The winners of the 2016 Aurealis Awards were announced at the Australian National Convention in Perth on April 14.
BEST CHILDREN’S FICTION
- When the Lyrebird Calls, Kim Kane (Allen & Unwin)
BEST GRAPHIC NOVEL / ILLUSTRATED WORK
- Negative Space, Ryan K Lindsay (Dark Horse Comics)
BEST YOUNG ADULT SHORT STORY
- “Pretty Jennie Greenteeth”, Leife Shallcross (Strange Little Girls, Belladonna Publishing)
BEST HORROR SHORT STORY
- “Flame Trees”, TR Napper (Asimov’s Science Fiction, April/May 2016)
BEST HORROR NOVELLA
- “Burnt Sugar”, Kirstyn McDermott (Dreaming in the Dark, PS Australia)
BEST FANTASY SHORT STORY
- “Where the Pelican Builds Her Nest”, Thoraiya Dyer (In Your Face, FableCroft Publishing)
BEST FANTASY NOVELLA
- “Forfeit”, Andrea K Höst (The Towers, the Moon, self-published)
BEST SCIENCE FICTION SHORT STORY
- “Of Sight, of Mind, of Heart”, Samantha Murray (Clarkesworld #122)
BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVELLA
- “Salto Mortal”, Nick T Chan (Lightspeed #73)
BEST COLLECTION
- A Feast of Sorrows, Angela Slatter (Prime Books)
BEST ANTHOLOGY
- Year’s Best YA Speculative Fiction 2015, Julia Rios and Alisa Krasnostein (eds.) (Twelfth Planet Press)
BEST YOUNG ADULT NOVEL
- Lady Helen and the Dark Days Pact, Alison Goodman (HarperCollins Publishers)
BEST HORROR NOVEL
- The Grief Hole, Kaaron Warren (IFWG Publishing Australia)
BEST FANTASY NOVEL
- Nevernight, Jay Kristoff (Harper Voyager)
BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL
- Gemina: Illuminae Files 2, Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff (Allen & Unwin)
THE CONVENORS’ AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE
- The Rebirth of Rapunzel: A Mythic Biography of the Maiden in the Tower, Kate Forsyth (FableCroft Publishing)
A bulletin listing the all the judges, the award criteria, and selected award statistics can be downloaded here.
[Thanks to Mark-kitteh for the story.]
I’ll have to check these out.
I know Andrea K Höst from her excellent Pyramids of London book so I’m pleased she has some recognition.