2019 Ditmar Award Preliminary Ballot

Best Novel

• Devouring Dark, Alan Baxter (Grey Matter)
• The Subjugate, Amanda Bridgeman (Angry Robot)
• Faerie Apocalypse, Jason Franks (IFWG Australia)
• City of Lies, Sam Hawke (Tor)
• The Beast’s Heart, Leife Shallcross (Hodder & Stoughton)
• Tide of Stone, Kaaron Warren (Omnium Gatherum)

Best Novella or Novelette

• Triquetra, Kirstyn McDermott (Tor.com Publishing)
• Cabaret of Monsters, Tansy Rayner Roberts (self-published)
• The Dragon’s Child, Janeen Webb (PS)

Best Short Story

• “The Art of Broken Things”, Joanne Anderton (Mother of Invention)
• “A Man Totally Alone”, Robert Hood (The Mammoth Book of Halloween Stories)
• “The Heart of Owl Abbas”, Kathleen Jennings (Tor.com 4/11/18)
• “Junkyard Kraken”, D.K. Mok (Mother of Invention)

Best Collected Work

• Sword and Sonnet, Aidan Doyle, Rachael K. Jones & E. Catherine Tobler, eds. (Ate Bit Bear)
• Mountains of the Mind, Gillian Pollack, ed. (Shooting Star)
• Mother of Invention, Rivqa Rafael & Tansy Rayner Roberts, eds. (Twelfth Planet)
• A Hand of Knaves, Leife Shallcross & Chris Large, eds. (CSFG)
• Tales from the Inner City, Shaun Tan (Allen & Unwin)

Best Artwork

• Cover for Mother of Invention, Likhain
• Cover and internal illustrations for A Hand of Knaves, Shauna O’Meara

Best Fan Publication in Any Medium

• Earl Grey Editing, Elizabeth Fitzgerald
• Pratchat, Elizabeth Flux & Ben McKenzie
• SF Commentary, Bruce Gillespie
• Galactic Suburbia, Alisa Krasnostein, Alexandra Pierce & Tansy Rayner Roberts

Best Fan Writer

• Liz Barr
• Bruce Gillespie

Best New Talent

• Elizabeth Fitzgerald
• Sam Hawke
• Bren MacDibble (AKA Cally Black)
• Leife Shallcross

William Atheling Jr Award for Criticism or Review

• Consciousness and Science Fiction, Damien Broderick (Springer)
• Pscience Fiction, Damien Broderick (McFarland)
• Gentlewomen of the Press, Tansy Rayner Roberts (Sheep Might Fly)
• “The 21st Century Catastrophe: Hyper-capitalism and Severe Climate Change in Science Fiction”, Cat Sparks