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