2023 Sir Julius Vogel Awards Winners

Best Novel

• WINNER: A Rake of His Own, A.J. Lancaster (Camberion)

• Chevalier & Gawayn: The Ballad of the Dreamer, Phillip Mann (Quentin Wilson)
• Ithaca Bound, Kirsten McKenzie (Squabbling Sparrows)
• Brightest Star, Andy Southall (Amapur)
• Tarquin the Honest: The Hand of Glodd, Gareth Ward (Bateman)

Best Youth Novel

• WINNER: The Rarkyn’s Familiar, Nikky Lee (Parliament House)

• The Carbonite’s Daughter, Deryn Pittar (IFWG Publishing Australia)
• The 716, S.J. Pratt (self-published)
• Onesies and Ouijaboards, Jamie Sands (Grey Kelpie)
• Earth’s Embrace, Lani Wendt Young (Nafanua)

Best Novella

• WINNER: How to Get a Girlfriend (When You’re a Terrifying Monster), Marie Cardno (Paper Road)

• Data and Divination, Andi C. Buchanan (Sleepy Squid)
• Weddings and Witchcraft, Andi C. Buchanan (Sleepy Squid)
• Curses and Cousins, Helen Vivienne Fletcher (HVF)
• Murmurs of Magic, K.M Jackways (Old Souls)
• “Goldie”, Sean Monaghan (Asimov’s 1-2/22)
• Three Past Desolation Cut, Grant Stone (Lost Colony)

Best Novelette

• WINNER: “How to Marry a Winged King”, A.J. Lancaster (Once Upon a Forbidden Desire)

• “The Library”, Helen Vivienne Fletcher (The Art of Being Human)
• “Provided With Eyes, Thou Departed”, Anthony Lapwood (Home Theatre)
• “The Ether of 1939”, Anthony Lapwood (Home Theatre)
• “The Source of Lightning” Anthony Lapwood (Home Theatre)

Best Short Story

• WINNER: “My Nascent Garden”, Melanie Harding-Shaw (Analog 7-8/22)

• “If We Do Not Fly at Sunset”, Andi C. Buchanan (Lightspeed 6/22)
• “Anamnesis”, Jack Remiel Cottrell (New Zealand Listener 1/22)
• “Born from the Drowning Forest”, James Rowland (Strange Horizons 10/17/22)
• “One Last Job”, Jamie Sands (Grey Kelpie)
• “From Here”, Grant Stone (Kaleidoscope Spring ’22)

Best Collected Work

• WINNER: Year’s Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction & Fantasy Volume 4, Emily Brill-Holland (Paper Road)

• The Devil Took Her: Tales of Terror, Michael Botur (The Sager Group)
• Home Theatre, Anthony Lapwood (Te Herenga Waka University)
• Tales from the Tavern, Jamie Sands (Grey Kelpi)
• Reflections, Tabatha Wood (self-published)

Best Professional Artwork

• WINNER: Cover of Year’s Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy Vol 4, Rebecca Hawkes

• “Mona (Dislyte)”, Deanna Gunn
• Cover of Xenocultivars: Stories of Queer Growth, Laya Rose
• Cover of Last Fallen Moon, Vivienne To
• “Miriel and Galadriel”, Xephia

Best Professional Production/Publication

• WINNER: The Black Archive #61 – Paradise Towers, John Toon

Best New Talent

• WINNER: Tehnuka

• Oliver Dace
• Nikky Lee
• S.J. Pratt

Best Fan Publication

• WINNER: Phoenixine, John & Jo Toon

Best Fan Writing

• WINNER: “Conservation, Red in Tooth and Claw”, Rem Wigmore (Climate Fiction Writers League)

• “Review of Violet Black”, Dylan Howell (My Opinion on Books)
• “Two Computers Discuss Human Happiness”, Ashley Langlocke (self-published)
• “Pass the Rules”, Jo Toon (Phoenixine)
• “No Horror Without the Body: How Body Horror Helped Me Embrace Being Nonbinary”, Tabatha Wood (tabathawood.com)

Best Fan Artwork

• WINNER: “Jinx”, Leadambeck

• “A Little Bit of Rain”, Ashley Langlocke
• “Gentle Dove”, Saefin

Services to Fandom

• WINNER: Matthew Pavletich

For more information, see the SFFANZ website.

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