Aurealis Awards 2022
science fiction awards database
Where and When:
Canberra :
May 28, 2022
Eligibility Year: 2021
Eligibility Year: 2021
Sf Novel
- Winner: Walking Romeo, Kathryn Barker (Allen & Unwin)
- The 22 Murders of Madison May, Max Barry (Hachette Australia)
- Aurora's End, Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff (Allen & Unwin)
- Deepwater King, Claire McKenna (HarperCollins)
- Papa Lucy & The Boneman, Jason Fischer (Outland Entertainment)
- Stealing Time, Rebecca Bowyer (Story Addict)
Sf Novella
- Winner: “Preserved in Amber”, Samantha Murray (Clarkesworld Jul 2021)
- “Access Denied”, Baden Chant (Aurealis #142)
- “The Birdsong Fossil”, D. K. Mok (Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures)
- The Cruise to the End of the World, Craig Cormick (Merino)
- “Problem Landing”, Sean Monaghan (Analog Mar/Apr 2021)
- “A Vast Silence”, T. R. Napper (F&SF Nov/Dec 2021)
Sf Short Story
- Winner: “Relict: (noun) A Widow; a Thing Remaining from the Past”, Alison Goodman (Relics, Wrecks & Ruins)
- “For Autumn”, Melissa Ferguson (Revolutions)
- “He Leaps for the Stars, He Leaps for the Stars”, Grace Chan (Clarkesworld Jul 2021)
- “Honey and a Hanging”, Aiki Flinthart (Tribute)
- “Legacy of the Species”, Pamela Jeffs (The Terralight Collection)
- “The Reunion”, Emily Fox (Nature: Futures 25 Aug 2021)
Fantasy Novel
- Winner: Dark Rise, C. S. Pacat (Allen & Unwin)
- All the Murmuring Bones, Angela Slatter (Titan)
- A Marvellous Light, Freya Marske (Tor)
- The Rose Daughter, Maria Lewis (Piatkus)
- She Who Became the Sun, Shelley Parker-Chan (Mantle)
- Supermums -- And So It Begins, Meg Grace (self-published)
Fantasy Novella
- Winner: Bones of the Sea, Amy Laurens (Inkprint Press)
- “Echo and Narcissus”, Tansy Rayner Roberts (Sheep Might Fly)
- “The Little One”, Rebecca Fraser (Coralesque and Other Tales to Disturb and Distract)
- “Mother in Bloom”, Alan Baxter (The Gulp)
- The Scarab Children of Montague, Suzanne J. Willis (Falstaff)
Fantasy Short Story
- Winner: “So-called Bin Chicken”, E. J. Delaney (Curiouser Magazine #2)
- “All my Tuesdays”, Laura J. Fitzwilson (Cicerone Journal Issue 5: Curious Worlds)
- “Frabjous”, Alexander Gibbs (Cicerone Journal Issue 5: Curious Worlds)
- “Old Souls”, Aiki Flinthart (Relics, Wrecks & Ruins)
- “Who Wants to be a Reaper”, Jane Brown (The Centropic Oracle)
- “The Woods Echo Back”, Tania Fordwalker (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 3 Jun 2021)
Horror Novel
- Winner: Holly and the Nobodies, Ben Pienaar (Hellbound)
- The Airways, Jennifer Mills (Picador Australia)
- The Bridge, J. S. Breukelaar (Meerkat)
- Midnight in the Chapel of Love, Matthew R. Davis (JournalStone)
- Papa Lucy & The Boneman, Jason Fischer (Outland Entertainment)
Horror Novella
- Winner: “All the Long Way Down”, Alf Simpson (Cthulhu Deep Down Under Volume 3)
- “The Band Plays On”, Alan Baxter (The Gulp)
- Cryptid Killers, Alister Hodge (Severed)
- “Hell's Teeth”, Matthew R. Davis (Haunted: An Anthology)
- When the Cicadas Stop Singing, Zachary Ashford (Horrific Tales)
Horror Short Story
- Winner: “Don't Look!”, Lisa Fuller (Hometown Haunts: #LoveOzYA Horror Tales)
- “The House that Hungers”, Maria Lewis (Aurealis #146)
- “Mother Dandelion”, Antoinette Rydyr (Spawn: Weird Horror Tales About Pregnancy, Birth and Babies)
- “The Quiet Room”, Martin Livings (Midnight Echo #16)
- “Sins of the Mother”, Tracie McBride (Spawn: Weird Horror Tales About Pregnancy, Birth and Babies)
- “Traces of Us, Hot Enough for Dinner”, Ephiny Gale (The Dread Machine 1.3)
Anthology
- Winner: Relics, Wrecks & Ruins, Aiki Flinthart, ed. (CAT)
- Hometown Haunts: #LoveOzYA Horror Tales, Poppy Nwosu, ed. (Wakefield)
- Spawn: Weird Horror Tales About Pregnancy, Birth and Babies, Deborah Sheldon, ed. (IFWG Publishing Australia)
- Who Sleuthed It?, Lindy Cameron, ed. (Clan Destine)
Collection
- Winner: The Gulp, Alan Baxter (self-published)
- Danged Black Thing, Eugen Bacon (Transit Lounge)
- Little Labyrinths: Collection Microfictions, Sean Williams (Brain Jar)
- The Tallow-Wife and Other Tales, Angela Slatter (Tartarus)
- The Terralight Collection, Pamela Jeffs (Four Ink)
Graphic Novel/illustrated Work
- Winner: The Curiosities, Zana Fraillon & Phil Lesnie (Hachette Australia)
- Killeroo: Semper Fidelis, Matthew Soall & Ignacio Di Meglio (OzComics)
- Mechanix, Ben Slabak & Edoardo Natalini (Cloud 9)
- Treasure in the Lake, Jason Pamment (Allen & Unwin)
Young Adult Novel
- Winner: Waking Romeo, Kathryn Barker (Allen & Unwin)
- Aurora's End, Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff (Allen & Unwin)
- Dirt Circus League, Maree Kimberley (Text)
- Echo in the Memory, Cameron Nunn (Walker Books Australia)
- It's Not You, It's Me, Gabrielle Williams (Allen & Unwin)
- Terciel & Elinor, Garth Nix (Allen & Unwin)
Young Adult Short Story
- Winner: “Don't Look!”, Lisa Fuller (Hometown Haunts: #LoveOzYA Horror Tales)
- “Hunger”, Marianna Shek (Hometown Haunts: #LoveOzYA Horror Tales)
- “Of Slaves and Lions”, Pamela Jeffs (Stories of Survival)
- “Slaughterhouse Boys”, Emma Osborne (Hometown Haunts: #LoveOzYA Horror Tales)
- “Way-bread Rising”, Tansy Rayner Roberts (Stories of Survival)
- “The Woods Echo Back”, Tania Fordwalker (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 3 Jun 2021)
Children's Fiction
- Winner: Dragon Skin, Karen Foxlee (Allen & Unwin)
- Barebum Billy, Nicholas Snelling (BAD DAD)
- The Boy Who Stepped Through Time, Anna Ciddor (Allen & Unwin)
- The Curiosities, Zana Fraillon & Phil Lesnie (Hachette Australia)
- Elsewhere Girls, Emily Gale & Nova Weetman (Text)
- Stellarphant, James Foley (Fremantle)
Convenors' Award
- Winner: Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950 to 1985, Andrew Nette & Iain McIntyre, eds. (PM)
Sara Douglass Book Series Award
- Winner: Blood and Gold: Crown of Rowan (2014); Daughters of the Storm (2014); Sisters of the Fire (2016); Queens of the Sea (2019), Kim Wilkins (HarperCollins)
- Elementals: Ice Wolves (2018); Scorch Dragons (2019); Battle Born (2020), Amie Kaufman (HarperCollins)
- Lifelike: LIFEL1K3 (2018); DEV1AT3 (2019); TRUEL1F3 (2020), Jay Kristoff (Allen & Unwin)
- Lifespan of Starlight: Lifespan of Starlight (2015); Split Infinity (2016); Edge of Time (2018), Thalia Kalkipsakis (Hardie Grant Egmont)
- Unearthed: Unearthed (2017); Undying (2018), Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner (Allen & Unwin)
- Winter: The Road to Winter (2016); Wilder Country (2017); Land of Fences (2019), Mark Smith (Text)
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