2019 Australian Shadows Awards Finalists

Best Novel

• The Flower and the Serpent, Madeleine D’Este (Madeleine D’Este)
• Shepherd, Catherine Jinks (Text)
• Fusion, Kate Richards (Hamish Hamilton Australia)

Best Short Fiction

• “The Ocean Hushed the Stones”, Alan Baxter (Served Cold)
• “Ava Rune”, J.S. Breukelaar (Collision: Stories)
• “Steadfast Shadowsong”, Matthew R. Davis (Dig Two Graves)
• “Vivienne & Agnes”, Chris Mason (Beside the Seaside: Tales from the Daytripper)

Best Collected Work

• Served Cold, Alan Baxter (Grey Matter)
• Collision: Stories, J.S. Breukelaar (Meerkat)
• Figments and Fragments, Deborah Sheldon (IFWG)

Best Edited Work

• Beside the Seaside: Tales from the Day-Tripper, Steve Dillon, ed. (self-published)
• Trickster’s Treats #3: The Seven Deadly Sins Edition, Marie O’Regan & Lee Murray, eds. (self-published)
• Midnight Echo #14, Deborah Sheldon, ed. (Australasian Horror Writers Association)

Paul Haines Award for Long Fiction

• Supermassive Black Mass, Matthew R. Davis (self-published)
• 1862, C.J. Halbard (Man on Fire)
• “Enemy of My Enemy”, Rick Kennett (War of the Worlds: Battleground Australia)
• “Out of Darkness”, Chris Mason (Tales of the Lost, Volume 1)
• “The Neverwhere Line”, Matthew J. Morrison (Midnight Echo #14)

Best Poetry

• “Separation”, Jay Caselberg (The Literary Hatchet #23)
• “Please Do Not Feed the Animals”, Anne Casey (out of emptied cups)
• “Ode to a Black Hole”, Charles Lovecraft (Spectral Realms Winter ’19)
• “Brine and Vanishings”, Hester J. Rook (Liminality #21)
• “Taxonomy of Captured Roses”, Hester J. Rook (Kaleidotrope Autumn ’19)
• “Boat of a Million Years”, Kyla Lee Ward (The Macabre Modern and Other Morbidities)

Rocky Wood Award for Non-Fiction and Criticism

• “Suffer the Little Children”, Kris Ashton (Aurealis #119)
• “Horror and the paranormal”, Eugen Bacon (Writing Speculative Fiction)
• “Horror Movies That Mean Something and Childhood Trauma Manifested”, Maria Lewis (flicks.com.au)
• “The Danse Macabre”, Kyla Lee Ward (The Macabre Modern and Other Morbidities)

Best Graphic Novel

• “Geebung Polo Club”, Jason Fischer & Shauna O’Meara (Skellington #1)
• “Matinee”, Emmet O’Cuana & David Parsons (Something Wicked 2019)
• The Eldritch Kid: The Bone War, Christian D. Read & Paul Mason (Gestalt)
• DCeased, Tom Taylor & Trevor Hairsine (DC)

For more information, see the AHWA website.