Ditmar Awards 2017
science fiction awards database
Where and When:
Continuum 13,
Melbourne, Australia :
June 11, 2017
Eligibility Year: 2016
Eligibility Year: 2016
Novel
- Winner: The Grief Hole, Kaaron Warren (IFWG Australia)
- The Lyre Thief, Jennifer Fallon (HarperCollins)
- Squid's Grief, D. K. Mok (self-published)
- Vigil, Angela Slatter (Jo Fletcher)
- The Wizardry of Jewish Women, Gillian Polack (Satalyte)
Novella Or Novelette
- Winner: “Did We Break the End of the World?”, Tansy Rayner Roberts (Defying Doomsday)
- “All the Colours of the Tomato”, Simon Petrie (Dimension6 #9)
- “By the Laws of Crab and Woman”, Jason Fischer (Review of Australian Fiction Volume 17, Issue 6)
- “Finnegan's Field”, Angela Slatter (Tor.com Jan 2016)
- “Glass Slipper Scandal”, Tansy Rayner Roberts (Sheep Might Fly)
- “Going Viral”, Thoraiya Dyer (Dimension6 #8)
Short Story
- Winner: “No Fat Chicks”, Cat Sparks (In Your Face)
- “Flame Trees”, T. R. Napper (Asimov's Apr/May 2016)
- “There's No Place Like Home”, Edwina Harvey (Antipodean SF #221)
Collected Work
- Winner (tie): Defying Doomsday, Tsana Dolichva & Holly Kench, eds. (Twelfth Planet)
- Winner (tie): Dreaming in the Dark, Jack Dann, ed. (PS Publishing)
- Crow Shine, Alan Baxter (Ticonderoga)
- In Your Face, Tehani Wessely, ed. (FableCroft)
Fan Publication In Any Medium
- Winner: 2016 Australian SF Snapshot, Greg Chapman & Tehani Croft
- The Coode Street Podcast, Gary K. Wolfe & Jonathan Strahan
- Earl Grey Editing Services, Elizabeth Fitzgerald
- Galactic Chat, Alexandra Pierce, David McDonald, Sarah Parker, Helen Stubbs & Mark Webb (and Sean Wright)
- Galactic Suburbia, Alisa Krasnostein, Alex Pierce & Tansy Rayner Roberts
- The Writer and the Critic, Kirstyn McDermott & Ian Mond
Fan Writer
Artwork
- Winner: Shauna O'Meara for Lackington's #12
- Adam Browne for The Tame Animals of Saturn (Peggy Bright)
New Talent
- Winner: Marlee Jane Ward
- T. R. Napper
William Atheling Jr. Award For Criticism Or Review
- Winner: The Rebirth of Rapunzal: A Mythic Biography of the Maiden in the Tower, Kate Forsyth (Fablecroft)
- Essays the reviews in Weird Fiction Review, Kat Clay
- History and Fiction: Writers, their Research, Worlds and Stories, Gillian Polack (Peter Lang)
- Reviews in Randomly Yours, Alex, Alexandra Pierce
- Reviews in The Hysterical Hamster, Ian Mond
- Reviews in Tsana's Reads and Reviews, Tsana Dolichva
- “Revisiting Pern: The Great McCaffrey Reread”, Tehani Croft & Marisol Dunham (series)
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