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The 2018 Shirley Jackson Awards Winners have been announced.

In recognition of the legacy of Shirley Jackson’s writing, and with permission of the author’s estate, The Shirley Jackson Awards, Inc. has been established for outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic.

The Shirley Jackson Awards are voted upon by a jury of professional writers, editors, critics, and academics. The awards are given for the best work published in the preceding calendar year in the following categories: Novel, Novella, Novelette, Short Story, Single-Author Collection, and Edited Anthology.

Winners are in green.


NOVEL

• Everything Under by Daisy Johnson (Jonathan Cape)
• In the Night Wood by Dale Bailey (John Joseph Adams Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
• Little Eve by Catriona Ward (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, an imprint of The Orion Publishing Group)
• Social Creature by Tara Isabella Burton (Double Day/Raven Books)
• We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix (Quirk Books)

NOVELLA

• Judderman by DA Northwood (Gary Budden) (Dead Ink Books/Cinder House Publishing)
• The Atrocities by Jeremy C. Shipp (Tor.com)
• The Only Harmless Great Thing by Brooke Bolander (Tor.com)
• The Sea Dreams It Is the Sky by John Hornor Jacobs (HarperCollins Publishers)
• The Taiga Syndrome by Cristina Rivera Garza (Dorothy, a Publishing Project)

NOVELETTE

• "Adriftica" by Maria Dahvana Headley (Robots vs. Fairies)
• "Blood and Smoke, Vinegar and Ashes” by D.P. Watt (The Silent Garden)
• Ghostographs: An Album by Maria Romasco Moore (Rose Metal Press)
• "Help the Witch" by Tom Cox (Help the Witch)
• "The Black Sea" by Chris Mason (Beneath the Waves – Tales from the Deep, April 2018)

SHORT FICTION

• “Back Seat” by Bracken MacLeod (Lost Highways)
• “Hell” by David Hansen (The Charcoal Issue of Fairy Tale Review, March 2018)
• “How to be a Horror Writer” by Tim Waggoner (Vastarien: A Literary Journal vol 1., issue 2 – Summer / Grimscribe Press)
• “The Astronaut” by Christina Wood Martinez (Granta 142: Animalia)
• "The Woman Dies" by Aoko Matsuda, translated from the Japanese by Polly Barton (online edition of Granta 144: genericlovestory)

SINGLE-AUTHOR COLLECTION

• All the Fabulous Beasts by Priya Sharma (Undertow Publications)
• From Deep Places by Gemma Files (Trepidatio Publishing)
• Garden of Eldritch Delights by Lucy A. Snyder (Raw Dog Screaming Press)
• Quartier Perdu by Sean O'Brien (Comma Press)
• The Human Alchemy by Michael Griffin (Word Horde)

EDITED ANTHOLOGY

• Chiral Mad 4: An Anthology of Collaborations, edited by Michael Bailey and Lucy A. Snyder (Written Backwards)
• Robots vs Fairies, edited by Navah Wolfe and Dominik Parisien (Saga Press)
• The Silent Garden: A Journal of Esoteric Fabulism, edited by The Silent Garden Collective (Undertow Publications)
• This Dreaming Isle, edited by Dan Coxon (Unsung Stories)
• Tiny Crimes: Very Short Tales of Mystery and Murder, edited by Lincoln Michel and Nadxieli Nieto (Black Balloon)

The 2018 Shirley Jackson Awards were presented on Sunday, July 14, 2019, at Readercon 30 in Quincy, Massachusetts.

The winners for the 2018 Aurealis Awards have been announced by the Continuum Foundation.

Winners of the 2018 Aurealis Awards, Sara Douglass Book Series Award, and the Convenors’ Award for Excellence were announced on Saturday, May 4, 2019, at the Aurealis Awards ceremony.









BEST CHILDREN’S FICTION

• The Relic of the Blue Dragon, Rebecca Lim (Allen & Unwin)
• The Slightly Alarming Tales of the Whispering Wars, Jaclyn Moriarty (Allen & Unwin)
• The Endsister, Penni Russon (Allen & Unwin)
• Secret Guardians, Lian Tanner (Allen & Unwin)
• Ting Ting the Ghosthunter, Gabrielle Wang (Penguin Random House Australia)
• Ottilie Colter and the Narroway Hunt, Rhiannon Williams (Hardie Grant Egmont)

BEST GRAPHIC NOVEL / ILLUSTRATED WORK

• Deathship Jenny, Rob O’Connor (self-published)
• Cicada, Shaun Tan (Hachette Australia)
• Tales from The Inner City, Shaun Tan (Allen & Unwin)

BEST YOUNG ADULT SHORT STORY

• “A Robot Like Me”, Lee Cope (Mother of Invention, Twelfth Planet Press)
• “The Moon Collector”, D K Mok (Under the Full Moon’s Light, Owl Hollow Press)
• “The Sea-Maker of Darmid Bay”, Shauna O’Meara (Interzone #277, TTA Press)
• “Eight-Step Koan”, Anya Ow (Sword and Sonnet, Ate Bit Bear)
• “For Weirdless Days and Weary Nights”, Deborah Sheldon (Breach #08)

BEST HORROR SHORT STORY

• “The Offering”, Michael Gardner (Aurealis #112)
• “Slither”, Jason Nahrung (Cthulhu Deep Down Under Volume 2, IFWG Publishing Australia)
• “By Kindle Light”, Jessica Nelson-Tyers (Antipodean SF #235)
• “Hit and Rot”, Jessica Nelson-Tyers (Breach #08)
• “Sub-Urban”, Alfie Simpson (Breach #07)
• “The Further Shore”, J Ashley Smith (Bourbon Penn #15)

BEST HORROR NOVELLA

• “Andromeda Ascends”, Matthew R Davis (Beneath the Waves – Tales from the Deep, Things In The Well)
• “Kopura Rising”, David Kuraria (Cthulhu: Land of the Long White Cloud, IFWG Publishing Australia)
• “The Black Sea”, Chris Mason (Beneath the Waves – Tales from the Deep, Things In The Well)
• Triquetra, Kirstyn McDermott (Tor.com)
• “With This Needle I Thee Thread”, Angela Rega (Aurum, Ticonderoga Publications)
• Crisis Apparition, Kaaron Warren (Dark Moon Books)

BEST FANTASY SHORT STORY

• “Crying Demon”, Alan Baxter (Suspended in Dusk 2, Grey Matter Press)
• “Army Men”, Juliet Marillier (Of Gods and Globes, Lancelot Schaubert)
• “The Further Shore”, J Ashley Smith (Bourbon Penn #15)
• “Child of the Emptyness”, Amanda J Spedding (Grimdark Magazine #17)
• “A Moment’s Peace”, Dave Versace (A Hand of Knaves, CSFG Publishing)
• “Heartwood, Sapwood, Spring”, Suzanne J Willis (Sword and Sonnet, Ate Bit Bear)

BEST FANTASY NOVELLA

• “This Side of the Wall”, Michael Gardner (Metaphorosis Magazine, January 2018)
• “Beautiful”, Juliet Marillier (Aurum, Ticonderoga Publications)
• “The Staff in the Stone”, Garth Nix (The Book of Magic, Penguin Random House)
• Merry Happy Valkyrie, Tansy Rayner Roberts (Twelfth Planet Press)
• “The Dressmaker and the Colonel’s Coat”, David Versace (Mnemo’s Memory and Other Fantastic Tales, self-published)
• The Dragon’s Child, Janeen Webb (PS Publishing)

BEST SCIENCE FICTION SHORT STORY

• “The Sixes, The Wisdom and the Wasp”, E J Delaney (Escape Pod)
• “The Fallen”, Pamela Jeffs (Red Hour, Four Ink Press)
• “On the Consequences of Clinically-Inhibited Maturation in the Common Sydney Octopus”, Simon Petrie & Edwina Harvey (A Hand of Knaves, CSFG)
• “A Fair Wind off Baracoa”, Robert Porteous (Hand of Knaves, CSFG)
• “The Astronaut”, Jen White (Aurealis)

BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVELLA

• “I Almost Went To The Library Last Night”, Joanne Anderton (Aurum, Ticonderoga Publications)
• The Starling Requiem, Jodi Cleghorn (eMergent Publishing)
• Icefall, Stephanie Gunn (Twelfth Planet Press)
• “Pinion”, Stephanie Gunn (Aurum, Ticonderoga Publications)
• “Singles’ Day”, Samantha Murray (Interzone #277, TTA Press)
• Static Ruin, Corey J White (Tor.com)

BEST COLLECTION

• Not Quite the End of the World Just Yet, Peter M Ball (Brain Jar Press)
• Phantom Limbs, Margo Lanagan (PS Publishing)
• Tales from The Inner City, Shaun Tan (Allen & Unwin)
• Exploring Dark Short Fiction #2: A Primer to Kaaron Warren, Kaaron Warren (Dark Moon Books)

BEST ANTHOLOGY

• Sword and Sonnet, Aiden Doyle, Rachael K Jones & E Catherine Tobler (Ate Bit Bear)
• Aurum, Russell B Farr (Ticonderoga Publications)
• Mother of Invention, Rivqa Rafael & Tansy Rayner Roberts (Twelfth Planet Press)
• Infinity’s End, Jonathan Strahan (Solaris)
• The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year, Jonathan Strahan (Solaris)

BEST YOUNG ADULT NOVEL

• Small Spaces, Sarah Epstein (Walker Books Australia)
• Lifel1k3, Jay Kristoff (Allen & Unwin)
• Catching Teller Crow, Ambelin Kwaymullina & Ezekiel Kwaymullina (Allen & Unwin)
• His Name was Walter, Emily Rodda (HarperCollins Publishers)
• A Curse of Ash and Embers, Jo Spurrier (HarperCollins Publishers)
• Impostors, Scott Westerfeld (Allen & Unwin)

BEST HORROR NOVEL

• The Bus on Thursday, Shirley Barrett (Allen & Unwin)
• Years of the Wolf, Craig Cormick (IFWG Publishing Australia)
• Tide of Stone, Kaaron Warren (Omnium Gatherum)

BEST FANTASY NOVEL - TIE

• Devouring Dark, Alan Baxter (Grey Matter Press)
• Lady Helen and the Dark Days Deceit, Alison Goodman (HarperCollins Publishers)
• City of Lies, Sam Hawke (Penguin Random House)
• Lightning Tracks, Alethea Kinsela (Plainspeak Publishing)
• The Witch Who Courted Death, Maria Lewis (Hachette Australia)
• We Ride the Storm, Devin Madson (self-published)

BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL

• Scales of Empire, Kylie Chan (HarperCollins Publishers)
• Obsidio, Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff (Allen & Unwin)
• Lifel1k3, Jay Kristoff (Allen & Unwin)
• Dyschronia, Jennifer Mills (Picador Australia)
• A Superior Spectre, Angela Meyer (Ventura Press)
• The Second Cure, Margaret Morgan (Penguin Random House)

THE SARA DOUGLASS BOOK SERIES AWARD

• Blackthorn & Grim [Dreamer’s Pool (2014), Tower of Thorns (2015), Den of Wolves (2016)], Juliet Marillier (Pan Macmillan Australia)
• Captive Prince [Captive Prince (2014), Prince’s Gambit (2014), Kings Rising (2016)], C S Pacat (Penguin Random House)
• Electric Empire [The Diabolical Miss Hyde (2015), The Devious Dr Jekyll (2015), The Dastardly Miss Lizzie (2017)], Viola Carr (HarperCollins Publishers)
• The Fire Sermon [The Fire Sermon (2015), The Map of Bones (2016), The Forever Ship (2017)], Francesca Haig (HarperCollins Publishers)
• Zeroes [Zeroes (2015), Swarm (2016), Nexus (2017)], Deborah Biancotti, Margo Lanagan & Scott Westerfeld (Allen & Unwin)

CONVENORS’ AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE – TIE

• Cat Sparks, The 21st Century Catastrophe: Hyper-capitalism and Severe Climate Change in Science Fiction (PhD exegesis, Curtin University)
• Kim Wilkins, Lisa Fletcher, and Beth Driscoll, Genre Worlds: Australian Popular Fiction in the 21st Century (http://www.genreworlds.com/)

The 2018 Shirley Jackson Awards Nominees have been announced.

In recognition of the legacy of Shirley Jackson’s writing, and with permission of the author’s estate, The Shirley Jackson Awards, Inc. has been established for outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic.

The Shirley Jackson Awards are voted upon by a jury of professional writers, editors, critics, and academics. The awards are given for the best work published in the preceding calendar year in the following categories: Novel, Novella, Novelette, Short Story, Single-Author Collection, and Edited Anthology.

NOVEL

• Everything Under by Daisy Johnson (Jonathan Cape)
• In the Night Wood by Dale Bailey (John Joseph Adams Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
• Little Eve by Catriona Ward (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, an imprint of The Orion Publishing Group)
• Social Creature by Tara Isabella Burton (Double Day/Raven Books)
• We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix (Quirk Books)

NOVELLA

• Judderman by DA Northwood (Gary Budden) (Dead Ink Books/Cinder House Publishing)
• The Atrocities by Jeremy C. Shipp (Tor.com)
• The Only Harmless Great Thing by Brooke Bolander (Tor.com)
• The Sea Dreams It Is the Sky by John Hornor Jacobs (HarperCollins Publishers)
• The Taiga Syndrome by Cristina Rivera Garza (Dorothy, a Publishing Project)

NOVELETTE

• "Adriftica" by Maria Dahvana Headley (Robots vs. Fairies)
• "Blood and Smoke, Vinegar and Ashes” by D.P. Watt (The Silent Garden)
• Ghostographs: An Album by Maria Romasco Moore (Rose Metal Press)
• "Help the Witch" by Tom Cox (Help the Witch)
• "The Black Sea" byChris Mason (Beneath the Waves – Tales from the Deep, April 2018)

SHORT FICTION

• “Back Seat” by Bracken MacLeod (Lost Highways)
• “Hell” by David Hansen (The Charcoal Issue of Fairy Tale Review, March 2018)
• “How to be a Horror Writer” by Tim Waggoner (Vastarien: A Literary Journal vol 1., issue 2 – Summer / Grimscribe Press)
• “The Astronaut” by Christina Wood Martinez (Granta 142: Animalia)
• "The Woman Dies" by Aoko Matsuda, translated from the Japanese by Polly Barton (online edition of Granta 144: genericlovestory)

SINGLE-AUTHOR COLLECTION

• All the Fabulous Beasts by Priya Sharma (Undertow Publications)
• From Deep Places by Gemma Files (Trepidatio Publishing)
• Garden of Eldritch Delights by Lucy A. Snyder (Raw Dog Screaming Press)
• Quartier Perdu by Sean O'Brien (Comma Press)
• The Human Alchemy by Michael Griffin (Word Horde)

EDITED ANTHOLOGY

• Chiral Mad 4: An Anthology of Collaborations, edited by Michael Bailey and Lucy A. Snyder (Written Backwards)
• Robots vs Fairies, edited by Navah Wolfe and Dominik Parisien (Saga Press)
• The Silent Garden: A Journal of Esoteric Fabulism, edited by The Silent Garden Collective (Undertow Publications)
• This Dreaming Isle, edited by Dan Coxon (Unsung Stories)
• Tiny Crimes: Very Short Tales of Mystery and Murder, edited by Lincoln Michel and Nadxieli Nieto (Black Balloon)

The 2018 Shirley Jackson Awards will be presented on Sunday, July 14, 2019, at Readercon 30 in Quincy, Massachusetts.

The Horror Writers Association has announced the 2018 Bram Stoker Awards® Final Ballot.

The award will be presented during the StokerCon™ being held at the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The gala presentation take place on Saturday night, May 11^th. The awards presentation will also be live-streamed online via the Horror Writers Association website.

2018 Bram Stoker Awards® Final Ballot

Superior Achievement in a Novel

• Alma Katsu – The Hunger (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
• Jonathan Maberry – Glimpse (St. Martin’s Press)
• Josh Malerman – Unbury Carol (Del Rey)
• Dacre Stoker and J.D. Barker – Dracul (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
• Paul Tremblay – The Cabin at the End of the World (William Morrow)

Superior Achievement in a First Novel

• Julie Fine – What Should Be Wild (Harper)
• T.E. Grau – I Am the River (Lethe Press)
• Gwendolyn Kiste  – The Rust Maidens (Trepidatio Publishing)
• Zoje Stage – Baby Teeth (St. Martin’s Press)
• Tony Tremblay – The Moore House (Twisted Publishing)

Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel

• Justina Ireland – Dread Nation (Balzer + Bray)
• Claire Legrand – Sawkill Girls (Katherine Tegen Books)
• Jonathan Maberry – Broken Lands (Simon & Schuster)
• Monique Snyman  – The Night Weaver (Gigi Publishing)
• Kiersten White  – The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein (Delacorte Press)

Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel

• Saladin Ahmed  – Abbott (BOOM! Studios)
• Brian Azzarello  – Moonshine Vol. 2: Misery Train (Image Comics)
• Cullen Bunn  – Bone Parish (BOOM! Studios)
• Victor LaValle  – Victor LaValle’s Destroyer (BOOM! Studios)
• Marjorie Liu  – Monstress Volume 3: Haven (Image Comics)

Superior Achievement in Long Fiction

• Michael Bailey – Our Children, Our Teachers (Written Backwards)
• Joe Hill – You Are Released (Flight or Fright: 17 Turbulent Tales) (Scribner)
• Usman T. Malik  – Dead Lovers on Each Blade, Hung (Nightmare Magazine Issue #74)
• Rena Mason – The Devil’s Throat (Hellhole: An Anthology of Subterranean Terror) (Adrenaline Press)
• Angela Yuriko Smith – Bitter Suites (CreateSpace)

Superior Achievement in Short Fiction

• Jess Landry – “Mutter” (Fantastic Tales of Terror) (Crystal Lake Publishing)
• Lee Murray – “Dead End Town”(Cthulhu Deep Down Under Volume 2) (IFWG Publishing International)
• Annie Neugebauer – “Glove Box” (The Dark City Crime & Mystery Magazine Volume 3, Issue 4-July 2018)
• John F.D.Taff,  – “A Winter’s Tale” (Little Black Spots) (Grey Matter Press)
• Kyla LeeWard  – “And in Her Eyes the City Drowned” (Weirdbook #39) (Wildside Press)

Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection

• Gemma Files – Spectral Evidence (Trepidatio Publishing)
• Eric J. Guignard – That Which Grows Wild (Cemetery Dance Publications)
• Gabino Iglesias – Coyote Songs (Broken River Books)
• Lucy A. Snyder – Garden of Eldritch Delights (Raw Dog Screaming Press)
• Tim Waggoner – Dark and Distant Voices: A Story Collection (Nightscape Press)

Superior Achievement in a Screenplay

• Ari Aster – Hereditary (PalmStar Media)
• Meredith Averill – The Haunting of Hill House: The Bent-Neck Lady, Episode 01:05 (Amblin Television, FlanaganFilm, Paramount Television)
• Alex Garland – Annihilation (DNA Films, Paramount Pictures, Scott Rudin Productions, Skydance Media)
• Eric Heisserer – Bird Box (Bluegrass Films, Chris Morgan Productions, Universal Pictures)
• Bryan Woods, Scott Beck, and John Krasinski – A Quiet Place (Platinum Dunes, Sunday Night)

Superior Achievement in an Anthology

• James Chambers, April Grey, and Robert Masterson – A New York State of Fright: Horror Stories from the Empire State (Hippocampus Press)
• Ellen Datlow – The Devil and the Deep: Horror Stories of the Sea (Night Shade Books)
• Eric J. Guignard – A World of Horror (Dark Moon Books)
• Lee Murray – Hellhole: An Anthology of Subterranean Terror (Adrenaline Press)
• D. Alexander Ward – Lost Highways: Dark Fictions from the Road (Crystal Lake Publishing)

Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction

• John Connolly – Horror Express (PS Publishing)
• Lee Gambin – The Howling: Studies in the Horror Film (Centipede Press)
• Howard David Ingham – We Don’t Go Back: A Watcher’s Guide to Folk Horror (Room 207 Press)
• Joe Mynhardt and Eugene Johnson – It’s Alive: Bringing Your Nightmares to Life (Crystal Lake Publishing)
• Kevin J. Wetmore Jr. – Uncovering Stranger Things: Essays on Eighties Nostalgia, Cynicism and Innocence in the Series (McFarland)

Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection

• Bruce Boston – Artifacts (Independent Legions Publishing)
• David E. Cowen – Bleeding Saffron (Weasel Press)
• Donna Lynch – Witches (Raw Dog Screaming Press)
• Marge Simon and Alessandro Manzetti – War (Crystal Lake Publishing)
• Sara Tantlinger – The Devil’s Dreamland (Strangehouse Books)

HWA is a nonprofit organization of writers and publishing professionals around the world, dedicated to promoting dark literature and the interests of those who write it. The HWA formed in 1985 with the help of many of the field’s greats, including Dean Koontz, Robert McCammon, and Joe Lansdale. Today, with over 1,500 members around the globe, it is the oldest and most respected professional organization for the much-loved writers who have brought you the most enjoyable sleepless nights of your life. The HWA is the home of the prestigious Bram Stoker Award® and the creator of the annual StokerCon™ convention. - from the Press Release

The 2018 Nebula Award Finalists have been announced. The Awards will be presented during the SFWA Nebula Conference, May 16 - 19, 2019, in Los Angelese, California.

The Nebula Awards, presented annually, recognize the best works of science fiction and fantasy published in the previous year. They are selected by members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. The first Nebula Awards were presented in 1966.

The Nebula Awards include four fiction awards, a game writing award, the Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation, the Andre Norton Award for Outstanding Young Adult Science Fiction or Fantasy Book. SFWA also administers the Kate Wilhelm Solstice Awards, the Kevin O’Donnell, Jr. Service to SFWA Award, and the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award. - from the announcement.

Novel

• The Calculating Stars, Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor)
• The Poppy War, R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager US; Harper Voyager UK)
• Blackfish City, Sam J. Miller (Ecco; Orbit UK)
• Spinning Silver, Naomi Novik (Del Rey; Macmillan)
• Witchmark, C.L. Polk (Tor.com Publishing)
• Trail of Lightning, Rebecca Roanhorse (Saga)

Novella

• Fire Ant, Jonathan P. Brazee (Semper Fi)
• The Black God’s Drums, P. Djèlí Clark (Tor.com Publishing)
• The Tea Master and the Detective, Aliette de Bodard (Subterranean)
• Alice Payne Arrives, Kate Heartfield (Tor.com Publishing)
• Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach, Kelly Robson (Tor.com Publishing)
• Artificial Condition, Martha Wells (Tor.com Publishing)

Novelette

• The Only Harmless Great Thing, Brooke Bolander (Tor.com Publishing)
• “The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections”, Tina Connolly (Tor.com 7/11/18)
• “An Agent of Utopia”, Andy Duncan (An Agent of Utopia)
• “The Substance of My Lives, the Accidents of Our Births”, José Pablo Iriarte (Lightspeed 1/18)
• “The Rule of Three”, Lawrence M. Schoen (Future Science Fiction Digest 12/18)
• “Messenger”, Yudhanjaya Wijeratne and R.R. Virdi (Expanding Universe, Volume 4)

Short Story

• “Interview for the End of the World”, Rhett C. Bruno (Bridge Across the Stars)
• “The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington”, Phenderson Djèlí Clark (Fireside 2/18)
• “Going Dark”, Richard Fox (Backblast Area Clear)
• “And Yet”, A.T. Greenblatt (Uncanny 3-4/18)
• “A Witch’s Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies”, Alix E. Harrow (Apex 2/6/18)
• “The Court Magician”, Sarah Pinsker (Lightspeed 1/18)

Game Writing

• Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, Charlie Brooker (House of Tomorrow & Netflix)
• The Road to Canterbury, Kate Heartfield (Choice of Games)
• God of War, Matt Sophos, Richard Zangrande Gaubert, Cory Barlog, Orion Walker, and Adam Dolin (Santa Monica Studio/Sony/Interactive Entertainment)
• Rent-A-Vice, Natalia Theodoridou (Choice of Games)
• The Martian Job, M. Darusha Wehm (Choice of Games)

The Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation

• The Good Place: “Jeremy Bearimy”, Written by: Megan Amram
• Black Panther, Written by: Ryan Coogler and Joe Robert Cole
• A Quiet Place, Screenplay by: John Krasinski and Bryan Woods & Scott Beck
• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Screenplay by: Phil Lord and Rodney Rothman
• Dirty Computer, Written by: Janelle Monáe and Chuck Lightning
• Sorry to Bother You, Written by: Boots Riley

The Andre Norton Award for Outstanding Young Adult Science Fiction or Fantasy Book

• Children of Blood and Bone, Tomi Adeyemi (Henry Holt; Macmillan)
• Aru Shah and the End of Time, Roshani Chokshi (Rick Riordan Presents)
• A Light in the Dark, A.K. DuBoff (BDL)
• Tess of the Road, Rachel Hartman (Random House)
• Dread Nation, Justina Ireland (Balzer + Bray)
• Peasprout Chen: Future Legend of Skate and Sword, Henry Lien (Henry Holt)

The finalists for the 2018 Aurealis Awards have been announced by the Continuum Foundation.

Winners of the 2018 Aurealis Awards, Sara Douglass Book Series Award, and the Convenors’ Award for Excellence will be announced on Sunday, May 4, 2019, at the Aurealis Awards ceremony.

The Sara Douglass Book Series Award finalists will be announced at a later date.





BEST CHILDREN’S FICTION

• The Relic of the Blue Dragon, Rebecca Lim (Allen & Unwin)
• The Slightly Alarming Tales of the Whispering Wars, Jaclyn Moriarty (Allen & Unwin)
• The Endsister, Penni Russon (Allen & Unwin)
• Secret Guardians, Lian Tanner (Allen & Unwin)
• Ting Ting the Ghosthunter, Gabrielle Wang (Penguin Random House Australia)
• Ottilie Colter and the Narroway Hunt, Rhiannon Williams (Hardie Grant Egmont)

BEST GRAPHIC NOVEL / ILLUSTRATED WORK

• Deathship Jenny, Rob O’Connor (self-published)
• Cicada, Shaun Tan (Hachette Australia)
• Tales from The Inner City, Shaun Tan (Allen & Unwin)

BEST YOUNG ADULT SHORT STORY

• “A Robot Like Me”, Lee Cope (Mother of Invention, Twelfth Planet Press)
• “The Moon Collector”, D K Mok (Under the Full Moon’s Light, Owl Hollow Press)
• “The Sea-Maker of Darmid Bay”, Shauna O’Meara (Interzone #277, TTA Press)
• “Eight-Step Koan”, Anya Ow (Sword and Sonnet, Ate Bit Bear)
• “For Weirdless Days and Weary Nights”, Deborah Sheldon (Breach #08)

BEST HORROR SHORT STORY

• “The Offering”, Michael Gardner (Aurealis #112)
• “Slither”, Jason Nahrung (Cthulhu Deep Down Under Volume 2, IFWG Publishing Australia)
• “By Kindle Light”, Jessica Nelson-Tyers (Antipodean SF #235)
• “Hit and Rot”, Jessica Nelson-Tyers (Breach #08)
• “Sub-Urban”, Alfie Simpson (Breach #07)
• “The Further Shore”, J Ashley Smith (Bourbon Penn #15)

BEST HORROR NOVELLA

• “Andromeda Ascends”, Matthew R Davis (Beneath the Waves – Tales from the Deep, Things In The Well)
• “Kopura Rising”, David Kuraria (Cthulhu: Land of the Long White Cloud, IFWG Publishing Australia)
• “The Black Sea”, Chris Mason (Beneath the Waves – Tales from the Deep, Things In The Well)
• Triquetra, Kirstyn McDermott (Tor.com)
• “With This Needle I Thee Thread”, Angela Rega (Aurum, Ticonderoga Publications)
• Crisis Apparition, Kaaron Warren (Dark Moon Books)

BEST FANTASY SHORT STORY

• “Crying Demon”, Alan Baxter (Suspended in Dusk 2, Grey Matter Press)
• “Army Men”, Juliet Marillier (Of Gods and Globes, Lancelot Schaubert)
• “The Further Shore”, J Ashley Smith (Bourbon Penn #15)
• “Child of the Emptyness”, Amanda J Spedding (Grimdark Magazine #17)
• “A Moment’s Peace”, Dave Versace (A Hand of Knaves, CSFG Publishing)
• “Heartwood, Sapwood, Spring”, Suzanne J Willis (Sword and Sonnet, Ate Bit Bear)

BEST FANTASY NOVELLA

• “This Side of the Wall”, Michael Gardner (Metaphorosis Magazine, January 2018)
• “Beautiful”, Juliet Marillier (Aurum, Ticonderoga Publications)
• “The Staff in the Stone”, Garth Nix (The Book of Magic, Penguin Random House)
• Merry Happy Valkyrie, Tansy Rayner Roberts (Twelfth Planet Press)
• “The Dressmaker and the Colonel’s Coat”, David Versace (Mnemo’s Memory and Other Fantastic Tales, self-published)
• The Dragon’s Child, Janeen Webb (PS Publishing)

BEST SCIENCE FICTION SHORT STORY

• “The Sixes, The Wisdom and the Wasp”, E J Delaney (Escape Pod)
• “The Fallen”, Pamela Jeffs (Red Hour, Four Ink Press)
• “On the Consequences of Clinically-Inhibited Maturation in the Common Sydney Octopus”, Simon Petrie & Edwina Harvey (A Hand of Knaves, CSFG)
• “A Fair Wind off Baracoa”, Robert Porteous (Hand of Knaves, CSFG)
• “The Astronaut”, Jen White (Aurealis)

BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVELLA

• “I Almost Went To The Library Last Night”, Joanne Anderton (Aurum, Ticonderoga Publications)
• The Starling Requiem, Jodi Cleghorn (eMergent Publishing)
• Icefall, Stephanie Gunn (Twelfth Planet Press)
• “Pinion”, Stephanie Gunn (Aurum, Ticonderoga Publications)
• “Singles’ Day”, Samantha Murray (Interzone #277, TTA Press)
• Static Ruin, Corey J White (Tor.com)

BEST COLLECTION

• Not Quite the End of the World Just Yet, Peter M Ball (Brain Jar Press)
• Phantom Limbs, Margo Lanagan (PS Publishing)
• Tales from The Inner City, Shaun Tan (Allen & Unwin)
• Exploring Dark Short Fiction #2: A Primer to Kaaron Warren, Kaaron Warren (Dark Moon Books)

BEST ANTHOLOGY

• Sword and Sonnet, Aiden Doyle, Rachael K Jones & E Catherine Tobler (Ate Bit Bear)
• Aurum, Russell B Farr (Ticonderoga Publications)
• Mother of Invention, Rivqa Rafael & Tansy Rayner Roberts (Twelfth Planet Press)
• Infinity’s End, Jonathan Strahan (Solaris)
• The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year, Jonathan Strahan (Solaris)

BEST YOUNG ADULT NOVEL

• Small Spaces, Sarah Epstein (Walker Books Australia)
• Lifel1k3, Jay Kristoff (Allen & Unwin)
• Catching Teller Crow, Ambelin Kwaymullina & Ezekiel Kwaymullina (Allen & Unwin)
• His Name was Walter, Emily Rodda (HarperCollins Publishers)
• A Curse of Ash and Embers, Jo Spurrier (HarperCollins Publishers)
• Impostors, Scott Westerfeld (Allen & Unwin)

BEST HORROR NOVEL

• The Bus on Thursday, Shirley Barrett (Allen & Unwin)
• Years of the Wolf, Craig Cormick (IFWG Publishing Australia)
• Tide of Stone, Kaaron Warren (Omnium Gatherum)

BEST FANTASY NOVEL

• Devouring Dark, Alan Baxter (Grey Matter Press)
• Lady Helen and the Dark Days Deceit, Alison Goodman (HarperCollins Publishers)
• City of Lies, Sam Hawke (Penguin Random House)
• Lightning Tracks, Alethea Kinsela (Plainspeak Publishing)
• The Witch Who Courted Death, Maria Lewis (Hachette Australia)
• We Ride the Storm, Devin Madson (self-published)

BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL

• Scales of Empire, Kylie Chan (HarperCollins Publishers)
• Obsidio, Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff (Allen & Unwin)
• Lifel1k3, Jay Kristoff (Allen & Unwin)
• Dyschronia, Jennifer Mills (Picador Australia)
• A Superior Spectre, Angela Meyer (Ventura Press)
• The Second Cure, Margaret Morgan (Penguin Random House)

This year’s finalists for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for the best short science fiction story have been announced. The awards will be presented during the Campbell Conference Awards reception on Friday, June 22, 2018.


Theodore A. Sturgeon Memorial Award - 2018 Finalists

• “Don’ʹt Press Charges and I Won’ʹt Sue,” Charlie Jane Anders. Boston Review: Global Dystopias, Oct 2017.
• “Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance,” Tobias S. Buckell. Cosmic Powers, ed. John Joseph Adams. Saga Press.
• “The Discrete Charm of the Turing Machine,” Greg Egan. Asimov’ʹs, Nov/Dec 2017.
• “Sidewalks,” Maureen McHugh. Omni, Nov 2017.
• “The Martian Obelisk,” Linda Nagata. tor.com, July 2017.
• “The Secret Life of Bots,” Suzanne Palmer. Clarkesworld, Sept 2017.
• “And Then There Were (N-­‐‑One),” Sarah Pinsker. Uncanny Magazine, March 2017.
• “A Series of Steaks,” Vina Jie-­‐‑Min Prasad. Clarkesworld, Jan 2017.
• “Fandom for Robots,” Vina Jie-­‐‑Min Prasad. Uncanny, Sept 2017.
• “Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience,” Rebecca Roanhorse. Apex, Aug 2017.
• “We Who Live in the Heart,” Kelly Robson. Clarkesworld, May 2017.

The Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award recognizes the best science fiction short story of each year. It was established in 1987 by James Gunn, Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Science Fiction at KU, and the heirs of Theodore Sturgeon, including his partner Jayne Engelhart Tannehill and Sturgeon’s children, as an appropriate memorial to one of the great short-­story writers in a field distinguished by its short fiction.

The Campbell Conference has been held each year since 1978 at the University of Kansas. It includes a Friday‐evening banquet where the annual Theodore A. Sturgeon and John W. Campbell Memorial Award are given; a Saturday round‐table discussion with scholars, scientists, and writers of science fiction; and other events.

Note: Clicking on a short story title will take you to that story online with the exception of the link to Greg Egan's story which takes you to a PDF.

The Winner of the Sir Julius Vogel Awards for 2018 have been announced by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Association of New Zealand Inc. (SFFANZ). The Sir Julius Vogel Awards recognize excellence in Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror by New Zealanders. They are voted on by New Zealand fans and are presented at the National Science Fiction convention each year. The awards ceremony was held at Conclave 3 in Auckland on Sunday, April 1st.


Winners in green.





Best Novel

• In the Earth's Embrace, J.C. Hart (Etherhart Press)
• Bastet's Daughters, Lyn McConchie (Wildside Press)
• Tyche's Flight, Richard Parry (Independent)
• Hounds of the Underworld, Dan Rabarts and Lee Murray (Raw Dog Screaming Press)
• Starlight's Children, Darian Smith (Wooden Tiger Press)

Best Youth Novel

• Earthcore, Book 1: RotoVegas, Grace Bridges (Splashdown Books)
• The Locksmith, Barbara Howe (IFWG Publishing)
• A Dash of Belladonna, J. Rackham (Lemon Ink)
• The Kahutahuta, Douglas A. Van Belle (Intergalactic Media Group)
• The Traitor and the Thief, Gareth Ward (Walker Books Australia)

Best Novella / Novelette

• The Meiosis of Cells and Exile, Octavia Cade, published in Asimov's Science Fiction, Jan/Feb 2017 edition
• Standard Hollywood Depravity, Adam Christopher (Tor)
• Beautiful Abomination, Frances Duncan
• Matters Arising from the Identification of the Body, Simon Petrie (Peggy Bright Books)
• Blood Money, Chris Underwood

Best Short Story

• “Earthcore: Initiation”, Grace Bridges, published on www.gracebridges.kiwi.
• “Syren Song”, A.C Buchanan, published in Kaleidotrope
• “The Stone Weta”, Octavia Cade, published in Clarkesworld, issue 131
• “From the Womb of the Land, Our Bones Entwined”, A.J. Fitzwater, published in Pacific Monsters anthology (Fox Spirit Books)
• “Crimson Birds of Small Miracles”, Sean Monaghan, published in Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Jan/Feb 2017

Best Collected Work

• Mariah's Prologues, Grace Bridges
• Once Upon a Southern Star: A Collection of Retold Fairy Tales, edited by Shelley Chappell

Best Professional Artwork

• Earthcore: Initiation, story poster by Grace Bridges
• Cover for "Teleport", Kate Strawbridge
• Cover for "Beneath Broken Waves", Kate Strawbridge
• Cover for "The Madman's Bridge", Patrick McDonald
• Cover for "In the Earth's Embrace", Kate Strawbridge

Best Professional Production/Publication

• Mistlands, Laya Rose https://tapas.io/series/Mistlands
• Breach, https://www.breachzine.com/

Best Dramatic Presentation

• The Changeover, directed by Stuart McKenzie and Miranda Harcourt, produced by Emma Slade (Firefly Films)
• The Cul de Sac, season 2, (Greenstone TV)
• One Thousand Ropes, directed by Tusi Tamasese (Blueskin Films)

Best Fan Artwork

• John Toon, for cartoons in Phoenixine and 2017 LexiCon convention booklet

Best Fan Production/ Publication

• Phoenixine, edited by John and Lynelle Howell
• Lexicon convention booklet, produced by Darusha Wehm
• Summer Star Trek – Journey to Babel, Enterprise Entertainment

Best Fan Writing

• Alex Lindsay, for SITREP (produced in Phoenixine)
• Jo Toon, for Pass the Rules (produced in Phoenixine)

Best New Talent

• Barbara Howe
• Mark Johnson
• J. Rackham
• Gareth Ward

Services To Science Fiction, Fantasy And Horror

• Andi Buchanan
• Darian Smith

Services to Fandom

• Jan Butterworth

The winners of the Australian SF ("Ditmar") Awards for 2018 have been announced. The Ditmar Awards were awarded at the 2018 Australian National SF Convention, Swancon 43, in Perth (March 29 – April 2, 2018).


Winners in green.




Best Novel

• Corpselight, Angela Slatter, Hachette Australia.
• Crossroads of Canopy, Thoraiya Dyer, Tor.
• How to Bee, Bren McDibble, Allen & Unwin.
• In the Dark Spaces, Cally Black, Hardie Grant Egmont.
• Lotus Blue, Cat Sparks, Skyhorse Publishing.

Best Novella or Novelette

• "Island Green", Shauna O'Meara, in Ecopunk! Ticonderoga Publications.
• "Girl Reporter", Tansy Rayner Roberts, in Girl Reporter, Book Smugglers Publishing.
• "Matters Arising from the Identification of the Body", Simon Petrie, in Matters Arising from the Identification of the Body, Peggy Bright Books.
• "Monkey Business", Janeen Webb, in Ecopunk!, Ticonderoga Publications.
• "My Sister's Ghost", Kate Forsyth and Kim Wilkins, in The Silver Well, Ticonderoga Publications.

Best Short Story

• "A Harem of Six Legs", Edwina Harvey, in An Eclectic Collection of Stuff and Things, Peggy Bright Books.
• "Mr Mycelium", Claire McKenna, in Ecopunk!, Ticonderoga Publications.
• "A Pearl Beyond Price", Janeen Webb in Cthulhu Deep Down-Under Vol 1, IFWG Publishing Australia.
• "Prayers to Broken Stone", Cat Sparks, in Kaleidotrope, Spring 2017.
• "Trivalent" by Rivqa Rafael, in Ecopunk!, Ticonderoga Publications.

Best Collected Work

• An Eclectic Collection of Stuff and Things by Edwina Harvey, Peggy Bright Books.
• Ecopunk!, Cat Sparks and Liz Grzyb, Ticonderoga Publications.
• The Silver Well, Kate Forsyth and Kim Wilkins, Ticonderoga Publications.
• Singing My Sister Down and other stories by Margo Lanagan, Allen & Unwin.

Best Artwork

• cover art, Lewis Morley, for Matters Arising from the Identification of the Body, Peggy Bright Books.
• The Grief Hole Illustrated: An Artist's Sketchbook Companion to Kaaron Warren's Supernatural Thriller, Keely Van Order, IFWG Publishing Australia.

Best Fan Publication in Any Medium

• Earl Grey Editing (blog), Elizabeth Fitzgerald.
• Galactic Suburbia, Alisa Krasnostein, Alexandra Pierce, Tansy Rayner Roberts.
• No Award (blog), Liz Barr and Stephanie Lai.
• SF Commentary, edited by Bruce Gillespie.
• The Writer and the Critic, Kirstyn McDermott and Ian Mond.

Best Fan Writer

• Liz Barr, for writing at No Award.
• Leigh Edmonds, for writing in iOTA.
• Elizabeth Fitzgerald, for writing at Earl Grey Editing.
• Stephanie Lai, for writing at No Award.

Best Fan Artist

• Shauna O'Meara, for "How to Bee" (based on the novel by Bren MacDibble).

Best New Talent

• Clarie G. Coleman
• Stephanie Lai

William Atheling Jr Award for Criticism or Review

• Liz Barr, for Star Trek: Discovery reviews, in No Award.
• Russell Blackford, for Science Fiction and the Moral Imagination, Springer.
• Ambelin Kwaymullina, for "Reflecting on Indigenous Worlds, Indigenous Futurisms and Artificial Intelligence", Twelfth Planet Press.
• Alexandra Pierce and Mimi Mondal, for Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler, Twelfth Planet Press.
• Cat Sparks, for "Science fiction and climate fiction: contemporary literatures of purpose", in Ecopunk! Speculative tales of radical futures, Ticonderoga Publications.

The Finalists for the Sir Julius Vogel Awards for 2018 have been announced by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Association of New Zealand Inc. (SFFANZ). The Sir Julius Vogel Awards recognize excellence in Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror by New Zealanders. They are voted on by New Zealand fans and are presented at the National Science Fiction convention each year. The awards ceremony will be held at Conclave 3 in Auckland on Sunday, April 1st.






Best Novel

• In the Earth's Embrace, J.C. Hart (Etherhart Press)
• Bastet's Daughters, Lyn McConchie (Wildside Press)
• Tyche's Flight, Richard Parry (Independent)
• Hounds of the Underworld, Dan Rabarts and Lee Murray (Raw Dog Screaming Press)
• Starlight's Children, Darian Smith (Wooden Tiger Press)

Best Youth Novel

• Earthcore, Book 1: RotoVegas, Grace Bridges (Splashdown Books)
• The Locksmith, Barbara Howe (IFWG Publishing)
• A Dash of Belladonna, J. Rackham (Lemon Ink)
• The Kahutahuta, Douglas A. Van Belle (Intergalactic Media Group)
• The Traitor and the Thief, Gareth Ward (Walker Books Australia)

Best Novella / Novelette

• The Meiosis of Cells and Exile, Octavia Cade, published in Asimov's Science Fiction, Jan/Feb 2017 edition
• Standard Hollywood Depravity, Adam Christopher (Tor)
• Beautiful Abomination, Frances Duncan
• Matters Arising from the Identification of the Body, Simon Petrie (Peggy Bright Books)
• Blood Money, Chris Underwood

Best Short Story

• “Earthcore: Initiation”, Grace Bridges, published on www.gracebridges.kiwi.
• “Syren Song”, A.C Buchanan, published in Kaleidotrope
• “The Stone Weta”, Octavia Cade, published in Clarkesworld, issue 131
• “From the Womb of the Land, Our Bones Entwined”, A.J. Fitzwater, published in Pacific Monsters anthology (Fox Spirit Books)
• “Crimson Birds of Small Miracles”, Sean Monaghan, published in Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Jan/Feb 2017

Best Collected Work

• Mariah's Prologues, Grace Bridges
• Once Upon a Southern Star: A Collection of Retold Fairy Tales, edited by Shelley Chappell

Best Professional Artwork

• Earthcore: Initiation, story poster by Grace Bridges
• Cover for "Teleport", Kate Strawbridge
• Cover for "Beneath Broken Waves", Kate Strawbridge
• Cover for "The Madman's Bridge", Patrick McDonald
• Cover for "In the Earth's Embrace", Kate Strawbridge

Best Professional Production/Publication

• Mistlands, Laya Rose https://tapas.io/series/Mistlands
• Breach, https://www.breachzine.com/

Best Dramatic Presentation

• The Changeover, directed by Stuart McKenzie and Miranda Harcourt, produced by Emma Slade (Firefly Films)
• The Cul de Sac, season 2, (Greenstone TV)
• One Thousand Ropes, directed by Tusi Tamasese (Blueskin Films)

Best Fan Production/ Publication

• Phoenixine, edited by John and Lynelle Howell
• Lexicon convention booklet, produced by Darusha Wehm
• Summer Star Trek – Journey to Babel, Enterprise Entertainment

Best Fan Writing

• Alex Lindsay, for SITREP (produced in Phoenixine)
• Jo Toon, for Pass the Rules (produced in Phoenixine)

Best New Talent

• Barbara Howe
• Mark Johnson
• J. Rackham
• Gareth Ward

Services To Science Fiction, Fantasy And Horror

• Andi Buchanan
• Darian Smith

Services to Fandom

• Jan Butterworth

Note: Nominees are presented in randomised order.