2018 Ditmar Preliminary Ballot

Best Novel

• In the Dark Spaces, Cally Black (Hardie Grant Egmont)
• Crossroads of Canopy, Thoraiya Dyer (Tor)
• How to Bee, Bren McDibble (Allen & Unwin)
• Corpselight, Angela Slatter (Hachette Australia)
• Lotus Blue, Cat Sparks (Skyhorse)

Best Novella or Novelette

• “My Sister’s Ghost”, Kate Forsyth & Kim Wilkins (The Silver Well)
• “Island Green”, Shauna O’Meara (Ecopunk!)
• Matters Arising from the Identification of the Body, Simon Petrie (Peggy Bright)
• Girl Reporter, Tansy Rayner Roberts (Book Smugglers)
• “Monkey Business”, Janeen Webb (Ecopunk!)

Best Short Story

• “A Harem of Six Legs”, Edwina Harvey (An Eclectic Collection of Stuff and Things)
• “Mr Mycelium”, Claire McKenna (Ecopunk!)
• “Trivalent”, Rivqa Rafael (Ecopunk!)
• “Prayers to Broken Stone”, Cat Sparks (Kaleidotrope Spring 2017)
• “A Pearl Beyond Price”, Janeen Webb in (Cthulhu Deep Down Under Vol 1)

Best Collected Work

• The Silver Well, Kate Forsyth & Kim Wilkins (Ticonderoga)
• An Eclectic Collection of Stuff and Things,  Edwina Harvey (Peggy Bright)
• Singing My Sister Down and other stories, Margo Lanagan (Allen & Unwin)
• Ecopunk!, Cat Sparks & Liz Grzyb (Ticonderoga)

Best Artwork

• Lewis Morley for the cover of Matters Arising from the Identification of the Body, Simon Petrie (Peggy Bright)
• Keely Van Order for The Grief Hole Illustrated: An Artist’s Sketchbook Companion to Kaaron Warren’s Supernatural Thriller (IFWG Australia)

Best Fan Publication in Any Medium

• No Award, Liz Barr & Stephanie Lai
• Earl Grey Editing, Elizabeth Fitzgerald
• SF Commentary, Bruce Gillespie, ed.
• Galactic Suburbia, Alisa Krasnostein, Alexandra Pierce & Tansy Rayner Roberts
• The Writer and the Critic, Kirstyn McDermott & Ian Mond

Best Fan Writer

• Liz Barr
• Leigh Edmonds
• Elizabeth Fitzgerald
• Stephanie Lai

Best Fan Artist

• Shauna O’Meara

Best New Talent

• Clarie G. Coleman
• Stephanie Lai

William Atheling Jr Award for Criticism or Review

• Star Trek: Discovery reviews in No Award, Liz Barr
• Science Fiction and the Moral Imagination, Russell Blackford (Springer)
• “Reflecting on Indigenous Worlds, Indigenous Futurisms and Artificial Intelligence”, Ambelin Kwaymullina (Mother of Invention)
• Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler, Alexandra Pierce & Mimi Mondal (Twelfth Planet)
• “Science fiction and climate fiction: contemporary literatures of purpose”, Cat Sparks (Ecopunk!)