Australian Shadows Awards Finalists

The shortlists for the 2016 Australian Shadows Awards were announced March 16, 2017. The award is given by the Australian Horror Writers Association (AHWA) and “celebrates the finest in horror and dark fiction published by an Australian or New Zealander.”

Best Short Fiction

• “D Is for Death”, Pete Aldin (C is for Chimera)
• “Midnight in the Graffiti Tunnel”, Terry Dowling (Dreaming in the Dark)
• “Protege”, Anthony Ferguson (Monsters Among Us)
• “His Shining Day”, Richard Harland (Dreaming in the Dark)
• “No Other Men in Mitchell”, Rose Hartley (Nightmare 2/16)
• “Selfie”, Lee Murray (SQ Mag 5/16)
• “What the Sea Wants”, Deb Sheldon (SQ Mag 2/16)
• “Uncontainable”, Helen Stubbs (Apex 12/16)
• “All Roll Over”, Kaaron Warren (In Your Face)
• “Fade to Grey”, Janeen Webb (Dreaming in the Dark)

Best Collected Works

• Crow Shine, Alan Baxter (Ticonderoga)
• Concentration, Jack Dann (PS)
• Everything Is Fine, Grant Stone (Racket House)

Best Edited Work

• Dead of Night, Shane Jiraiya Cummings, ed. (Australian Horror Writers Association)
• Dreaming in the Dark, Jack Dann, ed. (PS Australia)
• At the Edge, Dan Rabarts & Lee Murray, eds. (Paper Road)

Best Novel

• Hollow House, Greg Chapman (Omnium Gatherum)
• The Devil’s Prayer, Luke Gracias (self-published)
• Presumed Dead, Rick Kennett (self-published)
• The Invasion, Brett McBean (Sinister Grin)
• Into the Mist, Lee Murray (Cohesion)
• Unbidden, TJ Park (HarperImpulse)
• Devil Dragon, Deborah Sheldon (Severed)
• The Grief Hole, Kaaron Warren (IFWG)

Paul Haines Award for Long Fiction

• Box Of Bones, Jeremy Bates (Ghillinnein)
• “Served Cold”, Alan Baxter (Dreaming in the Dark)
• The Eschatologist, Greg Chapman (Voodoo)
• The Heart of the Mission, Matthew R Davis (Oz Horror Con)
• “Burnt Sugar”, Kirstyn McDermott (Dreaming in the Dark)
• “Tipuna Tapu”, Dan Rabarts (And Then…: The Great Big Book of Awesome Adventure Tales, Vol I)

There were no nominees in the Comics/Graphic Novels or Rocky Wood Award for Non-Fiction and Criticism categories this year.

For more information, see the AHWA website.