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Aurealis Awards! Tickets! Deadlines! Oh my!

February is fast approaching and with it, the 2025 Aurealis Awards event! It’s going to be a great night with all the ceremony the Aurealis Awards deserve and we’d love to see you there. If you’d like to attend, you … Continue reading

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Less than three weeks to get your Aurealis Awards entries in!

Entries close on Sunday November 30. You have less than three weeks left to get ALL your 2025 entries in for the Aurealis Awards – INCLUDING those scheduled for December publication! Check out the updated Entries list and enter on … Continue reading

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Important Aurealis Awards deadline reminder

Aurealis Awards entries close on November 30, 2025 – this is by necessity a couple of weeks earlier than in past years to facilitate our exciting Awards Ceremony at GenreCon on the weekend of 20-22nd February! It is ESSENTIAL that … Continue reading

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EARLY ENTRY REMINDER: Aurealis Awards

Five days left to access early entry fee pricing! All works published January to September 2025 must be entered by 30 September to be eligible for the regular entry fee. The fee increase applies to these works from October 1. … Continue reading

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2025 Aurealis Awards are open for entry

We are delighted to announce that the 2025 Aurealis Awards are now open for immediate entry. The 2025 Aurealis Awards, Australia’s premier awards for speculative fiction, are for works created by an Australian citizen or permanent resident published for the first time … Continue reading

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Aurealis Awards 2025 – Changes implemented this year

We live in an ever-evolving world, and this year the Aurealis Awards have some changes occuring to help us stay abreast of things and able to continue to deliver Australia’s premier speculative fiction awards. Firstly, we have new overlords! In … Continue reading

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Aurealis Awards 2025 – Call for Judges

Please read the following information carefully before submitting your application as we cannot make exceptions to the requirements. We are seeking expressions of interest from Australian residents who would like to judge for the 2025 Aurealis Awards. Judges are volunteers … Continue reading

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2024 Aurealis Awards Winners

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 … Continue reading

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Join us LIVE at the 2025 Aurealis Awards ceremony!

This year’s Aurealis Awards ceremony will take place online at 4:00pm (AEST) TODAY, Sunday 4 May, 2025. If you would like to be in the room where it happens, we encourage finalists, friends, family and fans to join the fun in … Continue reading

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2024 Aurealis Awards Shortlist Announcement

Now in its 30th year, the 2024 Aurealis Awards, Australia’s premier speculative fiction award, attracted more than 830 entries across 15 categories, including 34 nominations in the tri-annual Sara Douglass Book Series Award (totalling over 120 books), and record numbers … Continue reading

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