2019 Sir Julius Vogel Awards Winners

Best Novel

• WINNER: Into the Sounds, Lee Murray (Severed)

• The Kingfisher’s Debt, Kura Carpenter (IFWG)
• Restoration Day, Deborah Makarios (Oi Makarioi)
• Teeth of the Wolf, Dan Rabarts & Lee Murray (Raw Dog Screaming)
• The Voyage of the White Cloud, M. Darusha Wehm (In Portentia)

Best Youth Novel

• WINNER: Lutapolii: White Dragon of the South, Deryn Pittar (Junction)

• When Gina Pressed Enter, Elise De Silva (EDS)
• Ezaara, Riders of Fire, Eileen Mueller (Phantom Feather)
• Quest, A.J. Ponder (Phantom Feather)
• The Suburban Book of the Dead, Jamie Sands (self-published)

Best Novella/Novelette

• WINNER: The Martian Job, M. Darusha Wehm (Choice of Games)

• “Where the Sun Does Not Shine”, Paul Mannering (Hellhole)
• Skin Deep, Violet Penrose (Griffon)
• “The Glassblower’s Peace”, James Rowland (Aurealis 9/18)

Best Short Story

• WINNER: “Girls Who do not Drown”, A.C. Buchanan (Apex 12/18)

• “On the Run”, Kevin Berry (Te Korero Ahi Kā)
• “We Feed the Bears of Fire and Ice”, Octavia Cade (Strange Horizons)
• “A Devoted Husband”, Melanie Harding-Shaw (Breach)
• “Dead End Town”, Lee Murray (Cthulhu: Land of the Long White Cloud)

Best Collected Work

• WINNER: Te Korero Ahi Kā, Grace Bridges, Lee Murray & Aaron Compton, eds. (SpecFicNZ)

• The Fairies of Down Under and other Pākeha Fairy Tales, Geoff Allen (Makaro)
• 80,000 Totally Secure Passwords That No Hacker Would Ever Guess, Simon Petrie (self-published)
• Cthulhu: Land of the Long White Cloud, Steve Proposch, Christopher Sequiera & Bryce Stevens, eds. (IFWG)

Best Professional Artwork

• WINNER: Cover for The Baker Thief, Laya Rose (The Kraken Collective)

• Cover for Te Korero Ahi Kā, Evelyn Doyle (SpecFicNZ)
• Cover for Quest, Craig Phillips (Phantom Feather)
• Cover for Capricious 1/18, Laya Rose

Best Professional Production/Publication

• WINNER: Black Archive #15, John Toon (Obverse)

• Breach #5-9
• Info Text subtitles for Doctor Who: “Earthshock”
• Writing from a Dark Place, Lee Murray (Victoria University Press)
• New Orbit
• Overgrown

Best Dramatic Presentation

• WINNER: Wellington Paranormal

• Mortal Engines

Best New Talent

• WINNER: Kura Carpenter

• Saf Davidson
• M.W. Innes-Jones
• Deborah Makarios
• Fraser Newman
• Anna Ryan

Best Fan Production/Publication

• WINNER: Star Trek in the Park: The Trouble with Tribbles

• The Future According to Mikey
• Phoenixine

Best Fan Artwork

• WINNER: “The Thirteenth Doctor”, Laya Rose