The Australasian Horror Writers Association announced the Australian Shadows Awards 2022 winners on October 28.

The juried award is given in eight categories for the finest in horror and dark fiction published by an Australasian within the calendar year.

 Eligible genres/sub-genres include horror, dark fiction, dark fantasy, and paranormal fiction.

The 2022 Australian Shadows Awards winners are:

POETRY

• “Hip Gnomes” by P S Cottier (Antipodean SF)

GRAPHIC NOVEL

• Gorilla My Dreams Team-Up #1: When Freaks Collide by Big Tim Stiles (Big Tim’s Funny Books)

NON-FICTION

• “The Slow Burn Brilliance of Midnight Mass” by Kris Ashton (Aurealis Magazine)

EDITED WORKS

• Death in the Mouth: An Anthology of Original Horror by People of Colour, edited by Cassie Hart & Sloane Leong (Self-published)

COLLECTED WORKS

• Hard Places by Kirstyn McDermott (Trepidation Publishing)

SHORT FICTION

• “Little Balloons” by Aaron Dries (Cut To Care: A Collection of LIttle Hurts, IFWG Australia)

LONG FICTION

• And Then I Woke Up by Malcolm Devlin (Tor.com)

NOVEL

• The Path of Thorns by Angela Slatter (Titan Books)