2018 Australian Shadows Awards Winners
Winners of 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
- WINNER: Tide of Stone, Kaaron Warren (Omnium Gatherum)
- Devouring Dark, Alan Baxter (Grey Matter)
- Teeth of the Wolf, Dan Rabarts & Lee Murray (Raw Dog Screaming)
- Contrition, Deborah Sheldon (IFWG)
Best Short Fiction
- WINNER: “Riptide”, Dan Rabarts (Suspended in Dusk II)
- “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)
Best Collected Work
- WINNER: Shadows on the Wall, Steven Paulsen (IFWG)
- 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)
- Beneath the Ferny Tree, David Schembri (Close-Up)
Best Edited Work
- WINNER: Hellhole: An Anthology of Subterranean Horror, Lee Murray, ed. (Adrenaline)
- Behind the Mask, Steve Dillon, ed. (Oz Horror Con)
- Cthulhu: Land of the Long White Cloud and Cthulhu Deep Down Under, Volume 2, Steve Proposch, Christopher Sequeira & Bryce Stevens, eds. (IFWG)
Best Graphic Novel
- WINNER: The Demon: Hell is Earth, Andrew Constant, Brad Walker, Andrew Hennessy & Chris Sotomayor (DC)
Paul Haines Award for Long Fiction
- WINNER: “The Black Sea”, Chris Mason (Beneath the Waves: Tales from the Deep)
- “Time and Tide”, Robert Hood (Cthulhu Deep Down Under, Volume 2)
- Thylacines, Deborah Sheldon (Severed)
- “Love Thee Better”, Kaaron Warren (Creatures: The Legacy of Frankenstein)
Best Poetry
- WINNER: “Revenants of the Antipodes”, Kyla Lee Ward (HWA Poetry Showcase, Volume V)
- “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)
There was no winner 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 did not provide a shortlist. Winners were announced June 8, 2019 during Continuum 15, held in Melbourne Australia.
For more information, see the AHWA website.
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