NOVEL

• Tender Morsels, Margo Lanagan (Allen & Unwin)
• The Daughters of Moab, Kim Westwood (HarperVoyager)
• Earth Ascendant, Sean Williams (Orbit)
• Fivefold, Nathan Burrage (Random House)
• Hal Spacejock: No Free Lunch, Simon Haynes (Fremantle Press)
• How to Ditch Your Fairy, Justine Larbalestier (Allen & Unwin)

NOVELLA OR NOVELETTE

• "Painlessness", Kirstyn McDermott (Greatest Uncommon Denominator #2)
• Angel Rising, Dirk Flinthart (Twelfth Planet Press)
• "Creeping in Reptile Flesh", Robert Hood (Creeping in Reptile Flesh)
• "Night Heron's Curse", Thoraiya Dyer (Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #37)
• "Soft Viscosity", David Conyers (2012)

SHORT STORY (tie)

• "The Goosle", Margo Lanagan (The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy)
• "This Is Not My Story", Dirk Flinthart (Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #37)
• "Ass-Hat Magic Spider", Scott Westerfeld (The Starry Rift)
• "Her Collection of Intimacy", Paul Haines (Black: Australian Dark Culture Magazine #2)
• "Moments of Dying", Robert Hood (Black: Australian Dark Culture Magazine #1)
• "Pale Dark Soldier", Deborah Biancotti (Midnight Echo #1)
• "Sammarynda Deep", Cat Sparks (Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy)

COLLECTED WORK

• Dreaming Again, Jack Dann, ed. (HarperVoyager)
• 2012, Alisa Krasnostein & Ben Payne, eds. (Twelfth Planet Press)
• Black: Australian Dark Culture Magazine, Angela Challis, ed. (Brimstone Press)
• Canterbury 2100: Pilgrimages in a New World, Dirk Flinthart, ed. (Agog! Press)
• Creeping in Reptile Flesh, Robert Hood (Altair Australia Books)
• Midnight Echo, Kirstyn McDermott & Ian Mond, eds. (AHWA)
• The Starry Rift, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Viking)

FAN PUBLICATION

• Asif! (Australian Speculative Fiction in Focus), Alisa Krasnostein & Gene Melzack (Twelfth Planet Press)
• Australian SF Bullsheet, Edwina Harvey
• HorrorScope, Shane Jiraiya Cummings (Brimstone Press)
• Scary Food Cookbook, Cat Sparks (Agog! Press)

FAN WRITER

• Robert Hood (for Undead Backbrain)
• Craig Bezant (for HorrorScope)
• Edwina Harvey (for Australian Science Fiction Bullsheet)
• Chuck McKenzie (for HorrorScope)
• Mark Smith-Briggs (for HorrorScope)
• Brenton Tomlinson (for HorrorScope)

FAN ARTIST

• Cat Sparks (for Scary Food Cookbook)
• Rachel Holkner (for Gumble Soft toy and other works)
• Nancy Lorenz (for body of work)
• Andrew McKiernan (for body of work)
• Tansy Rayner Roberts (for Daleks are a girl's best friend)
• David Schembri (for body of work)
• Anna Tambour (for Box of Noses and other works)

ARTWORK

• Tales from Outer Suburbia, Shaun Tan (Allen & Unwin)
• 2012, Cat Sparks
• Aurealis, Adam Duncan
• Andrew McKiernan, for Black Box (gallery)
• Creeping in Reptile Flesh, Cat Sparks
• The Last Realm, Book 1 - Dragonscarpe, Michael Dutkiewicz

NEW TALENT

• Felicity Dowker
• Peter M. Ball
• Jason Fischer
• Gary Kemble
• Amanda Pillar

WILLIAM ATHELING JR. AWARD FOR CRITICISM OR REVIEW

• "Popular Genres and the Australian Literary Community: the Case of Fantasy Fiction", Kim Wilkins (Journal of Australian Studies)
• "Bad Film Diaries: Sometimes the Brand Burns: Tim Burton and the Planet of the Apes", Grant Watson (Borderlands #10)
• "Dark Suspense: The End of the Line", Shane Jiraiya Cummings (Black: Australian Dark Culture Magazine #3)
• "George A. Romero: Master of the Living Dead", Robert Hood (Black: Australian Dark Culture Magazine #2)

PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT

• Angela Challis (for Black: Australian Dark Culture Magazine, and Brimstone Press)
• Damien Broderick (for fiction editing in Cosmos Magazine)
• Steve Clark (for Tasmaniac Publications)
• James Doig (for preserving colonial Australian horror fiction and his anthologies Australian Gothic and Australian Nightmares)
• Talie Helene (for her work as AHWA news editor)
• Marty Young (for promoting horror through the Australian Horror Writers Association)
• "The Gunny Project: A Tribute to Ian Gunn 1959-1998", Jocko & K'Rin