2019 Hemming Award Winners
The winners of the 2019 Norma K. Hemming Award have been announced.
Short Fiction (stories up to 17,500 words)
- WINNER: “Pinion”, Stephanie Gunn (Aurum)
- “Triquetra”, Kirstyn McDermott (Tor.com 9/5/18)
- “The Sea-Maker of Darmid Bay”, Shauna O’Meara (Interzone 9-10/18)
- “With this Needle I Thee Thread”, Angela Rega (Aurum)
- “Shatterglass”, Susan Wardle (Aurum)
- “Knitting Day”, Jen White (Mother of Invention)
Long Work (tie)
- WINNER: City of Lies, Sam Hawke (Tor)
- WINNER: Mother of Invention, Rivqa Rafael & Tansy Rayner Roberts, eds. (Twelfth Planet)
- Icefall, Stephanie Gunn (Twelfth Planet)
- Catching Teller Crow, Ambelin Kwaymullina & Ezekiel Kwaymullina (Allen & Unwin)
- The Second Cure, Margaret Morgan (Penguin Random House)
The Hemming Award is presented by the Australian Science Fiction Foundation (ASFF) to “recognise excellence in the exploration of themes of race, gender, sexuality, class or disability in a published speculative fiction work.”
The winners were announced June 8, 2019 at Continuum 15, the Australian National SF Convention, at the Jasper Hotel in Melbourne Australia.
For more information see the Hemming award website.
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