Aurealis Awards 2024
science fiction awards database
Winners announced: May 18, 2024
Eligibility Year: 2023
Eligibility Year: 2023
Sf Novel
- Winner: Time of the Cat, Tansy Rayner Roberts (self-published)
- Aliens: Bishop, T. R. Napper (Titan)
- The Comforting Weight of Water, Roanna McClelland (Wakefield)
- Dronikus, Marko Newman (AndAlso)
- Minds of Sand and Light, Kylie Chan (HarperCollins)
- Traitor's Run, Keith Stevenson (coeur de lion)
Sf Novella
- Winner: Once We Flew, Nikky Lee (self-published)
- Bitters, Kaaron Warren (Cemetery Dance)
- “Eight or Die”, Thoraiya Dyer (Clarkesworld Nov 2023)
- Killware, Tim Hawken (Seahawk)
- The Last to Go, A. D. Lyall (Shawline)
- “Showdown on Planetoid Pencrux”, Garth Nix (Asimov's Jul/Aug 2023)
Sf Short Story
- Winner (tie): “Customer Service”, Emily Wyeth (Mother's Milk)
- Winner (tie): “Hollywood Animals”, Corey J. White (Interzone Sep 2023)
- “Beirut Robot Hyenadome”, Thoraiya Dyer (Shoreline of Infinity Aut 2023)
- “Change YourView”, Matt Tighe (Nature: Futures)
- “Trial by Fire”, Matt Tighe (Etherea Oct 2023)
Fantasy Novel
- Winner: The Will of the Many, James Islington (Text)
- The Blood-Born Dragon, J. C. Rycroft (BattleWarrior)
- How to be Remembered, Michael Thompson (Allen & Unwin)
- Of Knives and Night-blooms, Tansy Rayner Roberts (self-published)
- Shadow Baron, Davinia Evans (Orbit/Hachette)
- The Sinister Booksellers of Bath, Garth Nix (Allen & Unwin)
Fantasy Novella
- Winner: Gate Sinister, Tansy Rayner Roberts (self-published)
- “Hole World”, J. S. Breukelaar (Apex Nov/Dec 2023)
- The Leaves Forget, Alan Baxter (Absinthe)
- “A Marked Man”, T. R. Napper (Grimdark Oct 2023)
- A Wicked Blade, Tansy Rayner Roberts (self-published)
- The Wizard Must be Stopped!, Taylen Carver (Stories Rule)
Fantasy Short Story
- Winner: “12 Days of Witchmas”, Tansy Rayner Roberts (self-published)
- “The Dark Man, By Referral”, Chuck McKenzie (This Fresh Hell)
- “The Reeds Remember”, Juliet Marillier (The Other Side of Never)
- “Sea Mist, Shore Witch”, Mikhaeyla Kopievsky (Where the Weird Things Are, Vol. 2)
- “The Unexpected Excursion of the Murder Mystery Writing Witches”, Garth Nix (The Book of Witches)
- “What Bones These Tides Bring”, Nikky Lee (Remains to be Told: Dark Tales of Aotearoa)
Horror Novel
- Winner: Bunny, S. E. Tolsen (Pan Macmillan Australia)
- Borderland, Graham Akhurst (UWA)
- Cretaceous Canyon, Deborah Sheldon (Severed)
- The Graveyard Shift, Maria Lewis (Datura)
- Some Shall Break, Ellie Marney (Allen & Unwin)
- When Ghosts Call Us Home, Katya de Becerra (Macmillan)
Horror Novella
- Winner: “Quicksilver”, J. S. Breukelaar (Vandal: Stories of Damage)
- Bitters, Kaaron Warren (Cemetery Dance)
- “Hole World”, J. S. Breukelaar (Apex Nov/Dec 2023)
- The Leaves Forget, Alan Baxter (Absinthe Books)
- The Morass, Zachary Ashford (Crystal Lake)
- Radcliffe, Madeleine D'Este (Deadset)
Horror Short Story
- Winner: “Death Interrupted”, Pamela Jeffs (Body of Work)
- “Blood Born”, Pauline Yates (Midnight Echo Oct 2023)
- “Il Re Giallo”, Matthew R. Davis (Strange Aeon: 2023)
- “Stokehold”, Pamela Jeffs (SNAFU: PUNK'D)
- “There are Things on Me”, Matt Tighe (Killer Creatures Down Under: Horror Stories with Bite)
- “Trial by Fire”, Matt Tighe (Etherea Oct 2023)
Anthology
- Winner: The Book of Witches, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (HarperVoyager)
- Strangely Enough, Gillian Hagenus, ed. (MidnightSun)
- An Unexpected Party, Seth Malacari, ed. (Fremantle)
Collection
- Winner: Firelight, John Morrissey (Text)
- The Gold Leaf Executions, Helen Marshall (Unsung Stories)
- The Measure of Sorrow: Stories, J. Ashley-Smith (Meerkat)
Graphic Novel/illustrated Work
- Winner: Ember and the Island of Lost Creatures, Jason Pamment (Allen & Unwin)
- Frankenstein Monstrance Preview #1, Jason Franks & Tam Morris (IPI Comics)
- MEAT4BURGERS, Christof Bogacs & Beck Kubrick (self-published)
- Monomyth, David Hazan & Cecilia Lo Valvo (Mad Cave Studios)
Young Adult Novel
- Winner: When Ghosts Call Us Home, Katya de Becerra (Macmillan)
- Archives of Despair, Caleb Finn (Penguin Random House Australia)
- Borderland, Graham Akhurst (UWA)
- The Non-Magical Declan Moore, Nathan Taylor (Magpie Drive)
- The Spider and Her Demons, sydney khoo (Penguin Random House Australia)
- The Weaver, Melanie Kanicky (MidnightSun)
Young Adult Short Story
- Winner: “Follow the Water”, J. Palmer (Where the Weird Things Are, Vol. 2)
- “An '80s Tenement Love Story”, Anthony Panegyres (Bourbon Penn Oct 2023)
- “Integrated Learning”, C. H. Pearce (Aurealis Nov 2023)
- “The Lingering Taste of Your Last Supper”, Matthew R. Davis (Shallow Waters)
- “Moonfall”, Alison Evans (Everything Under the Moon)
- “Precarious Waters”, Pamela Jeffs (Precarious Waters and Other Dark Tales)
Children's Fiction
- Winner: Spellhound, Lian Tanner (Allen & Unwin)
- Deadlands: Hunted, Skye Melki-Wegner (Walker Books Australia)
- Ghost Book, Remy Lai (Allen & Unwin)
- The Hotel Witch, Jessica Miller (Text)
- The Letterbox Tree, Rebecca Lim & Kate Gordon (Walker Books Australia)
- The Lonely Lighthouse of Elston-Fright, Reece Carter (Allen & Unwin)
Convenors' Award
- Winner: “Science fiction for hire? Notes towards an emerging practice of creative futurism”, Helen Marshall, Kathleen Jennings & Joanne Anderton (Text Journal of Writing and Writing Courses 27 (2))
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