Ditmar Awards 2025
science fiction awards database
Where and When:
Conflux 19,
Canberra, Australia :
October 3, 2025
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October 6, 2025
Eligibility Year: 2024
Eligibility Year: 2024
Novel
- Winner: The Underhistory, Kaaron Warren (Serpent's Tail)
- Blood Covenant, Alan Baxter (Cemetery Dance)
- The Escher Man, T. R. Napper (Titan)
- Ghost Cities, Siang Lu (University of Queensland Press)
- The Medusa Situation, Gabiann Marin (Clan Destine)
Novella Or Novelette
- Winner: Ghost of the Neon God, T. R. Napper (Titan)
- Cruel Nights, Jason Nahrung (Brain Jar)
- “The Emporium”, Kaaron Warren (Calvaria Fell)
- “Maleficium”, Kyla Lee Ward (Discontinue if Death Ensues)
- Shattered, Pauline Yates (Black Hare)
- Wilder, Pamela Jeffs (Four Ink)
Short Story
- Winner: “Bellow of the Steamship Cow”, Aaron Dries (Where the Silent Ones Watch)
- “Archive of the Dead”, Pamela Jeffs (SNAFU: AI Insurrection)
- “Bright Hearts”, Kaaron Warren (Reactor 16 Oct 2024)
- “The Market of Loss”, Matt Tighe (Aurealis Nov 2024)
Collected Work
- Winner: Calvaria Fell, Cat Sparks & Kaaron Warren (Meerkat)
- Kindling, Kathleen Jennings (Small Beer)
- Monsters in the Mills, Christa Carmen & L. E. Daniels (Glass House)
- Nightmare Logic: Tales of the Macabre, Fantastic and Crhulhuesque, Leigh Blackmore (IFWG)
Fan Publication In Any Medium
- Winner: Let the Cat In
- Ethel the Aardvark
- Going Prose
- Ornithopter
- SF Commentary
- Terry Talks Movies
Fan Writer
- Winner: Ian Mond
- Bruce Gillespie
- LynC
- Jan MacNally
Fan Artist
Artwork
- Winner: C. H. Pearce for in the aftermath by Jessica Nirvana Ram (Prismatica)
- Meg Wright for The Black Beacon of Ghosts (Black Beacon)
- Greg Chapman for Black Days & Bloody Nights by Greg Chapman (IFWG)
- Kathleen Jennings for Kindling by Kathleen Jennings (Small Beer)
New Talent
William Atheling Jr. Award For Criticism Or Review
- Winner: “Nice Safe Emotions: How Murderbot copes with the real world through the fictional, and so do we”, Joanne Anderton (Speculative Insight Jan 2024)
- Ian Mond, for reviews in Locus
- “Critical Choices: Time Travel and Identity”, Rjurik Davidson (Speculative Insight 7 Sep 2024)
- “A Dark Magician Meets a Victorian Sleuth”, Leigh Blackmore (Dead Reckonings Fall 2024)
- “Long Be-nightmar'd: on dreams in gothic and weird fiction”, Kyla Lee Ward (JOURN-E: Volume 3.1)
- “A Thing Called the Glugs of Gosh: CJ Dennis and Satirical Fantasy”, Gillian Polack (Aurealis Jun 2024)
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