2022 Australian Shadows Awards

Novel

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

• The Stone Road, Trent Jamieson (Erewhon)
• Red Ruin, Ian J. Middleton & Denver Grenell (self-published)
• Denizen, James McKenzie Watson (Viking)

Long Fiction

• WINNER: And Then I Woke Up, Malcolm Devlin (Tordotcom)

• “Kookaburra Cruel”, Aaron Dries (Damnation Games)
• “Among the Faded Woods”, Faith Mudge (The Art of Being Human)

Short Fiction

• WINNER: “Little Balloons”, Aaron Dries (Cut to Care: A Collection of Little Hurts)

• “They Call Me Mother”, Geneve Flynn (Classic Monsters Unleashed)
• “Break the Skin If You Have To”, Emma Osborne, Jess Essey & Cadwell Turnbull (Nightmare 12/22)
• “The Tub”, J. Ashley Smith (Midnight Echo 17)

Collected Works

• WINNER: Hard Places, Kirstyn McDermott (Trepidatio)

• The Devil Took Her: Tales of Horror, Michael Botur (The Sager Group)
• Cut to Care: A Collection of Little Hurts, Aaron Dries (IFWG Australia)
• Liminal Spaces: Horror Stories, Deborah Sheldon (IFWG Australia)
• Reflections, Tabatha Wood (Wild Wood)

Edited Works

• WINNER: Death in the Mouth: An Anthology of Original Horror by People of Color, Cassie Hart & Sloane Leong, eds. (self-published)

• Midnight Echo 17, Greg Chapman (AHWA)
• Found: An Anthology of Found Footage Horror Stories, Andrew Cull & Gabino Iglesias, eds. (Vermillion2One)

Poetry

• WINNER: “Hip Gnomes”, PS Cottier (AntipodeanSF 291)

• “Night Terrors”, L.E. Daniels (HWA)
• “How Does Your Garden Grow?”, Gene Flynn (Hybrid: Misfits, Monsters and Other Phenomena)
• “If I Touch You, You’ll Know”, Rebecca Fraser (Nightmare Fuel 12/22)

Non-Fiction

• WINNER: “The Slow Burn Brilliance of Midnight Mass”, Kris Ashton (Aurealis 5/22)

• “Vampire, the Ageless Monster”, Tim Hawken (Aurealis 149)
• “I Don’t Read Horror (and other weird tales)”, Lee Murray (Interstellar Flight Magazine 10/22)
• “No Horror Without the Body”, Tabatha Wood (self-published)

Graphic Novel

• WINNER: Gorilla My Dreams Team-Up #1: When Freaks Collide, Big Tim Stiles (Big Tim’s Funny Books)

• Batrisha and the Creepy Caretaker, Dillon Naylor (Comicoz)
• How to Win a Raid, Emmet O’Cuana (Bird’s Eye)

For more information, see the announcement from the AHWA.

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