2018 Aurealis Winners

The 2018 Aurealis Awards winners, recognizing the best in Australian speculative fiction, have been announced.

Best Science Fiction Novel

  • WINNER: Lifel1k3, Jay Kristoff (Allen & Unwin)

Best Science Fiction Novella

  • WINNER: Icefall, Stephanie Gunn (Twelfth Planet)
  • “I Almost Went To The Library Last Night”, Joanne Anderton (Aurum)
  • The Starling Requiem, Jodi Cleghorn (eMergent)
  • “Pinion”, Stephanie Gunn (Aurum)
  • “Singles’ Day”, Samantha Murray (Interzone 9-10/18)
  • Static Ruin, Corey J. White (Tor.com Publishing)

Best Science Fiction Short Story

  • WINNER: “The Astronaut”, Jen White (Aurealis #108)
  • “The Sixes, The Wisdom and the Wasp”, EJ Delaney (Escape Pod 1/25/18)
  • “The Fallen”, Pamela Jeffs (Red Hour)
  • “On the Consequences of Clinically-Inhibited Maturation in the Common Sydney Octopus”, Simon Petrie & Edwina Harvey (A Hand of Knaves)
  • “A Fair Wind off Baracoa”, Robert Porteous (A Hand of Knaves)

Best Fantasy Novel (tie)

Best Fantasy Novella

Best Fantasy Short Story

  • WINNER: “The Further Shore”, J. Ashley Smith (Bourbon Penn #15)

Best Horror Novel

Best Horror Novella

Best Horror Short Story

  • WINNER: “Sub-Urban”, Alfie Simpson (Breach #07)
  • “The Offering”, Michael Gardner (Aurealis #112)
  • “Slither”, Jason Nahrung (Cthulhu Deep Down Under Volume 2)
  • “By Kindle Light”, Jessica Nelson-Tyers (Antipodean SF #235)
  • “Hit and Rot”, Jessica Nelson-Tyers (Breach #08)
  • “The Further Shore”, J. Ashley Smith (Bourbon Penn #15)

Best Young Adult Novel

Best Young Adult Short Story

  • WINNER: “The Sea-Maker of Darmid Bay”, Shauna O’Meara (Interzone 9-10/18)

Best Children’s Fiction

Best Collection

Best Anthology

Best Graphic Novel/Illustrated Work

The Sara Douglass Book Series Award

Convenors’ Award for Excellence (tie)

  • “The 21st Century Catastrophe: Hyper-capitalism and Severe Climate Change in Science Fiction”, Cat Sparks (Curtin University)
  • “Genre Worlds: Australian Popular Fiction in the 21st Century”, Kim Wilkins, Lisa Fletcher & Beth Driscoll (Genre Worlds)

Winners were announced in an awards ceremony on May 4, 2019 at the Jasper Hotel in Melbourne, Australia. For more, see the official website.


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