2017 Australian Shadows Awards Shortlists

Best Novel

• Aletheia, J.S. Breukelaar (Crystal Lake)
• Slithers, WW Mortensen (self-published)
• Soon, Lois Murphy (Transit Lounge)
• Corpselight, Angela Slatter (Jo Fletcher)
• Providence Place, Matthew Tait (Dark Crib)

Best Short Fiction

• “Outside a Drifter”, Lisa L. Hannett (Looming Low Volume 1)
• “The Hand Walker”, Rue Karney (Pacific Monsters)
• “The Circle Line”, Martin Livings (Between the Tracks)
• “The Banksia Boys”, Matthew J Morrison (Andromeda Spaceways 3/17)
• “The Little Mermaid, in Passing”, Angela Slatter (The Review of Australian Fiction 4/17)
• “The Big Reveal”, David Stevens (Kaleidotrope Winter ’17)

Best Collected Works

• Singing My Sister Down and Other Stories, Margo Lanagan (Allen & Unwin)
• Perfect Little Stitches and Other Stories, Deborah Sheldon (IFWG)

Best Edited Work

• Midnight Echo 12/17, Shane Jiraiya Cummings & Anthony Ferguson, eds.
• Below the Stairs: Tales from the Cellar, Steven Dillon, ed. (Things in the Well)
• Cthulhu Deep Down Under Volume 1, Steve Proposch, Christopher Sequeira & Bryce Stevens, eds. (IFWG)

Paul Haines Award for Long Fiction

• “Ismail’s Expulsion”, Brian Craddock (Between the Tracks)
• Hope and Walker, Andrew Cull (Vermillion2One)
• “This Impossible Gift”, Matthew R. Davis (Midnight Echo 12/17)
• “No Good Deed”, Angela Slatter (New Fears)
• “Furtherest”, Kaaron Warren (Dark Screams Volume 7)
• “Eden in the End”, Ashlee Scheuerman (Dark Moon Digest 10/17)

Rocky Wood Award for Non-Fiction and Criticism

• “101 Weird Writers #46 – Ryūnosuke Akutagawa”, Kat Clay (Weird Fiction Review 5/17)
• Literary Serial Killer Fiction: The Evolution of a Genre, William Cook (Victoria University Press)
• The Body Horror Book, Claire Fitzpatrick, ed. (Oscillate Wildly)
• “‘It Follows’ is the millennial STD parable of our time”, Maria Lewis (SBS 9/17)
• “A Shared Ambition: Horror Writers in Horror Fiction”, Kyla Lee Ward (Midnight Echo 12/17)

There were no nominees in the Comics/Graphic Novels category this year. Winners will be announced on June 9, 2018 during Continuum XIV in Melbourne Australia.

For more information, see the AHWA website.