Cat Sparks
Awards Summary
Awards Won: 25
Total Number of Award Wins and Nominations: 57
Aurealis Awards — for SF/F/H works published in Australia; juried
(17 nominations; 6 wins)
2025:
Calvaria Fell: Stories (by CS & Kaaron Warren) (Meerkat)
anthology — nomination
2021:
Dark Harvest (NewCon)
collection — nomination
2020:
“You Will Remember Who You Were” (Dimension6 #16)
sf novella — nomination
2019:
The 21st Century Catastrophe
Convenors' Award — winner (tie)
2018:
Lotus Blue (Skyhorse)
sf novel — nomination
2014:
The Bride Price (Ticonderoga)
collection — nomination
2012:
“Dead Low” (Midnight Echo)
sf short story — nomination
2010:
“Seventeen” (Masques)
young adult short story — winner
2009:
“Sammarynda Deep” (Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy)
fantasy short story — winner
2008:
“Hollywood Roadkill” (On Spec #69)
Golden Aurealis short story — winner
2008:
“Arctica” (Fantastic Wonder Stories)
sf short story — nomination
2008:
“Hollywood Roadkill” (On Spec #69)
sf short story — winner
2008:
“A Lady of Adestan” (Orb #7)
fantasy short story — nomination
2006:
“Macciato Lane” (Ticonderoga Online)
horror story — nomination
2005:
“Home by the Sea” (Orb #6)
sf short story — nomination
2005:
— Peter McNamara Convenors' Award — winner
2003:
for the guidance and support she has provided to the local genre industry through her imprint Agog! Publishing
— Peter McNamara Convenors' Award — nomination
Compton Crook Stephen Tall Memorial Award — for best first novel, voted by members of annual Balticon
(1 nomination)
2018:
Lotus Blue (Talos)
finalist
Ditmar Awards — for Australian SF/F, voted by members of Australian National SF Convention
(38 nominations; 19 wins)
2025:
Calvaria Fell (by CS & Kaaron Warren) (Meerkat)
collected work — winner
2021:
“Hacking Santorini” (Dark Harvest)
short story — nomination
2021:
Dark Harvest (NewCon)
collected work — winner
2019:
“The 21st Century Catastrophe: Hyper-capitalism and Severe Climate Change in Science Fiction”
William Atheling Jr. Award for Criticism or Review — winner
2018:
Lotus Blue (Skyhorse)
novel — nomination
2018:
“Prayers to Broken Stone” (Kaleidotrope Spr 2017)
short story — nomination
2018:
Ecopunk! (by CS & Liz Grzyb) (Ticonderoga)
collected work — winner
2018:
“Science fiction and climate fiction: contemporary literatures of purpose” (Ecopunk!)
William Atheling Jr. Award for Criticism or Review — nomination
2017:
“No Fat Chicks” (In Your Face)
short story — winner
2016:
“Hot Rods” (Lightspeed Mar 2015)
novella or novelette — nomination
2015:
“The Seventh Relic” (Phantazein)
short story — winner
2014:
“Scarp” (The Bride Price)
short story — winner
2014:
The Bride Price (Ticonderoga)
collected work — winner
2014:
The Bride Price (Ticonderoga)
artwork — nomination
2012:
“The Sleeping and the Dead” (Ishtar)
novella or novelette — nomination
2011:
“All the Love in the World” (Sprawl)
short story — winner (tie)
2010:
“Seventeen” (Masques)
short story — winner
2009:
“Sammarynda Deep” (Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy)
short story — nomination
2009:
Scary Food Cookbook (Agog! Press)
fan publication — nomination
2009:
for Scary Food Cookbook
— fan artist — winner
2009:
2012
artwork — nomination
2009:
Creeping in Reptile Flesh
artwork — nomination
2008:
“A Lady of Adestan” (Orb #7)
novella — winner
2007:
Agog! Ripping Reads (Agog! Press)
collected work — nomination
2007:
Agog! Ripping Reads (Agog! Press)
artwork — nomination
2007:
Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century (Wesleyan University Press)
artwork — nomination
2005:
“Home by the Sea” (Orb #6)
novella or novelette — nomination
2005:
Agog! Smashing Stories
collected work — nomination
2005:
Agog! Smashing Stories
artwork — nomination
2005:
for editing and writing including winning third place in the writers of the future award
— professional achievement — nomination
2004:
Agog! Terrific Tales (Agog! Press)
collected work — winner (tie)
2004:
Agog! Terrific Tales by Cat Sparks, ed.
artwork — winner
2003:
Agog! Fantastic Fiction (Agog! Press)
Australian collected work — winner
2003:
— Australian fan artist — winner
2003:
Passing Strange
Australian artwork — winner
2002:
— fan artist — nomination
2002:
— new talent — winner
2000:
— fan artist — winner
Writers and Illustrators of the Future — for stories and art by contest winners, juried
(1 nomination)
2005:
“Last Dance at the Sergeant Majors' Ball”
Writers of the Future 1st quarter — Third Place
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