Ditmar Awards 2024
science fiction awards database
Where and When:
Conflux 18,
Canberra, Australia :
October 7, 2024
Eligibility Year: 2023
Eligibility Year: 2023
Novel
- Winner: The Sinister Booksellers of Bath, Garth Nix (Allen & Unwin)
- Dream Weaver, Steven Paulsen (IFWG)
- Polyphemus, Zachary Ashford (DarkLit)
- The Tangled Lands, Glenda Larke (Wizard's Tower)
- Traitor's Run, Keith Stevenson (coeur de lion)
- When Dark Roots Hunt, Zena Shapter (MidnightSun)
Novella Or Novelette
- Winner: Bitters, Kaaron Warren (Cemetery Dance)
- “The Deathplace Set”, Kaaron Warren (Vandal: Stories of Damage)
- “Eight or Die”, Thoraiya Dyer (Clarkesworld Nov/Dec 2023)
- “The Leaves Forget”, Alan Baxter (The Leaves Forget)
- “A Marked Man”, T. R. Napper (Grimdark Oct 2023)
- “The Measure of Sorrow”, J. Ashley-Smith (The Measure of Sorrow: Stories)
- “Quicksilver”, J. S. Breukelaar (Vandal: Stories of Damage)
Short Story
- Winner: “Jimmy Flip Brings His Little One to Work, and It Comes My Turn to Hold It”, C. H. Pearce (Body of Work)
- “Antarctica Starts Here”, Lucy Sussex (Overland Aut 2023)
- “Highway Requiem”, T. R. Napper (F&SF May/Jun 2023)
- “There Are Things on Me”, Matt Tighe (Killer Creatures Down Under)
- “Trial by Fire”, Matt Tighe (Etherea Magazine Win 2023)
Collected Work
- Winner: The Measure of Sorrow: Stories, J. Ashley-Smith (Meerkat)
- Body of Work, C. Z. Tacks, ed. (CSFG)
- This Fresh Hell, Katya de Becerra & Narrelle M. Harris, eds. (Clan Destine)
- Vandal: Stories of Damage, Kaaron Warren, Aaron Dries & J. S. Breukelaar (Crystal Lake)
Fan Publication In Any Medium
- Winner: Let the Cat In Podcast, Aaron Dries, Kaaron Warren & J. Ashley-Smith
- Ethel the Aardvark, LynC
- SF Commentary, Bruce Gillespie
- Terry Talks Movies, Terry Frost
- The Writer and the Critic, Kirstyn McDermott & Ian Mond
Fan Writer
Fan Artist
Artwork
- Winner: Meg Wright for Red Wallflower (Midnight Echo 18)
- Marc McBride for Glow (Allen & Unwin)
- Greg Chapman for Polyphemus (DarkLit Press)
- Steve Simpson for Texture of Silence (Independent Legions Publishing)
New Talent
- Winner: C. H. Pearce
- Leanbh Pearson
- C. Z. Tacks
William Atheling Jr. Award For Criticism Or Review
- Winner: A Vindication of Monsters: Essays on Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley, Claire Fitzpatrick, ed. (IFWG Publishing)
- Ian Mond, for reviews in Locus
- “The Continuing Longevity of Speculative Fiction Spin-Offs”, Claire Fitzpatrick (Aurealis Apr 2023)
- “An Introduction to Dr Nikola, Guy Boothby's Infamous Invention”, Gillian Polack (Aurealis Sep 2023)
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