2018 Australian Shadows Awards Winners

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.