2014 Aurealis Awards Winners

The winners have been announced for the 2014 Aurealis Awards, honoring SF, fantasy, and horror by Australians:

BEST FANTASY NOVEL

Dreamer’s Pool, Juliet Marillier (Pan Macmillan Australia)

BEST FANTASY SHORT STORY

“St Dymphna’s School for Poison Girls”, Angela Slatter (The Review of Australian Fiction, Volume 9, Issue 3)

BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL

Peacemaker, Marianne de Pierres (Angry Robot)

BEST SCIENCE FICTION SHORT STORY

“Wine, Women and Stars”, Thoraiya Dyer (Analog Vol CXXXIV nos 1&2 Jan/Feb)

BEST HORROR NOVEL

Razorhurst, Justine Larbalestier (Allen & Unwin)

BEST HORROR SHORT STORY

“Home and Hearth”, Angela Slatter (Spectral Press)

BEST YOUNG ADULT NOVEL

The Cracks in the Kingdom, Jaclyn Moriarty (Pan Macmillan Australia)

BEST YOUNG ADULT SHORT STORY

“Vanilla”, Dirk Flinthart (Kaleidoscope, Twelfth Planet Press)

BEST CHILDREN’S FICTION

Shadow Sister: Dragon Keeper #5, Carole Wilkinson (Black Dog Books)

BEST COLLECTION

The Female Factory, Lisa L Hannett and Angela Slatter (Twelfth Planet Press)

BEST ANTHOLOGY

Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories, Alisa Krasnostein and Julia Rios (Eds), (Twelfth Planet Press)

BEST GRAPHIC NOVEL/ILLUSTRATED WORK

Mr Unpronounceable and the Sect of the Bleeding Eye, Tim Molloy (Milk Shadow Books)

The Night Terrace team was awarded the Convenors’ Award for Excellence.

Winners were announced on April 12, 2015 at the annual Aurealis Awards ceremony at the Great Hall, University House, Australian National University, Canberra.

http://aurealisawards.org/