2021 Australian Shadows Awards Winners

Novel

• WINNER: The Girls Left Behind, J.P. Townley (self-published)

• Merfolk, Jeremy Bates (Ghillinnein)
• Papa Lucy & the Boneman, Jason Fischer (Outland)
• Butcherbird, Cassie Hart (Huia)
• An Ill Wind, Martin Livings (self-published)
• The Airways, Jennifer Mills (Picador)

Short Fiction

• WINNER: “A Good Big Brother”, Matt Tighe (Spawn: Weird Horror Tales About Pregnancy, Birth and Babies)

• “Tagged”, Chuck McKenzie (Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine 12/21)
• “Bad Apple”, Louise Pieper (Good Southern Witches)
• “The Steering Wheel Club”, Kaaron Warren (Giving the Devil His Due)
• “The Best Medicine”, Pauline Yates (Midnight Echo #16)

Collected Works

• WINNER: Tool Tales, Karron Warren (IFWG)

• Inanimates, Joanne Anderton (Brain Jar)
• Danged Black Thing, Eugen Bacon (Transit Lounge)
• The Tallow-Wife and Other Tales, Angela Slatter (Tartarus)
• Seeds, Tabatha Wood (Wild Wood)

Edited Works

• WINNER: Spawn: Weird Horror Tales About Pregnancy, Birth and Babies, Deborah Sheldon, ed. (IFWG)

• SNAFU: Holy War, Amanda J Spedding & Geoff Brown, eds. (Cohesion)
• Midnight Echo #16, Tim Hawken, ed. (AHWA)

Long Fiction

• WINNER: Ariadne, I Love You, J Ashley-Smith (Meerkat)

• “The Waiting Room”, Matthew Davis (It Calls from the Doors)
• Dirty Heads, Aaron Dries (Black T-Shirt)
• “The Little One”, Rebecca Fraser (Coralesque and Other Tales to Disturb and Distract)
• Cryptid Killers, Alister Hodge (Severed)

Poetry

• WINNER: “Cheongsam”, Lee Murray (Tortured Willows: Bent. Bowed. Unbroken.)

• “Snip”, P.S. Cottier (Midnight Echo #16)
• “Guest of Honour”, Geneve Flynn (Tortured Willows: Bent. Bowed. Unbroken.)
• “When The Girls Began To Fall”, Geneve Flynn (Tortured Willows: Bent. Bowed. Unbroken.)
• “Sonnet for a Scarecrow”, Rebecca Fraser (Curioser Magazine #1)
• “Exquisite”, Lee Murray (Tortured Willows: Bent. Bowed. Unbroken.)

Non-Fiction

• WINNER: I’m Looking Right At You, HP Lovecraft, Jack Dann (IFWG)

• The Curious Reclassification of Peter Benchley’s Jaws, Kris Ashton (Aurealis)
• Murder Down Under, Anthony Ferguson (Exposit)
• Vampire Poetry, Kyla Lee Ward (Hippocampus)
• Capturing Ghosts on the Page, Kaaron Warren (Brain Jar)

Graphic Novel

• WINNER: The Mycelium Complex, Issue 2, Daniel Reed (Nautilus Illustrations)

• Frankie’s Drive-In Ozploitation Double Feature, Aaron Harvie (Badharvie)
• Goetia, Robert Buratti (Sub Rosa)

For more information, see the AHWA site.

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