for "Currently reading: Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke", in Metamagician and the Hellfire Club William Atheling Jr. Award for Criticism or Review nomination
Strange Constellations: A History of Australian Science Fiction (by RB, Van Ikin & Sean McMullen) William Atheling Jr. Award for Criticism or Review winner (tie)
"The Tiger in the Prison House" Science Fiction #37, Reviews of Distress in Science Fiction and NYRSF and "Jewels in Junk City" in Review of Contemporary Fiction William Atheling Jr. Award for Criticism or Review nomination
for editing Warriors of the Tao: The Best of Science Fiction: A Review of Speculative Literature William Atheling Jr. Award for Criticism or Review nomination
for negotiating with the US Clarion people, then promoting and establishing Clarion South which gives emerging writer the chance to work with the best in the business professional achievement winner
for “An Illusion in the Game for Survival”, a review of Reamde by Neal Stephenson (The Age) William Atheling Jr. Award for Criticism or Review nomination
for preserving colonial Australian horror fiction and his anthologies Australian Gothic and Australian Nightmares professional achievement nomination
“A Prefilmic, Post-Poststructuralist Prostruction of ALIEN/ALIENS 3” (by RE & Peter Hall) William Atheling Jr. Award for Criticism or Review nomination
for Ticonderoga Publications; in 2007, Russell produced an issue of Ticonderoga Online, The Workers' Paradise and Fantastic Wonders stories, which produced five Aurealis Award nominees professional achievement nomination
for "2010: The Year in Review", in The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2010 William Atheling Jr. Award for Criticism or Review nomination
“A Prefilmic, Post-Poststructuralist Prostruction of ALIEN/ALIENS 3” (by Richard Erlich & PH) William Atheling Jr. Award for Criticism or Review nomination
for body of work, including “Interstellar Park Ranger Bond, Jaime Bond”, “Gabba and Slave Lay-off: Star Wars explains Australian politics”, “The Driver”, and “Unmasked” in Dark Matter Zine fan artist nomination
for body of work, including “Defender of the Faith”, “The Suck Fairy“, “Doctor Who Vampire”, and “The Last Cyberman” in Dark Matter fan artist nomination
for "2010: The Year in Review", in The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2010 William Atheling Jr. Award for Criticism or Review nomination
“Man and Super-Monster: A History of Daikaiji Eiga and Its Metaphorical Undercurrents” William Atheling Jr. Award for Criticism or Review nomination
for editing Warriors of the Tao: The Best of Science Fiction: A Review of Speculative Literature William Atheling Jr. Award for Criticism or Review nomination
Strange Constellations: A History of Australian Science Fiction (by Russell Blackford, VI & Sean McMullen) William Atheling Jr. Award for Criticism or Review winner (tie)
for “Contracts and Calcifer, or ‘In Which A Contract Is Concluded Before Witnesses’: the transactional structure of Howl’s Moving Castle”, The Proceedings of the Diana Wynne Jones Conference, Bristol 2019 [paper published 2020] William Atheling Jr. Award for Criticism or Review nomination
for providing new paying markets for readers and writers of both fiction and non-fiction, art as well as forums for reviews/interviews within the speculative fiction genre, enhancing the profile of Australian speculative fiction professional achievement nomination
for editing Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950 to 1985 (PM Press) William Atheling Jr. Award for Criticism or Review nomination
Strange Constellations: A History of Australian Science Fiction (by Russell Blackford, Van Ikin & SM) William Atheling Jr. Award for Criticism or Review winner (tie)
for editing Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950 to 1985 (PM Press) William Atheling Jr. Award for Criticism or Review nomination
The 2005 Snapshot Australian Speculative Fiction writers, editors, publishers (http://www.tabula-rasa.info/Snapshot/) William Atheling Jr. Award for Criticism or Review nomination
for body of work including reviews at Australian Speculative Fiction in Focus, Not If You Were The Last Short Story On Earth, and Randomly Yours, Alex fan writer nomination
for Story Matrices: Cultural Encoding and Cultural Baggage in Science Fiction and Fantasy (Luna) William Atheling Jr. Award for Criticism or Review nomination
for body of work including reviews at Australian Speculative Fiction in Focus, and Not If You Were The Last Short Story On Earth fan writer nomination
“The 21st Century Catastrophe: Hyper-capitalism and Severe Climate Change in Science Fiction” William Atheling Jr. Award for Criticism or Review winner
for a prolific body of work editing 'The Jack Vance Treasury', 'The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the year', 'Best Short Novels of 2007', et al professional achievement nomination
for co-editing Best Short Novels: 2005 (SFBC), Science Fiction: Best of 2004 (ibooks), and Fantasy: Best of 2004 (ibooks) professional achievement nomination