Aurealis Awards 2026
science fiction awards database
Where and When:
Brisbane :
February 21, 2026
Eligibility Year: 2025
Eligibility Year: 2025
Sf Novel
- Winner: Wastelands, Samira Lloyd (Arianhrod)
- All We Have, Tony Shillitoe (Millswood)
- Arborescence, Rhett Davis (Fleet UK)
- Dark Sands, J. S. Harman (self-published)
- Letters to Our Robot Son, Cadance Bell (Ultimo)
- Volatile Memory, Seth Haddon (Tordotcom)
Sf Novella
- Winner: “The Hidden God”, T. R. Napper (Asimov's Mar/Apr 2025)
- All My Guns are Trans and Gay and They're Ruining My Fucking Life, Maddison Stoff & Corey Jae White (self-published)
- Homecoming, Thomas K Slee (Refraction)
- “Photo in the Chip”, Callum Lewis (Andromeda Spaceways Spr 2025)
- Quiet Like Fire, Cameron Cooper (Stories Rule)
Sf Short Story
- Winner: “Do Motorcycle Centaurs Dream of Five Stars and a Tip?”, Maddison Stoff & Corey Jae White (Interzone Sep 2025)
- “Déjà Vécu”, T. R. Napper (Austral 2025)
- “Full Term”, Scott Steensma (Aurealis Feb 2025)
- “Gallows Humour”, Kobi Ashenden (Griffith Review Aug 2025)
- “Phantom Loop”, S. L. Johnson & Gio Clairval (Tales from the Crosstimbers Sum 2025)
- “Time Witch Airship Cruise”, Aline-Mwezi Niyonsenga (Andromeda Spaceways Sum 2025)
Fantasy Novel
- Winner: Upon a Starlit Tide, Kell Woods (Tor)
- Grave Empire, Richard Swan (Orbit)
- Greenteeth, Molly O'Neill (Orbit)
- Honeyeater, Kathleen Jennings (Tordotcom)
- House of the Rain King, Will Greatwich (self-published)
- Slashed Beauties, A. Rushby (Berkley)
Fantasy Novella
- Winner: Cinder House, Freya Marske (Tordotcom)
- “Crown Tourney”, Tansy Rayner Roberts (Crown Tourney)
- Hol(l)o(w)metabolism, Lee Cope (Whimsy and Metaphor Enterprises)
- Parasitic Omens, Jessica A. McMinn (self-published)
- Trickster Tales, Leanbh Pearson (Brigid's Gate)
Fantasy Short Story
- Winner: “Dying Mountain”, Baden M Chant (Aurealis Feb 2025)
- “Dragon Drops”, Baden M Chant (Deadly Flames)
- “The Hidden”, Jeff Clulow (The Leper's Garden and Other Contagions)
- “Jericho and the Cursed Forest”, Matt Tighe (Drowning in the Dark and Other Stories)
- “Sparrow & Butler”, Nike Sulway (Fractured Reveries: A Stories Imaginarium Salon)
- “What We Sew”, Brendan Cottam (Memento Mori)
Horror Novel
- Winner: Orpheus Nine, Chris Flynn (Hodder & Stoughton)
- The Crimson Road, A. G. Slatter (Titan)
- The Farm, Jessica Mansour-Nahra (Hachette Australia)
- Nightmare Reef, Deborah Sheldon (Severed)
- Slashed Beauties, A. Rushby (Berkley)
- This Stays Between Us, Margot McGovern (Penguin Australia)
Horror Novella
- Winner: “Walpurgis”, Ron Schroer (Strange Legacy 2025: Creature Feature)
- The Cold House, A. G. Slatter (Titan)
- The Nga’phandileh Whisperer, Eugen Bacon (Stars and Sabers)
- Parasitic Omens, Jessica A. McMinn (self-published)
- Sideshow Souls, JJ Carpenter (self-published)
- Willow Close, Helena O'Connor (IFWG)
Horror Short Story
- Winner: “It Will Only Hurt If I Want It To”, Kirstyn McDermott (Midnight Echo Oct 2025)
- “Bitter Skin”, Kaaron Warren (Night & Day)
- “The Bottom Feeders”, Fionn MacPherson (Lost Souls #2)
- “Catch and Consume”, Ella T Holmes (Aurealis Oct 2025)
- “Me, Espresso”, Maddison Stoff & Corey Jae White (self-published)
- “The Shelter”, Carol Ryles (Midnight Echo Oct 2025)
Anthology
- Winner: Austral 2025, Ciar Fhearchair, Michaela Teschendorff Harden & Matt Richardson, eds. (Meridian Australis)
- Fission #5: An Anthology of Stories from the British Science Fiction Association, Eugen Bacon & Gene Rowe, eds. (BSFA)
- Midnight Echo, Marty Young, ed. (AHWA)
- Never Say Die, Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild, eds (Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild)
Collection
- Winner: The Leper's Garden and Other Contagions, Jeff Clulow (Third Eye)
- Drowning in the Dark and Other Stories, Matt Tighe (IFWG)
- Playing Nice Was Getting Me Nowhere, Alex Cothren (Pink Shorts)
- Songs of Shadow, Words of Woe, Matthew R. Davis (JournalStone)
- This Dark Architect and Other Grim Tales, Pamela Jeffs (Four Ink)
Graphic Novel/illustrated Work
- Winner: Higher Ground, Tull Swannakit (Crocodile)
- Bad Friend, Robin French (Feral Rainbow)
- The Photographer, Mark Rafidi, illustrated by Paul O'Sullivan (Hawkeye)
- SoXiety, Tamlyn Teow (Riveted)
- Strange Bedfellows, Ariel Slamet Ries (HarperCollins)
Young Adult Novel
- Winner: The Serpent Called Mercy, Roanne Lau (New Dawn)
- Blood Moon Bride, Demet Divaroren (Allen & Unwin)
- Dark Sun Rising, A. A. Kinsela (Plainspeak Publishing)
- Lady's Knight, Amie Kaufman & Mega Spooner (Storytide)
- This Stays Between Us, Margot McGovern (Penguin Random House Australia)
- Unhallowed Halls, Lili Wilkinson (Allen & Unwin)
Young Adult Short Story
- Winner: “Crown Tourney”, Tansy Rayner Roberts (Crown Tourney)
- “Anomalies of Prospero Base”, Jeanette O'Hagan (Rise of the Consortium)
- “As Brittle as Granite”, Matt Tighe (Cast of Wonders 6 Aug 2025)
- “Mother Tree's Idols”, Aline-Mwezi Niyonsenga (Augur 8.2)
- “Ne'za's Yearning”, Eugen Bacon (Omenana 31 Mar 2025)
- This Ocean Was a City Once, Spencer Rose (Conflux)
Children's Fiction
- Winner: Little Bones, Sandy Bigna (UQP)
- Escape from Firestone Fortress, Rachel Jackson (Riveted)
- The Last Seed Keeper, Paul Russell (EK)
- Moonboy, Anna Ciddor (Allen & Unwin)
- Villain, Adrian Beck (Scholastic)
- When the Mountain Wakes, Matt Shanks (Affirm)
Convenors' Award
- Winner: Story Thinking and the Real-world Applications of Sci-Fi and Fantasy Writing, Lisa Bennett, Helen Marshall & Kim Wilkins (Bloomsbury)
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