2021 Sir Julius Vogel Awards Finalists

Best Novel

• Gad’s Army, Drew Bryenton (Sci Fi Cafe)
• The Stone Wētā, Octavia Cade (Paper Road)
• Transference, B.T. Keaton (Ingleside Avenue)
• The Court of Mortals, A.J. Lancaster (Camberion)
• Blood of the Sun, Dan Rabarts & Lee Murray (Raw Dog Screaming)

Best Youth Novel

• Earthcore Book 4: High Tide, Grace Bridges (Splashdown)
• These Violent Delights, Chloe Gong (Simon & Schuster)
• Golden City, S.R. Manssen (Manssen)
• Follow Me In, Terri Sinclair (self-published)
• Brasswitch and Bot, Gareth Ward (Walker)

Best Novella/Novelette

• Hexes & Vexes, Nova Blake (self-published)
• “How to Get a Girlfriend (When You’re a Terrifying Monster)”, Marie Cardno (Her Magical Pet)
• No Man’s Land, A.J. Fitzwater (Paper Road)
• “Marbles”, Sean Monaghan (Asimov’s 7-8/20)
• Riverwitch, Rem Wigmore (self-published)

Best Short Story

• “Salt White, Rose Red”, E. Celeste (Dually Noted F(r)iction Log 11/27/20)
• “Synaesthete”, Melanie Harding-Shaw (Black Dogs, Black Tales)
• “For Want of Human Parts”, Casey Lucas (Diabolical Plots 8/17/20)
• “The Good Wife”, Lee Murray (Weird Tales #364)
• “Arachne’s Web”, James Rowland (Aurealis #132)

Best Collected Work

• The Voyages of Cinrak the Dapper, A.J. Fitzwater (Queen of Swords)
• Year’s Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction & Fantasy, Volume 2, Marie Hodgkinson, ed. (Paper Road)
• Ghost Bus: Tales from Wellington’s Dark Side, Anna Kirtlan (self-published)
• The Better Sister and Other Stories, Piper Mejia (Breach)
• Grotesque: Monster Stories, Lee Murray (Things in the Well)

Best Professional Artwork

• Cover for Scary Tales, William Dresden [ineligible]
• Cover for No Man’s Land, Laya Rose
• Cover for Year’s Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction & Fantasy, Volume 2, Laya Rose
• Cover for The Chaos Curse, Vivienne To
• Cover for The Stone Wētā, Emma Weakley

Best Professional Production/Publication

• This is Not the End (chapters 1.5-2.10), Deanna Gunn
• Masterpiece (Or Artful Dodgers), Michelle Kan
• Fantastical Worlds and Futures at the World’s Edge: A History of New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy, Simon Litten & Sean McMullen
• “How NZ’s Best Fantasy and Science Fiction Authors Got Shafted on a Global Stage”, Casey Lucas (The Spinoff 8/5/20)
• Wonderland Nights: White Rabbit’s Diary, Sky Bear Games
• “Aotearoa is Not Middle Earth”, Alexander Stronach (The Spinoff 9/3/20)

Best New Talent

• Chloe Gong
• Deanna Gunn
• Kate Haley
• B.T. Keaton
• A.J. Lancaster
• Deborah Makarios

Best Fan Production/Publication

• Codex, Stephen Brough
• FIYAHCON Guest of Honour Speech, Cassie Hart
• Mollymauk Tealeaf – Court of Jesters showcase, Michelle Kan
• Phoenixine, John & Jo Toon, eds.
• Dramatic Chairing of the 2020 WSFS Business Meeting, Darusha Wehm
• CoNZealand Souvenir Book, Darusha Wehm & Amber Carter

Best Fan Writing

• “Alone Together at the Edge of the World”, Andi C. Buchanan (CoNZealand Souvenir Book)
• “Queer Speculative Aotearoa New Zealand”, A.J. Fitzwater (LGBTQ Reads 4/6/20)
• Review of Hello Strange, Dylan Howell (My Opinion on Various Books 12/21/20)
• “SITREP”, Alex Lindsay (Phoenixine)
• “What If”, Kyra Saywell (Poetry Box)
• “An Exploration of Menstruation in Horror and Dark Fiction”, Tabatha Wood (The Horror Tree 2/6/20)

Best Fan Artwork

• Ministry for Public Art, Shaun Garea
• Oriental Bay Piranhas, Shaun Garea
• Destiny & Dead People Tea, Michelle Kan
• Faerie Ring, Michelle Kan
• Blue and Red (This is How You Lose the Time War), Laya Rose
• Gyre from The Luminous Dead, Laya Rose

Services to Fandom

• CoNZealand Crew
• Nigel Rowe, et al.

Services to Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror

• Cassie Hart
• Lee Murray

For more information, see the SFFANZ website.

[edited 5/4/2021 to remove the cover for Scary Tales, which is ineligible]

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