2016 Ditmar and Other Australian Awards (Corrected)

The winners of the 2016 Ditmar Awards for excellence in Australian SF have been announced, along with some other Australian awards.

Best Novel

• Lament for the Afterlife, Lisa L. Hannett (ChiZine)

• Day Boy, Trent Jamieson (Text)
• The Dagger’s Path, Glenda Larke (Orbit)
• Graced, Amanda Pillar (Momentum)
• Zeroes, Scott Westerfeld, Margo Lanagan & Deborah Biancotti (Simon & Schuster)

Best Novella or Novelette

• Of Sorrow and Such, Angela Slatter (Tor.com)

• “The Cherry Crow Children of Haverny Wood”, Deborah Kalin (Cherry Crow Children)
• “The Miseducation of Mara Lys”, Deborah Kalin (Cherry Crow Children)
• “The Wages of Honey”, Deborah Kalin (Cherry Crow Children)
• “Fake Geek Girl”, Tansy Rayner Roberts (Review of Australian Fiction Volume 14, Issue 4)
• “Hot Rods”, Cat Sparks (Lightspeed 3/15)

Best Short Story

• “A Hedge of Yellow Roses”, Kathleen Jennings (Hear Me Roar)

• “2B”, Joanne Anderton, (Insert Title Here)
• “The Chart of the Vagrant Mariner”, Alan Baxter (F&SF 1-2/15)
• “Look how cold my hands are”, Deborah Biancotti (Cranky Ladies of History)

Best Collected Work

• Cranky Ladies of History, Tansy Rayner Roberts & Tehani Wessely, eds. (FableCroft)

• Peripheral Visions: The Collected Ghost Stories, Robert Hood (IFWG Australia)
• Cherry Crow Children, Deborah Kalin (Twelfth Planet)
• Letters to Tiptree, Alexandra Pierce & Alisa Krasnostein, eds. (Twelfth Planet)
• Bloodlines, Amanda Pillar, ed. (Ticonderoga)

Best Artwork

• Kathleen Jennings for the cover and internal artwork of Cranky Ladies of History (FableCroft)

• Shaun Tan for illustrations in The Singing Bone (Allen & Unwin)
• Rovina Cai for the illustration of “Tom, Thom” (Tor.com)
• Kathleen Jennings for the cover of Bloodlines (Ticonderoga )
• Kathleen Jennings for the cover and internal artwork of Cranky Ladies of History (FableCroft)
• Shauna O’Meara for the cover of The Never Never Land (Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild)
  

Best Fan Publication in Any Medium

• Galactic Suburbia, Alisa Krasnostein, Alexandra Pierce, and Tansy Rayner Roberts

• The Angriest, Grant Watson
• The Coode Street Podcast, Jonathan Strahan & Gary K. Wolfe
• SF Commentary, Bruce Gillespie
• The Writer and the Critic, Kirstyn McDermott & Ian Mond

Best Fan Writer

• Grant Watson

• Tsana Dolichva
• Foz Meadows
• Ian Mond
• Alexandra Pierce
• Katharine Stubbs

Best Fan Artist

• Kathleen Jennings

• Belinda Morris

Best New Talent

• Rivqa Rafael

• Liz Barr
• T.R. Napper
• DK Mok

William Atheling Jr. Award for Criticism or Review

• Letters to Tiptree, Alexandra Pierce & Alisa Krasnostein, eds. (Twelfth Planet)

• The Reviewing New Who series, David McDonald, Tansy Rayner Roberts, and Tehani Wessely
• The Squeeing over Supergirl series, David McDonald & Tehani Wessely
• The Rereading the Empire Trilogy series, Tansy Rayner Roberts
• “Sara Kingdom dies at the end”, Tansy Rayner Roberts (Companion Piece)
• “SF Women of the 20th Century”, Tansy Rayner Roberts (Tansyrr.com)

Several other awards were also presented:

A. Bertram Chandler Award for Outstanding Achievement in Science Fiction

• James (Jocko) Allen

Norma K. Hamming Award

• The Orchid Nursery, Louise Katz (Lacuna)

• The Fire Sermon, Francesca Haig (HarperVoyager)
• The Pyramids of London, Andrea K Höst (self-published)
• Theophilus Grey and the Demon Thief, Catherine Jinks (Allen & Unwin) [Honorable Mention]
• The Hush, Skye Melki-Wegner (Penguin Random House)
• Formaldehyde, Jane Rawson (Seizure) [Honorable Mention]
• Welcome to Orphancorp, Marlee Jane Ward (Seizure)

Peter McNamara Achievement Award

• Rowena Cory Daniells

The awards were presented on March 27, 2016 at Contact 2016, the Australian National SF Convention, in Brisbane Australia.

Update: 4/6/2016 – Corrections were noted for the Best Fan Publication and Best Artwork.