2020 Sir Julius Vogel Awards Finalists

Best Novel

• The Blacksmith, Barbara Howe (IFWG Australia)
• The Prince of Secrets, A.J. Lancaster (Camberion)
• Solar Federation, S.E. Mulholland (self-published)
• Into the Ashes, Lee Murray (Severed)
• The Dawnhounds, Sascha Stronach (Little Hook)

Best Youth Novel

• Light in My Blood, Jean Gilbert & William Dresden (Rogue House)
• Tyrelia, SR Manssen (Manssen)
• Dragon Rift, Eileen Mueller (Phantom Feather)
• The Clockhill and the Thief, Gareth Ward (Walker Australia)
• Ringlet and the Day the Oceans Stopped, Felicity Williams (The Cuba Press)

Best Novella/Novelette

• From a Shadow Grave, Andi C. Buchanan (Paper Road)
• “Hunger’s Truth”, A.J. Fitzwater (Gigantosaurus 4/19)
• We All Fall, Helen Vivienne Fletcher (HVF)
• Would She Be Gone, Melanie Harding-Shaw (self-published)
• “Ventiforms”, Sean Monaghan (Asimov’s 1-2/19)

Best Short Story

• “Work and Income Gothic”, Jack Remiel Cottrell (Flash Frontier 12/19)
• “The Fisher”, Melanie Harding-Shaw (Newsroom 10/5/19)
• “A Shriek Across the Sky”, Casey Lucas (Sponge 5/5/19)
• “Chasing Oumuamua”, Sean Monaghan (Asimov’s 5/19)
• “Losing Face”, Lee Murray (Tales of the Lost, Volume 1: We All Lose Something!)
• “Proof of Concept”, James Rowland (New Myths 12/19)

Best Collected Work

• Beyond the City Limits, Kura Carpenter, ed. (Wicked Unicorn)
• Flash Frontier: Speculative Fiction Issue, A.J. Fitzwater & Tim Jones, eds.
• Year’s Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction & Fantasy: Volume 1, Marie Hodgkinson, ed. (Paper Road)
• Into the Mire, Casey Lucas (self-published)
• Dark Winds Over Wellington, Tabatha Wood (Wild Woods)

Best Professional Artwork

• Cover for The Dawnhounds, Pepper Curry
• Illustrations for Tio Tiamu/The Smelly Giant, Laya Rose
• Cover for Dragon Pearl, Vivienne To
• Cover for From a Shadow Grave, Emma Weakley

Best Professional Production/Publication

• Haunt.d, Kezia Tubbs
• Swords: The Webcomic, Matthew Willis

Best Dramatic Presentation

• Doctor Who: The Elysian Blade, David Bishop (BBC Audio)

Best New Talent

• Melanie Harding-Shaw
• A.J. Lancaster
• Denika Mead
• Stephen Mulholland
• Sascha Stronach

Best Fan Production/Publication

• Consequence LARP
• GeyserCon con book
• Phoenixine
• Plant Life

Best Fan Writing

• “Welcome to the Con”, Grace Bridges (GeyserCon con book)
• SITREP, Alex Lindsay (Phoenixine)

Best Fan Artwork

• “Wandering Wild”, Michelle Kan
• “Aliens vs Geysers”, Kat Oliver
• “Deet”, Laya Rose
• “Wilder Girls”, Laya Rose

Services to Fandom

• Grace Bridges

Services to Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror

• Melanie Harding-Shaw

Winners will be selected by members of SFFANZ and CoNZealand, the 78th Worldcon (the first ever “virtual Worldcon”) and will be hosted online by The Fantasy Network July 29 – August 2, 2020. Nominated works can be downloaded by SFFANZ and CoNZealand members.

For more information, see the SFFANZ website.

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