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aurealis awards, previous years’ results

best science fiction novel

year award designation author title series publisher

1995 winner Greg Egan Distress Millennium

finalists

Sean McMullen Mirrorsun Rising Greatwinter #1.5 Aphelion

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

finalists Simon Brown Privateer HarperCollins

Tess Williams Map of Power Random/Arrow

1997 winner Damien Broderick The White Abacus Avon Eos

finalists

Damien Broderick & Rory Barnes Zones HarperCollins Australia/Moonstone

Simon Brown Winter HarperCollins Australia

Greg Egan Diaspora Millennium

Richard Harland The Dark Edge The Eddon + Vail #1 Pan Macmillan

1998 winner Sean McMullen The Centurion’s Empire Tor

finalists

Alison Goodman Singing the Dogstar Blues HarperCollins

John Marsden The Night Is for Hunting Tomorrow #6 Pan Macmillan

Kate Orman The New Adventures: Walking to Babylon Doctor Who – Bernice Summerfield #10

Virgin

Sean Williams The Resurrected Man HarperCollins

1999 winner Greg Egan Teranesia Victor Gollancz

finalists

Rory Barnes & Damien Broderick The Book of Revelation HarperCollins/Voyager

Andrew Masterson The Letter Girl Picador

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

finalists

James Bradley The Deep Field Sceptre

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

finalists

Peter McAllister Cosmonaut Penguin Books

Sean McMullen Eyes of the Calculor Greatwinter #3 Tor

Joel Shepherd Crossover Cassandra Kresnov #1 HarperCollins/Voyager

2002 winner Damien Broderick Transcension Tor

finalists Michelle Marquardt Blue Silence Bantam

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

finalists

Jay Caselberg Wyrmhole Jack Stein #1 Penguin/Roc

Ian Irvine Terminator Gene Human Rites #2 Simon & Schuster/Earthlight Australia

Kate Orman Blue Box Doctor Who: Past Doctor Adventures #59

BBC Worldwide

Sean Williams & Shane Dix Orphans of Earth The Orphans #2 HarperCollins/Voyager

honourable mention

Paul Collins The Earthborn The Earthborn Wars #1 Tor

aurealis awards, previous years’ results 2004 winner Maxine McArthur Less than Human Warner Aspect

finalists

K. A. Bedford Orbital Burn Edge

Jack Dann The Rebel HarperCollins/Flamingo

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

finalists

John Birmingham Designated Targets World War #2.2 Pan Macmillan Australia

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

finalists

K. A. Bedford Hydrogen Steel Edge

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

finalists

Marianne De Pierres Dark Space Sentients of Orion #1 Orbit

Jack Heath Remote Control Agent Six of Hearts #2 Pan Macmillan

Sean Williams Saturn Returns Astropolis #1 Orbit

honourable mention

Rose Michael The Asking Game Transit Lounge

2008 winner

K. A. Bedford Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing

finalists

Marianne de Pierres Chaos Space Sentients of Orion #2 Orbit

Simon Haynes Hal Spacejock: No Free Lunch Hal Spacejock #4 Fremantle Press

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

finalists

Sara Creasy Song of Scarabaeus Scarabaeus #1 EOS Books

Marianne de Pierres Mirror Space Sentients of Orion #3 Orbit

2011 winner Kim Westwood The Courier’s New Bicycle HarperCollins

finalists

Max Barry Machine Man Scribe Publications

Sara Creasy Children of Scarabaeus Scarabaeus #2 HarperVoyager

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

finalists

Jo Anderton Suited The Veiled Worlds #2 Angry Robot

Nina D’Aleo The Last City The Demon War Chronicles #1 Momentum

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

finalists

Andrew Macrae Trunksong Twelfth Planet Press

Jane Rawson A Wrong Turn at the Office of Unmade Lists Transit Lounge

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

finalists

Amanda Bridgeman

LynC

Nina D’Aleo

Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner

Graham Storrs

Aurora: Meridian

Nil by Mouth Satalyte

The White List Momentum

This Shattered World

Foresight

Momentum

Satalyte

Momentum

Allen & Unwin

Momentum

2015 winner Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff Illuminae Allen & Unwin

finalists

Evelyn Blackwell

James Bradley


Joel Shepherd

Sean Williams

Crossed

Clade

Their Fractured Light

Renegade

Twinmaker: Fall

Self-published

Penguin

Allen & Unwin

Kindle Direct

Allen & Unwin

2016 winner Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff Gemina: Illuminae Files 2 Allen & Unwin

finalists

Jane Abbott

SK Dunstall

DK Mok

Daniel O’Malley

Rebekah Turner

Watershed

Confluence

Squid’s Grief

Stiletto

Threader

Penguin Random House

Ace Books

Self-published

Harper Collins Publisher

Harlequin Australia

2017 winner Jane Rawson From the Wreck Transit Lounge

finalists

Sally Abbott

Claire G Coleman

Daniel Findlay

Krissy Kneen

Cat Sparks

Closing Down

Terra Nullius

Year of the Orphan

An Uncertain Grace

Lotus Blue

Hachette Australia

Hachette Australia

Penguin Random House

Text Publishing

Skyhorse


best science fiction novella

year award designation author story title publication title issue number (if periodical)

publisher (if collection)

2015 winner

Garth Nix “By Frogsled and Lizardback to Outcast Venusian Lepers”

Old Venus Random House

finalists Jack Bridges

Sean Monaghan

“Blood and Ink”

“The Molenstraat Music Festival”

Asimov’s Science Fiction

Prizm Books

2016 winner Nick T Chan “Salto Mortal” Lightspeed #73

finalists

Deborah Biancotti

Thoraiya Dyer

Rose Mulready

Simon Petrie

Tansy Rayner Roberts

Waking in Winter

“Going Viral”

The Bonobo’s Dream

“All the Colours of the Tomato”

“Did We Break the End of the World?”

Dimension6

Dimension6

Defying Doomsday

#8

#9

PS Publishing

Coeur de lion

Seizure Press

Coeur de lion

Twelfth Planet Press

2017 winner Tansy Rayner Roberts Girl Reporter Book Smugglers

finalists

Stephanie Gunn

Will Kostakis

DK Mok

Shauna O’Meara

Simon Petrie

“This Silent Sea”

“I Can See the Ending”

“The Wandering Library”

“Island Green”

Matters Arising from the Identification of the Body

Review of Australian Fiction

Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology

Ecopunk!

Ecopunk!

Volume 24 Issue 6

HarperCollins Australia

Ticonderoga Publications


Peggy Bright Books


best science fiction short story



1995 winner Greg Egan ‘Luminous’ Asimov’s September 1995

finalists

Stephen Dedman ‘From Whom All Blessings Flow’ Asimov’s April 1995

Greg Egan ‘Mr Volition’ Interzone #100

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

finalists

Simon Brown ‘The Mark of Thetis’ Eidolon #21

Terry Dowling ‘The Ichneumon and the Dormeuse’ Interzone #106

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

finalists

Russell Blackford ‘Lucent Carbon’ Eidolon #25/26

Damien Broderick ‘Schrödinger’s Dog’ Eidolon #22/23

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

finalists

Stephen Dedman ‘Transit’ Asimov’s March 98

Greg Egan ‘Oceanic’ Asimov’s August 98

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

finalists

Terry Dowling ‘The View in Nancy’s Window’ Interzone September 1999

Chris Lawson ‘Chinese Rooms’ Eidolon #28

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

finalists

Adam Browne ‘Schrödinger’s Catamaran’ Orb #1

Stephen Dedman ‘The Devotee’ Eidolon #29/30

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

finalists

Michael Barry ‘The Trojan Rocks’ Nor of Human... CSFG Publishing

Jack Dann ‘The Diamond Pit’ F&SF June 2001

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

finalists

Shane M Brown ‘Lucy Lucy’ Aurealis #29

Shane M Brown ‘Late Returns’ Redsine #9

Geoffrey Maloney ‘The Imperfect Instantaneous People Mover’

Fantastic Fiction Agog!

Chris McMahon ‘Within Twilight’ Redsine #8

aurealis awards, previous years’ results 2003 winner Brendan Duffy ‘Louder Echo’ Terrific Tales Agog!

finalists

Stephen Dedman ‘Acquired Tastes’ Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #9

Sue Isle ‘Amy’s Stars’ Orb #5

Martin Livings ‘Sigmund Freud and the Feral Freeway’

Terrific Tales Agog!

Kaaron Warren ‘State of Oblivion’ Elsewhere CSFG Publishing

honourable mentions

Shane Brown ‘The Earth Equation’ Glimpses Vision Writers Group

Grace Dugan ‘The Wall’ Glimpses Vision Writers Group

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!

finalists

Stephen Dedman ‘Desiree’ Oceans of the Mind #10

Geoffrey Maloney ‘Bush of Ghosts’ Tales from the Crypto-System Prime Books

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

finalists

Rjurik Davidson ‘The Interminable Sufferings of Mysterious Mr Wu’

Aurealis #33, 34, 35

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

finalists

Lee Battersby ‘Dark Ages’ Through Soft Air Prime Books

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

finalists

Simon Brown ‘Lonely as Life’ Fantastic Wonder Stories Ticonderoga Publications

Penelope Love ‘Whitey’ Shadow Plays Elise Bunter

Chris McMahon ‘The Eyes of Erebus’ Daikaiju! 2 – Revenge of the Giant Monsters Agog! Press

Cat Sparks ‘Arctica’ Fantastic Wonder Stories Ticonderoga Publications

honourable mention

Dirk Flinthart ‘Truckers’ Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #30

2008 winner Simon Brown ‘The Empire’ Dreaming Again HarperVoyager

finalists

Nathan Burrage ‘Black and Bitter, Thanks’ The Workers’ Paradise Ticonderoga Publications

Trent Jamieson ‘Delivery’ Cosmos #21

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

finalists

Peter M Ball ‘To Dream of Stars: An Astronomer’s Lament’

Apex Magazine October 2009

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

finalists

Matthew Chrulew ‘The Angaelian Apocalypse’ The Company Articles of Edward Teacg/The Angaelian Apocalypse


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

finalists

Joanne Anderton ‘Flowers in the Shadow of the Garden’ Hope Kayelle Press

Robert Hood ‘Desert Madonna’ Anywhere but Earth Coeur de Lion

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

finalists

James Bradley ‘Visitors’ Review of Australian Fiction Volume 2, Issue 3

Greg Mellor ‘Beyond Winter’s Shadow’ Wild Chrome Ticonderoga Publications

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

finalists

Joanne Anderton ‘The Last Tiger’ Daily Science Fiction May 1st

Joanne Anderton ‘Mah Song’ The Bone Chime Song and Other Stories FableCroft Publishing

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

finalists

Deborah Biancotti

Jason Fischer

Charlotte Nash

Garth Nix

“The Executioner Goes Home”

“The Glorious Aerybeth”

“Dellinger”

“Happy Go Lucky”


OnSpec

Use Only As Directed

Kaleidoscope

Volume 11, Issue 6

11 Sept 2014

Peggy Bright Books


2015 winner Sean Williams “All the Wrong Places” Meeting Infinity Solaris

finalists

Joanne Anderton

Claire McKenna

Charlotte Nash

Kaaron Warren

“2B”

“The Marriage of the Corn King”

“Alchemy and Ice”

“Witnessing”

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Cosmos

Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine

The Canary Press Story Magazine

#61

#6

FableCroft Publishing

2016 winner Samantha Murray “Of Sight, of Mind, of Heart” Clarkesworld #122

finalists

Jack Dann

Ian McHugh

Claire McKenna

Kaaron Warren

Jen White

“Trainspotting in Winesburg”

“The Baby Eaters”

“The Autumn Dog Cannot Live to Spring”

“68 Days”

“The Least of Things”

Concentration

Asimov’s Science Fiction

In Your Face

Tomorrow’s Cthulu

Aurealis

40/1

#94

PS Publishing


Broken Eye Books

2017 winner Garth Nix “Conversations with an Armoury Infinity Wars Solaris

finalists

Lyn Battersby

Aiki Flinthart

Pamela Jeffs

Amie Kaufman

Alfie Simpson

“The Missing Years”

“A Little Faith”

“Cards and Steel Hearts”

“One Small Step”

“Hurk + Dav”


Like a Woman

Lawless Lands: Tales from the Weird Frontier


Breach

#66

#01

Mirren Hogan

Falstaff Books



best fantasy novel


1995 winner Garth Nix Sabriel The Old Kingdom #1 HarperCollins 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

1996

joint winners

Jack Dann The Memory Cathedral Bantam

Sara Douglass Enchanter Axis Trilogy #2 HarperCollins/Voyager

Sara Douglass Starman Axis Trilogy #3 HarperCollins/Voyager

finalists

Shannah Jay The Price of Wisdom The Chronicles of Tenebrak #4 Pan Macmillan

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

finalists

Isobelle Carmody Darkfall The Legendsong #1 Penguin

Sara Douglass Sinner The Wayfarer Redemption #1 HarperCollins/Voyager

Kate Forsyth Dragonclaw The Witches of Eileanan #1 Random House

Lucy Sussex Black Ice Hodder Headline

1998 joint winners

Dave Luckett A Dark Winter Tenabran Trilogy #1 Omnibus

Jane Routley Fire Angels The Chronicles of Dion #2 Avon Eos

finalists

Sara Douglass Pilgrim The Wayfarer Redemption #2 HarperCollins/Voyager

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

finalists

Sara Douglass Crusader The Wayfarer Redemption #3 HarperCollins/Voyager

Kate Forsyth The Cursed Towers The Witches of Eileanan #3 Random House

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

finalists

Sara Douglass The Nameless Day The Crucible #1 HarperCollins/Voyager

Anthony Eaton The Darkness UQP

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

finalists

Juliet Marillier Child of the Prophecy Sevenwaters #3 Pan Macmillan

Garth Nix Lirael The Old Kingdom #2 Allen & Unwin

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

finalists

Trudi Canavan The Novice The Black Magician Trilogy #2 HarperCollins/Voyager

Alison Croggon The Gift Pellinor #1 Penguin

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

finalists

K. J. Bishop The Etched City Prime Books

Lian Hearn Grass for His Pillow Tales of the Otori #2 Hodder

Glenda Larke The Aware The Isles of Glory #1 HarperCollins/Voyager

Sean McMullen Voyage of the Shadowmoon Moonworlds Saga #1 Tor

honourable mentions

Ian Irvine Scrutator Well of Echoes #3 Penguin/Viking

Anthony O’Neil Lamplighter HarperCollins

2004 winner Sean Williams The Crooked Letter Books of the Cataclysm #1 HarperCollins/Voyager

finalists

Lian Hearn Brilliance of the Moon Tales of the Otori #3 Hodder

Glenda Larke Tainted The Isles of Glory #3 HarperCollins/Voyager

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

finalists

Sara Douglass Darkwitch Rising The Troy Game #3 HarperCollins/Voyager

Anthony Eaton Nightpeople Darklands #1 UQP

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

finalists

Grace Dugan The Silver Road Penguin

Glenda Larke Heart of the Mirage Mirage Makers #1 HarperCollins/Voyager

Sean McMullen Voidfarer Moonworlds Saga #3 Tor

Michael Pryor Blaze of Glory The Laws of Magic #1 Random House

honourable mentions

Kylie Chan White Tiger Dark Heavens #1 HarperCollins/Voyager

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

finalists

Jennifer Fallon The Gods of Amyrantha The Tide Lords #2 HarperCollins/Voyager

Sylvia Kelso The Moving Water Rihannar Chronicles #2 Thomson Gale

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 mentions

Pamela Freeman Blood Ties Castings Trilogy #1 Hachette Australia

Karen Miller Empress of Mijak Godspeaker #1 HarperCollins/Voyager

2008 winner Alison Goodman The Two Pearls of Wisdom Eon #1 HarperCollins

finalists

Sylvia Kelso Amberlight Riverworld #1 Juno Books

Margo Lanagan Tender Morsels Allen & Unwin

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

finalists

Peter M. Ball Horn Twelfth Planet Press

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

2010 winner Tansy Rayner Roberts Power and Majesty Creature Court #1 HarperVoyager

finalists

Andrea K. Höst The Silence of Medair Medair #1 Self-published

Trent Jamieson Death Most Definite Death Works Trilogy #1 Orbit

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

finalists

Jennifer Fallon The Undivided Rift Runners #1 HarperVoyager

Glenda Larke Stormlord’s Exile Watergivers #3 HarperVoyager

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

finalists

Kate Forsyth Bitter Greens Random House

Kay Kristoff Stormdancer The Lotus War #1 Tor UK

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

finalists

Max Barry Lexicon Hachette


These Broken Stars Starbound #1 Allen & Unwin

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

finalists

Keri Arthur


Glenda Larke

Scott Westerfeld

Kim Wilkins

Fireborn

This Shattered World

The Lascar’s Dagger

Afterworlds

Daughters of the Storm

Hachette Australia

Allen & Unwin

Hachette Australia

Penguin Books Australia

Harlequin Enterprises Australia

2015 winner Trent Jamieson Day Boy Text Publishing

finalists

Kathryn Barker

Alison Goodman

Glenda Larke

Juliet Marillier

Ilka Tampke

In the Skin of a Monster

Lady Helen and the Dark Days Club

The Dagger’s Path

Tower of Thorns

Skin

Allen & Unwin

HarperCollins

Hachette Australia

Pan Macmillan Australia

Text Publishing

2016 winner Jay Kristoff Nevernight Harper Voyager

finalists

Glenda Larke

Juliet Marillier

Angela Slatter

Mark Smith

Kim Wilkins

Fall of the Dagger

Den of Wolve

Vigil

Road to Winter

Sisters of the Fire

Hachette Australia

Pan Macmillan Australia

Jo Fletcher Books

Text Publishing

Harlequin Australia

2017 winner Jay Kristoff Godsgrave HarperCollins Publishers

finalists

Thoraiya Dyer

Goldie Goldbloom

Kathryn Gossow

Michael Pryor

Robin Shortt

Crossroads of Canopy

Gwen

Cassandra

Gap Year in Ghost Town

Wellside

Tor Books

Fremantle Press

Odyssey Books

Allen & Unwin

Candlemark & Gleam


best fantasy novella



2015 winner Jason Fischer “Defy the Grey Kings” Beneath Ceaseless Skies Firkin Press

finalists

Steve Cameron

Stephanie Gunn

Stephanie Gunn

Dmetri Kakmi

Angela Slatter

“Lodloc and the Bear”

“Broken Glass”

“The Flowers that Bloom Where Blood Touches the Earth”

“Haunting Matilda”

“Of Sorrow and Such”

Dimension6

Hear Me Roar

Bloodlines

Cthulhu: Deep Down Under

Coeur de lion



Horror Australis

Tor.com

2016 winner Andrea K Host “Forfeit” The Towers, the Moon Self-published

finalists

Alan Baxter

Jason Fischer

Rose Mulready

Kirstyn McDermott

Angela Slatter

“Raven’s First Flight”

“By the Laws of Crab and Woman”

The Bonobo’s Dream

“Burnt Sugar”

“Finnegan’s Field”

SNAFU: Black Ops


Dreaming in the Dark

Cohesion Press

Seizure Press

PS Publishing

Tor.com

2017 winner Devin Madson In Shadows We Fall Self-published

finalists

Alan Baxter

Nathan Burrage

Kate Forsyth & Kim Wilkins

Kirstyn McDermott

Faith Mudge

The Book Club

“Remnants”

“The Cunning Woman’s Daughter”

“Braid”

Humanity for Beginners

Dimension6

The Silver Well


#11

Volume 24, issue 1

PS Publishing

Coeur de lion


Less Than Three Press

best fantasy short story



1995 winner Karen Attard ‘Harvest Bay’ Eidolon #19

finalists

Petrina Smith ‘Angel Thing’ She’s Fantastical Sybylla

John T Stolarczyk ‘Sail On, Sail On’ Aurealis #15

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

finalists

Isobelle Carmody ‘Green Monkey Dreams’ Green Monkey Dreams Penguin/Viking

Matthew Condon ‘Tattoo’ Original Sin UQP

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

finalists

Chris Gregory ‘Jackie Chan’ Twins Penguin

Le Hang ‘The River of Dreams’ Influence: Australian Voices Anchor

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

finalists

Kerry Greenwood ‘Jetsam’ Dreaming Down-Under HarperCollins/Voyager

Sean McMullen ‘Queen of Soulmates’ Dreaming Down-Under HarperCollins/Voyager

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

finalists

Adam Browne ‘Orlando’s Third Trance’ HQ December 1999

Lisa Jacobson ‘The Language of Trees’ HQ April 1999

Lucy Sussex ‘The Queen of Erewhon’ F&SF September 1999

Janeen Webb ‘Incident on Wolfe St’ HQ January 2000/released December 1999

2000 winner Geoffrey Maloney

‘The World According to Kipling (A Plain Tale from the Hills)’

Aurealis #25/26

finalists

Louise Cusack ‘Goddess and the Geek’ Mystery, Magic, Voodoo & The Holy Grail HarperCollins/Voyager

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

2001 winner Sue Isle ‘The Woman of Endor’ Orb #2

finalists

Jack Dann ‘The Diamond Pit’ Jubilee HarperCollins/Voyager

Terry Dowling ‘The Lagan Fishers’ Scifi.com

Matthew Farrer ‘Tales from the True Desert’ Nor of Human... CSFG Publishing

Kaaron Warren ‘The Speaker of Heaven’ Orb #2

2002 NO AWARD

2003 winner

Lucy Sussex ‘La Sentinelle’ Southern Blood – New Australian Tales of the Supernatural

Sandglass Enterprises

finalists

Lily Chrywenstrom ‘Tireki and the Wind’ Fables and Reflections #4

Marianne de Pierres ‘In the Bookshadow’ Shelf Life: Fantastic Stories Celebrating Bookstores

Dreamhaven Books

Garth Nix ‘Hope Chest’ Firebirds Penguin

honourable mentions Brendan Duffy ‘Louder Echo’ Terrific Tales Agog!

Tracey Rolfe ‘Storm in a Chandelier’ Terrific Tales Agog!

2004 joint winners

Richard Harland ‘Catabolic Magic’ Aurealis #32

Louise Katz ‘Weavers of Twilight’ Smashing Stories Agog!

finalists

Lee Battersby ‘Tales of Nireym’ Orb #6

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

joint winners

Rosaleen Love ‘Once Giants Roamed the Earth’ The Travelling Tide Aqueduct Press

Daikaiju! Giant Monster Tales Agog!

Richard Harland ‘The Greater Death of Saito Saku’ Daikaiju! Giant Monster Tales Agog!

finalists

Adam Browne ‘Heart of Saturday Night’ Lenox Avenue Ezine <www.lenoxavemag.com>

#4

Terry Dartnall ‘Ones and Zeros’ Neverary #8

Dirk Flinthart ‘The Red Priest’s Homecoming’ Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #17

2006 winner Margo Lanagan ‘A Fine Magic’ Eidolon I Eidolon Books

finalists

Lee Battersby ‘Dark Ages’ Through Soft Air Prime Books

Stephanie Campisi ‘Why the Balloon Man Floats Away’ Fantasy Magazine #4

Lucy Sussex ‘The Revenant’ Eidolon I Eidolon Books

Anna Tambour ‘See Here, See There’ Ripping Reads Agog!

honourable mentions Lily Chrywenstrom ‘Ghosts of 1930’ Borderlands #6

Carol Ryles ‘The Bridal Bier’ Eidolon I Eidolon Books

aurealis awards, previous years’ results 2007

winner Garth Nix ‘Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz Go To War Again’

Jim Baen’s Universe April 2007

finalists

R J Astruc ‘The Perfume Eater’ Strange Horizons #16

Adam Browne ‘An Account of an Experiment by Adam Browne’

Orb Speculative Fiction #7

Angela Slatter ‘The Angel Wood’ Shimmer November 2006

Cat Sparks ‘A Lady of Adestan’ Orb Speculative Fiction #7

2008 winner Cat Sparks ‘Sammarynda Deep’ Paper Cities Senses 5 Press

finalists

Thoraiya Dyer ‘Night Heron’s Curse’ Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #37

Karen Maric ‘The Last Deflowerer’ Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #32

Angela Slatter ‘Dresses Three’ Shimmer Vol 2 #4

Kim Westwood ‘Nightship’ Dreaming Again HarperVoyager

2009 joint winners

Christopher Green ‘Father’s Kill’ Beneath Ceaseless Skies #24

Ian McHugh ‘Once a Month, On a Sunday’ Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #40

finalists

Tansy Rayner Roberts ‘Siren Beat’ Roadkill/Siren Beat Twelfth Planet Press

Angela Slatter ‘Words’ The Lifted Brow #5

Lucy Sussex ‘Something Better than Death’ Aurealis #42

2010

joint winners

Lisa L. Hannett & Angela Slatter

‘The February Drgaon’ Scary Kisses Ticonderoga Publications

Thoraiya Dyer ‘Yowie’ Sprawl Twelfth Planet Press

finalists

Elizabeth Carroll ‘The Duke of Vertumn’s Fingerling’ Strange Horizons

Andrew McKiernan ‘All the Clowns in Clowntown’ Macabre: A Journey Through Australia’s Darkest Fears

Brimstone Press

Angela Slatter ‘Sister, Sister’ Strange Tales III Tartarus Press

2011 winner Thoraiya Dyer ‘Fruit of the Pipal Tree’ After the Rain FableCroft Publications

finalists

Margo Lanagan ‘The Proving of Smollett Standforth’ Ghosts by Gaslight HarperVoyager

Margo Lanagan ‘Into the Clouds on High’ Yellowcake Allen & Unwin

Anthony Panegyres ‘Reading Coffee’ Overland 204 Spring 2011

D. C. White ‘The Dark Night of Anton Weiss’ More Scary Kisses Ticonderoga Publications

2012 winner Margo Lanagan ‘Bajazzle’ Cracklescape Twelfth Planet Press

finalists

Joanne Anderton ‘Sanaa’s Army’ Bloodstones Ticonderoga Publications

Isobelle Carmody ‘The Stone Witch’ Under My Hat Random House

Deborah Kalin ‘First They Came’ Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine 55

Margo Lanagan The Isles of the Sun’ Cracklescape Twelfth Planet Press

2013 winner Jay Kristoff ‘The Last Stormdancer’ Thomas Dunne Books

finalists

Tracie McBride ‘The Tough of the Taniwha’ Fish Dagan Books

Ian McHugh ‘Cold, Cold War’ Beneath Ceaseless Skies Scott H. Andrews

Kirstie Olley ‘Short Circuit’ Oomph: A Little Super Goes a Long Way Crossed Genres

Kim Wilkins ‘The Year of Ancient Ghosts’ The Year of Ancient Ghosts Ticonderoga Publications

2014 winner

Angela Slatter “St Dymphna’s School for Poison Girls”

Review of Australian Fiction Volume 9, issue 3

finalists

Thoraiya Dyer

Deborah Kalin

Charlotte Nash

Angela Slatter

“The Oud”

“Teratogen”

“The Ghost of Hephaestus”

“The Badger Bride”

Long Hidden

Cemetery Dance

Phantazein

Strange Tales IV

#71, May 2014

Crossed Genres Publications


Tartarus Press

aurealis awards, previous years’ results 2015 winner Rowena Cory Daniells “The Giant’s Lady” Legends 2 Newcon Press

finalists

Michelle Goldsmith

Lisa L Hannett

DK Mok

Faith Mudge

Suzanne Willis

“The Jellyfish Collector”

“A Shot of Salt Water”

“Almost Days”

“Blueblood”

“Husk and Sheaf”


The Dark

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Hear Me Roar

SQ Mag 22

Volume 13, issue 6

TDM Press



IFWG Publishing Australia

2016 winner Thoraiya Dyer Where the Pelican Builds Her Nest In Your Face FableCroft Publishing

finalists

Tamlyn Dreaver

Jack Nicholls

Garth Nix

David Versace

Suzanne Willis

“Watercress Soup”

“Dune Time”

“Penny for a Match, Mister?”

“The Lighthouse at Cape Defeat”

“The Cartographer’s Price”


The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales

Aurealis

Mythic Delirium

#65

#89

Issue 3.1

Tor.com

Saga Press

2017 winner

Tansy Rayner Roberts The Curse is Come Upon Me, Cried Please Look After This Angle & Other Winged Stories

Self-published

finalists

Freya Marske

Angela Slatter

J Ashley Smith

Marlee Jane Ward

Lili Wilkinson

“Hamelin’s Grave”

“The Little Mermaid, In Passing”

“Duplicity”

“The Rainmaker Goddess, Hallowed Shaz”

“Oona Underground”



Dimension6


#69

Volume 22, issue 1

#11

Coeur de lion

Feminartsy

Harper Collins Australia


best horror novel


1995 winner Terry Dowling An Intimate Knowledge of the Night Aphelion

finalists

Venero Armanno My Beautiful Friend Arrow/Random House

David Brooks The House of Balthus Allen & Unwin

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

finalists

Stephen Dedman The Art of Arrow Cutting The Art of Arrow Curtting #1

Tor

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

finalists

Victor Kelleher Into the Dark Penguin/Viking

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

finalists

Stephen Dedman Shadows Bite The Art of Arrow Curtting #2

Tor

Alison Croggon The Gift Pellinor #1 Penguin

Louise Cusack Daughter of the Dark Shadow Through Time #2

Simon & Schuster

2003 winner Victor Kelleher Born of the Sea Penguin/Viking

finalists Anthony O’Neill The Lamplighter HarperCollins

Kim Wilkins The Autumn Castle Europa Suite #1 HarperCollins/Voyager

2004 winner Richard Harland The Black Crusade Chimaera Publications

finalists Josephine Pennicott Fire in the Shell Circle of Nine #3 Simon & Schuster

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 joint winners

Will Elliott The Pilo Family Circus ABC Books

Edwina Grey Prismatic Lothian

finalists Martin Livings Carnies Lothian

Brett McBean The Mother Lothian

2007 winner Susan Parisi Blood of Dreams Penguin/Viking

honourable mentions

Keri Arthur Dangerous Games Riley Jenson Guardian #4

Piatkus/Hachette Livre

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

finalists Jack Dann The Economy of Light PS Publishing

Nick Gadd Ghostlines Scribe Publications

2009 winner Honey Brown Red Queen Penguin Australia

finalists

Peter M. Ball Horn Twelfth Planet Press

Stephen M. Irwin The Dead Path Hachette Australia

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

honourable mentions Stephen M. Irwin The Broken Ones Hachette

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

finalists

Lee Battersby The Marching Dead Angry Robot

Greig Beck The First Bird The First Bird #1 Momentum

Dirk Flinthart Path of Night FableCroft Publishing

2014 winner Justine Larbalestier Razorhurst Allen & Unwin

finalists Greig Beck

Alan Baxter

Book of the Dead

Obsidian

Momentum

HarperVoyager

2015 winner Trent Jamieson Day Boy Text Publishing

2016 winner Kaaron Warren The Grief Hole IFWG Publishing Australia

finalists Kenneth Cook

Justine Larbalestier

Fear is the Rider

My Sister Rosa

Text Publishing

Allen & Unwin

2017 winner Lois Murphy Soon Transit Lounge

finalists JS Breukelaar

Maria Lewis

Aletheia

Who’s Afraid, Too?

Crystal Lake Publishing

Hachette Australia


best horror novella



2015 winner Deborah Kalin “The Miseducation of Mara Lys” Cherry Crow Children Twelfth Planet Press

finalists

Dirk Flinthart

Deborah Kalin

Deborah Kalin

Jay Kristoff

Angela Slatter

“Night Shift”

The Cherry Crow Children of Haverny Wood”

“Wages of Honey”

“Sleepless”

“Ripper”

Striking Fire

Cherry Crow Children


Slasher Girls and Monster Boys

Horrorology




Penguin

Jo Fletcher Books

2016 winner Kirstyn McDermott “Burnt Sugar” Dreaming in the Dark PS Publishing

finalists

Jeremy Bates

Alan Baxter

Deborah Biancotti

Christopher Ruz

Box of Bones

“Serve Cold”

Waking in Winter

“Pan”



Andromeda Spaceways Magazine

#62

Ghillinnein Books

PS Publishing

PS Publishing

PS Publishing

2017 winner Chris Mason The Stairwell Below the Stairs – Tales from the Cellar Things in the Well

finalists

Jeremy Bates

Andrew Cull

Michael Grey

Angela Slatter

Kaaron Warren

The Mailman

Hope and Walker

“Grind”

“No Good Deed”

“Furtherest”

Pacific Monsters

New Fears 1

Dark Screams

Volume 7

Ghillinnein Books

Vermillion Press

Fox Spirit Books

Titan Books

Cemetery Dance


best horror short story



1995 winner Francis Payne ‘Olympia’ Olympia Bambada Press

finalists

Terry Dowling ‘Scaring the Train’ The Man Who Lost Red MirrorDanse

Leanne Frahm ‘Entropy’ She’s Fantastical Sybylla

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

finalists

Stephen Dedman ‘Never Seen by Waking Eyes’ F&SF August 1996

Terry Dowling ‘Beckoning Nightframe’ Eidolon #22/23

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

finalists

Bill Congreve ‘The Mullet That Screwed John West’ Epiphanies of Blood MirrorDanse

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

finalists

Paul Brandon ‘The Marsh Runners’ Dreaming Down-Under HarperCollins/Voyager

Glyn Parry ‘Dawn Chorus’ Fantastic Worlds HarperCollins 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

finalists

Allan Baillie ‘The Mouth’ SpinOuts Longman

Stephen Dedman ‘Honest Ghosts’ www.gothic.net July 1999

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

finalists

Jack Dann ‘Marilyn’ Eidolon #29/30

Stephen Dedman ‘A Sentiment Open to Doubt’ Ticonderoga Online May 2000

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

finalists

Stephen Dedman ‘Probable Cause’ Orb #2

Robert Hood ‘Rotten Times’ Aurealis #27/28

Rick Kennett & Paul Collins ‘Whispers’ Stalking Midnight Cosmos Books

Alison Venugoban ‘Happy Birthday to Me’ Nor of Human... CSFG Publishing

honourable mentions Kirsten McDermot ‘Smile for Me’ Redsine #6

Stephen Dedman ‘Ravens’ Interzone #164

2002 winner Kim Westwood ‘Oracle’ Redsine #9

finalists

Chris McMahon ‘Within Twilight’ Redsine #8

Claire McKenna ‘What The Tide Brings’ Fables and Reflections #2

Stephen Dedman ‘Wastelands’ Fantastic Fiction Agog!

honourable mentions Robert Hood ‘# 7’ Immaterial MirrorDanse

Deborah Biancotti ‘Silicon Cast’ Redsine #7

2003 winner Simon Brown ‘Love is a Stone’ Gathering the Bones HarperCollins Australia


finalists

Stephen Dedman ‘The Wind Shall Blow For Ever Mair’ Gathering the Bones HarperCollins Australia

Sue Isle ‘Amy’s Stars’ Orb #5

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

finalists

Stephen Dedman ‘Twilight of the Idols’ Conqueror Fantastic DAW

Richard Harland ‘The Border’ Smashing Stories Agog!

Ben Peek ‘Dr Who (or the day I learned to love Tom Baker)’

Forever Shores Wakefield Press

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

finalists

James Cain ‘The Ride’ Dark Krypt May/June 2005

Paul Haines ‘Doof, Doof, Doof’ Dark Animus #7

Chuck McKenzie ‘Eight-Beat Bar’ Aurealis #33, 34, 35

Cat Sparks ‘Macciato Lane’ Ticonderoga Online #5

highly commended

Peter Barber ‘Dust’ Aurealis #33, 34, 35

Shane Jiraiya Cummings ‘Revision Is Murder’ Simulacrum #11

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

finalists

Margo Lanagan ‘Winkie’ Red Spikes Allen & Unwin

Chris Lawson ‘Hieronymous Boche’ Eidolon I Eidolon Books

Kaaron Warren ‘Dead Sea Fruit’ Fantasy Magazine #4

Kaaron Warren ‘Woman Train’ The Outcast CSFG Publishing

honourable mentions

Jacinta Butterworth ‘Love Affair’ C0ck Coeur de Lion

Dirk Flinthart ‘One Night Stand’ Ripping Reads Agog!

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

finalists

Terry Dowling ‘Toother’ Eclipse #1

Richard Harland ‘Special Perceptions’ At Ease with the Dead Ash-Tree Press

Rick Kennett ‘The Dark and What It Said’ Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine

#28

Ben Peek ‘Black Betty’ Lone Star Stories #23

honourable mentions

Margo Lanagan ‘She-Creatures’ Eclipse #1

Martin Livings ‘There was Darkness’ Fantastic Wonder Stories Ticonderoga Publications

Miranda Siemienowicz ‘Lion’s Breath’ Island #108

2008 winner Kirstyn McDermott

‘Painlessness’ Greatest Uncommon Denominator (GUD)

#2

finalists

Lee Battersby ‘In From the Snow’ Dreaming Again HarperVoyager

Deborah Biancotti ‘Pale Dark Soldier’ Midnight Echo #1

Trent Jamieson ‘Day Boy’ Murky Depths #4

Kirstyn McDermott ‘Painlessness’ Greatest Uncommon Denominator (GUD)

#2

Ian McHugh ‘Bitter Dreams’ L Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future

Vol XXIV Galaxy Press


joint winners Paul Haines ‘Wives’ X6 Coeur de Lion Publishing

Paul Haines ‘Slice of Life – A Spot of Liver’ Slice of Life The Mayne Press

finalists

Felicity Dowker ‘Jesse’s Gift’ Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine

#40

Christopher Green ‘Having Faith’ Nossa Morte February 2009

Andrew J McKiernan ‘The Message’ Midnight Echoes Australian Horror Writers Association

2010 winner Richard Harland ‘The Fear’

Macabre: A Journey Through Australia’s Darkest Fears

Brimstone Press

finalists

Bob Franklin ‘Take the Free Tour’ Under Stones Affirm Press

Paul Haines ‘Her Gallant Needs’ Sprawl Twelfth Planet Press

Robert Hood ‘Wasting Matilda’ Zombie Apocalypse Constable & Robinson Ltd

Martin Livings ‘Lollo’ Close Encounters of the Urban Kind

Apex Publishing

2011

joint winners

Paul Haines ‘The Past is a Bridge Best Left Burnt’ The Last Days of Kali Yuga Brimstone Press

Lisa L. Hannett ‘The Short Go: a Future in Eight Seconds’

Bluegrass Symphony Ticonderoga Publications

finalists

Deborah Biancotti ‘And the Dead Shall Outnumber the Living’

Ishtar Gilgamesh Press

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

finalists

Joanne Anderton ‘Sanaa’s Army’ Bloodstones Ticonderoga Publications

Jodi Cleghorn ‘Elyora’ Review of Australian Fiction Rabbit Hole Special Issue

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

finalists

Joanne Anderton ‘Fencelines’ The Bone Chime Song and Other Stories


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

finalists

Deborah Biancotti

James Bradley

Kirstyn McDermott

Garth Nix

“The Executioner Goes Home”

“Skinsuit”

“By the Moon’s Good Grace”

“Shay Corsham Worsted”


Island Magazine


Fearful Symmetries

Volume 11, issue 6

137

Volume 12, issue 3

Chizine

2015 winner

Joanne Anderton “Bullets” In Sunshine Bright and Darkness Deep

AHWA

finalists

Lisa L Hannett

Lisa L Hannett

Deborah Kalin

Tracie McBride

Kirstyn McDermott

“Consorting with Filth”

“Heirloom Pieces”

“The Briskwater Mare”

“Breaking Windows”

“Self, Contained”

Blurring the Lines

Apex Magazine


Aurealis

The Dark

#84

Cohesion Press

Apex Publications


TDM Press

aurealis awards, previous years’ results 2016 winner TR Napper “Flame Trees” Asimov’s Science Fiction April/May 2016

finalists

RPL Johnson

Garth Nix

Angela Slatter

Kaaron Warren

Durand Welsh

“Non Zero Sum”

“Penny for a Match, Mister?”

“The Red Forest”

“68 Days”

“Life, or Whatever Passes For It”

SNAFU: Hunters

The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales

Winter Children and Other Chilling Tales

Tomorrow’s Cthulhu

Peel Back the Skin

Cohesion Press

Saga Press

PS Publishing

Broken Eye Books

Grey Matter Press

2017 winner J Ashley Smith “Old Growth” SQ Mag 31 IFWG Publishing Australia

finalists

Kat Clay

Lisa L Hannett

Deborah Sheldon

Alfie Simpson

J Ashley Smith

“Reef”

“Outside, a Drifter”

“Angel Hair”

“The Endless Below”

“On the Line”

SQ Mag

Looming Low

Perfect Little Stitches and Other Stories

Breach

Midnight Echo

31

#02

12


Dim Shores


Australasian Horror Writers Association


best anthology


1995-2007 NO AWARD

2008 winner Jonathan Strahan (editor) The Starry Rift Viking Children’s Books

finalists

Bill Congreve & Michelle Marquardt (editors)

The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Science Fiction

Fourth Annual Volume MirrorDanse Books

Jack Dann (editor) Dreaming Again HarperVoyager

2009 winner Jonathan Strahan (editor) Eclipse 3 Night Shade Books

finalists

Alisa Krasnostein (editor) New Ceres Nights Twelfth Planet Press

Keith Stevenson (editor) X6 Coeur de Lion Publishing

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

finalists

Angela Challis & Dr Marty Young Macabre: A Journey Through Australia’s Darkest Fears

Brimstone Press

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

finalists

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

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

finalists

Liz Grzyb and Talie Helene The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2011 Ticonderoga Publications

Amanda Pillar Bloodstones Ticonderoga Publications

Jonathan Strahan Under My Hat Random House

Jonathan Strahan Edge of Infinity Solaris Books

2013 joint winners

Liz Grzyb & Talie Helene The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2012 Ticonderoga Publications

Tehani Wessely One Small Step: An Anthology of Discoveries FableCroft Publishing

finalists

Liz Grzyb Dreaming of Djinn Ticonderoga Publications

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 Fantasy Stories


finalists

Liz Grzyb

Dominica Malcolm

Jonathan Strahan

Jonathan Strahan

Tehani Wessely

Kisses by Clockwork

Amok: An Anthology of Asia-Pacific Speculative Fiction

Reach for Infinity

Fearsome Magics

2015 winner Amanda Pillar Bloodlines Ticonderoga Publications

finalists

Liz Grzyb

Liz Grzyb & Talie Helene

Jonathan Strahan

Jonathan Strahan

Tehani Wessely

Hear Me Roar

The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2014

Meeting Infinity

The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 9

Focus 2014: Highlights of Australian Short Fiction



Solaris

Solaris


aurealis awards, previous years’ results 2016 winner Julia Rios & Alisa Krasnostein Year’s Best YA Speculative Fiction 2015 Twelfth Planet Press

finalists

Jack Dann

Tsana Dolichva & Holley Kench

Jonathan Strahan

Tehani Wessely


Defying Doomsday

Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 10

In Your Face

PS Publishing Australia


Solaris


2017 winner Jonathan Strahan Infinity Wars Rebellion / Solaris

finalists

Shane Jiraiya Cummings & Anthony Ferguson

Liz Grzyb & Talie Helene

Keith Stevenson

Jonathan Strahan

Midnight Echo #12

The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2015

Dimension6: Annual Collection 2017

The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 11

Australasian Horror Writers Association


Coeur de lion Publishing

Rebellion / Solaris

best collection


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)

finalists

Deborah Biancotti & Alisa Krasnostein (editor)

A Book of Endings Twelfth Planet Press

Paul Haines & Geoff Maloney (editor) Slice of Life The Mayne Press

Robbie Matthews & Donna Hanson (editor)

Johnny Phillips Werewolf Detective Australian Speculative Fiction

2010 winner Angela Slatter The Girl with No Hands Ticonderoga Publications

finalists

Rjurik Davidson The Library of Forgotten Books PS Publishing

Angela Slatter Sourdough and Other Stories Tartarus Press

Kaaron Warren Dead Sea Fruit Ticonderoga Publications

2011 winner Lisa L. Hannett Bluegrass Symphony Ticonderoga Publications

finalists

Deborah Biancotti Bad Power Twelfth Planet Press

Paul Haines Last Days of Kali Yuga Brimstone Press

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

finalists

Isobele Carmody Metro Winds Allen & Unwin

Lisa L. Hannett & Angela Slatter Midnight and Moonshine Ticonderoga Publications

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

finalists

Thoraiya Dyer Asymmetry Twelfth Planet Press

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

aurealis awards, previous years’ results 2014 winner Lisa L Hannett & Angela Slatter The Female Factory Twelfth Planet Press

finalists

Rosaleen Love

Ian McHugh

Simon Petrie

Angela Slatter

Angela Slatter

Secret Lives

Angel Dust

Difficult Second Album: More Stories of Xenobiology, Space Elevators, and Bats Out of Hell

The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings

Black-Winged Angels



Peggy Bright Books

Tartarus Press


2015 winner Garth Nix To Hold the Bridge Allen & Unwin

finalists

Shane Jiraiya Cummings

Dirk Flinthart

Deborah Kalin

Carole Nomarhas

Anna Tambour

The Abandonment of Grace and Everything After

Striking Fire


The Fading

The Finest Ass in the Universe

Brimstone Press



Self-published


2016 winner Angela Slatter A Feast of Sorrows Prime

finalists Alan Baxter

Jack Dann

Angela Slatter

Crow Shine

Concentration

Winter Children


PS Publishing

PS Publishing

2017 winner Kate Forsyth & Kim Wilkins The Silver Well Ticonderoga Publications

finalists

Peter M Ball

Donna Maree Hanson

Margo Lanagan


Deborah Sheldon

The Birdcage Heart & Other Strange Tales

Beneath the Floating City

Singing My Sister Down and Other Stories

Please Look After This Angel and Other Winged Stories

Perfect Little Stitches and Other Stories

Brain Jar Press

Self-published

Allen & Unwin

Self-published



best illustrated book/graphic novel


1995-2007 NO AWARD

2008 winner Shaun Tan Tales from Outer Suburbia Allen & Unwin

finalists

Steve Hunt & David Richardson The Cloudchasers ABC Books

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

finalists

Bruce Mutard The Silence Allen & Unwin

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

finalists

Nicki Greenberg Shakespeare’s Hamlet Allen & Unwin

Jason Paulos et all EEEK!: Weird Australian Tales of Suspense Black House Comics

Jonathan Walker & Dan Hallett Five Wounds Allen & Unwin

Rocky Wood & Glenn Chadbourne Horrors: Great Stories of Fear and Their Creators McFarlane & Co

2011 joint winners

Mirranda Burton Hidden Black Pepper

Tom Taylor & James Brouwer The Deep: Here be Dragons Gestalt Publishing

finalists

Andrew Constant & Joh James & Nicola Scott, Emily Smith

Torn Gestalt Publishing

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 joint winners

Jackie Ryan Burger Force Self-published

Tom Taylor & James Brouwer The Deep: The Vanishing Island #2 Gestalt Publishing

finalists

Steve Carter & Antoinette Rydyr Savage Bitch Scar Studios

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 Eye

Milk Shadow Books

finalists

Jason Franks & Paul Abstruse

Jase Harper

Kathleen Jennings

Shane Smith

Left Hand Path

Awkwood

“A Small Wild Magic”

The Game

#1

Monstrous Affections

Winter City Productions

Milk Shadow Books

Candlewick Press

Deeper Meanings Publishing

2015 winner Shaun Tan The Singing Bones Allen & Unwin

finalists

Gary Chaloner, Ben Templesmith, Ashley Wood

Jamie Clennett

Christian Read

Various authors

The Undertaker Morton Stone

The Diemenois

Going Straight is No Way to Die

Fly the Colour Fantastica

Vol. 1

Unmasked Vol. 1

Gestalt

Hunter Publishers

Gestalt

Veriko Operative

2016 winner Ryan K Lindsay Negative Space Dark Horse Comics

finalists

Lance Balchin

James Foley

Josh Vann

Mechanica

BROBOT

The Spider King

Five Mile

Fremantle Press

Self-published

aurealis awards, previous years’ results 2017 winner Justin Randall Changing Ways Book 3 Gestalt

finalists

Mike Barry

James Foley

Craig Phillips

Campbell Whyte

Margo Lanagan & Rovina Cai

Action Tank

Dungzilla

Giants, Trolls, Witches, Beasts

Home Time

Tintinnabula


best young adult novel


1995 joint winners

Garth Nix Sabriel The Old Kingdom #1 HarperCollins Australia/Moonstone

Brian Caswell Deucalion UQP

finalists

Catherine Jinks Witch Bank Penguin/Puffin

John Marsden A Killing Frost Tomorrow #3 Pan Macmillan

Isobelle Carmody Ashling Obernewtyn Chronicles #3 Penguin/Viking

1996 joint winners

Hillary Bell Mirror, Mirror Hodder Headline

Kerry Greenwood The Broken Wheel HarperCollins Australia/Moonstone

finalists

Sara Douglass Beyond the Hanging Wall HarperCollins/Voyager

Victor Kelleher Fire Dancer Parkland #3 Penguin

Michael Pryor The Mask of Caliban Hodder Headline

1997 joint winners

Isobelle Carmody Greylands Penguin/Puffin

Catherine Jinks Eye to Eye Penguin/Puffin

finalists

Patricia Bernard The Outcast Outcast #1 HarperCollins Australia/Moonstone

Damien Broderick & Rory Barnes Zones HarperCollins Australia/Moonstone

Garth Nix Shade’s Children Allen & Unwin

1998 winner Alison Goodman Singing the Dogstar Blues HarperCollins

finalists

Rory Barnes Horsehead Boy Horsehead Boy #1 HarperCollins

Melissa Lucashenko Killing Darcy UQP

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

finalists

Rory Barnes Horsehead Man Horsehead Boy #2 HarperCollins

Damien Broderick & Rory Barnes Stuck in Fast Forward HarperCollins

Victor Kelleher The Ivory Trail Penguin/Viking

Victor Kelleher Into the Dark Penguin/Viking

2000 winner Sonya Hartnett Thursday’s Child Penguin

finalists

Rory Barnes Horsehead Soup Horsehead Boy #3 HarperCollins

Richard Harland Ferren and the Angel Penguin

Christine Harris Omega Random House

Sophie Masson The Green Prince Hodder Headline

2001 winner Louise Katz The Other Face of Janus Angus & Robertson/HarperCollins

finalists

Anna Fienberg The Witch in the Lake Allen & Unwin

Garth Nix Lirael The Old Kingdom Trilogy #2 Allen & Unwin

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

finalists

Natalie Jane Prior Fireworks and Darkness Angus & Robertson/HarperCollins

David McRobbie Mum, Me, the 19C Angus & Roberston/HarperCollins

Kate Forsyth The Starthorn Tree The Starkin Crown #1 Pan Australia

2003 joint winners

Garth Nix Abhorsen The Old Kingdom Trilogy #3 Allen & Unwin

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

finalists

Jackie French Flesh and Blood Outlands #3 HarperCollins

Penni Russon Undine Undine #1 Random House

Matt Zurbo Hot Nights, Cool Dragons Allen & Unwin

2005 winner Isobelle Carmody Alyzon Whitestarr Penguin

finalists

Anthony Eaton Nightpeople Darklands #1 UQP

Justine Larbalestier Magic or Madness Magic or Madness #1 Penguin

Scott Westerfeld Peeps Peeps #1 Penguin

Scott Westerfeld Uglies Uglies #1 Simon & Schuster

highly commended

Kerry Greenwood The Rat and the Raven Stormbringer #1 Lothian

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

finalists

Amanda Holohan The King’s Fool Perry Brightfield ABC Books

Justine Larbalestier Magic Lessons Magic or Madness #2 Penguin

Juliet Marillier Wildwood Dancing Wildwood #1 Pan Macmillan

Scott Westerfeld The Last Days Peeps #2 Penguin

2007 winner Anthony Eaton Skyfall Darklands #2 UQP

finalists

Kate Constable Taste of Lightning Allen & Unwin

Juliet Marillier Cybele’s Secret Wildwood #2 Pan Macmillan

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

finalists

Isobelle Carmody The Stone Key Obernewtyn Chronicles #5 Penguin/Viking

David Cornish Lamplighter Monster Blood Tattoo #2 Omnibus Books

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

finalists

Kate Forsyth The Puzzle Ring Pan Macmillan

Cassandra Golds The Museum of Mary Child Puffin Books

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

finalists

Ananda Braxton-Smith Merrow Secrets of Carrick #1 Black Dog Books

Sonya Hartnett The Midnight Zoo Penguin

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

finalists

Em Bailey Shift Hardie Grant Egmont

Ananda Braxton-Smith Tantony Secrets of Carrick #2 Black Dog Books

Karen Healey The Shattering Allen & Unwin

Meg Mundell Black Glass Scribe Publications

2012 joint winners

Kaz Delaney Dead, Actually Allen & Unwin

Margo Lanagan Sea Hearts Allen & Unwin

finalists

Andrea K. Höst And All the Stars Self-published

Ambelin Kwaymullina The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf The Tribe #1 Walker Books

Louis Nowra Into That Forest Allen & Unwin


2013 joint winners

Amie Kaufman & Meahan Spooner These Broken Stars Starbound #1 Allen & Unwin

Allyse Near Fairytales for Wilde Girls Random House

finalists

Tony Davies The Big Dry Harper Collins

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

finalists

Rebecca Lim

Lynette Lousbury

Garth Nix

Nova Weetman

Scott Westerfeld

The Astrologer’s Daughter

Afterworld

Clariel

The Haunting of Lily Frost

Afterworlds

Text Publishing

Allen & Unwin

Allen & Unwin

UQP


2015 winner Kathryn Barker In the Skin of a Monster Allen & Unwin

finalists

Alison Goodman

Francesca Haig

Trent Jamieson

Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff

Skye Melki-Wagner

Lady Helen and the Dark Days Club

The Fire Sermon

Day Boy

Illuminae

The Hush

HarperCollins

HarperVoyager

Text Publishing

Allen & Unwin

Penguin Random House Australia

2016 winner Alison Goodman Lady Helen and the Dark Days Pact HarperCollins Publishers

finalists

Jane Abbott

Alison Croggon

Emily Gale

Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff

Garth Nix

Elegy

The Bone Queen

The Other Side of Summer

Gemina

Goldenhand

Illuminae Files 2




Allen & Unwin

Allen & Unwin

2017 winner Cally Black In the Dark Spaces Hardie Grant Egmont

finalists

Alison Evans

Garth Nix

Emily Suvada

Marlee Jane Ward

Paula Weston

Ida

Frogkisser!

This Mortal Coil

Psynode

The Undercurrent

Echo, Bonnier Publishing Australia

Allen & Unwin

Puffin UK

Seizure

Text Publishing


best young adult short story

year award designation author story title publication title

issue number

(if periodical)


1995 NO AWARD

1996 winner Isobelle Carmody ‘Green Monkey Dreams’ Green Monkey Dreams Penguin/Viking

finalists

Dave Luckett The Wizard and Me Omnibus

James Moloney The Pipe Lothian

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

finalists Sheryl Gardner The Peppercorn Tree Lothian

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

finalists

Brian Caswell ‘Avalon’ Tales from the Wasteland Hodder

Margo Lanagan ‘The Boy Who Didn’t Yearn’ White Time Allen & Unwin

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

finalists

Chris Barnes ‘The Glass Flower’ Encounters: An Anthology of Australian Speculative Fiction

CSFG Publishing

Bill Congreve ‘The Shooter at Heartrock Waterhole’ The Faery Reel Penguin/Viking

Margo Lanagan ‘Rite of Spring’ Black Juice Allen & Unwin

2005 winner Garth Nix ‘Nicholas Sayre and the Creature in the Case’

Across the Wall: Tales of the Old Kingdom and Elsewhere

Allen & Unwin

finalist Dirk Flinthart ‘The Red Priest’s Homecoming’ Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #17

2006 winner Shaun Tan The Arrival Lothian

finalists

Deborah Biancotti ‘The Dying Light’ Eidolon I Eidolon Books

Simon Brown ‘Leviathan’ Eidolon I Eidolon Books

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

finalists

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

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

finalists

Deborah Biancotti ‘The Tailor of Time’ Clockwork Phoenix Norilana Books

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

finalists

Joanne Anderton ‘Dragon Bones’ Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #39

Sue Isle ‘Paper Dragons’ Shiny #5 Twelfth Planet Press

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

finalists

Aiden Doyle ‘Inksucker’ Worlds Next Door FableCroft Publishing

Dirk Flinthart ‘One Story, No Refunds’ Shiny #6 Twelfth Planet Press

Kaia Landelius & Tansy Rayner Roberts

‘Nine Times’ Worlds Next Door FableCroft Publishing

Jen White ‘An Ordinary Boy’ The Tangled Bank Tangled Bank Press

2011 winner Sue Isle ‘Nation of the Night’ Nightsiders Twelfth Planet Press

finalists

Kathleen Jennings ‘Finishing School’ Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories

Candlewick Press

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

finalists

Justin D’Ath ‘Stilled Lifes x11’ Trust Me Too Ford Street Publishing

Jack Heath ‘Rats’ Trust Me Too Ford Street Publishing

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

finalists

Joanne Anderton ‘Mah Song’ The Bone Chime Song and Other Stories FableCroft Publishing

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

finalists

Goldie Alexander

Liz Argyll

David Cornish

Faith Mudge

“In Hades”

“Falling Leaves”

“The Fuller and the Bogle”

“Signature”

Apex Magazine

Tales from the Half-Continent

Kaleidoscope

Celapene Press

Omnibus Books


2015 winner Deborah Kalin “The Miseducation of Mara Lys” Cherry Crow Children Twelfth Planet Press

finalists

Kimberly Gaal

Kimberly Gaal

DK Mok

Faith Mudge

Marlee Jane Ward

“In Sheep’s Clothing”

“The Nexus Tree”

“The Heart of the Labyrinth”

“Blueblood”

Welcome to Orphancorp


The Never Never Land

In Memory: A Tribute to Sir Terry Pratchett

Hear Me Roar

#61

CSFG

Sorin Suciu


Seizure

2016 winner Leife Shallcross “Pretty Jennie Greenteeth” Strange Little Girls Belladonna Publishing

finalists

Lisa L Hannett

Jack Nicholls

Shauna O’Meara


“A Right Pretty Mate”

“Dune Time”

“No One Here is Going to Save You”

“Did We Break the End of the World?”


In Your Face

Defying Doomsday

PS Publishing

Tor.com



2017 winner Tansy Rayner Roberts Girl Reporter Book Smugglers

finalists

Amie Kaufman

Will Kostakis

Jaclyn Moriarty

Michael Pryor

Lili Wilkinson

“One Small Step”

“I Can See the Ending”

“Competition Entry #349”

“First Casualty”

“Oona Underground”












best children’s (8-12 years) long fiction


1995-2000 NO AWARD

2001 winner Sally Odgers Candle Iron Angus & Robertson/HarperCollins

finalists Kirsty Murray Market Blues Allen & Unwin

Michael Stephens Blat Magic Angus & Robertson/HarperCollins

honourable mention

Janeen Webb Sailing to Atlantis Angus & Robertson/HarperCollins

2002 winner Gabrielle Wang In the Garden of Empress Cassia Penguin/Puffin

finalists

Catherine Jinks Eglantine Allen & Unwin

Dave Luckett Rhianna and the Dogs of Iron Scholastic

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

finalists

Deborah Abela Max Remy Superspy: The Hollywood Mission Random House

Catherine Jinks Eustace Allen & Unwin

James Valentine Jumpman Rule 2 Random House

Carole Wilkinson Dragonkeeper Black Dog Books

2004 winner Colin Thompson How to Live Forever Random House

finalists

John Flanagan The Ruins of Gorlan Ranger’s Apprentice #1 Random House

Cassandra Golds Claire de Lune Penguin

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

finalists

Isobelle Carmody Little Fur The Legend of Little Fur #1 Penguin

Morris Gleitzman Worm Story Penguin

Richard Harland Sassycat: The Night of the Dead Omnibus

highly commended Carole Wilkinson Garden of the Purple Dragon Black Dog Books

John Flanagan The Icebound Land Ranger’s Apprentice #3 Random House Australia

2006 winner Mardi McConnochie Melissa, Queen of Evil Pan Australia

finalists

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

Nury Vittachi Twilight in the Land of Nowhen Allen & Unwin

Kim Wilkins The Sunken Kingdom Quartet Fantastica Omnibus

2007 winners Kate Forsyth

The Silver Horse, The Herb of Grace, The Cat’s Eye Shell, The Lightning Bolt, The Butterfly in Amber

The Chain of Charms #2-6 Pan Macmillan

finalists

Isobelle Carmody A Mystery of Wolves Penguin Books

Emily Rodda The Key to Rondo Omnibus Books

Carole Wilkinson Dragon Moon Black Dog Books

honourable mention

Alexandra Adornetto The Shadow Thief HarperCollins

aurealis awards, previous years’ results 2008 winner Emily Rodda The Wizard of Rondo Omnibus Books

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

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

finalists

Deborah Abela The Remarkable Secret of Aurelie Bonhoffen Random House Australia

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

finalists

Deborah Abela Grimsdon Random House

John Flanagan Halt’s Peril Ranger’s Apprentice #9 Random House

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

finalists

John Flanagan The Outcasts Random House

Catherine Jinks The Paradise Trap Allen & Unwin

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

finalists

Pamela Freeman Princess Betony and the Unicorn Walker Books

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

finalists

Isobelle Carmody Cloud Road #2 Kingdom of the Lost Penguin

Jackie French Refuge Harper Collins

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 number

(if periodical)


1995-2000 NO AWARD

2001 winner Jackie French Cafe on Callisto Koala

finalists

Kim Caraher Zip Zap Random House Australia

Claire Carmichael Saving Aunt Alice Random House Australia

Christine Harris Hairy Legs Random House Australia

honourable mentions Paul Collins Movie World Longman

Andrew Whitmore The Ark of Dreams Black Dog Books

2002 winner Anna Fienberg & Kim Gamble Tashi and the Haunted House Allen & Unwin

finalists

Terry Denton The Golden Udder Allen & Unwin

Justin d’Ath ‘The Two Natalies’ Reel Trouble, Spinouts Sapphire Longman

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

finalists

Duncan Ball Emily Eyefinger and the Balloon Bandits HarperCollins

Roseanne Hawke Wolfchild Lothian

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

finalists

Stephen Axelsen The Very Messy Inspection Random House

Duncan Ball Emily Eyefinger and the Ghost Ship HarperCollins

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

finalists

Goldie Alexander ‘The Space Gypsies’ The School Magazine #7

Stephen Axelsen Piccolo & Annabel 3: The Stinky Cheese Gypsies Random House Australia

Gary Crew & Jeremy Geddes The Mystery of Eilean Mor Lothian

2006 joint winners

Jane Godwin The True Story of Mary Who Wanted to Stand on Her Head Allen & Unwin

Margaret Wild & Anne Spudvilas Woolvs in the Sitee Penguin

finalist Victor Kelleher & Stephen Michael King

The Magic Violin Penguin

2007 joint winners

Marc McBride World of Monsters Scholastic Australia

Briony Stewart Kumiko and the Dragon UQP

finalists Luke Edwards Ock Von Fiend Omnibus Books

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 number

(if periodical)


2008 winner

Richard Harland & Laura Peterson (illustrator)

Escape!, Under Siege, Race to the Ruins, The Heavy Crown, The Wolf Kingdom series

Omnibus Books

finalists

Anna Fienberg, Barbara Fienberg & Kim Gamble

Tashi and the Phoenix Allen & Unwin

Ian Irvine & David Cornish (illustrator)

Thorn Castle, Giant’s Lair, Black Crypt, Wizardry Crag, The Sorcerer’s Tower series

Omnibus Books

Sally Morgan with Ezekiel, Ambelin and Blaze Kwaymullina & Adam Hill (illustrator)

Curly and the Fent Random House Australia

Richard Tulloch & Terry Denton (illustrator)

Twisted Tales Random House Australia

2009 winner

Pamela Freeman (author), Kim Gamble (illustrator)

Victor’s Challenge Walker Books Australia

finalists

Graeme Base Enigma Penguin/Viking

Anna Fienberg, Kim Gamble Tashi and the Golem Allen & Unwin

Dan McGuiness Pilot and Huxley Omnibus Books

Gregory Rogers The Hero of Little Street Allen & Unwin


winner Sonya Hartnett (author), Lucia Masciullo (illustrator)

The Boy and the Toy (Viking) Penguin

finalists

Isobelle Carmody (author), Anne Spudvilas (illustrator)

Night School (Viking) Penguin

Luke Davies (author), Inari Kiuru (illustrator)

Magpie (ABC Books) HarperColins

Julie Hunt & Sue Moss (authors), Gaye Chapman (illustrator)

Precious Little Alllen & Unwin

David Richardson (author), Steven Hunt (illustrator)

The Cloudchasers (ABC Books) HarperCollins

2011 winner

Christopher Cheng (author), Sarah Davis (illustrator)

Sounds Spooky Random House Australia

finalists

Aaron Blabey The Ghost of Annabel Spoon (Viking) Penguin

Norman Jorgensen (author), James Foley (illustrator)

The Last Viking Fremantle Press

Tom Taylor (author), James Brouwer (illustrator)

The Deep: Here be Dragons Gestalt Publishing

Margaret Wild (author), Andrew Yeo (illustrator)

Vampyre Walker Books

2012 winner Graeme Base Little Elephants (Viking) Penguin

finalists

Gary Crew (author), Ross Watkins (illustrator)

The Boy Who Grew Into a Tree Penguin

Gary Crew (author), Den Scheer (illustrator)

In the Beech Forest Ford Street Publishing

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

finalists

Isobelle Carmody Kingdom of the Lost, book 2: Cloud road Penguin Group Australia

Jackie French Refuge Harper Collins

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

finalists

John Flanagan

Karen Foxlee

Norman Jorgensen & James Foley

Judith Rossell

Lian Tanner

Slaves of Socorro: Brotherband #4

Ophelia and the Marvellous Boy

The Last Viking Returns

Withering-by-Sea

Sunker’s Deep: The Hidden #2

Random House Australia

Hot Key Books

Fremantle Press

ABC Books

Allen & Unwin

2015 winner Meg McKinlay A Single Stone Walker Books Australia

finalists

Angelica Banks

Jack Heath

Meg McKinlay

AL Tait

A Week Without Tuesday

The Cut-Out

Bella and the Wandering House

The Mapmaker Chronicles: Prisoner of the Black Hawk

Allen & Unwin

Allen & Unwin

Fremantle Press

Hachette Australia

2016 winner Kim Kane When the Lyrebird Calls Allen & Unwin

finalists

Angelica Banks

Lee Battersby

Caleb Crisp

Mick Elliott

Emily Rodda

Blueberry Pancakes Forever

Magrit

Somebody Stop Ivy Pocket

The Turners

The Hungry Isle

Allen & Unwin

Walker Books Australia

Bloomsbury

Hachette Australia

Omnibus Books

aurealis awards, previous years’ results 2017 winner Jessica Townsend Nevermoor Hachette Australia

finalists

Bren MacDibble

Jaclyn Moriarty

Emily Rodda

Jo Sandhu

Lian Tanner

How to Bee

The Extremely Inconvenient Adventures of Bronte Mettlestone

The Shop at Hoopers Bend

The Exile

Accidental Heroes

Allen & Unwin

Allen & Unwin



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

finalists

Paul Collins, Sean McMullen & Steven Paulsen

Jack Dann & Janeen Webb

Greg Egan

1999 winner Terry Dowling Antique Futures, mp books

finalists

Graeme Base The Worst Band in the Universe, Penguin/Viking

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 joint winners

Paul Collins & Meredith Costain editors, Spinouts: Bronze, Pearson Education

Shaun Tan The Lost Thing, Lothian Books

finalists

Damien Broderick Transrealist Fiction: Writing in the Slipstream of Science, Greenwood Press

Bruce Gillespie editor, ‘The Unrelenting Gaze – George Turner, Non-fiction: A Selection’, SF Commentary #76

Margo Lanagan ‘White Time’, White Time, Allen & Unwin


peter mcnamara convenors’ award for excellence


2001

joint winners

Emily Rodda & Mark McBride The Deltora Quest series, Scholastic

Emily Rodda & Mark McBride The Deltora Book of Monsters, Scholastic

Peter McNamara for his outstanding contribution to speculative fiction

finalists

Damien Broderick editor, Earth Is But a Star, University of Western Australia Press

Jack Dann Jubilee, HarperCollins

Terry Dowling Schizm: Mysterious Journey, Detalion & L K Avalon

Geoffrey Maloney editor, Nor of Human..., CSFG Publishing

2002 winner

Robbie Matthews for his important contribution to local genre publishing with both the Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild and Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine

finalists

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

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

winner

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 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.

finalists

John Marsden

Kim Wilkins

Geoffrey Maloney

Sophie Masson

2005

winner

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 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

winner

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 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


winner

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 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

winner

Galactic Suburbia podcast – Alisa Krasnostein, Alex Pierce, Tansy Rayner Roberts, Andrew Finch (producer)

Galactic Suburbia has founded a new arena for SF criticism and review in Australia, as well as bringing a new 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

winner

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 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

winner

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 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

winner

Letters to Tiptree edited by Alexandra Pierce & Alisa Krasnostein (Twelfth Planet Press)

Letters to Tiptree is a significant Australian production for 2015. This book, which celebrates the contribution of 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, 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

winner

The Rebirth of Rapunzel: A Mythic Biography of the Maiden in the Tower by Kate Forsyth (FableCroft Publishing)

Showcasing an astonishing level of research in a highly readable and engaging form, The Rebirth of Rapunzel delves into the mythology of the Rapunzel fairy tale and examines the historical and storytelling background to the 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-published)

A collection of non-fiction essays combining personal memoir with pop culture and science fictional themes.


kris hembury encouragement award


2009 winner Kathleen Jennings

2010 winner Jody Cleghor

2011 winner Emily Craven

2012 winner Laura Goodin

2013 winner Tristan Savage

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