Ditmar Awards 2009
science fiction awards database
Eligibility Year: 2008
Novel
- Winner: Tender Morsels, Margo Lanagan (Allen & Unwin)
- The Daughters of Moab, Kim Westwood (HarperVoyager)
- Earth Ascendant, Sean Williams (Orbit)
- Fivefold, Nathan Burrage (Random House)
- Hal Spacejock: No Free Lunch, Simon Haynes (Fremantle Press)
- How to Ditch Your Fairy, Justine Larbalestier (Allen & Unwin)
Novella Or Novelette
- Winner: “Painlessness”, Kirstyn McDermott (Greatest Uncommon Denominator #2)
- Angel Rising, Dirk Flinthart (Twelfth Planet Press)
- “Creeping in Reptile Flesh”, Robert Hood (Creeping in Reptile Flesh)
- “Night Heron's Curse”, Thoraiya Dyer (Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #37)
- “Soft Viscosity”, David Conyers (2012)
Short Story
- Winner (tie): “The Goosle”, Margo Lanagan (The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy)
- Winner (tie): “This Is Not My Story”, Dirk Flinthart (Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #37)
- “Ass-Hat Magic Spider”, Scott Westerfeld (The Starry Rift)
- “Her Collection of Intimacy”, Paul Haines (Black: Australian Dark Culture Magazine #2)
- “Moments of Dying”, Robert Hood (Black: Australian Dark Culture Magazine #1)
- “Pale Dark Soldier”, Deborah Biancotti (Midnight Echo #1)
- “Sammarynda Deep”, Cat Sparks (Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy)
Collected Work
- Winner: Dreaming Again, Jack Dann, ed. (HarperVoyager)
- 2012, Alisa Krasnostein & Ben Payne, eds. (Twelfth Planet Press)
- Black: Australian Dark Culture Magazine, Angela Challis, ed. (Brimstone Press)
- Canterbury 2100: Pilgrimages in a New World, Dirk Flinthart, ed. (Agog! Press)
- Creeping in Reptile Flesh, Robert Hood (Altair Australia Books)
- Midnight Echo, Kirstyn McDermott & Ian Mond, eds. (AHWA)
- The Starry Rift, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Viking)
Fan Publication
- Winner: Asif! (Australian Speculative Fiction in Focus), Alisa Krasnostein & Gene Melzack (Twelfth Planet Press)
- Australian SF Bullsheet, Edwina Harvey
- HorrorScope, Shane Jiraiya Cummings (Brimstone Press)
- Scary Food Cookbook, Cat Sparks (Agog! Press)
Fan Writer
- Winner: Robert Hood, for Undead Backbrain
- Craig Bezant, for HorrorScope
- Edwina Harvey, for Australian Science Fiction Bullsheet
- Chuck McKenzie, for HorrorScope
- Mark Smith-Briggs, for HorrorScope
- Brenton Tomlinson, for HorrorScope
Fan Artist
- Winner: Cat Sparks, for Scary Food Cookbook
- Nancy Lorenz, for body of work
- David Schembri, for body of work
- Andrew McKiernan, for body of work
- Anna Tambour, for Box of Noses and other works
- Rachel Holkner, for Gumble Soft toy and other works
- Tansy Rayner Roberts, for Daleks are a girl's best friend
Artwork
- Winner: Tales from Outer Suburbia, Shaun Tan (Allen & Unwin)
- Cat Sparks for 2012
- Adam Duncan for Aurealis #40
- Andrew McKiernan for Black Box (gallery)
- Cat Sparks for Creeping in Reptile Flesh
- Michael Dutkiewicz for The Last Realm, Book 1 - Dragonscarpe
New Talent
William Atheling Jr. Award For Criticism Or Review
- Winner: “Popular Genres and the Australian Literary Community: the Case of Fantasy Fiction”, Kim Wilkins (Journal of Australian Studies)
- “Bad Film Diaries: Sometimes the Brand Burns: Tim Burton and the Planet of the Apes”, Grant Watson (Borderlands #10)
- “Dark Suspense: The End of the Line”, Shane Jiraiya Cummings (Black: Australian Dark Culture Magazine #3)
- “George A. Romero: Master of the Living Dead”, Robert Hood (Black: Australian Dark Culture Magazine #2)
Professional Achievement
- Winner: Angela Challis, for Black: Australian Dark Culture Magazine, and Brimstone Press
- Steve Clark, for Tasmaniac Publications
- Damien Broderick, for fiction editing in Cosmos Magazine
- James Doig, for preserving colonial Australian horror fiction and his anthologies Australian Gothic and Australian Nightmares
- Talie Helene, for her work as AHWA news editor
- Marty Young, for promoting horror through the Australian Horror Writers Association
- “The Gunny Project: A Tribute to Ian Gunn 1959-1998”, Jocko & K'Rin
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