The winners of the 2014 Aurealis Awards were announced in Canberra on April 11.

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)Clariel, Garth Nix (Allen & Unwin)

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 Convenors’ Award for Excellence

• “Night Terrace”, a serial podcast story, produced by John Richards, Ben McKenzie, David Ashton, Petra Elliott and Lee Zachariah