SF NOVEL

• Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait, K. A. Bedford (Edge)
• Chaos Space, Marianne de Pierres (Orbit)
• The Daughters of Moab, Kim Westwood (HarperVoyager)
• Earth Ascendant, Sean Williams (Orbit)
• Hal Spacejock: No Free Lunch, Simon Haynes (Fremantle Press)

SF SHORT STORY

• "The Empire", Simon Brown (Dreaming Again)
• "Black and Bitter, Thanks", Nathan Burrage (The Workers' Paradise)
• "Delivery", Trent Jamieson (Cosmos #21)
• "The Fifth Star in the Southern Cross", Margo Lanagan (Dreaming Again)
• "Fleshy", Tansy Rayner Roberts (2012)

FANTASY NOVEL

• The Two Pearls of Wisdom, Alison Goodman (HarperCollins)
• Amberlight, Sylvia Kelso (Juno)
• Heir to Sevenwaters, Juliet Marillier (Macmillan Australia)
• The Riven Kingdom, Karen Miller (HarperVoyager)
• Tender Morsels, Margo Lanagan (Allen & Unwin)

FANTASY SHORT STORY

• "Sammarynda Deep", Cat Sparks (Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy)
• "Dresses, Three", Angela Slatter (Shimmer v2n4)
• "The Last Deflowerer", Karen Maric (Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #32)
• "Night Heron's Curse", Thoraiya Dyer (Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #37)
• "Nightship", Kim Westwood (Dreaming Again)

HORROR NOVEL

• The Séance, John Harwood (Jonathan Cape)
• The Economy of Light, Jack Dann (PS Publishing)
• Ghostlines, Nick Gadd (Scribe Publications)

HORROR SHORT STORY

• "Painlessness", Kirstyn McDermott (Greatest Uncommon Denominator (GUD( #2)
• "Bitter Dreams", Ian McHugh (L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume XXIV)
• "Day Boy", Trent Jamieson (Murky Depths #4)
• "In from the Snow", Lee Battersby (Dreaming Again)
• "Pale Dark Soldier", Deborah Biancotti (Midnight Echo #1)

ANTHOLOGY

• The Starry Rift, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Viking)
• Dreaming Again, Jack Dann, ed. (HarperVoyager)
• The Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Science Fiction, Fourth Annual Volume, Bill Congreve & Michelle Marquardt, eds. (MirrorDanse Books)

COLLECTION

• Magic Dirt: The Best of Sean Williams, Sean Williams, edited by Russell B. Farr (Ticonderoga Publications)
• Creeping in Reptile Flesh, Robert Hood (Altair Australia Books)

ILLUSTRATED BOOK/GRAPHIC NOVEL

• Tales from Outer Suburbia, Shaun Tan (Allen & Unwin)
• The Art of Graeme Base, Julie Watts, illustrated by Graeme Base (Penguin/Viking)
• The Cloudchasers, Steve Hunt & David Richardson (ABC Books)
• The Floods Family Files, Colin Thompson (Random House Australia)

YOUNG ADULT NOVEL

• Finnikin of the Rock, Melina Marchetta (Penguin/Viking)
• The Changeling, Sean Williams (Angus & Robertson)
• Monster Blood Tattoo, Book Two: Lamplighter, D. M. Cornish (Omnibus Books)
• The Stone Key, Isobelle Carmody (Penguin/Viking)
• The Two Pearls of Wisdom, Alison Goodman (HarperCollins)

YOUNG ADULT SHORT STORY

• "Cracks", Trent Jamieson (Shiny #2)
• "Eye of the Beholder", Kevin MacLean (Misspelled)
• "The Tailor of Time", Deborah Biancotti (Clockwork Phoenix)
• "This Is Not My Story", Dirk Flinthart (Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #37)

CHILDREN'S NOVEL

• The Wizard of Rondo, Emily Rodda (Omnibus Books)
• The Changeling [and] The Dust Devils, Sean Williams (Angus & Robertson)
• Dragon Dawn, Carole Wilkinson (Black Dog Books)
• Moonshadow, Eye of the Beast, Simon Higgins (Random House Australia)
• Thomas Trew and the Island of Ghosts, Sophie Masson (Hodder Children's)

CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED WORK/PICTURE BOOK

• Escape!, Under Siege, Race to the Ruins, The Heavy Crown (The Wolf Kingdom series), Richard Harland, illustrated by Laura Peterson (Omnibus Books)
• Curly and the Fent, Sally Morgan & Ezekiel, Ambelin and Blaze Kwaymullina (Random House Australia)
• Tashi and the Phoenix, Anna Fienberg, Barbara Fienberg & Kim Gamble (Allen & Unwin)
• Thorn Castle, Giant's Lair, Black Crypt, Wizardry Crag (The Sorcerer's Tower series), Ian Irvine, illustrated by David Cornish (Omnibus Books)
• Twisted Tales, Richard Tulloch, illustrated by Terry Denton (Random House Australia)

PETER MCNAMARA CONVENORS' AWARD

• Jack Dann