Aurealis Awards 2024 winners announced
The winners of the 2024 Aurealis Awards have been announced.
Winning titles in each category, chosen from shortlists announced in April, are:
Best fantasy novel
- Thoroughly Disenchanted (Alexandra Almond, Voyager)
Best science fiction novel
- Temporal Boom (JM Voss, self-published)
Best horror novel
- Carve Your Soul to Pieces (Ben Pienaar, self-published)
Best young adult novel
- Anomaly (Emma Lord, Affirm Kids)
Best children’s fiction
- The Apprentice Witnesser (Bren MacDibble, A&U Children’s)
Best graphic novel/illustrated work
- In Utero (Chris Gooch, IDW Publishing)
Best young adult short story
- ‘In a League of Her Own’ (Jeanette O’Hagan in Stepping Sideways: Worlds of Steampunk & Dystopia, ed by Emily Larkin & Lynne Stringer, Rhiza Edge)
Best horror short story
- ‘Flesh of My Flesh’ (Ben Matthews in Spawn 2: More Weird Horror Tales About Pregnancy, Birth and Babies, ed by Deborah Sheldon, IFWG Publishing)
Best horror novella
- Shattered (Pauline Yates, Black Hare Press)
Best fantasy short story
- ‘Market of Loss’ (Matt Tighe in Aurealis #176, ed by Dirk Strasser, Chimaera Publications)
Best fantasy novella
- ‘Another Tide’ (Will Greatwich in Beneath Ceaseless Skies #420, Firkin Press)
Best science fiction short story
- ‘The Combat Pilot’s Dictionary’ (Arden Baker in Aurealis #167, ed by Stephen Higgins, Chimaera Publications)
Best science fiction novella
- Ghost of the Neon God (T R Napper, Titan Books)
Best collection
- The Heart of the Labyrinth and Other Stories (D K Mok, self-published)
Best anthology
- Far-Flung (ed by Samuel Maguire, Tiny Owl Workshop)
Sara Douglass book series award
- The Radiant Emperor series (She Who Became the Sun, He Who Drowned the World) (Shelley Parker-Chan, Pan)
Convenors’ award for excellence
- Speculative Insight: Year 1 (ed by Alexandra Pierce, self-published).
The 2024 Aurealis Awards were presented for science fiction, fantasy and horror writing published last year in Australia.
More information about the awards and the 2024 judges is available on the Aurealis Awards website.
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