Aurealis Awards 2018
science fiction awards database
Where and When:
Swancon 43,
Perth :
April 2, 2018
Eligibility Year: 2017
Eligibility Year: 2017
Sf Novel
- Winner: From the Wreck, Jane Rawson (Transit Lounge)
- Closing Down, Sally Abbott (Hachette Australia)
- Lotus Blue, Cat Sparks (Skyhorse)
- Terra Nullius, Claire G. Coleman (Hachette Australia)
- An Uncertain Grace, Krissy Kneen (Text)
- Year of the Orphan, Daniel Findlay (Penguin Random House Australia)
Sf Novella
- Winner: Girl Reporter, Tansy Rayner Roberts (Book Smugglers)
- “I Can See the Ending”, Will Kostakis (Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology)
- “Island Green”, Shauna O'Meara (Ecopunk!)
- Matters Arising from the Identification of the Body, Simon Petrie (Peggy Bright)
- “This Silent Sea”, Stephanie Gunn (Review of Australian Fiction #166)
- “The Wandering Library”, D. K. Mok (Ecopunk!)
Sf Short Story
- Winner: “Conversations with an Armoury”, Garth Nix (Infinity Wars)
- “Cards and Steel Hearts”, Pamela Jeffs (Lawless Lands: Tales from the Weird Frontier)
- “Hurk + Dav”, Alfie Simpson (Breach #01)
- “A Little Faith”, Aiki Flinthart (Like a Woman)
- “The Missing Years”, Lyn Battersby (Andromeda Spaceways #66)
- “One Small Step”, Amie Kaufman (Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology)
Fantasy Novel
- Winner: Godsgrave, Jay Kristoff (HarperCollins)
- Cassandra, Kathryn Gossow (Odyssey)
- Crossroads of Canopy, Thoraiya Dyer (Tor)
- Gap Year in Ghost Town, Michael Pryor (Allen & Unwin)
- Gwen, Goldie Goldbloom (Fremantle)
- Wellside, Robin Shortt (Candlemark & Gleam)
Fantasy Novella
- Winner: In Shadows We Fall, Devin Madson (self-published)
- The Book Club, Alan Baxter (PS Publishing)
- “Braid”, Kirstyn McDermott (Review of Australian Fiction #161)
- “The Cunning Woman's Daughter”, Kate Forsyth & Kim Wilkins (The Silver Well)
- Humanity for Beginners, Faith Mudge (Less Than Three)
- “Remnants”, Nathan Burrage (Dimension6 #11)
Fantasy Short Story
- Winner: “The Curse Is Come Upon Me, Cried”, Tansy Rayner Roberts (Please Look After This Angels & Other Winged Stories)
- “Duplicity”, J. Ashley Smith (Dimension6 #11)
- “Hamelin's Graves”, Freya Marske (Andromeda Spaceways #69)
- “The Little Mermaid, in Passing”, Angela Slatter (Review of Australian Fiction #147)
- “Oona Underground”, Lili Wilkinson (Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology)
- “The Rainmaker Goddess, Hallowed Shaz”, Marlee Jane Ward (Feminartsy 6 Apr 2017)
Horror Novel
- Winner: Soon, Lois Murphy (Transit Lounge)
- Aletheia, J. S. Breukelaar (Crystal Lake)
- Who's Afraid Too?, Maria Lewis (Hachette Australia)
Horror Novella
- Winner: “The Stairwell”, Chris Mason (Below the Stairs: Tales from the Cellar)
- “Furtherest”, Kaaron Warren (Dark Screams Volume 7)
- “Grind”, Michael Grey (Pacific Monsters)
- Hope and Walker, Andrew Cull (Vermillion)
- The Mailman, Jeremy Bates (Ghillinnein)
- “No Good Deed”, Angela Slatter (New Fears)
Horror Short Story
- Winner: “Old Growth”, J. Ashley Smith (SQ Mag May 2017)
- “Angel Hair”, Deborah Sheldon (Perfect Little Stitches and Other Stories)
- “The Endless Below”, Alfie Simpson (Breach #02)
- “On the Line”, J. Ashley Smith (Midnight Echo #12)
- “Outside, a Drifter”, Lisa L. Hannett (Looming Low Volume 1)
- “Reef”, Kat Clay (SQ Mag May 2017)
Anthology
- Winner: Infinity Wars, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris)
- The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 11, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris)
- Dimension6: Annual Collection 2017, Keith Stevenson, ed. (coeur de lion)
- Midnight Echo #12, Shane Jiraiya Cummings & Anthony Fergson, eds. (Australasian Horror Writers Association)
- The Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2015, Liz Grzyb & Talie Helene, eds. (Ticonderoga)
Collection
- Winner: The Silver Well, Kate Forsyth & Kim Wilkins (Ticonderoga)
- Beneath the Floating City, Donna Maree Hanson (self-published)
- The Birdcage Heart & Other Strange Tales, Peter M. Ball (Brain Jar)
- Perfect Little Stitches and Other Stories, Deborah Sheldon (IFWG Australia)
- Please Look After This Angel & Other Winged Stories, Tansy Rayner Roberts (self-published)
- Singing My Sister Down and Other Stories, Margo Lanagan (Allen & Unwin)
Graphic Novel/illustrated Work
- Winner: Changing Ways: Book 3, Justin Randall (Gestalt)
- Action Tank, Mike Barry (self-published)
- Dungzilla, James Foley (Fremantle)
- Giants, Trolls, Witches, Beasts, Craig Phillips (Allen & Unwin)
- Home Time, Campbell Whyte (Penguin Random House Australia)
- Tintinnabula, Margo Lanagan (Little Hare)
Young Adult Novel
- Winner: In the Dark Spaces, Cally Black (Hardie Grant Egmont)
- Frogkisser!, Garth Nix (Allen & Unwin)
- Ida, Alison Evans (Echo, Bonnier Australia)
- Psynode, Marlee Jane Ward (Seizure)
- This Mortal Coil, Emily Suvada (Puffin UK)
- The Undercurrent, Paula Weston (Text)
Young Adult Short Story
- Winner: Girl Reporter, Tansy Rayner Roberts (Book Smugglers)
- “Competition Entry #349”, Jaclyn Moriarty (Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology)
- “First Casuality”, Michael Pryor (Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology)
- “I Can See the Ending”, Will Kostakis (Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology)
- “One Small Step”, Amie Kaufman (Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology)
- “Oona Underground”, Lili Wilkinson (Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology)
Children's Fiction
- Winner: Nevermoor, Jessica Townsend (Hachette Australia)
- Accidental Heroes, Lian Tanner (Allen & Unwin)
- The Exile, Jo Sandhu (Penguin Random House Australia)
- The Extremely Inconvenient Adventures of Bronte Mettlestone, Jaclyn Moriarty (Allen & Unwin)
- How to Bee, Bren MacDibble (Allen & Unwin)
- The Shop at Hoopers Bend, Emily Rodda (HarperCollins Australia)
Convenors' Award
- Winner: The Fictional Mother, Tansy Rayner Roberts (self-published)
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