Kirstyn McDermott
2024
“These Pale Shadows” • short fiction • Nosferatu Unbound
awards:
• Aurealis Awards 2025 — horror short story — nomination
2023
The Writer and the Critic (by KM & Ian Mond)
awards:
• Ditmar Awards 2024 — fan publication in any medium — nomination
2022
Winterbloom • short fiction • Brain Jar
awards:
• Aurealis Awards 2023 — fantasy novella — winner
The New Wife • short fiction • Brain Jar Press
awards:
• Aurealis Awards 2023 — horror novella — nomination
Hard Places • novel • Trepidatio
awards:
• Aurealis Awards 2023 — collection — nomination
2020
Never Afters: Female Friendship and Collaboration in Contemporary Re-visioned Fairy Tales by Women
awards:
• Aurealis Awards 2021 — Convenors' Award — winner
2018
Triquetra • short fiction • Tor.com
awards:
• Aurealis Awards 2019 — horror novella — nomination
• Ditmar Awards 2019 — novella or novelette — nomination
2017
The Writer and the Critic (by KM & Ian Mond)
awards:
• Ditmar Awards 2018 — fan publication in any medium — nomination
“Braid” • short fiction • Review of Australian Fiction #161
awards:
• Aurealis Awards 2018 — fantasy novella — nomination
2016
The Writer and the Critic (by KM & Ian Mond)
awards:
• Ditmar Awards 2017 — fan publication in any medium — nomination
“Burnt Sugar” • short fiction • Dreaming in the Dark
awards:
• Aurealis Awards 2017 — fantasy novella — nomination
• Aurealis Awards 2017 — horror novella — winner
2015
The Writer and the Critic (by KM & Ian Mond)
awards:
• Ditmar Awards 2016 — fan publication in any medium — nomination
“Self, Contained” • short fiction • The Dark Feb 2015
awards:
• Aurealis Awards 2016 — horror short story — nomination
“Mary, Mary”
anthologies:
2014
The Writer and the Critic (by KM & Ian Mond)
awards:
• Ditmar Awards 2015 — fan publication in any medium — winner
“By the Moon's Good Grace” • short fiction • Review of Australian Fiction Volume 12, Issue 3
awards:
• Aurealis Awards 2015 — horror short story — nomination
anthologies:
2013
The Writer and the Critic (by KM & Ian Mond)
awards:
• Hugo Awards 2014 — fancast — nomination
• Ditmar Awards 2014 — fan publication — nomination
Caution: Contains Small Parts • collection • Twelfth Planet
awards:
• Locus Awards 2014 — collection — 26th place
• Aurealis Awards 2014 — collection — nomination
• Ditmar Awards 2014 — collected work — nomination
“What Amanda Wants” • short fiction • Caution: Contains Small Parts
awards:
• Ditmar Awards 2014 — novella or novelette — nomination
“The Home for Broken Dolls” • short fiction • Caution: Contains Small Parts
awards:
• Locus Awards 2014 — novella — 12th place
• Aurealis Awards 2014 — horror short story — nomination
• Ditmar Awards 2014 — novella or novelette — winner
2012
The Writer and the Critic (by KM & Ian Mond)
awards:
• Ditmar Awards 2013 — fan publication — winner
Perfections • novel • Xoum
awards:
• Aurealis Awards 2013 — horror novel — winner
• Ditmar Awards 2013 — novel — nomination
2011
The Writer and the Critic (by KM & Ian Mond)
awards:
• Ditmar Awards 2012 — fan publication — winner
2010
The Writer and the Critic (by KM & Ian Mond)
awards:
• Ditmar Awards 2011 — fan publication — nomination
Madigan Mine • novel • Pan Macmillan
awards:
• Aurealis Awards 2011 — horror novel — winner
• Ditmar Awards 2011 — novel — nomination
“We All Fall Down”
anthologies:
“She Said” • short fiction • Scenes from the Second Storey
awards:
• Ditmar Awards 2011 — short story — winner (tie)
“Monsters Among Us” • short fiction • Macabre: A Journey Through Australia's Darkest Fears
awards:
• Bram Stoker Awards 2011 — long fiction — nomination
2008
Midnight Echo (KM & Ian Mond, eds.) • AHWA
awards:
• Ditmar Awards 2009 — collected work — nomination
“Painlessness” • short fiction • Greatest Uncommon Denominator (GUD( #2
awards:
• Aurealis Awards 2009 — horror short story — winner
• Ditmar Awards 2009 — novella or novelette — winner
2006
“Cold” • short fiction • Shadowed Realms #9
awards:
• Ditmar Awards 2007 — short story — nomination
2003
“The Truth About Pug Roberts” • short fiction • Southern Blood: New Australian Tales of the Supernatural
awards:
• Ditmar Awards 2004 — short story — nomination
2001
“Smile for Me” • short fiction • Redsine
awards:
• Aurealis Awards 2002 — horror short story — Honorable Mention
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