SF NOVEL

• Wonders of a Godless World, Andrew McGahan (Allen & Unwin)
• The Astropolis: The Grand Conjunction, Sean Williams (Orbit)

SF SHORT STORY

• "Clockwork, Patchwork and Ravens", Peter M. Ball (Apex May 2009)
• "Defence of the Realm", Greg Mellor (Cosmos #25)
• "A Hundredth Name", Christopher Green (Abyss & Apex #31)
• "Soulmates", Mike Resnick & Lezli Robyn (Asimov's Sep 2009)
• "To Dream of Stars: An Astronomer's Lament", Peter M. Ball (Apex Oct 2009)

FANTASY NOVEL

• The Magician's Apprentice, Trudi Canavan (Orbit)
• The Dark Griffin, K. J. Taylor (HarperVoyager)
• Horn, Peter Ball (Twelfth Planet Press)
• The Last Stormlord, Glenda Larke (HarperVoyager)
• Witches Incorporated, K. E. Mills (HarperVoyager)

FANTASY SHORT STORY (tie)

• "Father's Kill", Christopher Green (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #24)
• "Once a Month, On a Sunday", Ian McHugh (Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #40)
• "Siren Beat", Tansy Rayner Roberts (Roadkill/Siren Beat)
• "Something Better than Death", Lucy Sussex (Aurealis #42)
• "Words", Angela Slatter (The Lifted Brow #5)

HORROR NOVEL

• Red Queen, Honey Brown (Penguin Australia)
• The Dead Path, Stephen M. Irwin (Hachette Australia)
• Horn, Peter Ball (Twelfth Planet)
• Night's Cold Kiss, Tracey O'Hara (HarperCollins Australia)
• Slights, Kaaron Warren (Angry Robot Books)

HORROR SHORT STORY (tie)

• "Slices of Life -- A Spot of Liver", Paul Haines (Slice of Life)
• "Wives", Paul Haines (X⁶)
• "Having Faith", Christopher Green (Nossa Morte Feb 2009)
• "Jesse's Gift", Felicity Dowker (Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #40)
• "The Message", Andrew J. McKiernan (Midnight Echo #2)

ANTHOLOGY

• Eclipse Three, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Night Shade)
• Eclipse Two, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Night Shade)
• New Ceres Night, Alisa Krasnostein & Tehani Wessely, eds. (Twelfth Planet)
• The New Space Opera 2, Gardner Dozois & Jonathan Strahan, eds. (Harper Eos)
• X⁶, Keith Stevenson, ed. (Coeur de Lion)

COLLECTION

• Oceanic, Greg Egan (Gollancz)
• A Book of Endings, Deborah Biancotti (Twelfth Planet)
• Johnny Phillips, Werewolf Detective, Robbie Matthews (Australian Speculative Fiction)
• Slice of Life, Paul Haines (The Mayne Press)

ILLUSTRATED BOOK/GRAPHIC NOVEL

• Scarygirl, Nathan Jurevicius (Allen & Unwin)
• Hollow Fields, Madeleine Rosca (Seven Seas Entertainment)
• Secrets of Deltora, Emily Rodda & Marc McBride (Scholastic Australia)
• The Silence, Bruce Mutard (Allen & Unwin)

YOUNG ADULT NOVEL

• Leviathan, Scott Westerfeld (Penguin)
• The Museum of Mary Child, Cassandra Golds (Puffin)
• The Puzzle Ring, Kate Forsyth (Pan Macmillan)
• Scarecrow, Sean Williams (HarperCollins Australia)
• A Small Free Kiss in the Dark, Glenda Millard (Allen & Unwin)

YOUNG ADULT SHORT STORY

• "Seventeen", Cat Sparks (Masques)
• "Dragon Bones", Joanne Anderton (Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #39)
• "Life Us", Tansy Rayner Roberts (Shiny #5)
• "Once a Month, on a Sunday", Ian McHugh (Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #40 Sep 2009)
• "Paper Dragons", Sue Isle (Shiny #5)

CHILDREN'S NOVEL

• A Ghost in My Suitcase, Gabrielle Wang (Puffin Books)
• Cicada Summer, Kate Constable (Allen & Unwin)
• The Remarkable Secret of Aurelie Bonhoffen, Deborah Abela (Random House Australia)
• Tensy Farlow and the Home for Mislaid Children, Jen Storer (Penguin/Viking)

CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED WORK/PICTURE BOOK

• Victor's Challenge, Pamela Freeman, illustrated by Kim Gamble (Walker Books Australia)
• Enigma, Graeme Base (Penguin/Viking)
• The Hero of Little Street, Gregory Rogers (Allen & Unwin)
• Pilot and Huxley, Dan McGuiness (Omnibus Books)
• Tashi and the Golem, Anna Fienberg, illustrated by Kim Gamble (Allen & Unwin)

PETER MCNAMARA CONVENORS' AWARD

• Justin Ackroyd (Proprietor, Slow Glass Books)