2018 Australian Shadows Awards Shortlists
Shortlists for the 2018 Australian Shadows Awards have been announced. The award is given by the Australian Horror Writers Association (AHWA) for “the finest in horror and dark fiction published by an Australasian within the calendar year.”
Best Novel
- Devouring Dark, Alan Baxter (Grey Matter)
- Teeth of the Wolf, Dan Rabarts & Lee Murray (Raw Dog Screaming)
- Contrition, Deborah Sheldon (IFWG)
- Tide of Stone, Kaaron Warren (Omnium Gatherum)
Best Short Fiction
- “The House of Jack’s Girls”, Lee Battersby (PseudoPod 10/12/18)
- “The Ward of Tindalos”, Debbie Cowens & Matt Cowens (Cthulhu: Land of the Long White Cloud)
- “Planned and Expected”, Piper Mejia (Breach #09)
- “Slither”, Jason Nahrung (Cthulhu Deep Down Under, Volume 2)
- “Riptide”, Dan Rabarts (Suspended in Dusk II)
Best Collected Work
- The Dalziel Files, Brian Craddock (Broken Puppet)
- Bones, Andrew Cull (self-published)
- Exploring Dark Fiction #2: A Primer to Kaaron Warren, Eric J. Guignard, ed. (Dark Moon)
- Shadows on the Wall, Steven Paulsen (IFWG)
- Beneath the Ferny Tree, David Schembri (Close-Up)
Best Edited Work
- Behind the Mask, Steve Dillon, ed. (Oz Horror Con)
- Hellhole: An Anthology of Subterranean Horror, Lee Murray, ed. (Adrenaline)
- Cthulhu: Land of the Long White Cloud and Cthulhu Deep Down Under, Volume 2, Steve Proposch, Christopher Sequeira & Bryce Stevens, eds. (IFWG)
Paul Haines Award for Long Fiction
- “Time and Tide”, Robert Hood (Cthulhu Deep Down Under, Volume 2)
- “The Black Sea”, Chris Mason (Beneath the Waves: Tales from the Deep)
- Thylacines, Deborah Sheldon (Severed)
- “Love Thee Better”, Kaaron Warren (Creatures: The Legacy of Frankenstein)
Best Poetry
- “Polarity”, Jay Caselberg (The Literary Hatchet 8-9/18)
- “The Middle of the Night”, Rebecca Fraser (Breach #09)
- “Your Mortician Knows”, Bee Nielsen (A Little Ray of Obsidian Black)
- “Matinee”, Hester J. Rook (Chrome Baby 4/12/18)
- “Revenants of the Antipodes”, Kyla Lee Ward (HWA Poetry Showcase, Volume V)
There were no finalists for the Rocky Wood Award for Non-Fiction and Criticism this year. Additionally, “The judges of the Graphic Novel category unanimously agreed on a winner” but have not provided a shortlist. Winners will be announced during Continuum 15, to be held June 7-10, 2019 in Melbourne Australia.
For more information, see the AHWA website.
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