sfadb: Aurealis Awards 2015

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Where and When: Canberra : April 12, 2015
Eligibility Year: 2014

• Winner: Peacemaker, Marianne de Pierres (Angry Robot)
• Aurora: Meridian, Amanda Bridgeman (Momentum)
• Foresight, Graham Storrs (Momentum)
• Nil by Mouth, LynC (Satalyte)
• This Shattered World, Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner (Allen & Unwin)
• The White List, Nina D'Aleo (Momentum)

• Winner: “Wine, Women and Stars”, Thoraiya Dyer (Analog Jan/Feb 2014)
• “Dellinger”, Charlotte Nash (Use Only As Directed)
• “The Executioner Goes Home”, Deborah Biancotti (Review of Australian Fiction Volume 11, Issue 6)
• “The Glorious Aerybeth”, Jason Fisher (OnSpec Sep 2014)
• “Happy Go Lucky”, Garth Nix (Kaleidoscope)

• Winner: Dreamer's Pool, Juliet Marillier (Pan Macmillan Australia)
• Afterworlds, Scott Westerfeld (Penguin Books Australia)
• Daughters of the Storm, Kim Wilkins (Harlequin Enterprises Australia)
• Fireborn, Keri Arthur (Hachette Australia)
• The Lascar's Dagger, Glenda Larke (Hachette Australia)
• This Shattered World, Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner (Allen & Unwin)

• Winner: “St Dymphna's School for Poison Girls”, Angela Slatter (Review of Australian Fiction Volume 9, Issue 3)
• “The Badger Bride”, Angela Slatter (Strange Tales IV)
• “The Ghost of Hephaestus”, Charlotte Nash (Phantazein)
• “The Oud”, Thoraiya Dyer (Long Hidden)
• “Teratogen”, Deb Kalin (Cemetery Dance May 2014)

• Winner: Razorhurst, Justine Larbalestier (Allen & Unwin)
• Book of the Dead, Greig Beck (Momentum)
• Obsidian, Alan Baxter (HarperVoyager)

• Winner: Home and Hearth, Angela Slatter (Spectral Press)
• “By the Moon's Good Grace”, Kirstyn McDermott (Review of Australian Fiction Volume 12, Issue 3)
• “The Executioner Goes Home”, Deborah Biancotti (Review of Australian Fiction Volume 11, Issue 6)
• “Shay Corsham Worsted”, Garth Nix (Fearful Symmetries)
• “Skinsuit”, James Bradley (Island Magazine 137)

• Winner: Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories, Alisa Krasnostein & Julia Rios, eds. (Twelfth Planet Press)
• Amok: An Anthology of Asia-Pacific Speculative Fiction, Dominica Malcolm, ed. (Solarwyrm Press)
• Fearsome Magics, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris)
• Kisses by Clockwork, Liz Grzyb, ed. (Ticonderoga Publications)
• Phantazein, Tehani Wessely, ed. (FableCroft)
• Reach for Infinity, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris)

• Winner: The Female Factory, Lisa L. Hannett & Angela Slatter (Twelfth Planet Press)
• Angel Dust, Ian McHugh (Ticonderoga Publications)
• The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings, Angela Slatter (Tartarus Press)
• Black-Winged Angels, Angela Slatter (Ticonderoga Publications)
• Difficult Second Album: more stories of Xenobiology, Space Elevators, and Bats Out of Hell, Simon Petrie (Peggy Bright Books)
• Secret Lives, Rosaleen Love (Twelfth Planet Press)

• Winner: Mr Unpronounceable and the Sect of the Bleeding Eye, Tim Molloy (Milk Shadow Books)
• Awkwood, Jase Harper (Milk Shadow Books)
• The Game, Shane W. Smith (Deeper Meanings Publishing)
• Left Hand Path #1, Jason Franks & Paul Abstruse (Winter City Productions)
• “A Small Wild Magic”, Kathleen Jennings (Monstrous Affections)

• Winner: The Cracks in the Kingdom, Jaclyn Moriarty (Pan Macmillan Australia)
• Afterworld, Lynnette Lounsbury (Allen & Unwin)
• Afterworlds, Scott Westerfeld (Penguin Books Australia)
• The Astrologer's Daughter, Rebecca Lim (Text Publishing)
• Clariel, Garth Nix (Allen & Unwin)
• The Haunting of Lily Frost, Nova Weetman (UQP)

• Winner: “Vanilla”, Dirk Flinthart (Kaleidoscope)
• “Falling Leaves”, Liz Argyll (Apex Magazine)
• “The Fuller and the Bogle”, David Cornish (Tales from the Half-Continent)
• In Hades, Goldie Alexander (Celapene Press)
• “Signature”, Faith Mudge (Kaleidoscope)

• Winner: Shadow Sister: Dragon Keeper #5, Carole Wilkinson (Black Dog Books)
• The Last Viking Returns, Norman Jorgensen & James Foley (Fremantle Press)
• Ophelia and the Marvellous Boy, Karen Foxlee (Hot Key Books)
• Slaves of Socorro: Brotherband #4, John Flanagan (Random House Australia)
• Sunder's Deep: The Hidden #2, Lian Tanner (Allen & Unwin)
• Withering-by-Sea, Judith Rossell (ABC Books)

• Winner: Night Terrace (team)

Remarks:
Winners this year include the first Aurealis nominations and wins for Julia Rios and Jaclyn Moriarity, and first wins after prior nominations for Justine Larbalestier, Tim Molloy, Dirk Flinthart, and Carole Wilkinson.

Repeat winners include Marianne de Pierres, with one prior win; Theoraiya Dyer, with three prior wins; Juliet Marillier, with four prior wins; Angela Slatter, with two wins prior to three this year; Alisa Krasnostein, with a Convenors' Award in 2012; and Lisa L. Hannett, with three prior wins.

Of non-winners this year, Garth Nix has a total of 21 Aurealis nominations to date, with 9 wins; Jonathan Strahan has 14 nominations to date, with 4 wins; and Kim Wilkins 14 nominations to date, with 5 wins.