Gillian Polack
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 Award — for outstanding achievement in Australian SF, presented by Australian SF Foundation
2020:
— winner
— Other Awards —
Aurealis Awards — for SF/F/H works published in Australia; juried
(1 nomination)
2020:
The Year of the Fruit Cake (IFWG Australia)
sf novel — nomination
Ditmar Awards — for Australian SF/F, voted by members of Australian National SF Convention
(11 nominations; 2 wins)
2025:
“A Thing Called the Glugs of Gosh: CJ Dennis and Satirical Fantasy” (Aurealis Jun 2024)
William Atheling Jr. Award for Criticism or Review — nomination
2024:
“An Introduction to Dr Nikola, Guy Boothby's Infamous Invention” (Aurealis Sep 2023)
William Atheling Jr. Award for Criticism or Review — nomination
2023:
for Story Matrices: Cultural Encoding and Cultural Baggage in Science Fiction and Fantasy (Luna)
— William Atheling Jr. Award for Criticism or Review — nomination
2021:
Poison & Light (Shooting Star)
novel — nomination
2020:
The Year of the Fruit Cake (IFWG)
novel — winner
2019:
Mountains of the Mind (Shooting Star)
collected work — nomination
2017:
The Wizardry of Jewish Women (Satalyte)
novel — nomination
2017:
History and Fiction: Writers, their Research, Worlds and Stories (Peter Lang)
William Atheling Jr. Award for Criticism or Review — nomination
2011:
Baggage (Eneit)
collected work — nomination
2010:
Life Through Cellophane (Eneit)
novel — nomination
2010:
for the Southern Gothic banquet at Conflux
— achievement — winner
Sidewise Awards — for works of alternate history, juried
(1 nomination)
2023:
“Why the Bridgemasters of York Don't Pay Taxes” (Other Covenants: Alternate Histories of the Jewish People)
short form — nomination
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