Aurealis Awards 2025
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May 4, 2025
Eligibility Year: 2024
Eligibility Year: 2024
Sf Novel
- Winner: Temporal Bloom, J. M. Voss (Shawline)
- Big Time, Jordan Prosser (University of Queensland Press)
- Inheritance, Genevieve Gannon (Pantera)
- Juice, Tim Winton (Hamish Hamilton Australia)
- The Temp, Martin Livings (self-published)
- Transported, Kate Fitzpatrick (New Found)
Sf Novella
- Winner: Ghost of the Neon God, T. R. Napper (Titan)
- “Captain Santiago and the Sky Dome Waitress”, Tracy Cooper-Posey (Celestial Hearts)
- “Daisy and Maisie, External Hull Maintenance Experts”, Sean Monaghan (Analog Mar/Apr 2024)
- The Javan War, John Birmingham & Jason Lambright (Gigantic Bombs Corporation)
- “Shadow Films”, Ben Peek (Lightspeed Jan 2024)
- “We Who Remain”, Nikky Lee (A Night So Dark and Full of Stars)
Sf Short Story
- Winner: “The Combat Pilot's Dictionary”, Arden Baker (Aurealis Jan 2024)
- “Dog of War”, Colin Clark (Aurealis May 2024)
- “In War with Time for Love of You”, Carol Ryles (Spawn 2: More Weird Horror Tales About Pregnancy, Birth, and Babies)
- “The Last Reader”, Greg Foyster (Conflux 18: Missions and Quests)
- “Life in the Dirt”, Henry Neilsen (Auralis Aug 2024)
- “The Station”, Kathryn Gledhill-Tucker (New Australian Fiction '24)
Fantasy Novel
- Winner: Thoroughly Disenchanted, Alexandra Almond (HarperCollins)
- The Briar Book of the Dead, A. G. Slatter (Titan)
- The End and Everything Before It, Finegan Kruckemeyer (Text)
- Kavithri, Aman J. Bedi (Gollancz)
- The She-Wolf of Baker Street, Narrelle M. Harris (Clan Destine)
- Skysong, C. A. Wright (Pantera)
Fantasy Novella
- Winner: “Another Tide”, Will Greatwich (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 14 Nov 2024)
- “The Daredevil Duchess' Guide to Castle Hauntings”, Tansy Rayner Roberts (Castle of Secrets)
- “Doors”, Nikky Lee (Don't Forget to Shut the Gate)
- “The Good Old Days”, Craig Rosenberg (Uncertainties Nov 2024)
- Hotel Charybdis, Tansy Rayner Roberts (self-published)
- Talon Marked, Sue-Ellen Pashley (Deadset)
Fantasy Short Story
- Winner: “Market of Loss”, Matt Tighe (Aurealis Nov 2024)
- “The Beautiful Thing You Once Were”, J. Ashley-Smith (Bourbon Penn Aug 2024)
- “Before the Forest”, Kell Woods (Reactor 14 Aug 2024)
- “Bonnets at Dawn”, Tansy Rayner Roberts (self-published)
- “Lacebound”, Eliza Baker (Aurealis May 2024)
- “Remembering the Hungry Ghosts”, Emmi Khor (The West Australian 7 Nov 2024)
Horror Novel
- Winner: Carve Your Soul to Pieces, Ben Pienaar (“self-published”)
- Bodily Harm, Deborah Sheldon (“Undertaker”)
- The Count, David-Jack Fletcher (“Slashic Horror”)
- Jasper Cliff, Josh Kemp (“Fremantle”)
- Remedy, J. S. Breukelaar (“PS”)
- Rock Zombie, A. B. Finlayson (“self-published”)
Horror Novella
- Winner: Shattered, Pauline Yates (Blake Hare)
- “Bell, Book and Lamp”, Angela Slatter (Bound in Blood)
- “The Daredevil Duchess' Guide to Castle Hauntings”, Tansy Rayner Roberts (Castle of Secrets)
- “Maleficium”, Kyla Lee Ward (Discontinue If Death Ensues)
- “We Who Remain”, Nikky Lee (A Night So Dark and Full of Stars)
Horror Short Story
- Winner: “Flesh of My Flesh”, Ben Matthews (Spawn 2: More Weird Horror Tales About Pregnancy, Birth, and Babies)
- “Changeling”, Michael Gardner (Aurealis Jan 2024)
- “Envelopes”, Matt Tighe (Spawn 2: More Weird Horror Tales About Pregnancy, Birth, and Babies)
- “Hackles”, Jeff Clulow (Remixed Myths)
- “An Object of Vision”, Guan Un (Fission #4)
- “These Pale Shadows”, Kirstyn McDermott (Nosferatu Unbound)
Anthology
- Winner: Far-Flung, Samuel Maguire, ed. (Tiny Owl Workshop)
- Calvaria Fell: Stories, Cat Sparks & Kaaron Warren (Meerkat)
- Celestial Bodies, Aidan Demmers, ed. (Tiny Owl Workshop)
- Fission #4, Eugen Bacon & Gene Rowe, eds. (The British Science Fiction Association)
- Found 2: More Stories of Found Footage Horror, Andrew Cull & Gabino Iglesias, eds. (Vermilion To One)
Collection
- Winner: The Heart of the Labyrinth and Other Stories, DK Mok (self-published)
- Kindling, Kathleen Jennings (Small Beer)
- Pick Your Potion, Ephiny Gale (Foxgrove)
Graphic Novel/illustrated Work
- Winner: In Utero, Chris Gooch (Top Shelf)
- Action Tank: Book 3, Mike Barry (Mike Barry Was Here)
- The Star Tide Shores, Henry Goeldner (self-published)
- The Sweetness Between Us, Sarah Winifred Searle (Allen & Unwin)
- Titans: Out of the Shadows, Tom Taylor & Travis Moore (DC Comics)
- Your Highness, Your Highness, N.S Kane & Chris Pitcairn (N.S Kane Comics)
Young Adult Novel
- Winner: Anomaly, Emma Lord (Affirm)
- Aisle Nine, Ian X. Cho (HarperCollins)
- Deep is the Fen, Lili Wilkinson (Allen & Unwin)
- Liar's Test, Ambelin Kwaymullina (Text)
- Plagued Lands, Nikki Brooke (Corw Knight Film & Publishing Realm)
- They Watch from Below, Katya de Becerra (Page Street YA)
Young Adult Short Story
- Winner: “In a League of Her Own”, Jeanette O'Hagan (Stepping Sideways: Worlds of Steampunk & Dystopia)
- “The Audition”, Juliet Marillier (Borderlands: Riding the Slipstrea)
- “Maiden's Dawn”, Nikky Lee (A Night So Dark and Full of Stars)
- “Time's Key”, Emily Larkin (Stepping Sideways: Worlds of Steampunk & Dystopia)
- Waking Flora, Tansy Rayner Roberts (self-published)
- “What are False Stars to a God?”, Alexander Te Pohe (Avast!)
Children's Fiction
- Winner: The Apprentice Witnesser, Bren MacDibble (Allen & Unwin)
- Andromache Between Worlds, Gabriel Bergmoser (HarperCollins)
- The Bother with the Bonkillyknock Beast, Karen Foxlee, illustrated by Freda Chiu (Allen & Unwin)
- Bravepaw and the Heartstone of Alluria, L. M. Wilkinson, illustrated by Lavanya Naidu (Albert Street)
- Landovel, Emily Rodda (Allen & Unwin)
- The Midwatch, Judith Rossell (Hardie Grant Children's)
Sarah Douglass Book Series
- Winner: The Radiant Emperor, Shelley Parker-Chan (Mantle)
- The Aurora Cycle, Arnie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff (Allen & Unwin)
- The Deepwater Trilogy, Claire McKenna (Harper Voyager UK; Harper Collins Australia)
- The Last Binding, Freya Marske (Tor)
- The Old Kingdom, Garth Nix (Allen & Unwin)
- Warrior Birds, Juliet Marillier (Pan Macmillan Australia)
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