Allen & Unwin golden aurealis for best novel year author title publisher category 1995-2003 NO AWARD
2004 Richard Harland The Black Crusade Chimaera Publications [Horror]
2005 Isobelle Carmody Alyzon Whitestarr Penguin Books [Young Adult]
The Pilo Family 2006 Will Elliott Circus ABC Books [Horror] The Company of 2007 David Kowalski the Dead Pan Macmillan [Science Fiction] 2008 NO AWARD 2009 NO AWARD golden aurealis for best short story year author story title publication title publisher category 1995-2003 NO AWARD
‘Singing My Sister Black Juice 2004 Margo Lanagan Down’ Allen & Unwin [Young Adult] ‘Nicholas Sayre and Across the Wall: Tales of the Old 2005 Garth Nix the Creature in the Kingdom and Elsewhere Allen & Unwin [Young Adult] Case’
2006 Shaun Tan The Arrival Lothian [Young Adult]
2007 Cat Sparks ‘Hollywood Roadkill’ On Spec #69 [Science Fiction]
2008 NO AWARD 2009 NO AWARD convenors’ award for excellence
[note: from 2001, this award is known as the peter mcnamara convenors’ award for excellence]
year award designation name why 1995-1997 NO AWARD
winner Shaun Tan for his artwork in The Rabbits, Lothian
Paul Collins, Sean McMullen & Steven 1998 Paulsen finalists Jack Dann & Janeen Webb Greg Egan winner Terry Dowling Antique Futures, mp books
Graeme Base The Worst Band in the Universe, Penguin/Viking
1999 Russell Blackford, finalists Van Ikin & Sean Strange Constellations: A History of Australian Science Fiction, Greenwood Press McMullen
Sara Douglass The Betrayal of Arthur, Pan Macmillan
Paul Collins & editors, Spinouts: Bronze, Pearson Education joint winners Meredith Costain Shaun Tan The Lost Thing, Lothian Books
Damien Broderick Transrealist Fiction: Writing in the Slipstream of Science, Greenwood Press 2000
finalists editor, ‘The Unrelenting Gaze – George Turner, Non-fiction: A Selection’, SF Commentary Bruce Gillespie #76
Margo Lanagan ‘White Time’, White Time, Allen & Unwin peter mcnamara convenors’ award for excellence
year award designation name why
Emily Rodda & The Deltora Quest series, Scholastic Mark McBride
Emily Rodda & The Deltora Book of Monsters, Scholastic joint winners Mark McBride
Peter McNamara for his outstanding contribution to speculative fiction
2001 Damien Broderick editor, Earth Is But a Star, University of Western Australia Press
Jack Dann Jubilee, HarperCollins finalists Terry Dowling Schizm: Mysterious Journey, Detalion & L K Avalon
Geoffrey Maloney editor, Nor of Human..., CSFG Publishing
for his important contribution to local genre publishing with both the Canberra Speculative winner Robbie Matthews Fiction Guild and Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine
Justine Larbalestier The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction, Wesleyan University Press
2002 for the guidance and support she has provided to the local genre industry through her Cat Sparks imprint Agog! Publishing
finalists Sara Creasy for compiling and editing the monthly ebulletin ‘aurealisXpress’
Kim Selling & Lilla for organising the ‘Fantastic Fictions: Medieval and Modern’ one-day seminar at the Smee University of Sydney
2003 winner Nick Stathopoulos for his amazing body of work in illustration over the past years Multi-talented Sparks has provided fresh energy to the Australian marketplace through her Agog! series of anthologies, which has provided Ditmar and Aurealis winners and also internationally recognised stories. This year’s Smashing Stories has provided three Aurealis winner Cat Sparks nominees and a highly commended. Sparks’ own writing has also been nominated for awards – she has one in this year’s shortlist – and her artwork graces a number of Australian publications. She is also a generous supporter of other small press publications. 2004
John Marsden Kim Wilkins finalists Geoffrey Maloney
Sophie Masson
A person who has done almost everything, Grant Stone is an archivist, bibliographer, collector, librarian, organiser, publicist, publisher, reviewer and critic, fan and professional. He is a botanist by training, a librarian by profession, a collector by inclination and a new- renaissance person because he can’t help himself. It might be said that Grant Stone is one of the not-so-quiet achievers of Australian science fiction. In Western Australia, Grant Stone is almost unavoidable. Every week he broadcasts the Faster Than Light Radio Show which has been going to air regularly on RTR-FM since the 1970s. To listen to the FTL Show is to 2005 winner Grant Stone be exposed to Grant’s deep and passionate interest in science fiction and everything related to it. From around the world Grant brings together the news of the latest happenings, the new books, comics and movies, spices them with his wry observations and enlivens them with his quirky humour. If they could bottle it they ould make a fortune. (Most people around Australia can now sample Grant’s radio style, if not his knowledge of sf, some time during the week on local ABC radio stations. He has become a popular and regular feature, demonstrating his encyclopaedic knowledge of almost everything.) As a reviewer, independent publisher and bookseller, Bill Congreve has been supporting Australian speculative fiction for more than a decade. He has a reputation for consistently publishing excellent material, for writing thoughtful and useful criticism, and for being personally responsible for many people leaving science fiction conventions with more books than they can carry. MirrorDanse Books, which Bill founded more than ten years ago, has been responsible for some of the most polished, professional and high quality small press 2006 winner Bill Congreve publications in this country, including collections by Lucy Sussex, Terry Dowling, Rob Hood and Chris Lawson. More recently, along with Michelle Marquardt, Bill launched the ‘Best of Australian SF & Fantasy’ series, which has increased the profile of Australian spec fic short story writers both in this country and internationally. Bill has also worked for Infinitas bookshop and is well respected for his reviews and commentary in Aurealis magazine and elsewhere.
2007 winner Terry Dowling Rynemonn, Coeur de Lion 2008 winner Jack Dann 2009 winner Justin Ackroyd Proprietor, Slow Glass Books
Helen Merrick’s commitment to Australian speculative fiction over the past several years is clear in her participation in ceonventions throughout Australia and overseas; in her role as a 2010 winner Helen Merrick judge for various Australian speculative fiction awards; is demonstrated in the books she has edited and contributed to, that analyse fandom and feminism in speculative fiction; and showcased by her generosity of time in programming and supporting local conventions.
Galactic Suburbia podcast – Alisa Krasnostein, Alex Galactic Suburbia has founded a new arena for SF criticism and review in Australia, as well 2011 winner Pierce, Tansy as bringing a new international audience to Australian writing, not only promoting works by Rayner Roberts, Australian authors but also highlighting feminist issues within the global speculative fiction Andrew Finch scene and thereby encouraging vital debate and discussion among community members. (producer) Kate Eltham has been an active and dynamic supporter and promoter of all aspects of genre writing and community in Australia through her work at the Queensland Writer’s Centre, Clarion South and now the Festival Director of the Brisbane Writers’ Festival. She has helped Australian authors and editors gain knowledge, skills and recognition both here 2012 winner Kate Eltham and overseas. In addition, Kate has regularly travelled around Australia helping those both active and new to the writing and publishing scene gain a better understanding of the present and future status, trends and needs of the publishing arena. Kate is a remarkable ambassador for all things writing within Australia.
Jonathan Strahan is internationally acclaimed as a master anthologist, yet his roots are in Australian small press. In 1990, he co-founded Eidolon: The Journal of Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy, which he worked on until 1999. Since 1997, Jonathan has worked for 2013 winner Jonathan Strahan Locus: the Newspaper of the Science Fiction Field as an assistant editor and reviewer, becoming Reviews Editor in 2002. A three-time Hugo nominee, Jonathan won the World Fantasy Award (Special – Professional) in 2010 for his work as an editor, and has been nominated several times for the Hugo Award for Best Editor Short Form and Best Fancast.
Night Terrace is an original 8-part science-fiction comedy audio series from the people behind hit Doctor Who podcast Splendid Chaps and the ABC television seriesOutland and 2014 winner Night Terrace The Bazura Project. Night Terrace was crowd-funded in April 2014 and went live in October that year. kris hembury encouragement award
year award designation name why
2009 winner Kathleen Jennings
2010 winner Jody Cleghor 2011 winner Emily Craven 2012 winner Laura Goodin 2013 winner Tristan Savage