2023 Ditmar Awards Winners

Best Novel

• WINNER: 36 Streets, T.R. Napper (Titan)

• Sallow Bend, Alan Baxter (Cemetery Dance)
• X-Dimensional Assassin Zai Through the Unfolded Earth, Jason Franks (IFWG)
• Scavengers, Robert Hood, (Clan Destine)
• The Stone Road, Trent Jamieson (Erewhon)

Best Novella or Novelette

• WINNER (tie): “Remnants and Bad Water”, Kaaron Warren (Damnation Games)
• WINNER (tie): “The Smell of Waiting”, Kaaron Warren (Screams from the Dark)

• “Gulpepper Curios”, Alan Baxter (The Fall)
• The Dark Matter of Natasha, Matthew R. Davis (Grey Matter)
• Bluebells, Leanbh Pearson (Black Hare)

Best Short Story

• WINNER: “Everything so slow and quiet”, Kaaron Warren (The Art of Being Human)

• “Greatheart”, Juliet Marillier (The Art of Being Human)
• “The Quick Study”, C.H. Pearce (Etherea 10)
• “Songs We Sing at Sea are the Lies We Tell Ourselves”, Kaaron Warren (Looming Low 2)

Best Collected Work

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

• Damnation Games, Alan Baxter, ed. (Clan Destine)
• The Fall, Alan Baxter (13th Dragon)
• Phase Change, Matthew Chrulew, ed. (Twelfth Planet)
• The Art of Being Human, Tehani Croft & Stephanie Lai, eds. (FableCroft)
• Midnight Echo 17

Best Fan Publication in Any Medium

• WINNER: Pratchat Podcast, Ben McKenzie & Elizabeth Flux

• Ethel the Aardvark, LynC, ed.

Best Fan Writer

• WINNER: Kat Clay

• Bruce Gillespie
• David Grigg
• Perry Middlemiss

Best Fan Artist

• WINNER: C.H. Pearce

• Erin-Claire Barrow
• David L Russell

Best New Talent

• WINNER: Aaron Dries

• Zachary Ashford
• C.H. Pearce
• Leanbh Pearson
• C.Z. Tacks
• Matt Tighe

William Atheling, Jr. Award for Criticism or Review

• WINNER: Ian Mond, for reviews in Locus

• Eugen Bacon, for An Earnest Blackness (Anti-Oedipus)
• Angharad Lodwick, for Tinted Edges
• Gillian Polack, for Story Matrices: Cultural Encoding and Cultural Baggage in Science Fiction and Fantasy (Luna)