2022 Aurealis Awards Winners

Best Science Fiction Novel

• WINNER: 36 Streets, TR Napper (Titan)

• Hovering, Rhett Davis (Hachette AU)
• The Stranger, Kathryn Hore (Allen & Unwin)
• Here Goes Nothing, Steve Toltz (Hamish Hamilton)
• Bootstrap, Georgina Young (Text)

Best Science Fiction Novella

• WINNER: Resembling Lepus, Amanda Kool (Grey Matter)

• “The Goruden-Mairu Job”, TR Napper (Night, Rain, and Neon)
• “The Sisters of Saint Nicola of The Almost Perpetual Motion vs the Lurch”, Garth Nix (Tor.com 7/13/22)
• Cobalt Blue, Matthew Reilly (Macmillan)

Best Science Fiction Short Story

• WINNER: “As Though I Were a Little Sun”, Grace Chan (Fireside 9/22)

• “Death By Water”, Grace Chan (From the Wasteland)
• “Fake Plants”, Scott Limbrick (The Furphy Anthology 2022)
• “Synaesthetics”, Helena O’Connor (Nature 1/22)
• “Sharing a Meal at the End of the World”, Anya Ow (Haven Speculative 9/22)
• “One Man Army”, Scott Steensma (Aurealis 11/22)

Best Fantasy Novel

• WINNER: Path of Thorns, Angela Slatter (Titan)

• The Not So Chosen One, Kate Emery (Text)
• The Stone Road, Trent Jamieson (Erewhon)
• A Restless Truth, Freya Marske (Tor)
• Blitz, Daniel O’Malley (HarperCollins)
• Honour Among Ghosts, Sean Williams (Allen & Unwin)

Best Fantasy Novella

• WINNER: Winterbloom, Kirstyn McDermott (Brain Jar)

• “The Ocean, the Lighthouse Keeper, and the Sunset”, Lee Cope (The Art of Being Human)
• Hovering, Dorothy-Jane Daniels (Luna)
• “Merry in Time”, Kathleen Jennings (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 3/22)
• “Among the Faded Woods”, Faith Mudge (The Art of Being Human)
• The Bone Lantern, Angela Slatter (PS Publishing)

Best Fantasy Short Story

• WINNER: “The Icecutter’s Daughter”, Aiki Flinthart (The Art of Being Human)

• “Ashes”, Tania Fordwalker (Aurealis 6/22)
• “Tastes like Home”, Kiera Lesley (Andromeda Spaceways Magazine 3/22)
• “Salon Faerie”, Tansy Rayner Roberts (self-published)
• “Beautiful Horizon”, Steve Simpson (The Purpose of Reality: Solar)
• “The Past Laid Out On The Table”, Matt Tighe (Cast of Wonders 9/22)

Best Horror Novel

• WINNER: The Stone Road, Trent Jamieson (Erewhon)

• Sallow Bend, Alan Baxter (Cemetery Dance)
• Scavengers, Robert Hood (Clan Destine)
• The Stranger, Kathryn Hore (Allen & Unwin)
• Path of Thorns, Angela Slatter (Titan)

Best Horror Novella

• WINNER: “Kookaburra Cruel”, Aaron Dries (Damnation Games)

• “Rat’s Alley”, Jeff Clulow (From the Wasteland)
• “Glyphlight”, Matan Elul (The New Mythic)
• The New Wife, Kirstyn McDermott (Brain Jar Press)
• “Among the Faded Woods”, Faith Mudge (The Art of Being Human)
• “Songs from Dark Annie’s Bower”, Angela Slatter (Gaslight Ghouls: Uneasy Tales of Sherlock Holmes)

Best Horror Short Story

• WINNER: “They Call Me Mother”, Geneve Flynn (Classic Monster Unleashed)

• “Nona Doesn’t Dance” Aaron Dries (Cut to Care: A Collection of Little Hurts)
• “Lidless Eyes that See”, Geneve Flynn (From the Wasteland)
• “Dread Circus”, Pamela Jeffs (That is TOO Wrong! An Anthology of Offbeat Horror Vol 2)
• “The Hunt”, Martin Livings (Light Falling From a Long Dead Star)
• “Beach Memories”, Matt Tighe (The NoSleep Podcast 7/22)

Best Young Adult Novel

• WINNER: Only a Monster, Vanessa Len (Allen & Unwin)

• Night Lights, Sarah Epstein (Fourteen)
• The Rarkyn’s Familiar, Nikky Lee (Parliament House)
• If You Could See the Sun, Ann Liang (HQ Fiction)
• We Who Hunt the Hollow, Kate Murray (Hardie Grant Children’s)
• League of Liars, Astrid Scholte (Allen & Unwin)

Best Young Adult Short Story

• WINNER: “Tastes like Home”, Kiera Lesley (Andromeda Spaceways 3/22)

• “Forbidden Voices”, EJ Delaney (Cast of Wonders 9/29/22)
• “Crone and the Girl”, Pamela Jeffs (The Seasonals)
• “Tornadoes, Grief and Poutine”, Aline-Mwezi Niyonsenga (Augur Magazine 11/22)
• “Enter Elias Schmidt”, Phoenix Raig (The New Mythic)
• “Witchy Ways”, Tansy Rayner Roberts (Witchy Ways)

Best Children’s Fiction

• WINNER: The Wintrish Girl, Melanie La’Brooy (University of Queensland)

• Gus and the Starlight, Victoria Carless (HarperCollins)
• The Wrath of the Woolington Wyrm, Karen Foxlee, illustrated by Frieda Chiu (Allen & Unwin)
• The Raven’s Song, Zana Fraillon & Bren MacDibble (Allen & Unwin)
• The Goodbye Year, Emily Gale (Text)
• Mars Awakens, HM Waugh (Allen & Unwin)

Best Collection

• WINNER: Here be Leviathans, Chris Flynn (University of Queensland)

• The Art of Broken Things, Joanne Anderton (Trepidatio)
• The Fall: Tales from the Gulp 2, Alan Baxter (13th Dragon)
• Everything Feels Like the End of the World, Else Fitzgerald (Allen & Unwin)
• Hard Places, Kirstyn McDermott (Trepidatio)
• Team Queen, Tansy Rayner Roberts (self-published)

Best Anthology

• WINNER: This All Come Back Now, Mykaela Saunders, ed. (University of Queensland)

• Queer Weird West Tales, Julie Bozz, ed. (LIBRAtiger)
• The Art of Being Human, Tehani Croft with Stephanie Lai, eds. (FableCroft)
• We are Providence, L E Daniels & Christa Carmen, eds. (Weird House)
• Unlimited Futures, Rafeif Ismail, ed. (Fremantle)
• Clamour and Mischief, Narrelle M Harris, ed. (Clan Destine)

Best Graphic Novel/Illustrated Work

• WINNER: The Tree of Ecstasy and Unbearable Sadness, Matt Ottley (Dirt Lane)

• Nottingham Vol. 2: A King’s Ransom, David Hazan (Mad Cave)
• Dark Heart #1, Scott Wilson, Katie Houghton-Ward & Justin Randall (Gestalt)
• Neverlanders, Tom Taylor & Jon Sommariva (Penguin Random House AU)

Convenors’ Award for Excellence

• WINNER: The Phantom Never Dies, Maria Lewis (Nova)

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