2017 Ditmar and Other Australian Awards

The 2017 Ditmar Award winners for Australian SF have been announced, along with some other Australian awards:

Best Novel

• The Grief Hole, Kaaron Warren (IFWG Australia)

• The Lyre Thief, Jennifer Fallon (HarperCollins)
• Squid’s Grief, DK Mok (self-published)
• The Wizardry of Jewish Women, Gillian Polack (Satalyte)
• Vigil, Angela Slatter (Jo Fletcher)

Best Novella/Novelette

• “Did We Break the End of the World?”, Tansy Rayner Roberts (Defying Doomsday)

• “Going Viral”, Thoraiya Dyer (Dimension6 #8)
• “By the Laws of Crab and Woman”, Jason Fischer (Review of Australian Fiction Volume 17, Issue 6)
• “All the Colours of the Tomato”, Simon Petrie, (Dimension6 #9)
• “Glass Slipper Scandal”, Tansy Rayner Roberts (Sheep Might Fly)
• “Finnegan’s Field”, Angela Slatter (Tor.com 1/16)

Best Short Story

• “No Fat Chicks”, Cat Sparks (In Your Face)

• “There’s No Place Like Home”, Edwina Harvey (AntipodeanSF #221)
• “Flame Trees”, T.R. Napper (Asimov’s 4-5/16)

Best Collected Work (tie)

• Dreaming in the Dark, Jack Dann, ed. (PS)
• Defying Doomsday, Tsana Dolichva & Holly Kench, eds. (Twelfth Planet)

• Crow Shine, Alan Baxter (Ticonderoga)
• In Your Face, Tehani Wessely, ed. (FableCroft)

Best Artwork

• Shauna O’Meara for illustration of Lackington’s #12

• Adam Browne for illustrations in The Tame Animals of Saturn (Peggy Bright)

Best Fan Publication in Any Medium

• 2016 Australian SF Snapshot, Greg Chapman, Tehani Croft, et. al.

• Earl Grey Editing Services, Elizabeth Fitzgerald
• Galactic Suburbia, Alisa Krasnostein, Alex Pierce, & Tansy Rayner Roberts
• The Writer and the Critic, Kirstyn McDermott & Ian Mond
• Galactic Chat, Alexandra Pierce, David McDonald, Sarah Parker, Helen Stubbs, Mark Webb, & Sean Wright
• The Coode Street Podcast, Gary K. Wolfe & Jonathan Strahan

Best Fan Writer

• Foz Meadows
• James “Jocko” Allen
• Aidan Doyle
• Bruce Gillespie
• Tansy Rayner Roberts

Best New Talent

• Marlee Jane Ward

• T.R. Napper

William Atheling Jr. Award for Criticism or Review

• The Rebirth of Rapunzel: A Mythic Biography of the Maiden in the Tower, Kate Forsyth (FableCroft)

• Essays and reviews in Weird Fiction Review, Kat Clay
• “Revisiting Pern: The great McCaffrey reread” series, Tehani Croft & Marisol Dunham
• Reviews in Tsana’s Reads and Reviews, Tsana Dolichva
• Reviews in The Hysterical Hamster, Ian Mond
• Reviews in Randomly Yours, Alex, Alexandra Pierce
• History and Fiction: Writers, their Research, Worlds and Stories, Gillian Polack (Peter Lang)

No award was given in the Best Fan Artist category.

Several other awards were also presented:

Peter McNamara Achievement Award

• Rose Mitchell

A. Bertram Chandler Award for Outstanding Achievement in Science Fiction

• Bill Wright

The awards were presented on June 11, 2017 at Continuum 13, the 56th Australian National Science Fiction Convention held in Melbourne, Australia.