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Awards Summary

Career and Special Awards: 1

 

 

Other Awards: 2

Total Number of Award Wins and Nominations: 14

— Career and Special Awards —
A. Bertram Chandler Memorial Awardfor outstanding achievement in Australian SF, presented by Australian SF Foundation
winner

— Other Awards —
Aurealis Awardsfor SF/F/H works published in Australia; juried
(1 nomination)

The Year of the Fruit Cake (IFWG Australia) sf novel — nomination

Ditmar Awardsfor Australian SF/F, voted by members of Australian National SF Convention
(11 nominations; 2 wins)

“A Thing Called the Glugs of Gosh: CJ Dennis and Satirical Fantasy” (Aurealis Jun 2024) William Atheling Jr. Award for Criticism or Review — nomination

“An Introduction to Dr Nikola, Guy Boothby's Infamous Invention” (Aurealis Sep 2023) William Atheling Jr. Award for Criticism or Review — nomination

for Story Matrices: Cultural Encoding and Cultural Baggage in Science Fiction and Fantasy (Luna) — William Atheling Jr. Award for Criticism or Review — nomination

Poison & Light (Shooting Star) novel — nomination

The Year of the Fruit Cake (IFWG) novel — winner

Mountains of the Mind (Shooting Star) collected work — nomination

The Wizardry of Jewish Women (Satalyte) novel — nomination

History and Fiction: Writers, their Research, Worlds and Stories (Peter Lang) William Atheling Jr. Award for Criticism or Review — nomination

Baggage (Eneit) collected work — nomination

Life Through Cellophane (Eneit) novel — nomination

for the Southern Gothic banquet at Conflux — achievement — winner

Sidewise Awardsfor works of alternate history, juried
(1 nomination)

“Why the Bridgemasters of York Don't Pay Taxes” (Other Covenants: Alternate Histories of the Jewish People) short form — nomination



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