aurealis awards, previous years’ results best science fiction novel year award designation author title series publisher 1995 winner Greg Egan Distress Millennium Sean McMullen Mirrorsun Rising Greatwinter #1.5 Aphelion finalists Kate Orman Set Piece Doctor Who New Adventures #35 Virgin Sean Williams & Shane Dix The Unknown Soldier The Cogal #1 Aphelion 1996 winner Sean Williams Metal Fatigue HarperCollins Australia Simon Brown Privateer HarperCollins finalists Tess Williams Map of Power Random/Arrow 1997 winner Damien Broderick The White Abacus Avon Eos Damien Broderick & Rory Barnes Zones HarperCollins Australia/Moonstone Simon Brown Winter HarperCollins Australia finalists Greg Egan Diaspora Millennium Richard Harland The Dark Edge The Eddon + Vail #1 Pan Macmillan 1998 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 finalists Kate Orman The New Adventures: Walking to Babylon Doctor Who – Bernice Virgin Summerfield #10 Sean Williams The Resurrected Man HarperCollins 1999 winner Greg Egan Teranesia Victor Gollancz Rory Barnes & Damien Broderick The Book of Revelation HarperCollins/Voyager Andrew Masterson The Letter Girl Picador finalists Jonathan Blum & Kate Orman Doctor Who: Unnatural History Eigth Doctor Adventures #23 BBC Books Sally Rogers-Davidson Spare Parts Penguin Books 2000 winner Sean McMullen The Miocene Arrow Greatwinter #2 Tor James Bradley The Deep Field Sceptre finalists Sean Williams & Shane Dix The Dying Light Evergence #2 HarperCollins/Voyager Tess Williams Sea as Mirror HarperCollins/Voyager 2001 winner Sean Williams & Shane Dix A Dark Imbalance Evergence #3 HarperCollins/Voyager Peter McAllister Cosmonaut Penguin Books finalists Sean McMullen Eyes of the Calculor Greatwinter #3 Tor Joel Shepherd Crossover Cassandra Kresnov #1 HarperCollins/Voyager 2002 winner Damien Broderick Transcension Tor Michelle Marquardt Blue Silence Bantam finalists Sean Williams & Shane Dix Echoes of Earth The Orphans #1 HarperCollins/Voyager 2003 winner Jon Blum & Kate Orman Fallen Gods Telos Doctor Who #10 Telos Publishing Jay Caselberg Wyrmhole Jack Stein #1 Penguin/Roc Ian Irvine Terminator Gene Human Rites #2 Simon & Schuster/Earthlight Australia finalists Kate Orman Blue Box Doctor Who: Past Doctor BBC Worldwide Adventures #59 Sean Williams & Shane Dix Orphans of Earth The Orphans #2 HarperCollins/Voyager honourable Paul Collins The Earthborn The Earthborn Wars #1 Tor mention aurealis awards, previous years’ results 2004 winner Maxine McArthur Less than Human Warner Aspect K. A. Bedford Orbital Burn Edge Jack Dann The Rebel HarperCollins/Flamingo finalists Marianne de Pierres Nylon Angel Parrish Plessis #1 Orbit Sean Williams & Shane Dix Heirs of Earth The Orphans #3 HarperCollins/Voyager 2005 winner K. A. Bedford Eclipse Edge John Birmingham Designated Targets World War #2.2 Pan Macmillan Australia finalists Marianne de Pierres Crash Deluxe Parrish Plessis #3 Orbit Sean Williams with Shane Dix Ascent 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 Shane Dix Descent Geodesica #2 HarperCollins/Voyager 2007 winner David Kowalski The Company of the Dead Pan Macmillan Marianne De Pierres Dark Space Sentients of Orion #1 Orbit finalists Jack Heath Remote Control Agent Six of Hearts #2 Pan Macmillan Sean Williams Saturn Returns Astropolis #1 Orbit honourable Rose Michael The Asking Game Transit Lounge mention 2008 K. A. Bedford Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy winner Publishing Marianne de Pierres Chaos Space Sentients of Orion #2 Orbit 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 2009 winner Andrew McGahan Wonders of a Godless World Allen & Unwin finalist Sean Williams The Grand Conjunction Astropolis #3 Orbit 2010 winner Marianne de Pierres Teansformation Space Sentients of Orion #4 Orbit Sara Creasy Song of Scarabaeus Scarabaeus #1 EOS Books finalists Marianne de Pierres Mirror Space Sentients of Orion #3 Orbit 2011 winner Kim Westwood The Courier’s New Bicycle HarperCollins Max Barry Machine Man Scribe Publications Sara Creasy Children of Scarabaeus Scarabaeus #2 HarperVoyager finalists Peter Docker The Waterboys Fremantle Press Meg Mundell Black Glass Scribe Publications 2012 winner Daniel O’Malley The Rook The Checquy Files #1 Harper Collins Jo Anderton Suited The Veiled Worlds #2 Angry Robot Nina D’Aleo The Last City The Demon War Chronicles #1 Momentum finalists Andrea K. Höst And All the Stars Self-published Ambelin Kwaymullina The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf The Tribe #1 Walker Books Garth Nix A Confusion of Princes Allen & Unwin 2013 winner Max Barry Lexicon Hachette Andrew Macrae Trunksong Twelfth Planet Press Jane Rawson A Wrong Turn at the Office of Unmade Lists Transit Lounge finalists Graham Storrs True Path Timesplash #2 Momentum Nike Sulway Rupetta Tartarus Press aurealis awards, previous years’ results 2014 winner Marianne de Pierres Peacemaker Angry Robot Amanda Bridgeman Aurora: Meridian Momentum LynC Nil by Mouth Satalyte Satalyte Nina D’Aleo The White List Momentum Momentum finalists Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner This Shattered World Allen & Unwin Graham Storrs Foresight Momentum 2015 winner Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff Illuminae Allen & Unwin Evelyn Blackwell Crossed Self-published James Bradley Clade Penguin finalists Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner Their Fractured Light Allen & Unwin Joel Shepherd Renegade Kindle Direct Sean Williams Twinmaker: Fall Allen & Unwin 2016 winner Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff Gemina: Illuminae Files 2 Allen & Unwin Jane Abbott Watershed Penguin Random House SK Dunstall Confluence Ace Books finalists DK Mok Squid’s Grief Self-published Daniel O’Malley Stiletto Harper Collins Publisher Rebekah Turner Threader Harlequin Australia 2017 winner Jane Rawson From the Wreck Transit Lounge Sally Abbott Closing Down Hachette Australia Claire G Coleman Terra Nullius Hachette Australia finalists Daniel Findlay Year of the Orphan Penguin Random House Krissy Kneen An Uncertain Grace Text Publishing Cat Sparks Lotus Blue Skyhorse
aurealis awards, previous years’ results best science fiction novella issue number publisher year award designation author story title publication title (if periodical) (if collection) 2015 winner Garth Nix “By Frogsled and Lizardback to Old Venus Random House Outcast Venusian Lepers” Jack Bridges “Blood and Ink” Prizm Books finalists Sean Monaghan “The Molenstraat Music Festival” Asimov’s Science Fiction 2016 winner Nick T Chan “Salto Mortal” Lightspeed #73 Deborah Biancotti Waking in Winter PS Publishing Thoraiya Dyer “Going Viral” Dimension6 #8 Coeur de lion finalists Rose Mulready The Bonobo’s Dream Seizure Press Simon Petrie “All the Colours of the Tomato” Dimension6 #9 Coeur de lion Tansy Rayner Roberts “Did We Break the End of the World?” Defying Doomsday Twelfth Planet Press 2017 winner Tansy Rayner Roberts Girl Reporter Book Smugglers Stephanie Gunn “This Silent Sea” Review of Australian Fiction Volume 24 Issue 6 Will Kostakis “I Can See the Ending” Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology HarperCollins Australia finalists DK Mok “The Wandering Library” Ecopunk! Ticonderoga Publications Shauna O’Meara “Island Green” Ecopunk! Ticonderoga Publications Simon Petrie Matters Arising from the Identification Peggy Bright Books of the Body
aurealis awards, previous years’ results best science fiction short story issue number publisher year award designation author story title publication title (if periodical) (if collection) 1995 winner Greg Egan ‘Luminous’ Asimov’s September 1995 Stephen Dedman ‘From Whom All Blessings Flow’ Asimov’s April 1995 Greg Egan ‘Mr Volition’ Interzone #100 finalists Greg Egan ‘Wang’s Carpets’ New Legends Legend/Random House Sean Williams ‘A Map of the Mines of Barnath’ Eidolon #16 1996 winner Leanne Frahm ‘Borderline’ Borderline MirrorDanse Simon Brown ‘The Mark of Thetis’ Eidolon #21 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 1997 winner Janeen Webb & Jack Dann ‘Niagara Falling’ Black Mist and Other Japanese Futures DAW Russell Blackford ‘Lucent Carbon’ Eidolon #25/26 Damien Broderick ‘Schrödinger’s Dog’ Eidolon #22/23 finalists Greg Egan ‘Reasons to Be Cheerful’ Interzone #118 Lucy Sussex ‘Merlusine’ The Horns of Elfland Penguin/Roc 1998 winner David J Lake ‘The Truth About Weena’ Dreaming Down-Under HarperCollins/Voyager Stephen Dedman ‘Transit’ Asimov’s March 98 Greg Egan ‘Oceanic’ Asimov’s August 98 finalists Rosaleen Love ‘Real Men’ Dreaming Down-Under HarperCollins/Voyager Michael Pryor ‘Australian Visions’ Aurealis #20/21 1999 winner Chris Lawson ‘Written in Blood’ Asimov’s June 1999 Terry Dowling ‘The View in Nancy’s Window’ Interzone September 1999 Chris Lawson ‘Chinese Rooms’ Eidolon #28 finalists Kate Orman ‘The Bicycle Net’ Interzone September 1999 Lucy Sussex ‘The Queen of Erewhon’ F&SF September 1999 2000 winner Damien Broderick ‘Infinite Monkey’ Eidolon #29/30 Adam Browne ‘Schrödinger’s Catamaran’ Orb #1 Stephen Dedman ‘The Devotee’ Eidolon #29/30 finalists Margo Lanagan ‘White Time’ White Time Allen & Unwin Sean Williams ‘The Land Itself’ Eidolon #29/30 2001 winner Adam Browne ‘The Weatherboard Spaceship’ Aurealis #27/28 Michael Barry ‘The Trojan Rocks’ Nor of Human... CSFG Publishing Jack Dann ‘The Diamond Pit’ F&SF June 2001 finalists Jubilee HarperCollins/Voyager Dirk Strasser ‘The Skerricks of Truth’ Aurealis #27/28 Lucy Sussex ‘Absolute Uncertainty’ F&SF April 2001 2002 winner Sean McMullen ‘Walk to the Full Moon’ F&SF Dec 2002 Shane M Brown ‘Lucy Lucy’ Aurealis #29 Shane M Brown ‘Late Returns’ Redsine #9 finalists Geoffrey Maloney ‘The Imperfect Instantaneous People Fantastic Fiction Agog! Mover’ Chris McMahon ‘Within Twilight’ Redsine #8 aurealis awards, previous years’ results 2003 winner Brendan Duffy ‘Louder Echo’ Terrific Tales Agog! Stephen Dedman ‘Acquired Tastes’ Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #9 Sue Isle ‘Amy’s Stars’ Orb #5 finalists Martin Livings ‘Sigmund Freud and the Feral Terrific Tales Agog! Freeway’ Kaaron Warren ‘State of Oblivion’ Elsewhere CSFG Publishing Shane Brown ‘The Earth Equation’ Glimpses Vision Writers Group honourable Grace Dugan ‘The Wall’ Glimpses Vision Writers Group mentions Trent Jamieson ‘Clockwork’ Glimpses Vision Writers Group Cat Sparks ‘Cross the Nullabor to the Sea’ Glimpses Vision Writers Group 2004 winner Brendan Duffy ‘Come to Daddy’ Smashing Stories Agog! Stephen Dedman ‘Desiree’ Oceans of the Mind #10 Geoffrey Maloney ‘Bush of Ghosts’ Tales from the Crypto-System Prime Books finalists Barbara Robson ‘Absolution’ Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #15 Cat Sparks ‘Home by the Sea’ Orb #6 2005 winner Trent Jamieson ‘Slow and Ache’ Aurealis #36 Rjurik Davidson ‘The Interminable Sufferings of Aurealis #33, 34, 35 Mysterious Mr Wu’ finalists Leanne Frahm ‘Skein Dogs’ Fables and Reflections #7 Lyn Triffitt ‘The Memory of Breathing’ Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #17 Kim Westwood ‘Terning tha Weel’ Aurealis #36 highly commended Tess Williams ‘How Green Was Their Love’ Borderlands #4 2006 winner Sean Williams ‘The Seventh Letter’ Bulletin Summer Reading Edition Lee Battersby ‘Dark Ages’ Through Soft Air Prime Books finalists David Conyers ‘Aftermath’ Ripping Reads Agog! Stephen Dedman ‘Down to the Tethys Sea’ Science Fiction Chronicle #266 2007 winner Cat Sparks ‘Hollywood Roadkill’ On Spec #69 Simon Brown ‘Lonely as Life’ Fantastic Wonder Stories Ticonderoga Publications Penelope Love ‘Whitey’ Shadow Plays Elise Bunter finalists Chris McMahon ‘The Eyes of Erebus’ Daikaiju! 2 – Revenge of the Giant Monsters Agog! Press Cat Sparks ‘Arctica’ Fantastic Wonder Stories Ticonderoga Publications honourable Dirk Flinthart ‘Truckers’ Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #30 mention 2008 winner Simon Brown ‘The Empire’ Dreaming Again HarperVoyager Nathan Burrage ‘Black and Bitter, Thanks’ The Workers’ Paradise Ticonderoga Publications Trent Jamieson ‘Delivery’ Cosmos #21 finalists Margo Lanagan ‘The Fifth Star in the Southern Cross’ Dreaming Again HarperVoyager Tansy Rayner Roberts ‘Fleshy’ 2012 Twelfth Planet Press 2009 winner Peter M Ball ‘Clockwork, Patchwork and Ravens’ Apex Magazine May 2009 Peter M Ball ‘To Dream of Stars: An Astronomer’s Apex Magazine October 2009 Lament’ finalists Christopher Green ‘A Hundredth Name’ Abyss & Apex #31 Greg Mellor ‘Defence of the Realm’ Cosmos #25 Mike Resnick & Lezli Robyn ‘Soulmates’ Asimov’s September 2009 aurealis awards, previous years’ results 2010 winner K. J. Bishop ‘The Heart of a Mouse’ Subterranean Online Winter 2010 Matthew Chrulew ‘The Angaelian Apocalypse’ The Company Articles of Edward Teacg/The Twelfth Planet Press Angaelian Apocalypse finalists Penelope Love ‘Border Crossing’ Belong Ticonderoga Publications Ian McHugh ‘Interloper’ Asimov’s January 2011 Tansy Rayner Roberts ‘Relentless Adaptions’ Sprawl Twelfth Planet Press 2011 winner Robert N. Stephenson ‘Rains of la Strange’ Anywhere but Earth 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 2012 winner Margo Lanagan ‘Significant Dust’ Cracklescape Twelfth Planet Press James Bradley ‘Visitors’ Review of Australian Fiction Volume 2, Issue 3 Greg Mellor ‘Beyond Winter’s Shadow’ Wild Chrome Ticonderoga Publications finalists Greg Mellor ‘The Trouble with Memes’ Wild Chrome Ticonderoga Publications Kaaron Warren ‘The Lighthouse Keepers’ Club’ Exotic Gothic 4 PD Publishing 2013 winner Kaaron Warren ‘Air, Water and the Grove’ The Lowest Heaven Pandemonium Press Joanne Anderton ‘The Last Tiger’ Daily Science Fiction May 1st Joanne Anderton ‘Mah Song’ The Bone Chime Song and Other Stories FableCroft Publishing finalists Thoraiya Dyer ‘Seven Days in Paris’ Asymmetry Twelfth Planet Press Lucy Stone ‘Version 4.3.0.1’ Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #57 2014 winner Thoraiya Dyer “Wine, Woman and Stars” Analog Volume CXXXIV nos 1 &2 Jan/Feb Deborah Biancotti “The Executioner Goes Home” Review of Australian Fiction Volume 11, Issue 6 Jason Fischer “The Glorious Aerybeth” OnSpec 11 Sept 2014 finalists Charlotte Nash “Dellinger” Use Only As Directed Peggy Bright Books Garth Nix “Happy Go Lucky” Kaleidoscope Twelfth Planet Press 2015 winner Sean Williams “All the Wrong Places” Meeting Infinity Solaris Joanne Anderton “2B” Insert Title Here FableCroft Publishing Claire McKenna “The Marriage of the Corn King” Cosmos finalists Charlotte Nash “Alchemy and Ice” Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #61 Kaaron Warren “Witnessing” The Canary Press Story Magazine #6 2016 winner Samantha Murray “Of Sight, of Mind, of Heart” Clarkesworld #122 Jack Dann “Trainspotting in Winesburg” Concentration PS Publishing Ian McHugh “The Baby Eaters” Asimov’s Science Fiction 40/1 Claire McKenna “The Autumn Dog Cannot Live to In Your Face FableCroft Publishing finalists Spring” Kaaron Warren “68 Days” Tomorrow’s Cthulu Broken Eye Books Jen White “The Least of Things” Aurealis #94 2017 winner Garth Nix “Conversations with an Armoury Infinity Wars Solaris Lyn Battersby “The Missing Years” Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #66 Aiki Flinthart “A Little Faith” Like a Woman Mirren Hogan Pamela Jeffs “Cards and Steel Hearts” Lawless Lands: Tales from the Weird Falstaff Books finalists Frontier Amie Kaufman “One Small Step” Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology HarperCollins Australia Alfie Simpson “Hurk + Dav” Breach #01
aurealis awards, previous years’ results best fantasy novel year award designation author title series publisher 1995 winner Garth Nix Sabriel The Old Kingdom #1 HarperCollins Australia/Moonstone David Brooks The House of Balthus Allen & Unwin Sara Douglass Battle-Axe Axis Trilogy #1 HarperCollins/Voyager finalists Paul Kidd Mus of Kerbridge TSR Tony Shillitoe The Last Wizard Pan Macmillan 1996 Jack Dann The Memory Cathedral Bantam joint winners Sara Douglass Enchanter Axis Trilogy #2 HarperCollins/Voyager Sara Douglass Starman Axis Trilogy #3 HarperCollins/Voyager Shannah Jay The Price of Wisdom The Chronicles of Tenebrak #4 Pan Macmillan finalists Geoffrey McSkimming Cairo Jim and the Alabastron of Forgotten Gods Hachette Children’s Books Australia Dirk Strasser Equinox Books of Ascension #2 Pan Macmillan 1997 winner Kim Wilkins The Infernal Random House Isobelle Carmody Darkfall The Legendsong #1 Penguin Sara Douglass Sinner The Wayfarer Redemption #1 HarperCollins/Voyager finalists Kate Forsyth Dragonclaw The Witches of Eileanan #1 Random House Lucy Sussex Black Ice Hodder Headline 1998 Dave Luckett A Dark Winter Tenabran Trilogy #1 Omnibus joint winners Jane Routley Fire Angels The Chronicles of Dion #2 Avon Eos Sara Douglass Pilgrim The Wayfarer Redemption #2 HarperCollins/Voyager finalists Ian Irvine A Shadow on the Glass The View from the Mirror #1 Penguin Sophie Masson Cold Iron Hodder 1999 winner Jane Routley Aramaya The Chronicles of Dion #3 Avon Eos Sara Douglass Crusader The Wayfarer Redemption #3 HarperCollins/Voyager Kate Forsyth The Cursed Towers The Witches of Eileanan #3 Random House finalists Dave Luckett A Dark Journey/A Dark Victory Tenabran Trilogy #2-3 Omnibus Juliet Marillier Daughter of the Forest Sevenwaters #1 Pan Macmillan 2000 winner Juliet Marillier Son of the Shadows Sevenwaters #2 Pan Macmillan Sara Douglass The Nameless Day The Crucible #1 HarperCollins/Voyager Anthony Eaton The Darkness UQP finalists Jennifer Fallon Medalon Demon Child #1 HarperCollins/Voyager Hoa Pham Vixen Hodder Headline/Sceptre 2001 winner Sara Douglass The Wounded Hawk The Crucible #2 HarperCollins/Voyager Juliet Marillier Child of the Prophecy Sevenwaters #3 Pan Macmillan Garth Nix Lirael The Old Kingdom #2 Allen & Unwin finalists Cameron Rogers The Music of Razors Penguin Sean Williams The Stone Mage and the Sea The Change #1 HarperCollins/Voyager 2002 winner Sean Williams The Storm Weaver and the Sand The Change #3 HarperCollins/Voyager Trudi Canavan The Novice The Black Magician Trilogy #2 HarperCollins/Voyager Alison Croggon The Gift Pellinor #1 Penguin finalists Sara Douglass Hades’ Daughter The Troy Game #1 HarperCollins/Voyager Sara Douglass The Crippled Angel The Crucible #3 HarperCollins/Voyager Tony Shillitoe Blood Ashuak Chronicles #1 HarperCollins/Voyager aurealis awards, previous years’ results 2003 winner Garth Nix Abhorsen The Old Kingdom #3 Allen & Unwin K. J. Bishop The Etched City Prime Books Lian Hearn Grass for His Pillow Tales of the Otori #2 Hodder finalists Glenda Larke The Aware The Isles of Glory #1 HarperCollins/Voyager Sean McMullen Voyage of the Shadowmoon Moonworlds Saga #1 Tor honourable Ian Irvine Scrutator Well of Echoes #3 Penguin/Viking mentions Anthony O’Neil Lamplighter HarperCollins 2004 winner Sean Williams The Crooked Letter Books of the Cataclysm #1 HarperCollins/Voyager Lian Hearn Brilliance of the Moon Tales of the Otori #3 Hodder Glenda Larke Tainted The Isles of Glory #3 HarperCollins/Voyager finalists Sophie Masson Snow, Fire, Sword El Jisal #1 Random House Kim Wilkins Giants of the Frost HarperCollins/Voyager 2005 winner Juliet Marillier Blade of Fortriu The Bridei 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 Karen Miller The Innocent Mage Kingmaker, Kingbreake #I HarperCollins/Voyager highly commended Trudi Canavan Priestess of the White The Age of Five Trilogy # I HarperCollins/Voyager 2006 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 Sean McMullen Voidfarer Moonworlds Saga #3 Tor Michael Pryor Blaze of Glory The Laws of Magic #1 Random House honourable Kylie Chan White Tiger Dark Heavens #1 HarperCollins/Voyager mentions Lian Hearn The Harsh Cry of the Heron Tales of the Otori #4 Hachette Livre 2007 winner Lian Hearn Heaven’s Net is Wide Tales of the Otori #0 Hachette Jennifer Fallon The Gods of Amyrantha The Tide Lords #2 HarperCollins/Voyager Sylvia Kelso The Moving Water Rihannar Chronicles #2 Thomson Gale finalists Glenda Larke Song of the Shiver Barrens The Mirage Makers #3 HarperCollins/Voyager Michael Pryor Heart of Gold The Laws of Magic #2 Random House honourable Pamela Freeman Blood Ties Castings Trilogy #1 Hachette Australia mentions Karen Miller Empress of Mijak Godspeaker #1 HarperCollins/Voyager 2008 winner Alison Goodman The Two Pearls of Wisdom Eon #1 HarperCollins Sylvia Kelso Amberlight Riverworld #1 Juno Books Margo Lanagan Tender Morsels Allen & Unwin finalists Juliet Marillier Heir to Sevenwaters Sevenwaters #4 Macmillan Australia Karen Miller The Riven Kingdom Godspeaker #2 HarperVoyager 2009 winner Trudi Canavan The Magician’s Apprentice The Black Magician Trilogy #0.5 Orbit Peter M. Ball Horn Twelfth Planet Press Glenda Larke The Last Stormlord Watergivers #1 HarperVoyager finalists K. E. Mills Witches Incorporated Rogue Agent #2 HarperVoyager K. J. Taylor The Dark Griffin The Fallon Moon #1 HarperVoyager 2010 winner Tansy Rayner Roberts Power and Majesty Creature Court #1 HarperVoyager Andrea K. Höst The Silence of Medair Medair #1 Self-published Trent Jamieson Death Most Definite Death Works Trilogy #1 Orbit finalists Glenda Larke Stormlord Rising Watergivers #2 HarperVoyager Juliet Marillier Heart’s Blood Pan Macmillan aurealis awards, previous years’ results 2011 winner Pamela Freeman Ember and Ash Hachette Jennifer Fallon The Undivided Rift Runners #1 HarperVoyager Glenda Larke Stormlord’s Exile Watergivers #3 HarperVoyager finalists Jo Anderton Debris The Veiled Worlds #1 Angry Robot Tansy Rayner Roberts The Shattered City Creature Court #2 HarperVoyager 2012 winner Margo Lanagan Sea Hearts Allen & Unwin Kate Forsyth Bitter Greens Random House Kay Kristoff Stormdancer The Lotus War #1 Tor UK finalists Juliet Marillier Flame of Sevenwaters Sevenwaters #6 Pan Macmillan Jo Spurrier Winter Be My Shield Children of the Black Sun #1 HarperVoyager 2013 winner Mitchell Hogan A Crucible of Souls Sorcery Ascendant Sequence #1 Self-published Max Barry Lexicon Hachette Amie Kaufman & Meagan These Broken Stars Starbound #1 Allen & Unwin finalists Spooner Garth Nix Newt’s Emerald Jill Grinberg Literary Management Tansy Rayner Roberts Ink Black Magic Mocklore Chronicles #3 FableCroft Publishing 2014 winner Juliet Marillier Dreamer’s Pool Pan Macmillan Australia Keri Arthur Fireborn Hachette Australia Amie Kaufman & Meagan This Shattered World Allen & Unwin Spooner finalists Glenda Larke The Lascar’s Dagger Hachette Australia Scott Westerfeld Afterworlds Penguin Books Australia Kim Wilkins Daughters of the Storm Harlequin Enterprises Australia 2015 winner Trent Jamieson Day Boy Text Publishing Kathryn Barker In the Skin of a Monster Allen & Unwin Alison Goodman Lady Helen and the Dark Days Club HarperCollins finalists Glenda Larke The Dagger’s Path Hachette Australia Juliet Marillier Tower of Thorns Pan Macmillan Australia Ilka Tampke Skin Text Publishing 2016 winner Jay Kristoff Nevernight Harper Voyager Glenda Larke Fall of the Dagger Hachette Australia Juliet Marillier Den of Wolve Pan Macmillan Australia finalists Angela Slatter Vigil Jo Fletcher Books Mark Smith Road to Winter Text Publishing Kim Wilkins Sisters of the Fire Harlequin Australia 2017 winner Jay Kristoff Godsgrave HarperCollins Publishers Thoraiya Dyer Crossroads of Canopy Tor Books Goldie Goldbloom Gwen Fremantle Press finalists Kathryn Gossow Cassandra Odyssey Books Michael Pryor Gap Year in Ghost Town Allen & Unwin Robin Shortt Wellside Candlemark & Gleam
aurealis awards, previous years’ results best fantasy novella issue number publisher year award designation author story title publication title (if periodical) (if collection) 2015 winner Jason Fischer “Defy the Grey Kings” Beneath Ceaseless Skies Firkin Press Steve Cameron “Lodloc and the Bear” Dimension6 Coeur de lion Stephanie Gunn “Broken Glass” Hear Me Roar Ticonderoga Publications Stephanie Gunn “The Flowers that Bloom Where Blood Bloodlines Ticonderoga Publications finalists Touches the Earth” Dmetri Kakmi “Haunting Matilda” Cthulhu: Deep Down Under Horror Australis Angela Slatter “Of Sorrow and Such” Tor.com 2016 winner Andrea K Host “Forfeit” The Towers, the Moon Self-published Alan Baxter “Raven’s First Flight” SNAFU: Black Ops Cohesion Press Jason Fischer “By the Laws of Crab and Woman” Review of Australian Fiction finalists Rose Mulready The Bonobo’s Dream Seizure Press Kirstyn McDermott “Burnt Sugar” Dreaming in the Dark PS Publishing Angela Slatter “Finnegan’s Field” Tor.com 2017 winner Devin Madson In Shadows We Fall Self-published Alan Baxter The Book Club PS Publishing Nathan Burrage “Remnants” Dimension6 #11 Coeur de lion finalists Kate Forsyth & Kim Wilkins “The Cunning Woman’s Daughter” The Silver Well Ticonderoga Publications Kirstyn McDermott “Braid” Review of Australian Fiction Volume 24, issue 1 Faith Mudge Humanity for Beginners Less Than Three Press
best fantasy short story issue number publisher year award designation author story title publication title (if periodical) (if collection) 1995 winner Karen Attard ‘Harvest Bay’ Eidolon #19 Petrina Smith ‘Angel Thing’ She’s Fantastical Sybylla 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 1996 winner Russell Blackford ‘The Sword of God’ Dream Weavers Penguin Isobelle Carmody ‘Green Monkey Dreams’ Green Monkey Dreams Penguin/Viking Matthew Condon ‘Tattoo’ Original Sin UQP finalists Sara Douglass ‘Of Fingers and Foreskins’ Eidolon #21 Tim Richards ‘Our Swimmer’ Letters to Francesca Allen & Unwin 1997 winner Lucy Sussex ‘Merlusine’ The Horns of Elfland Penguin/Roc Chris Gregory ‘Jackie Chan’ Twins Penguin Le Hang ‘The River of Dreams’ Influence: Australian Voices Anchor finalists Jodie Kewley ‘Nicholas Afalling’ Eidolon #24 Janeen Webb ‘Death at the Blue Elephant’ Enter: HQ/Flamingo Short Story Collection HarperCollins Australia 1998 winner Stephen Dedman ‘A Walk-On Part in the War’ Dreaming Down-Under HarperCollins/Voyager Kerry Greenwood ‘Jetsam’ Dreaming Down-Under HarperCollins/Voyager Sean McMullen ‘Queen of Soulmates’ Dreaming Down-Under HarperCollins/Voyager finalists Jane Routley ‘To Avalon’ Dreaming Down-Under HarperCollins/Voyager Keith Taylor ‘The Bath House’ Fantastic Worlds HarperCollins Australia/Moonstone aurealis awards, previous years’ results 1999 winner Trudi Canavan ‘Whispers of the Mist Children’ Aurealis #23 Adam Browne ‘Orlando’s Third Trance’ HQ December 1999 Lisa Jacobson ‘The Language of Trees’ HQ April 1999 finalists Lucy Sussex ‘The Queen of Erewhon’ F&SF September 1999 Janeen Webb ‘Incident on Wolfe St’ HQ January 2000/released December 1999 2000 ‘The World According to Kipling Aurealis #25/26 winner Geoffrey Maloney (A Plain Tale from the Hills)’ Louise Cusack ‘Goddess and the Geek’ Mystery, Magic, Voodoo & The Holy Grail HarperCollins/Voyager Chris Kenworthy ‘The Fruits of Habit’ Altair #6/7 finalists Margo Lanagan ‘The Boy Who Didn’t Yearn’ White Time Allen & Unwin Kaaron Warren ‘The Left Behind’ Orb #1 2001 winner Sue Isle ‘The Woman of Endor’ Orb #2 Jack Dann ‘The Diamond Pit’ Jubilee HarperCollins/Voyager 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 2003 Lucy Sussex ‘La Sentinelle’ Southern Blood – New Australian Tales of Sandglass Enterprises winner the Supernatural Lily Chrywenstrom ‘Tireki and the Wind’ Fables and Reflections #4 Marianne de Pierres ‘In the Bookshadow’ Shelf Life: Fantastic Stories Celebrating Dreamhaven Books finalists Bookstores Garth Nix ‘Hope Chest’ Firebirds Penguin Brendan Duffy ‘Louder Echo’ Terrific Tales Agog! honourable mentions Tracey Rolfe ‘Storm in a Chandelier’ Terrific Tales Agog! 2004 Richard Harland ‘Catabolic Magic’ Aurealis #32 joint winners Louise Katz ‘Weavers of Twilight’ Smashing Stories Agog! 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 2005 Rosaleen Love ‘Once Giants Roamed the Earth’ The Travelling Tide Aqueduct Press joint winners Daikaiju! Giant Monster Tales Agog! Richard Harland ‘The Greater Death of Saito Saku’ Daikaiju! Giant Monster Tales Agog! Adam Browne ‘Heart of Saturday Night’ Lenox Avenue Ezine #4
aurealis awards, previous years’ results best horror novel year award designation author title series publisher 1995 winner Terry Dowling An Intimate Knowledge of the Night Aphelion Venero Armanno My Beautiful Friend Arrow/Random House 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 1997 winner Kim Wilkins The Infernal Random House Stephen Dedman The Art of Arrow Cutting The Art of Arrow Tor Curtting #1 finalists Richard Harland The Dark Edge The Eddon + Vail #1 Pan Macmillan Emma Tom Deadset Random House 1998 NO AWARD 1999 winner Christine Harris Foreign Devils Random House Victor Kelleher Into the Dark Penguin/Viking finalists Victor Kelleher The Ivory Trail Penguin/Viking P. Scott-Bernard Deadly Sister Love HarperCollins 2000 winner Kim Wilkins The Resurrectionists HarperCollins/Voyager finalist Terry Dowling Blackwater Days Eidolon Publications 2001 winner Kim Wilkins Angel of Ruin HarperCollins/Voyager finalist Cameron Rogers The Music of Razors Penguin 2002 winner A. L. McCann The White Body of Evening HarperCollins/Flamingo Stephen Dedman Shadows Bite The Art of Arrow Tor Curtting #2 finalists Alison Croggon The Gift Pellinor #1 Penguin Louise Cusack Daughter of the Dark Shadow Through Time Simon & Schuster #2 2003 winner Victor Kelleher Born of the Sea Penguin/Viking Anthony O’Neill The Lamplighter HarperCollins finalists Kim Wilkins The Autumn Castle Europa Suite #1 HarperCollins/Voyager 2004 winner Richard Harland The Black Crusade Chimaera Publications Josephine Pennicott Fire in the Shell Circle of Nine #3 Simon & Schuster finalists Kim Wilkins Giants of the Frost HarperCollins/Voyager 2005 NO AWARD highly commended J. C. Burke Nine Letters Long The Red Cardigan #2 Random House Australia 2006 Will Elliott The Pilo Family Circus ABC Books joint winners Edwina Grey Prismatic Lothian Martin Livings Carnies Lothian finalists Brett McBean The Mother Lothian 2007 winner Susan Parisi Blood of Dreams Penguin/Viking Keri Arthur Dangerous Games Riley Jenson Guardian Piatkus/Hachette Livre #4 honourable mentions David Conyers & John Sunseri The Spiraling Worm Chaosium Jason Nahrung The Darkness Within Hachette Livre aurealis awards, previous years’ results 2008 winner John Harwood The Séance Jonathan Cape Jack Dann The Economy of Light PS Publishing finalists Nick Gadd Ghostlines Scribe Publications 2009 winner Honey Brown Red Queen Penguin Australia Peter M. Ball Horn Twelfth Planet Press Stephen M. Irwin The Dead Path Hachette Australia finalists Tracey O’Hara Night’s Cold Kiss Dark Brethren #1 HarperCollins Publishers Australia Kaaron Warren Slights Angry Robot Books 2010 winner Kirstyn McDermott Madigan Mine Pan Macmillan finalists Jason Fischer After the World: Gravesend Black House Comics Trent Jamieson Death Most Definite Death Works Trilogy #1 Orbit 2011 NO AWARD Stephen M. Irwin The Broken Ones Hachette honourable mentions Trent Jamieson The Business of Death Death Works Trilogy #3 Hachette 2012 winner Kirstyn McDermott Perfections Xoum finalists Jason Franks Bloody Waters Possible Press Jason Nahrung Blood and Dust Xoum Jason Nahrung Salvage Twelfth Planet Press 2013 winner Allyse Near Fairytales for Wilde Girls Random House Lee Battersby The Marching Dead Angry Robot finalists Greig Beck The First Bird The First Bird #1 Momentum Dirk Flinthart Path of Night FableCroft Publishing 2014 winner Justine Larbalestier Razorhurst Allen & Unwin Greig Beck Book of the Dead Momentum finalists Alan Baxter Obsidian HarperVoyager 2015 winner Trent Jamieson Day Boy Text Publishing 2016 winner Kaaron Warren The Grief Hole IFWG Publishing Australia Kenneth Cook Fear is the Rider Text Publishing finalists Justine Larbalestier My Sister Rosa Allen & Unwin 2017 winner Lois Murphy Soon Transit Lounge JS Breukelaar Aletheia Crystal Lake Publishing finalists Maria Lewis Who’s Afraid, Too? Hachette Australia
aurealis awards, previous years’ results best horror novella issue number publisher year award designation author story title publication title (if periodical) (if collection) 2015 winner Deborah Kalin “The Miseducation of Mara Lys” Cherry Crow Children Twelfth Planet Press Dirk Flinthart “Night Shift” Striking Fire FableCroft Publishing Deborah Kalin The Cherry Crow Children of Haverny Cherry Crow Children Twelfth Planet Press Wood” finalists Deborah Kalin “Wages of Honey” Cherry Crow Children Twelfth Planet Press Jay Kristoff “Sleepless” Slasher Girls and Monster Boys Penguin Angela Slatter “Ripper” Horrorology Jo Fletcher Books 2016 winner Kirstyn McDermott “Burnt Sugar” Dreaming in the Dark PS Publishing Jeremy Bates Box of Bones Ghillinnein Books Alan Baxter “Serve Cold” Dreaming in the Dark PS Publishing finalists Deborah Biancotti Waking in Winter PS Publishing Christopher Ruz “Pan” Dreaming in the Dark PS Publishing Andromeda Spaceways Magazine #62 2017 winner Chris Mason The Stairwell Below the Stairs – Tales from the Cellar Things in the Well Jeremy Bates The Mailman Ghillinnein Books Andrew Cull Hope and Walker Vermillion Press finalists Michael Grey “Grind” Pacific Monsters Fox Spirit Books Angela Slatter “No Good Deed” New Fears 1 Titan Books Kaaron Warren “Furtherest” Dark Screams Volume 7 Cemetery Dance
aurealis awards, previous years’ results best horror short story issue number publisher year award designation author story title publication title (if periodical) (if collection) 1995 winner Francis Payne ‘Olympia’ Olympia Bambada Press Terry Dowling ‘Scaring the Train’ The Man Who Lost Red MirrorDanse 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 1996 winner Sean Williams ‘Passing the Bone’ Eidolon #20 Stephen Dedman ‘Never Seen by Waking Eyes’ F&SF August 1996 Terry Dowling ‘Beckoning Nightframe’ Eidolon #22/23 finalists Patricia MacCormack ‘The Bloom of Decay’ Bloodsongs #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 1998 winner Kaaron Warren ‘A Positive’ Bloodsongs #10 Paul Brandon ‘The Marsh Runners’ Dreaming Down-Under HarperCollins/Voyager Glyn Parry ‘Dawn Chorus’ Fantastic Worlds HarperCollins finalists Australia/Moonstone Aaron Sterns ‘The Third Rail’ Dreaming Down-Under HarperCollins/Voyager Kaaron Warren ‘The Glass Woman’ Aurealis #22 1999 winner Sean Williams & Simon Brown ‘Atrax’ New Adventures in Sci-Fi Ticonderoga Allan Baillie ‘The Mouth’ SpinOuts Longman Stephen Dedman ‘Honest Ghosts’ www.gothic.net July 1999 finalists Kain Massin ‘Escape From Stalingrad’ Harbinger #4 Alison Venugoban ‘Funeral Rights’ Harbinger #3 2000 winner Deborah Biancotti ‘The First and Final Game’ Altair #6/7 Jack Dann ‘Marilyn’ Eidolon #29/30 Stephen Dedman ‘A Sentiment Open to Doubt’ Ticonderoga Online May 2000 finalists Robert Hood ‘That Old Black Graffiti’ Tales from the Wasteland Hodder Michael Pryor ‘Sewercide’ Aurealis #25/26 2001 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 Collins ‘Whispers’ Stalking Midnight Cosmos Books 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 finalists Claire McKenna ‘What The Tide Brings’ Fables and Reflections #2 Stephen Dedman ‘Wastelands’ Fantastic Fiction Agog! Robert Hood ‘# 7’ Immaterial MirrorDanse honourable mentions Deborah Biancotti ‘Silicon Cast’ Redsine #7 2003 winner Simon Brown ‘Love is a Stone’ Gathering the Bones HarperCollins Australia aurealis awards, previous years’ results Stephen Dedman ‘The Wind Shall Blow For Ever Mair’ Gathering the Bones HarperCollins Australia Sue Isle ‘Amy’s Stars’ Orb #5 finalists Kyla Ward ‘Kijin Tea’ Terrific Tales Agog! Janeen Webb ‘Blake’s Angel’ Gathering the Bones HarperCollins Australia 2004 winner Paul Haines ‘The Last Days of Kali Yuga’ NFG #14 Stephen Dedman ‘Twilight of the Idols’ Conqueror Fantastic DAW Richard Harland ‘The Border’ Smashing Stories Agog! finalists Ben Peek ‘Dr Who (or the day I learned to love Forever Shores Wakefield Press Tom Baker)’ Alinta Thornton ‘Kathleen, Furnished with Bees’ Dark Animus #5 highly commended Paul Haines ‘They Say It’s Other People’ Smashing Stories Agog! 2005 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 Peter Barber ‘Dust’ Aurealis #33, 34, 35 Shane Jiraiya Cummings ‘Revision Is Murder’ Simulacrum #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 2007 winner Anna Tambour ‘The Jeweller of Second-Hand Roe’ Subterranean #7 Terry Dowling ‘Toother’ Eclipse #1 Richard Harland ‘Special Perceptions’ At Ease with the Dead Ash-Tree Press finalists Rick Kennett ‘The Dark and What It Said’ Andromeda Spaceways Inflight #28 Magazine Ben Peek ‘Black Betty’ Lone Star Stories #23 Margo Lanagan ‘She-Creatures’ Eclipse #1 honourable mentions Martin Livings ‘There was Darkness’ Fantastic Wonder Stories Ticonderoga Publications Miranda Siemienowicz ‘Lion’s Breath’ Island #108 2008 ‘Painlessness’ Greatest Uncommon Denominator #2 winner Kirstyn McDermott (GUD) Lee Battersby ‘In From the Snow’ Dreaming Again HarperVoyager Deborah Biancotti ‘Pale Dark Soldier’ Midnight Echo #1 Trent Jamieson ‘Day Boy’ Murky Depths #4 finalists Kirstyn McDermott ‘Painlessness’ Greatest Uncommon Denominator #2 (GUD) Ian McHugh ‘Bitter Dreams’ L Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of Vol XXIV Galaxy Press the Future aurealis awards, previous years’ results 2009 Paul Haines ‘Wives’ X6 Coeur de Lion Publishing joint winners Paul Haines ‘Slice of Life – A Spot of Liver’ Slice of Life The Mayne Press Felicity Dowker ‘Jesse’s Gift’ Andromeda Spaceways Inflight #40 Magazine finalists Christopher Green ‘Having Faith’ Nossa Morte February 2009 Andrew J McKiernan ‘The Message’ Midnight Echoes Australian Horror Writers Association 2010 Macabre: A Journey Through winner Richard Harland ‘The Fear’ Brimstone Press Australia’s Darkest Fears Bob Franklin ‘Take the Free Tour’ Under Stones Affirm Press Paul Haines ‘Her Gallant Needs’ Sprawl Twelfth Planet Press finalists Robert Hood ‘Wasting Matilda’ Zombie Apocalypse Constable & Robinson Ltd Martin Livings ‘Lollo’ Close Encounters of the Urban Apex Publishing Kind 2011 Paul Haines ‘The Past is a Bridge Best Left Burnt’ The Last Days of Kali Yuga Brimstone Press joint winners Lisa L. Hannett ‘The Short Go: a Future in Eight Bluegrass Symphony Ticonderoga Publications Seconds’ Deborah Biancotti ‘And the Dead Shall Outnumber the Ishtar Gilgamesh Press Living’ finalists Margo Lanagan ‘Mulburry Boys’ Blood and Other Cravings Tor Angela Slatter ‘The Coffin Maker’s Daughter’ A Book of Horrors Quercus 2012 winner Kaaron Warren ‘Sky’ Through Splintered Walls Twelfth Planet Press Joanne Anderton ‘Sanaa’s Army’ Bloodstones Ticonderoga Publications Jodi Cleghorn ‘Elyora’ Review of Australian Fiction Rabbit Hole Special Issue finalists Felicity Dowker ‘To Wish Upon a Clockwork Heart’ Bread and Circuses Ticonderoga Publications Robert Hood ‘Escena de un Asesinato’ Exotic Gothic 4 PS Publishing 2013 winner Kim Wilkins ‘The Year of Ancient Ghosts’ The Year of Ancient Ghosts Ticonderoga Publications Joanne Anderton ‘Fencelines’ The Bone Chime Song and Other FableCroft Publishing Stories finalists Terry Dowling ‘The Sleepover’ Exotic Gothic 5 PS Publishing Kirstyn McDermott ‘The Home for Broken Dolls’ Caution: Contains Small Parts Twelfth Planet Press Kaaron Warren ‘The Human Moth’ The Grimscribe’s Puppets Miskatonic Press 2014 winner Angela Slatter “Home and Hearth” Spectral Press Deborah Biancotti “The Executioner Goes Home” Review of Australian Fiction Volume 11, issue 6 James Bradley “Skinsuit” Island Magazine 137 finalists Kirstyn McDermott “By the Moon’s Good Grace” Review of Australian Fiction Volume 12, issue 3 Garth Nix “Shay Corsham Worsted” Fearful Symmetries Chizine 2015 winner Joanne Anderton “Bullets” In Sunshine Bright and Darkness AHWA Deep Lisa L Hannett “Consorting with Filth” Blurring the Lines Cohesion Press Lisa L Hannett “Heirloom Pieces” Apex Magazine Apex Publications finalists Deborah Kalin “The Briskwater Mare” Cherry Crow Children Twelfth Planet Press Tracie McBride “Breaking Windows” Aurealis #84 Kirstyn McDermott “Self, Contained” The Dark TDM Press aurealis awards, previous years’ results 2016 winner TR Napper “Flame Trees” Asimov’s Science Fiction April/May 2016 RPL Johnson “Non Zero Sum” SNAFU: Hunters Cohesion Press Garth Nix “Penny for a Match, Mister?” The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales Saga Press Angela Slatter “The Red Forest” Winter Children and Other Chilling PS Publishing finalists Tales Kaaron Warren “68 Days” Tomorrow’s Cthulhu Broken Eye Books Durand Welsh “Life, or Whatever Passes For It” Peel Back the Skin Grey Matter Press 2017 winner J Ashley Smith “Old Growth” SQ Mag 31 IFWG Publishing Australia Kat Clay “Reef” SQ Mag 31 IFWG Publishing Australia Lisa L Hannett “Outside, a Drifter” Looming Low Dim Shores Deborah Sheldon “Angel Hair” Perfect Little Stitches and Other IFWG Publishing Australia finalists Stories Alfie Simpson “The Endless Below” Breach #02 J Ashley Smith “On the Line” Midnight Echo 12 Australasian Horror Writers Association
aurealis awards, previous years’ results best anthology year award designation author title series publisher 1995-2007 NO AWARD 2008 winner Jonathan Strahan (editor) The Starry Rift Viking Children’s Books Bill Congreve & Michelle Marquardt The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Science Fourth Annual Volume MirrorDanse Books finalists (editors) Fiction Jack Dann (editor) Dreaming Again HarperVoyager 2009 winner Jonathan Strahan (editor) Eclipse 3 Night Shade Books Alisa Krasnostein (editor) New Ceres Nights Twelfth Planet Press Keith Stevenson (editor) X6 Coeur de Lion Publishing finalists Jonathan Strahan (editor) Eclipse 2 Night Shade Books Jonathan Strahan (editor) The New Space Opera 2 Harper Eos 2010 winner Jonathan Strahan & Marianne S. Jablon Wings of Fire Night Shade Books Angela Challis & Dr Marty Young Macabre: A Journey Through Australia’s Darkest Brimstone Press Fears finalists Alisa Krasnostein Sprawl Twelfth Planet Press Amanda Pillar & Pete Kempshall Scenes from the Second Storey Morrigan Books Jonathan Strahan Godlike Machines SF Book Club 2011 winner Jack Dann and Nick Gevers Ghosts by Gaslight HarperVoyager Liz Grzyb and Talie Helene The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2010 Ticonderoga Publications Amanda Pillar and K. V. Taylor Ishtar Gilgamesh Press finalists Jonathan Strahan The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Five Night Shade Books Jonathan Strahan Life on Mars Viking 2012 winner Jonathan Strahan The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Six Night Shade Books Liz Grzyb and Talie Helene The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2011 Ticonderoga Publications Amanda Pillar Bloodstones Ticonderoga Publications finalists Jonathan Strahan Under My Hat Random House Jonathan Strahan Edge of Infinity Solaris Books 2013 Liz Grzyb & Talie Helene The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2012 Ticonderoga Publications joint winners Tehani Wessely One Small Step: An Anthology of Discoveries FableCroft Publishing Liz Grzyb Dreaming of Djinn Ticonderoga Publications finalists Jonathan Strahan The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume 7 Night Shade Books Tehani Wessely Focus 2012: Highlights of Australian Short Fiction FableCroft Publishing 2014 winner Alisa Krasnostein & Julia Rios Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Science Fiction and Twelfth Planet Press Fantasy Stories Liz Grzyb Kisses by Clockwork Dominica Malcolm Amok: An Anthology of Asia-Pacific Speculative Fiction finalists Jonathan Strahan Reach for Infinity Jonathan Strahan Fearsome Magics Tehani Wessely 2015 winner Amanda Pillar Bloodlines Ticonderoga Publications Liz Grzyb Hear Me Roar Ticonderoga Publications Liz Grzyb & Talie Helene The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2014 Ticonderoga Publications Jonathan Strahan Meeting Infinity Solaris finalists Jonathan Strahan The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Solaris Volume 9 Tehani Wessely Focus 2014: Highlights of Australian Short Fiction FableCroft Publishing aurealis awards, previous years’ results 2016 winner Julia Rios & Alisa Krasnostein Year’s Best YA Speculative Fiction 2015 Twelfth Planet Press Jack Dann Dreaming in the Dark PS Publishing Australia Tsana Dolichva & Holley Kench Defying Doomsday Twelfth Planet Press finalists Jonathan Strahan Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Solaris Volume 10 Tehani Wessely In Your Face FableCroft Publishing 2017 winner Jonathan Strahan Infinity Wars Rebellion / Solaris Shane Jiraiya Cummings & Anthony Midnight Echo #12 Australasian Horror Writers Association Ferguson Liz Grzyb & Talie Helene finalists The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2015 Ticonderoga Publications Keith Stevenson Dimension6: Annual Collection 2017 Coeur de lion Publishing Jonathan Strahan The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Rebellion / Solaris Volume 11
best collection year award designation author title series publisher 1995-2007 NO AWARD 2008 winner Sean Williams & Russell B Farr (editor) Magic Dirt: The Best of Sean Williams Ticonderoga Publications finalist Robert Hood Creeping in Reptile Flesh Altair Australia Books 2009 winner Greg Egan Oceanic Gollancz (please note: the author declined to accept this award) Deborah Biancotti & Alisa Krasnostein A Book of Endings Twelfth Planet Press (editor) finalists Paul Haines & Geoff Maloney (editor) Slice of Life The Mayne Press Robbie Matthews & Donna Hanson Johnny Phillips Werewolf Detective Australian Speculative Fiction (editor) 2010 winner Angela Slatter The Girl with No Hands Ticonderoga Publications Rjurik Davidson The Library of Forgotten Books PS Publishing finalists Angela Slatter Sourdough and Other Stories Tartarus Press Kaaron Warren Dead Sea Fruit Ticonderoga Publications 2011 winner Lisa L. Hannett Bluegrass Symphony Ticonderoga Publications Deborah Biancotti Bad Power Twelfth Planet Press Paul Haines Last Days of Kali Yuga Brimstone Press finalists Sue Isle Nightsiders Twelfth Planet Press Tansy Rayner Roberts Love and Romanpunk Twelfth Planet Press 2012 winner K. J. Bishop That Book Your Mad Ancestor Wrote Self-published Isobele Carmody Metro Winds Allen & Unwin Lisa L. Hannett & Angela Slatter Midnight and Moonshine Ticonderoga Publications finalists Martin Livings Living with the Dead Dark Prints Press Kaaron Warren Through Splintered Walls Twelfth Planet Press 2013 winner Joanne Anderton The Bone Chime Song and Other Stories FableCroft Publishing Thoraiya Dyer Asymmetry Twelfth Planet Press Kirstyn McDermott Caution: Contains Small Parts Twelfth Planet Press finalists Cat Sparks The Bride Price Ticonderoga Publications Kim Wilkins The Year of Ancient Ghosts Ticonderoga Publications aurealis awards, previous years’ results 2014 winner Lisa L Hannett & Angela Slatter The Female Factory Twelfth Planet Press Rosaleen Love Secret Lives Twelfth Planet Press Ian McHugh Angel Dust Ticonderoga Publications Simon Petrie Difficult Second Album: More Stories of Xenobiology, Peggy Bright Books finalists Space Elevators, and Bats Out of Hell Angela Slatter The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings Tartarus Press Angela Slatter Black-Winged Angels Ticonderoga Publications 2015 winner Garth Nix To Hold the Bridge Allen & Unwin Shane Jiraiya Cummings The Abandonment of Grace and Everything After Brimstone Press Dirk Flinthart Striking Fire FableCroft Publishing finalists Deborah Kalin Cherry Crow Children Twelfth Planet Press Carole Nomarhas The Fading Self-published Anna Tambour The Finest Ass in the Universe Ticonderoga Publications 2016 winner Angela Slatter A Feast of Sorrows Prime Alan Baxter Crow Shine Ticonderoga Publications finalists Jack Dann Concentration PS Publishing Angela Slatter Winter Children PS Publishing 2017 winner Kate Forsyth & Kim Wilkins The Silver Well Ticonderoga Publications Peter M Ball The Birdcage Heart & Other Strange Tales Brain Jar Press Donna Maree Hanson Beneath the Floating City Self-published Margo Lanagan Singing My Sister Down and Other Stories Allen & Unwin finalists Tansy Rayner Roberts Please Look After This Angel and Other Winged Self-published Stories Deborah Sheldon Perfect Little Stitches and Other Stories IFWG Publishing Australia
aurealis awards, previous years’ results best illustrated book/graphic novel year award designation author title series publisher 1995-2007 NO AWARD 2008 winner Shaun Tan Tales from Outer Suburbia Allen & Unwin Steve Hunt & David Richardson The Cloudchasers ABC Books finalists Colin Thompson The Floods Family Files Random House Australia Julie Watts The Art of Graeme Base Penguin/Viking 2009 winner Nathan Jurevicius Scarygirl Allen & Unwin Bruce Mutard The Silence Allen & Unwin finalists Emily Rodda & Marc McBride Secrets of Deltora Scholastic Australia Madeleine Rosca Hollow Fields Seven Seas Entertainment 2010 winner Justin Randall Changing Ways #1 Gestalt Publishing Nicki Greenberg Shakespeare’s Hamlet Allen & Unwin Jason Paulos et all EEEK!: Weird Australian Tales of Suspense Black House Comics finalists Jonathan Walker & Dan Hallett Five Wounds Allen & Unwin Rocky Wood & Glenn Chadbourne Horrors: Great Stories of Fear and Their Creators McFarlane & Co 2011 Mirranda Burton Hidden Black Pepper joint winners Tom Taylor & James Brouwer The Deep: Here be Dragons Gestalt Publishing Andrew Constant & Joh James & Nicola Torn Gestalt Publishing Scott, Emily Smith finalists Mozchops Salsa Invertebraxa Pecksniff Press Christian Read & Michael Maier The Eldritch Kid: Whiskey and Hate Gestalt Publishing 2012 winner Pat Grant Blue Top Shelf Comix finalists Tim Molloy It Shines and Shakes and Laughs Milk Shadow Books Justin Randall Changing Ways #2 Gestalt Publishing 2013 Jackie Ryan Burger Force Self-published joint winners Tom Taylor & James Brouwer The Deep: The Vanishing Island #2 Gestalt Publishing Steve Carter & Antoinette Rydyr Savage Bitch Scar Studios finalists Tim Molloy Mr Unpronounceable Adventures Milk Shadow Books Shane W. Smith Peaceful Tomorrows #2 Zetabella Publishing 2014 winner Tim Molloy Mr Unpronounceable and the Sect of the Bleeding Milk Shadow Books Eye Jason Franks & Paul Abstruse Left Hand Path #1 Winter City Productions Jase Harper Awkwood Milk Shadow Books finalists Kathleen Jennings “A Small Wild Magic” Monstrous Affections Candlewick Press Shane Smith The Game Deeper Meanings Publishing 2015 winner Shaun Tan The Singing Bones Allen & Unwin Gary Chaloner, Ben Templesmith, The Undertaker Morton Stone Vol. 1 Gestalt Ashley Wood finalists Jamie Clennett The Diemenois Hunter Publishers Christian Read Going Straight is No Way to Die Unmasked Vol. 1 Gestalt Various authors Fly the Colour Fantastica Veriko Operative 2016 winner Ryan K Lindsay Negative Space Dark Horse Comics Lance Balchin Mechanica Five Mile finalists James Foley BROBOT Fremantle Press Josh Vann The Spider King Self-published aurealis awards, previous years’ results 2017 winner Justin Randall Changing Ways Book 3 Gestalt Mike Barry Action Tank James Foley Dungzilla finalists Craig Phillips Giants, Trolls, Witches, Beasts Campbell Whyte Home Time Margo Lanagan & Rovina Cai Tintinnabula
aurealis awards, previous years’ results best young adult novel year award designation author title series publisher 1995 Garth Nix Sabriel The Old Kingdom #1 HarperCollins Australia/Moonstone joint winners Brian Caswell Deucalion UQP Catherine Jinks Witch Bank Penguin/Puffin finalists John Marsden A Killing Frost Tomorrow #3 Pan Macmillan Isobelle Carmody Ashling Obernewtyn Chronicles #3 Penguin/Viking 1996 Hillary Bell Mirror, Mirror Hodder Headline joint winners Kerry Greenwood The Broken Wheel HarperCollins 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 1997 Isobelle Carmody Greylands Penguin/Puffin joint winners Catherine Jinks Eye to Eye Penguin/Puffin Patricia Bernard The Outcast Outcast #1 HarperCollins Australia/Moonstone finalists Damien Broderick & Rory Barnes Zones HarperCollins Australia/Moonstone Garth Nix Shade’s Children Allen & Unwin 1998 winner Alison Goodman Singing the Dogstar Blues HarperCollins Rory Barnes Horsehead Boy Horsehead Boy #1 HarperCollins Melissa Lucashenko Killing Darcy UQP finalists Dave Luckett A Dark Winter Tenabran Trilogy #1 Omnibus John Marsden The Night Is for Hunting Tomorrow #6 Pan Macmillan 1999 winner Dave Luckett A Dark Victory Tenabran Trilogy #3 Omnibus Rory Barnes Horsehead Man Horsehead Boy #2 HarperCollins Damien Broderick & Rory Barnes Stuck in Fast Forward HarperCollins finalists Victor Kelleher The Ivory Trail Penguin/Viking Victor Kelleher Into the Dark Penguin/Viking 2000 winner Sonya Hartnett Thursday’s Child Penguin Rory Barnes Horsehead Soup Horsehead Boy #3 HarperCollins Richard Harland Ferren and the Angel Penguin finalists Christine Harris Omega Random House Sophie Masson The Green Prince Hodder Headline 2001 winner Louise Katz The Other Face of Janus Angus & Robertson/HarperCollins Anna Fienberg The Witch in the Lake Allen & Unwin Garth Nix Lirael The Old Kingdom Trilogy #2 Allen & Unwin finalists Cameron Rogers The Music of Razors Penguin Books Gillian Rubinstein Terra-Farma Galax-Arena #2 Penguin/Viking 2002 winner Sophie Masson The Hand of Glory Hodder Headline Natalie Jane Prior Fireworks and Darkness Angus & Robertson/HarperCollins finalists David McRobbie Mum, Me, the 19C Angus & Roberston/HarperCollins Kate Forsyth The Starthorn Tree The Starkin Crown #1 Pan Australia 2003 Garth Nix Abhorsen The Old Kingdom Trilogy #3 Allen & Unwin joint winners Carole Wilkinson Dragon Keeper Dragon Keeper #1 Black Dog Books finalist Janeen Webb The Silken Road to Samarkand The Sinbad Chronicles #2 HarperCollins aurealis awards, previous years’ results 2004 winner Scott Westerfeld The Secret Hour Midnighters #1 HarperCollins/Eos Jackie French Flesh and Blood Outlands #3 HarperCollins finalists Penni Russon Undine Undine #1 Random House Matt Zurbo Hot Nights, Cool Dragons Allen & Unwin 2005 winner Isobelle Carmody Alyzon Whitestarr Penguin Anthony Eaton Nightpeople Darklands #1 UQP Justine Larbalestier Magic or Madness Magic or Madness #1 Penguin finalists Scott Westerfeld Peeps Peeps #1 Penguin 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 2006 winner D M Cornish Foundling Monster Blood Tattoo #1 Omnibus Amanda Holohan The King’s Fool Perry Brightfield ABC Books Justine Larbalestier Magic Lessons Magic or Madness #2 Penguin finalists Juliet Marillier Wildwood Dancing Wildwood #1 Pan Macmillan Scott Westerfeld The Last Days Peeps #2 Penguin 2007 winner Anthony Eaton Skyfall Darklands #2 UQP Kate Constable Taste of Lightning Allen & Unwin Juliet Marillier Cybele’s Secret Wildwood #2 Pan Macmillan finalists Michael Pryor Heart of Gold The Laws of Magic #2 Random House Scott Westerfeld Extras Uglies #4 Simon Pulse 2008 winner Melina Marchetta Finnikin of the Rock Lumatere Chronicles #1 Penguin/Viking Isobelle Carmody The Stone Key Obernewtyn Chronicles #5 Penguin/Viking David Cornish Lamplighter Monster Blood Tattoo #2 Omnibus Books finalists Alison Goodman The Two Pearls of Wisdom Eon #1 HarperCollins Sean Williams The Changeling The Changeling #1 Angus & Robertson 2009 winner Scott Westerfeld Leviathan Leviathan #1 Penguin Kate Forsyth The Puzzle Ring Pan Macmillan Cassandra Golds The Museum of Mary Child Puffin Books finalists Glenda Millard A Small Free Kiss in the Dark Allen & Unwin Sean Williams The Scarecrow The Broken Land #3 HarperCollins Publishers Australia 2010 winner Karen Healey Guardian of the Dead Allen & Unwin Ananda Braxton-Smith Merrow Secrets of Carrick #1 Black Dog Books Sonya Hartnett The Midnight Zoo Penguin finalists Doug MacLeod The Life of a Teenage Body-Snatcher Penguin Scott Westerfeld Behemoth Leviathan #2 Penguin 2011 winner Penni Russon Only Ever Always Allen & Unwin Em Bailey Shift Hardie Grant Egmont Ananda Braxton-Smith Tantony Secrets of Carrick #2 Black Dog Books finalists Karen Healey The Shattering Allen & Unwin Meg Mundell Black Glass Scribe Publications 2012 Kaz Delaney Dead, Actually Allen & Unwin joint winners Margo Lanagan Sea Hearts Allen & Unwin Andrea K. Höst And All the Stars Self-published finalists Ambelin Kwaymullina The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf The Tribe #1 Walker Books Louis Nowra Into That Forest Allen & Unwin aurealis awards, previous years’ results
2013 Amie Kaufman & Meahan Spooner These Broken Stars Starbound #1 Allen & Unwin joint winners Allyse Near Fairytales for Wilde Girls Random House Tony Davies The Big Dry Harper Collins finalists Andrea K. Höst Hunting Self-published Claire Zorn The Sky so Heavy University of Queensland Press 2014 winner Jaclyn Moriarty The Cracks in the Kingdom Pan Macmillan Australia Rebecca Lim The Astrologer’s Daughter Text Publishing Lynette Lousbury Afterworld Allen & Unwin finalists Garth Nix Clariel Allen & Unwin Nova Weetman The Haunting of Lily Frost UQP Scott Westerfeld Afterworlds Penguin Books Australia 2015 winner Kathryn Barker In the Skin of a Monster Allen & Unwin Alison Goodman Lady Helen and the Dark Days Club HarperCollins Francesca Haig The Fire Sermon HarperVoyager finalists Trent Jamieson Day Boy Text Publishing Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff Illuminae Allen & Unwin Skye Melki-Wagner The Hush Penguin Random House Australia 2016 winner Alison Goodman Lady Helen and the Dark Days Pact HarperCollins Publishers Jane Abbott Elegy Penguin Random House Australia Alison Croggon The Bone Queen Penguin Books Australia finalists Emily Gale The Other Side of Summer Penguin Random House Australia Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff Gemina Illuminae Files 2 Allen & Unwin Garth Nix Goldenhand Allen & Unwin 2017 winner Cally Black In the Dark Spaces Hardie Grant Egmont Alison Evans Ida Echo, Bonnier Publishing Australia Garth Nix Frogkisser! Allen & Unwin finalists Emily Suvada This Mortal Coil Puffin UK Marlee Jane Ward Psynode Seizure Paula Weston The Undercurrent Text Publishing
aurealis awards, previous years’ results best young adult short story issue publisher year award designation author story title publication title number (if (if collection) periodical) 1995 NO AWARD 1996 winner Isobelle Carmody ‘Green Monkey Dreams’ Green Monkey Dreams Penguin/Viking Dave Luckett The Wizard and Me Omnibus James Moloney The Pipe Lothian finalists Gillian Rubenstein ‘B’ku, B’ku’ Annie’s Brother’s Suit Hyland House Keith Taylor ‘At the Edge of the Sea’ Dreamweavers Penguin 1997 winner Ruth Starke The Twist in the Tale Lothian Sheryl Gardner The Peppercorn Tree Lothian finalists Julie Ireland ‘Hanging by a Thread’ Hanging by a Thread and Other Stories HarperCollins 1998 NO AWARD 1999 NO AWARD 2000 winner Margo Lanagan ‘The Queen’s Notice’ White Time Allen & Unwin Brian Caswell ‘Avalon’ Tales from the Wasteland Hodder 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 2001 winner Isobelle Carmody Dreamwalker Lothian finalist Garth Nix ‘Lightning Bringer’ Love & Sex: Ten Stories of Truth Simon & Schuster 2002 NO AWARD 2003 NO AWARD 2004 winner Margo Lanagan ‘Singing My Sister Down’ Black Juice Allen & Unwin Chris Barnes ‘The Glass Flower’ Encounters: An Anthology of Australian Speculative CSFG Publishing Fiction finalists Bill Congreve ‘The Shooter at Heartrock Waterhole’ The Faery Reel Penguin/Viking Margo Lanagan ‘Rite of Spring’ Black Juice Allen & Unwin 2005 Across the Wall: Tales of the Old Kingdom and Allen & Unwin winner Garth Nix ‘Nicholas Sayre and the Creature in the Case’ Elsewhere finalist Dirk Flinthart ‘The Red Priest’s Homecoming’ Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #17 2006 winner Shaun Tan The Arrival Lothian Deborah Biancotti ‘The Dying Light’ Eidolon I Eidolon Books Simon Brown ‘Leviathan’ Eidolon I Eidolon Books 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 2007 winner Deborah Biancotti ‘A Scar for Leida’ Fantastic Wonder Stories Ticonderoga Publications Shane Jiraiya Cummings ‘Yamabushi Kaidan and the Smoke Dragon’ Fantastic Wonder Stories Ticonderoga Publications Garth Nix ‘Bad Luck, Trouble, Death and Vampire Sex’ Eclipse #1 finalists Garth Nix ‘Holly and Iron’ Dark Alchemy Allen & Unwin Tracey Rolfe ‘Cast Off’ Fantastic Wonder Stories Ticonderoga Publications 2008 winner Trent Jamieson ‘Cracks’ Shiny #2 Deborah Biancotti ‘The Tailor of Time’ Clockwork Phoenix Norilana Books finalists Dirk Flinthart ‘This Is Not My Story’ Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #37 Kevin MacLean ‘Eye of the Beholder’ Misspelled DAW Books aurealis awards, previous years’ results 2009 winner Cat Sparks ‘Seventeen’ Masques CSFG Joanne Anderton ‘Dragon Bones’ Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #39 Sue Isle ‘Paper Dragons’ Shiny #5 Twelfth Planet Press finalists Ian McHugh ‘Once A Month, On A Sunday’ Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #40 Tansy Rayner Roberts ‘Like Us’ Shiny #5 Twelfth Planet Press 2010 winner Margo Lanagan ‘A Thousand Flowers’ Zombies vs Unicorns Allen & Unwin Aiden Doyle ‘Inksucker’ Worlds Next Door FableCroft Publishing Dirk Flinthart ‘One Story, No Refunds’ Shiny #6 Twelfth Planet Press finalists Kaia Landelius & Tansy ‘Nine Times’ Worlds Next Door FableCroft Publishing Rayner Roberts Jen White ‘An Ordinary Boy’ The Tangled Bank Tangled Bank Press 2011 winner Sue Isle ‘Nation of the Night’ Nightsiders Twelfth Planet Press Kathleen Jennings ‘Finishing School’ Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Candlewick Press Strange Stories finalists Cate Kennedy ‘Seventy-Two Derwents’ The Wicked Wood – Tales from the Tower Volume 2 Allen and Unwin Martine Murray ‘One Window’ The Wilful Eye – Tales from the Tower Volume 1 Allen and Unwin Tansy Rayner Roberts ‘The Patrician’ Love and Romanpunk Twelfth Planet Press 2012 winner Thoraiya Dyer ‘The Wisdom of the Ants’ Clarkesworld Dec 2012 Justin D’Ath ‘Stilled Lifes x11’ Trust Me Too Ford Street Publishing Jack Heath ‘Rats’ Trust Me Too Ford Street Publishing finalists Jack Nicholls ‘The Statues of Melbourne’ Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #56 Adrienne Tam ‘The Worry Man’ Untitled Issue #5 BusyBird Publishing 2013 winner Juliet Marillier ‘By Bone-Light’ Prickle Moon Ticonderoga Publications Joanne Anderton ‘Mah Song’ The Bone Chime Song and Other Stories FableCroft Publishing finalists D. K. Mok ‘Morning Star’ One Small Step FableCroft Publishing Kim Wilkins ‘The Year of Ancient Ghosts’ The Year of Ancient Ghosts Ticonderoga Publications 2014 winner Dirk Flinthart “Vanilla” Kaleidoscope Twelfth Planet Press Goldie Alexander “In Hades” Celapene Press Liz Argyll “Falling Leaves” Apex Magazine finalists David Cornish “The Fuller and the Bogle” Tales from the Half-Continent Omnibus Books Faith Mudge “Signature” Kaleidoscope Twelfth Planet Press 2015 winner Deborah Kalin “The Miseducation of Mara Lys” Cherry Crow Children Twelfth Planet Press Kimberly Gaal “In Sheep’s Clothing” Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #61 Kimberly Gaal “The Nexus Tree” The Never Never Land CSFG finalists DK Mok “The Heart of the Labyrinth” In Memory: A Tribute to Sir Terry Pratchett Sorin Suciu Faith Mudge “Blueblood” Hear Me Roar Ticonderoga Publications Marlee Jane Ward Welcome to Orphancorp Seizure 2016 winner Leife Shallcross “Pretty Jennie Greenteeth” Strange Little Girls Belladonna Publishing Lisa L Hannett “A Right Pretty Mate” Dreaming in the Dark PS Publishing Jack Nicholls “Dune Time” Tor.com finalists Shauna O’Meara “No One Here is Going to Save You” In Your Face FableCroft Publishing Tansy Rayner Roberts “Did We Break the End of the World?” Defying Doomsday Twelfth Planet Press 2017 winner Tansy Rayner Roberts Girl Reporter Book Smugglers Amie Kaufman “One Small Step” Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology HarperCollins Australia Will Kostakis “I Can See the Ending” Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology HarperCollins Australia finalists Jaclyn Moriarty “Competition Entry #349” Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology HarperCollins Australia Michael Pryor “First Casualty” Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology HarperCollins Australia Lili Wilkinson “Oona Underground” Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology HarperCollins Australia aurealis awards, previous years’ results
best children’s (8-12 years) long fiction year award designation author title series publisher 1995-2000 NO AWARD 2001 winner Sally Odgers Candle Iron Angus & Robertson/HarperCollins Kirsty Murray Market Blues Allen & Unwin finalists Michael Stephens Blat Magic Angus & Robertson/HarperCollins honourable Janeen Webb Sailing to Atlantis Angus & Robertson/HarperCollins mention 2002 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 finalists Natalie Jane Prior Lily Quench and the Treasure of Mote Ely Hodder Headline Australia Justin d’Ath & Astrid Spark Fixologist Allen & Unwin 2003 winner Garth Nix Mister Monday Keys of the Kingdom #1 Allen & Unwin Deborah Abela Max Remy Superspy: The Hollywood Mission Random House Catherine Jinks Eustace Allen & Unwin finalists James Valentine Jumpman Rule 2 Random House Carole Wilkinson Dragonkeeper Black Dog Books 2004 winner Colin Thompson How to Live Forever Random House John Flanagan The Ruins of Gorlan Ranger’s Apprentice #1 Random House Cassandra Golds Claire de Lune Penguin finalists Sophie Masson Snow, Fire, Sword Random House Gabrielle Wang The Pearl of Tiger Bay Penguin highly commended James Moloney Tunnel of Ferdinand HarperCollins 2005 winner Garth Nix Drowned Wednesday Keys of the Kingdom #3 Allen & Unwin Isobelle Carmody Little Fur The Legend of Little Fur #1 Penguin finalists Morris Gleitzman Worm Story Penguin Richard Harland Sassycat: The Night of the Dead Omnibus Carole Wilkinson Garden of the Purple Dragon Black Dog Books highly commended John Flanagan The Icebound Land Ranger’s Apprentice #3 Random House Australia 2006 winner Mardi McConnochie Melissa, Queen of Evil Pan Australia Isobelle Carmody A Fox Called Sorrow The Legend of Little Fur #2 Penguin/Viking John Flanagan Oakleaf Bearers Ranger’s Apprentice #4 Random House Australia finalists Nury Vittachi Twilight in the Land of Nowhen Allen & Unwin Kim Wilkins The Sunken Kingdom Quartet Fantastica Omnibus 2007 The Silver Horse, The Herb of Grace, The Cat’s winners Kate Forsyth Eye Shell, The Lightning Bolt, The Butterfly in The Chain of Charms #2-6 Pan Macmillan Amber Isobelle Carmody A Mystery of Wolves Penguin Books finalists Emily Rodda The Key to Rondo Omnibus Books Carole Wilkinson Dragon Moon Black Dog Books honourable Alexandra Adornetto The Shadow Thief HarperCollins mention aurealis awards, previous years’ results 2008 winner Emily Rodda The Wizard of Rondo Omnibus Books Simon Higgins Moonshadow Eye of the Beast Random House Australia Sophie Masson Thomas Trew and the Island of Ghosts Hodder Children’s finalists Carole Wilkinson Dragon Dawn Black Dog Books Sean Williams The Changeling and The Dust Devils The Changeling series #1-2 Angus & Robertson 2009 winner Gabrielle Wang A Ghost in My Suitcase Puffin Books Deborah Abela The Remarkable Secret of Aurelie Bonhoffen Random House Australia finalists Kate Constable Cicada Summer Allen & Unwin Jen Storer Tensy Farlow and the Home for Mislaid Children Penguin/Viking 2010 winner Lian Tanner The Keepers Allen & Unwin Deborah Abela Grimsdon Random House John Flanagan Halt’s Peril Ranger’s Apprentice #9 Random House finalists Stephen M. Giles The Vulture of Sommerset Pan Macmillan Jen Storer & Gus Gordon Haggis MacGregor and the Night of the Skull Penguin 2011 winner Lian Tanner City of Lies Allen & Unwin John Flanagan The Outcasts Random House Catherine Jinks The Paradise Trap Allen & Unwin finalists Thalia Kalkapsakis ‘It Began with a Tingle’ Headspinners Allen & Unwin Andrew McGahan The Coming of the Whirlpool Allen & Unwin 2012 winner John Flanagan Brotherband: The Hunters Random House Pamela Freeman Princess Betony and the Unicorn Walker Books finalists Emily Rodda The Silver Door Scholastic Leah Swann Irina the Wolf Queen Xoum Publishing 2013 winner Kirstie Murray The Four Seasons of Lucy McKenzie Allen & Unwin Isobelle Carmody Cloud Road #2 Kingdom of the Lost Penguin 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
best children’s (8-12 years) short fiction issue publisher year award designation author story title publication title number (if (if collection) periodical) 1995-2000 NO AWARD 2001 winner Jackie French Cafe on Callisto Koala Kim Caraher Zip Zap Random House Australia finalists Claire Carmichael Saving Aunt Alice Random House Australia Christine Harris Hairy Legs Random House Australia Paul Collins Movie World Longman honourable mentions Andrew Whitmore The Ark of Dreams Black Dog Books 2002 winner Anna Fienberg & Kim Gamble Tashi and the Haunted House Allen & Unwin Terry Denton The Golden Udder Allen & Unwin Justin d’Ath ‘The Two Natalies’ Reel Trouble, Spinouts Sapphire Longman finalists Andrew Chapman ‘In the Blink of an Eye’ Reel Trouble, Spinouts Sapphire Longman Gary Crew & Marc McBride Old Ridley Hodder aurealis awards, previous years’ results 2003 winner Natalie Jane Prior Lily Quench and the Lighthouse of Skellig Mor Hodder Headline Australia Duncan Ball Emily Eyefinger and the Balloon Bandits HarperCollins Roseanne Hawke Wolfchild Lothian finalists Anna Fienberg & Barbara Fienberg Tashi and the Royal Tombs Allen & Unwin Natalie Jane Prior Lily Quench and the Magicians’ Pyramid Hodder Headline Australia 2004 winner Gary Crew & Steven Wollman Beneath the Surface Hodder Stephen Axelsen The Very Messy Inspection Random House Duncan Ball Emily Eyefinger and the Ghost Ship HarperCollins finalists Anna Fienberg & Barbara Fienberg There Was Once a Boy Called Tashi Allen & Unwin Gregory Rogers The Boy, The Bear, The Baron, The Bard Allen & Unwin highly commended John Marsden A Roomful of Magic Pan Macmillan 2005 winner Stephen Axelsen Piccolo & Annabel 2: The Disastrous Party Random House Australia Goldie Alexander ‘The Space Gypsies’ The School Magazine #7 finalists Stephen Axelsen Piccolo & Annabel 3: The Stinky Cheese Gypsies Random House Australia Gary Crew & Jeremy Geddes The Mystery of Eilean Mor Lothian 2006 Jane Godwin The True Story of Mary Who Wanted to Stand on Her Head Allen & Unwin joint winners Margaret Wild & Anne Spudvilas Woolvs in the Sitee Penguin Victor Kelleher & Stephen Michael The Magic Violin Penguin finalist King 2007 Marc McBride World of Monsters Scholastic Australia joint winners Briony Stewart Kumiko and the Dragon UQP Luke Edwards Ock Von Fiend Omnibus Books finalists Anna Fienberg & Barbara Fienberg Tashi and The Mixed Up Monster Allen & Unwin [Note: From 2008, this category is known as Best Children’s (8-12 years) Illustrated Work/Picture Book.]
best children’s (8-12 years) illustrated work/picture book issue publisher year award designation author story title publication title number (if (if collection) periodical) 2008 Richard Harland & Laura Peterson Escape!, Under Siege, Race to the Ruins, The Heavy Omnibus Books winner (illustrator) Crown, The Wolf Kingdom series Anna Fienberg, Barbara Fienberg & Tashi and the Phoenix Allen & Unwin Kim Gamble Ian Irvine & David Cornish Thorn Castle, Giant’s Lair, Black Crypt, Wizardry Crag, The Omnibus Books (illustrator) Sorcerer’s Tower series finalists Sally Morgan with Ezekiel, Ambelin Curly and the Fent Random House Australia and Blaze Kwaymullina & Adam Hill (illustrator) Richard Tulloch & Terry Denton Twisted Tales Random House Australia (illustrator) 2009 Pamela Freeman (author), Kim Victor’s Challenge Walker Books Australia winner Gamble (illustrator) Graeme Base Enigma Penguin/Viking Anna Fienberg, Kim Gamble Tashi and the Golem Allen & Unwin finalists Dan McGuiness Pilot and Huxley Omnibus Books Gregory Rogers The Hero of Little Street Allen & Unwin aurealis awards, previous years’ results 2010 Sonya Hartnett (author), Lucia The Boy and the Toy (Viking) Penguin winner Masciullo (illustrator) Isobelle Carmody (author), Anne Night School (Viking) Penguin Spudvilas (illustrator) Luke Davies (author), Inari Kiuru Magpie (ABC Books) HarperColins (illustrator) finalists Julie Hunt & Sue Moss (authors), Precious Little Alllen & Unwin Gaye Chapman (illustrator) David Richardson (author), Steven The Cloudchasers (ABC Books) HarperCollins Hunt (illustrator) 2011 Christopher Cheng (author), Sarah Sounds Spooky Random House Australia winner Davis (illustrator) Aaron Blabey The Ghost of Annabel Spoon (Viking) Penguin Norman Jorgensen (author), James The Last Viking Fremantle Press Foley (illustrator) finalists Tom Taylor (author), James Brouwer The Deep: Here be Dragons Gestalt Publishing (illustrator) Margaret Wild (author), Andrew Yeo Vampyre Walker Books (illustrator) 2012 winner Graeme Base Little Elephants (Viking) Penguin Gary Crew (author), Ross Watkins The Boy Who Grew Into a Tree Penguin (illustrator) finalists Gary Crew (author), Den Scheer In the Beech Forest Ford Street Publishing (illustrator) Mark Wilson Inside the World of Tom Roberts Lothian Children’s 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 2013 winner Kirsty Murry The Four Seasons of Lucy McKenzie Allen & Unwin Isobelle Carmody Kingdom of the Lost, book 2: Cloud road Penguin Group Australia Jackie French Refuge Harper Collins finalists Julie Hunt Song for a Scarlet Runner Allen & Unwin Shaun Tan Rules of Summer Hachette Australia Lian Tanner Ice Breaker: The Hidden 1 Allen & Unwin 2014 winner Carole Wilkinson Shadow Sister: Dragon Keeper #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 & James Foley The Last Viking Returns Fremantle Press Judith Rossell Withering-by-Sea ABC Books Lian Tanner Sunker’s Deep: The Hidden #2 Allen & Unwin 2015 winner Meg McKinlay A Single Stone Walker Books Australia Angelica Banks A Week Without Tuesday Allen & Unwin Jack Heath The Cut-Out Allen & Unwin finalists Meg McKinlay Bella and the Wandering House Fremantle Press AL Tait The Mapmaker Chronicles: Prisoner of the Black Hawk Hachette Australia 2016 winner Kim Kane When the Lyrebird Calls Allen & Unwin Angelica Banks Blueberry Pancakes Forever Allen & Unwin Lee Battersby Magrit Walker Books Australia finalists Caleb Crisp Somebody Stop Ivy Pocket Bloomsbury Mick Elliott The Turners Hachette Australia Emily Rodda The Hungry Isle Omnibus Books aurealis awards, previous years’ results 2017 winner Jessica Townsend Nevermoor Hachette Australia Bren MacDibble How to Bee Allen & Unwin Jaclyn Moriarty The Extremely Inconvenient Adventures of Bronte Allen & Unwin Mettlestone finalists Emily Rodda The Shop at Hoopers Bend HarperCollins Australia Jo Sandhu The Exile Penguin Random House Australia Lian Tanner Accidental Heroes 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] 2006 Will Elliott The Pilo Family Circus ABC Books [Horror] 2007 David Kowalski The Company of 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 2004 Margo Lanagan ‘Singing My Sister Down’ Black Juice Allen & Unwin [Young Adult] 2005 Garth Nix ‘Nicholas Sayre and the Creature in the Case’ Across the Wall: Tales of the Old Kingdom and Elsewhere Allen & Unwin [Young Adult] 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 2002-2013, this award was known as the peter mcnamara convenors’ award for excellence] year award designation name why 1995-1997 NO AWARD 1998 winner Shaun Tan for his artwork in The Rabbits, Lothian Paul Collins, Sean McMullen & Steven Paulsen finalists Jack Dann & Janeen Webb Greg Egan 1999 winner Terry Dowling Antique Futures, mp books Graeme Base The Worst Band in the Universe, Penguin/Viking finalists Russell Blackford, Van Ikin & Sean McMullen Strange Constellations: A History of Australian Science Fiction, Greenwood Press Sara Douglass The Betrayal of Arthur, Pan Macmillan 2000 Paul Collins & Meredith Costain editors, Spinouts: Bronze, Pearson Education joint winners Shaun Tan The Lost Thing, Lothian Books Damien Broderick Transrealist Fiction: Writing in the Slipstream of Science, Greenwood Press finalists Bruce Gillespie editor, ‘The Unrelenting Gaze – George Turner, Non-fiction: A Selection’, SF Commentary #76 Margo Lanagan ‘White Time’, White Time, Allen & Unwin aurealis awards, previous years’ results peter mcnamara convenors’ award for excellence year award designation name why 2001 Emily Rodda & Mark McBride The Deltora Quest series, Scholastic joint winners Emily Rodda & Mark McBride The Deltora Book of Monsters, Scholastic Peter McNamara for his outstanding contribution to speculative fiction 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 2002 Robbie Matthews for his important contribution to local genre publishing with both the Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild and winner Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine Justine Larbalestier The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction, Wesleyan University Press Cat Sparks for the guidance and support she has provided to the local genre industry through her imprint Agog! Publishing finalists Sara Creasy for compiling and editing the monthly ebulletin ‘aurealisXpress’ Kim Selling & Lilla Smee for organising the ‘Fantastic Fictions: Medieval and Modern’ one-day seminar at the University of Sydney 2003 winner Nick Stathopoulos for his amazing body of work in illustration over the past years 2004 Cat Sparks 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 winner year’s Smashing Stories has provided three Aurealis 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. John Marsden Kim Wilkins finalists Geoffrey Maloney Sophie Masson 2005 Grant Stone 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 be exposed to Grant’s deep and winner 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.) 2006 Bill Congreve 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 winner ago, has been responsible for some of the most polished, professional and high quality small press 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 aurealis awards, previous years’ results 2010 Helen Merrick 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 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. For many years, Helen has been one of those tireless workers behind the scenes, colunteering time winner and energy to the Australian spec fic scene. She has serves as a judge on the Aurealis awards, the James Tiptree Jr award, and the Peter McNamara lifetime achiecement award. As an academic, fandom historian and non-fiction writer, Helen has worked to promote Australian science fiction and our feminism history, as well as working on a larger international scale. She was responsible for one of the streams at the 2010 Worldcon in Melbourne and now podcasts about social media, science fiction and digital culture. Her recent book was a major achievement, earning a Hugo nomination. Helen is also a winner of the William Atheling Jr Award. 2011 Galactic Suburbia podcast – Alisa Krasnostein, Alex Galactic Suburbia has founded a new arena for SF criticism and review in Australia, as well as bringing a new winner Pierce, Tansy Rayner Roberts, Andrew Finch (producer) international audience to Australian writing, not only promoting works by Australian authors but also highlighting feminist issues within the global speculative fiction scene and thereby encouraging vital debate and discussion among community members. 2012 Kate Eltham 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 winner and recognition both here 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. 2013 Jonathan Strahan 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 winner 1999. Since 1997, Jonathan has worked for 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. 2014 winner David Ashton, Petra Elliott, Ben McKenzie, John Richards and Lee Zachariah for Night Terrace (audio series) 2015 Letters to Tiptree edited by Alexandra Pierce & Alisa Letters to Tiptree is a significant Australian production for 2015. This book, which celebrates the contribution of Krasnostein (Twelfth Planet Press) Alice Sheldon/James Tiptree Jr to the science fiction field, presents 40 letters from major names in the field today, as well as academic essays about the importance of Sheldon/Tiptree and original letters to and from Sheldon, winner Ursula Le Guin and Joanna Russ. This is an important contribution not only to thinking about Sheldon/Tiptree but to the history of science fiction, the place of women in it, and how those who have gone before us can have a significant impact. It also explores the importance of discussing issues of feminism, and how vital it is to see others like us (women, queer, questioning) around us, succeeding in our field. This book is the most significant action undertaken to celebrate the centenary of Sheldon’s birth; very little else has occurred in her honour. 2016 The Rebirth of Rapunzel: A Mythic Biography of the Showcasing an astonishing level of research in a highly readable and engaging form, The Rebirth of Rapunzel winner Maiden in the Tower by Kate Forsyth (FableCroft delves into the mythology of the Rapunzel fairy tale and examines the historical and storytelling background to the Publishing) piece. Packaged with several related articles and other pieces, the book is both a factual exploration of a fictional creation and a beautiful reading experience in and of itself. Non-fiction collection 2017 winner The Fictional Mother by Tansy Rayner Roberts (self- A collection of non-fiction essays combining personal memoir with pop culture and science fictional themes. published)
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