The Winners of the 2018 Aurealis Awards (Australia’s premier speculative fiction awards) have been announced. The winners are:
BEST CHILDREN’S FICTION
Nevermoor, Jessica Townsend (Hachette Australia)
BEST GRAPHIC NOVEL / ILLUSTRATED WORK
Changing Ways book 3, Justin Randall (Gestalt)
BEST YOUNG ADULT SHORT STORY
Girl Reporter, Tansy Rayner Roberts (Book Smugglers)
BEST HORROR SHORT STORY
“Old Growth”, J Ashley Smith (SQ Mag 31, IFWG Publishing Australia)
BEST HORROR NOVELLA
“The Stairwell”, Chris Mason (Below The Stairs – Tales from the Cellar, Things In The Well)
BEST FANTASY SHORT STORY
“The Curse is Come Upon Me, Cried”, Tansy Rayner Roberts (Please Look After This Angel & Other Winged Stories, self-published)
BEST FANTASY NOVELLA
In Shadows We Fall, Devin Madson (self-published)
BEST SCIENCE FICTION SHORT STORY
“Conversations with an Armoury”, Garth Nix (Infinity Wars, Solaris)
BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVELLA
Girl Reporter, Tansy Rayner Roberts (Book Smugglers)
BEST COLLECTION
The Silver Well, Kate Forsyth & Kim Wilkins (Ticonderoga Publications)
BEST ANTHOLOGY
Infinity Wars, Jonathan Strahan (ed.) (Rebellion/Solaris)
BEST YOUNG ADULT NOVEL
In The Dark Spaces, Cally Black (Hardie Grant Egmont)
BEST HORROR NOVEL
Soon, Lois Murphy (Transit Lounge)
BEST FANTASY NOVEL
Godsgrave, Jay Kristoff (HarperCollins Publishers)
BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL
From the Wreck, Jane Rawson (Transit Lounge)
CONVENORS’ AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE
The Fictional Mother, Tansy Rayner Roberts (self-published)
