2024 Sir Julius Vogel Awards Finalists

Best Novel

• Turncoat, Tīhema Baker (Lawrence & Gibson)
• A New Eden Menilik, Henry Dyer (Podium)
• A Wolf in the Garden, Allegra Hall (self-published)
• Decimus and the Wary Widow, Emily Larkin (self-published)
• Ghosts of the Catacombs, Janna Ruth (self-published)

Best Youth Novel

• New Dawning, A.M. Dixon (Monarch Educational Services)
• Corporeal, Mike Gwyther (Qualia House)
• Odd Wolf Out, Juliette MacIver (Scholastic NZ)
• A Spring of Magic, Janna Ruth (self-published)
• Maggie and the Mountain of Light, Mark Snoad (Monarch Educational Services)
• The Song of the Swan, Karah Sutton (Penguin Random House)

Best Novella

• How to Get a Date With the Evil Queen, Marie Cardno (Paper Road)
• Once We Flew, Nikky Lee (Caelestis)
• The Tablet, S.R. Manssen (Upsidedown)
• The Butterflies of Meadow Hill Manor, Stefanie Parks (The Book Guild)
• Hamlet, Prince of Robots, M. Darusha Wehm (In Potentia)

Best Novelette

• “Luke’s Lesson”, Michael Botur (Bloodalcohol)
• “Starving”, Michael Botur (Bloodalcohol)
• “Ernestine”, Octavia Cade (Asimov’s 3-4/ 23)
• “Happiness”, Octavia Cade (Clarkesworld 4/23)
• Lightrunner’s Gambit, Rem Wigmore (Queen of Swords)

Best Short Story

• “Fires of Fate”, Jacqui Greaves (Remains to Be Told: Dark Tales of Aotearoa)
• “Please Sign the Waiver”, Jacqui Greaves (Letters from Elsewhere)
• “What Bones These Tides Bring”, Nikky Lee (Remains to Be Told: Dark Tales of Aotearoa)
• “The Watchman”, Kirsten McKenzie (Remains to Be Told: Dark Tales of Aotearoa)
• “An Obituary to Birdsong”, Tehnuka (If There’s Anyone Left)
• “Why We Bury Our Dead at Sea”, Tehnuka (Reckoning 7)

Best Collected Work

• Letters from Elsewhere, Jacqui Greaves (self-published)
• You Are My Sunshine and Other Stories, Octavia Cade (Stelliform)
• 20,000 Bloody Words, Denver Grenell (Beware The Moon)
• Remains to Be Told: Dark Tales of Aotearoa, Lee Murray, ed. (Clan Destine)
• Bloodalcohol, Michael Botur (Next Chapter)

Best Professional Artwork

• Cover art of Tarquin the Honest; Occian’s Elven, Bex Blackwood (Bateman)
• Cover art of Bloodalcohol, Michael Botur (Next Chapter)

Best Professional Production/Publication

• Sidetrack, Andi C. Buchanan

Best Dramatic Presentation

• Creamerie, Season 2