The Australian SF (“Ditmar”) Awards for 2018 were presented at the 2018 Australian National SF Convention, (Swancon 43), in Perth on April 1.

Best Novel

• Crossroads of Canopy, Thoraiya Dyer, Tor.

Best Novella or Novelette

• “Girl Reporter”, Tansy Rayner Roberts, in Girl Reporter, Book Smugglers Publishing.

Best Short Story

• “A Pearl Beyond Price”, Janeen Webb in Cthulhu Deep Down-Under Vol 1, IFWG Publishing Australia.

Best Collected Work

• Ecopunk!, Cat Sparks and Liz Grzyb, Ticonderoga Publications.

Best Artwork

• cover art, Lewis Morley, for Matters Arising from the Identification of the Body, Peggy Bright Books.

Best Fan Publication in Any Medium

• SF Commentary, edited by Bruce Gillespie.

Best Fan Writer

• Stephanie Lai, for writing at No Award.

Best Fan Artist

• Shauna O’Meara, for “How to Bee” (based on the novel by Bren MacDibble).

Best New Talent

• Stephanie Lai

William Atheling Jr Award for Criticism or Review

• Ambelin Kwaymullina, for “Reflecting on Indigenous Worlds, Indigenous Futurisms and Artificial Intelligence”, Twelfth Planet Press.

[Thanks to Mark Hepworth for the story.]