SF NOVEL

• Transcension, Damien Broderick (Tor)
• Blue Silence, Michelle Marquardt (Bantam Australia)
• Echoes of Earth, Sean Williams & Shane Dix (HarperCollins)

SF SHORT STORY

• "Walk to the Full Moon", Sean McMullen (F&SF Dec 2002)
• "The Imperfect Instantaneous People Mover", Geoffrey Maloney (Agog! Fantastic Fiction)
• "Late Returns", Shane M. Brown (Redsine #9)
• "Lucy Lucy", Shane M. Brown (Aurealis #29 2002)
• "Within Twilight", Chris McMahon (Redsine #8)

FANTASY NOVEL

• The Storm Weaver and the Sand, Sean Williams (HarperCollins)
• Blood, Tony Shillitoe (HarperCollins)
• The Crippled Angel, Sara Douglass (HarperCollins)
• The Gift, Alison Croggon (Penguin)
• Hades' Daughter, Sara Douglass (HarperCollins)
• The Novice, Trudi Canavan (HarperCollins)

FANTASY SHORT STORY

• no award

HORROR NOVEL

• The White Body of Evening, A. L. McCann (Flamingo/HarperCollins)
• Daughter of the Dark, Louise Cusack (Simon & Schuster)
• The Gift, Alison Croggon (Penguin)
• Shadows Bite, Stephen Dedman (Tor)

HORROR SHORT STORY

• "Oracle", Kim Westwood (Redsine #9)
• "Les Autres", Adam Browne (Redsine #8)
• "Wastelands", Stephen Dedman (Agog! Fantastic Fiction)
• "What the Tide Brings", Claire McKenna (Fables & Reflections #2)
• "Within Twilight", Chris McMahon (Redsine #8)

YOUNG ADULT NOVEL

• The Hand of Glory, Sophie Masson (Hodder Headline)
• Fireworks and Darkness, Natalie Jane Prior (Angus & Robertson/HarperCollins)
• Mum, Me, and the 19^th C, David McRobbie (Angus & Robertson/HarperCollins)
• The Starthorn Tree, Kate Forsyth (Pan)

YOUNG ADULT SHORT STORY

• no award

CHILDREN'S LONG FICTION

• In the Garden of Empress Cassia, Gabrielle Wang (Puffin Books)
• Astrid Spark, Fixologist, Justin d'Ath (Allen & Unwin)
• Eglantine, Catherine Jinks (Allen & Unwin)
• Lily Quench and the Treasure of Mote Ely, Natalie Jane Prior (Hodder)
• Rhianna and the Dogs of Iron, Dave Luckett (Scholastic)

CHILDREN'S SHORT FICTION

• Tashi and the Haunted House, Anna Fienberg & Kim Gamble (Allen & Unwin)
• "The Golden Udder", Terry Denton (Allen & Unwin)
• "In the Blink of an Eye", Andrew Chapman (Spellbinders (Spinouts Sapphire))
• "Old Ridley", Gary Crew & Marc McBride (Hodder)
• "The Two Natalies", Justin d'Ath (Reel Trouble (Spinouts Sapphire))

PETER MCNAMARA CONVENORS' AWARD

• Robbie Matthews (for his important contribution to local genre publishing both with the Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild and Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine)
• Sara Creasy (for compiling and editing the monthly ebulletin 'aurealisXpress')
• Kim Selling & Lilla Smee (for organising the Fantastic Fictions: Medieval and Modern one-day seminar at the University of Sydney)
• Cat Sparks (for the guidance and support she has provided to the local genre industry through her imprint Agog! Publishing)
• Justine Larbalestier (for The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction)