The Aurealis Awards management team, on behalf of the Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild, would like to congratulate the winners of this year’s Awards. We also take this opportunity to once again thank the judging panels for all their hard work making the difficult decisions of shortlists and the winning works, Continuum for generously hosting the ceremony, the CSFG committee for organising the ceremony, and all the creators and publishers who continue to make the Aurealis Awards Australia’s premier speculative fiction award each year.

BEST CHILDREN’S FICTION

Spellhound, Lian Tanner (Allen & Unwin) 

BEST GRAPHIC NOVEL / ILLUSTRATED WORK

Ember and the Island of Lost Creatures, Jason Pamment (Allen & Unwin)

BEST YOUNG ADULT SHORT STORY

“Follow The Water”, J Palmer (Where the weird things are Vol 2, Deadset Press) 

BEST HORROR SHORT STORY

“Death interrupted”, Pamela Jeffs (Body of work, Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild)

BEST HORROR NOVELLA

“Quicksilver”, J S Breukelaar (Vandal: Stories of damage, Crystal Lake Entertainment)

BEST FANTASY SHORT STORY

“12 days of Witchmas”, Tansy Rayner Roberts (Patreon, self-published)

BEST FANTASY NOVELLA

Gate sinister, Tansy Rayner Roberts (self-published)

BEST SCIENCE FICTION SHORT STORY  (TIE)

“Hollywood animals”, Corey J White (Interzone #295)

“Customer service”, Emily Wyeth (Mother’s milk, Sempiternal House)

BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVELLA

Once we flew, Nikky Lee (self-published)

BEST COLLECTION

Firelight, John Morrissey (Text Publishing)

BEST ANTHOLOGY

The book of witches, Jonathan Strahan (Ed.) (HarperVoyager)

BEST YOUNG ADULT NOVEL

When ghosts call us home, Katya de Becerra (Macmillan)

BEST HORROR NOVEL

Bunny, S E Tolsen (Pan Macmillan Australia)

BEST FANTASY NOVEL 

The will of the many, James Islington (Text Publishing)

BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL

Time of the cat, Tansy Rayner Roberts (self-published)

CONVENORS’ AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE 

“Science fiction for hire? Notes towards an emerging practice of creative futurism” by Helen Marshall, Kathleen Jennings & Joanne Anderton (Text Journal of Writing and Writing Courses, 27(2))