2022 Ditmar Winners

Best Novel

• WINNER: The Bridge, J.S. Breukelaar (Meerkat)

• The Councillor, E.J. Beaton (DAW)
• Papa Lucy & The Boneman, Jason Fischer (Outland)
• The Rose Daughter, Maria Lewis (Hachette Australia/Little Brown)
• A Marvellous Light, Freya Marske (Tor)
• She Who Became the Sun, Shelley Parker-Chan (Tor)
• All the Murmuring Bones, A.G. Slatter (Titan)

Best Novella or Novelette

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

• Ghost Recall, Alan Baxter (Grey Matter)
• Dirty Heads, Aaron Dries (Black T-Shirt)
• “The Little One”, Rebecca Fraser (Coralesque and Other Tales to Disturb and Distract)
• “A Vast Silence”, T.R. Napper (F&SF 11-12/21)

Best Short Story

• WINNER: “The King in Yella”, Kaaron Warren (Under Twin Suns: Alternate Histories of the Yellow Sign)

• “Goon of Fortune”, Geneve Flynn, in (Midnight Echo 11/21)
• “Legacy of the Species”, Pamela Jeffs (The Terralight Collection)
• “The House That Hungers”, Maria Lewis (Aurealis 11/21)
• “A Good Big Brother”, Matt Tighe (Spawn: Weird Tales of Pregnancy, Birth and Babies)
• “A Whisper in the Death Pit”, Kyla Lee Ward (Weirdbook 5/21)

Best Collected Work

• WINNER: Tool Tales, Ellen Datlow & Kaaron Warren (IFWG Australia)

• The Gulp, Alan Baxter (self-published)
• Relics, Wrecks & Ruins, Aiki Flinthart (CAT)
• Coralesque and Other Tales To Disturb and Distract, Rebecca Fraser (IFWG Australia)
• The Terralight Collection, Pamela Jeffs (Four Ink)

Best Fan Publication in Any Medium

• WINNER: Earl Grey Editing, Elizabeth Fitzgerald

• SF Commentary, Bruce Gillespie

Best Fan Writer

• WINNER: Kat Clay, for interviews and reviews on YouTube and katclay.com

Best Fan Artist

• WINNER: C.H. Pearce, for fanart on Instagram, including “Em and Gyre”, “Lysande”, “Cruelty Free”, and “Rocket Launch Good”

William Atheling, Jr. Award for Criticism or Review

• WINNER: Ian Mond, for reviews in Locus

• Eugen Bacon, for Aurealis Reviews (editor and reviews)
• Claire Fitzpatrick, for “How Mary Shelley Continues to Influence Modern Science Fiction” (Aurealis 145)
• Andrew Nette & Iain McIntyre, for editing Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950 to 1985 (PM Press)
• Kyla Lee Ward, for “Vampire Poetry” (Penumbra 2)