For those of you who couldn’t be at Continuum 15 to see the Australian Shadows Awards winners announcements last Saturday, you missed a grand night 🙂
Here is the full list of winners – but first, a pic of the wonderful Silvia Brown, this year’s convener and MC of the awards, presenting the winner of the Short Fiction award – Dan Rabarts for his story Riptide:
I’ve picked this one in particular to show, because I was on the judging panel for short fiction this year and it was an incredibly difficult decision to choose a winner, and to even create a short list, from all the amazing entries. But Dan’s story was a clear standout for the whole panel and a well deserved win. Congrats Dan.
The full winners list is here – congratulations to all winners and shortlisted entries!
2018 WINNERS:
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WINNERS AND FINALISTS OF THE 2018 AUSTRALIAN SHADOWS AWARDS (ANNOUNCED AT CONTINUUM, MELBOURNE, JUNE 8, 2019
Collected Works
*WINNER: Shadows on the Wall by Steven Paulsen
FINALISTS
Bones by Andrew Cull
The Dalziel Files by Brian Craddock
Exploring Dark Fiction A Primer by Kaaron Warren
Beneath the Ferny Tree by David Schembri
Edited Works
*WINNER: Hellhole Anthology of Subterranean Horror Lee Murray
FINALISTS
Cthulhu Land Long White Cloud | Sequeira, Proposch, Stevens
Cthulhu Deep Down Under Vol. 2 | Sequeira, Proposch, Stevens
Behind the Mask Steve Dillon
Graphic Novel
(The judges for Graphic Novel unanimously agreed on a winner but not a shortlist.)
*WINNER: THE DEMON HELL IS EARTH written by Andrew Constant
Novel
*WINNER: Tide of Stone by Kaaron Warren
FINALISTS
Devouring Dark by Alan Baxter
Contrition by Deborah Sheldon
Teeth of the Wolf by Dan Rabarts & Lee Murray
Paul Haines Award for Long Fiction
*WINNER: The Black Sea by Chris Mason
FINALISTS
Time and Tide by Robert Hood
Love Thee Better by Kaaron Warren
Thylacines by Deborah Sheldon
Poetry
*WINNER: Revenants of the Antipodes by Kyla Lee Ward
FINALISTS
Your Mortician Knows by Bee Nielsen
Matinee by Hester J. Rook
Polarity by Jay Caselberg
The Middle of the Night by Rebecca Fraser
Short Fiction
*WINNER: Riptide by Dan Rabarts
FINALISTS
Planned and Expected by Piper Mejia
Slither by Jason Nahrung
The Ward of Tindalos by Debbie & Matt Cowens
The House of Jack’s Girls by Lee Battersby