Congratulations to the winners of the 2024 Aurealis Awards, presented today in an online ceremony. A recording of the ceremony will be available soon at our YouTube channel.

Thank you so much to everyone who joined us live, and particularly to our presenters and our host, the wonderful Garth Nix, for such an amazing show. 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, 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

The Apprentice Witnesser

Bren MacDibble 

(Allen & Unwin)

BEST GRAPHIC NOVEL / ILLUSTRATED WORK

In Utero

Chris Gooch

(Top Shelf)

BEST YOUNG ADULT SHORT STORY

“In a League of Her Own”

Jeanette O’Hagan 

(Stepping Sideways: Worlds of Steampunk & Dystopia, Rhiza Edge)

BEST HORROR SHORT STORY

“Flesh of My Flesh”

Ben Matthews 

(Spawn 2: More Weird Horror Tales About Pregnancy, Birth and Babies, IFWG Publishing)

BEST HORROR NOVELLA

Shattered

Pauline Yates

(Black Hare Press)

BEST FANTASY SHORT STORY

“Market of Loss”

Matt Tighe 

(Aurealis #176, Chimaera Publications)

BEST FANTASY NOVELLA

“Another Tide”

Will Greatwich

(Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Firkin Press)

BEST SCIENCE FICTION SHORT STORY

“The Combat Pilot’s Dictionary”

Arden Baker

(Aurealis #167, Chimaera Publications)

BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVELLA

Ghost of the Neon God

T R Napper

(Titan Books) 

BEST COLLECTION

The Heart of the Labyrinth and Other Stories

D K Mok

(self-published)

BEST ANTHOLOGY

Far-Flung

Samuel Maguire (Ed.)

(Tiny Owl Workshop)

BEST YOUNG ADULT NOVEL

Anomaly

Emma Lord

(Affirm Press)

BEST HORROR NOVEL

Carve Your Soul to Pieces

Ben Pienaar

(self-published)

BEST FANTASY NOVEL 

Thoroughly Disenchanted

Alexandra Almond

(HarperCollins Publishers)

BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL

Temporal Boom

J M Voss

(Shawline Publishing Group) 

SARA DOUGLASS BOOK SERIES AWARD

The Radiant Emperor

She Who Became the Sun / He Who Drowned the World

Shelley Parker-Chan 

(Mantle)

CONVENORS’ AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE 

Speculative Insight: Year 1

Alexandra Pierce (Ed.)