by Paul Haines
Best Collection
The Girl With No Hands and other tales by Angela Slatter (Ticonderoga Publications)
Nominees
The Library of Forgotten Books by Rjurik Davidson (PS Publishing)
Under Stones by Bob Franklin (Affirm Press)
Sourdough and Other Stories by Angela Slatter (Tartarus Press)
Dead Sea Fruit by Kaaron Warren (Ticonderoga Publications)
Best Anthology
Wings of Fire edited by Jonathan Strahan & Marianne S Jablon (Night Shade Books)
Nominees
Macabre: A Journey Through Australia’s Darkest Fears edited by Angela Challis & Dr Marty Young (Brimstone Press)
Sprawl edited by Alisa Krasnostein (Twelfth Planet Press)
Scenes from the Second Storey edited by Amanda Pillar & Pete Kempshall (Morrigan Books)
Godlike Machines edited by Jonathan Strahan (SF Book Club)
Best Children’s Fiction (told primarily through words)
The Keepers by Lian Tanner (Allen & Unwin)
Nominees
Grimsdon by Deborah Abela (Random House)
Ranger’s Apprentice #9: Halt’s Peril by John Flanagan (Random House)
The Vulture of Sommerset, by Stephen M Giles (Pan Macmillan)
Haggis MacGregor and the Night of the Skull by Jen Storer & Gug Gordon (Penguin/Aussie Nibbles)
Best Children’s Fiction (told primarily through pictures)
The Boy and the Toy by Sonya Hartnett & Lucia Masciullo (Viking)
Nominees
Night School by Isobelle Carmody & Anne Spudvilas (Viking)
Magpie by Luke Davies & Inari Kiuru (ABC Books)
Precious Little by Julie Hunt, Sue Moss & Gaye Chapman (Allen & Unwin)
The Cloudchasers by David Richardson & Steven Hunt (ABC Books)
Young Adult Short Story
“A Thousand Flowers” by Margo Lanagan (Zombies Vs Unicorns, Allen & Unwin )
Nominees
“Inksucker” by Aidan Doyle (Worlds Next Door, Fablecroft Press)
“One Story, No Refunds” by Dirk Flinthart (Shiny #6, Twelfth Planet Press)
“Nine Times” by Kaia Landelius & Tansy Rayner Roberts (Worlds Next Door, Fablecroft Press)
“An Ordinary Boy” by Jen White (The Tangled Bank: Love, Wonder, & Evolution, The Tangled Bank Press)
Best Young Adult Novel
Guardian of the Dead by Karen Healey (Allen & Unwin)
Nominees
Merrow by Ananda Braxton-Smith (black dog books)
The Midnight Zoo by Sonya Hartnett (Penguin)
The Life of a Teenage Body-Snatcher by Doug MacLeod (Penguin)
Behemoth by Scott Westerfeld (Penguin)
Best Illustrated Book/Graphic Novel
Changing Ways Book 1 by Justin Randall (Gestalt)
Nominees
Shakespeare’s Hamlet by Nicki Greenberg (Allen & Unwin)
EEEK! Weird Australian Tales of Suspense by Jason Paulos et al (Black House Comics)
Five Wounds: An Illustrated Novel by Jonathan Walker & Dan Hallett (Allen & Unwin)
Horrors: Great Stories of Fear and Their Creators by Rocky Wood & Glenn Chadbourne (McFarlane & Co.)
Best Science Fiction Short Story
“The Heart of a Mouse” by KJ Bishop (Subterranean Online Winter 2010)
Nominees
“The Angælian Apocalypse” by Matthew Chrulew (The Company Articles Of Edward Teach/The Angælian Apocalypse, Twelfth Planet Press)
“Border Crossing” by Penelope Love (Belong, Ticonderoga Publications)
“Interloper” by Ian McHugh (Asimov’s January 2011)
“Relentless Adaptations” by Tansy Rayner Roberts (Sprawl, Twelfth Planet Press)
Best Science Fiction Novel
Transformation Space, by Marianne de Pierres (Orbit)
Nominees
Song of Scarabaeus, by Sara Creasy (EOS)
Mirror Space, by Marianne de Pierres (Orbit)
Peter McNamara Convenors’ Award
Helen Merrick
Australian Shadows Awards
Long Fiction
Under Stones by Bob Franklin (Affirm Press)
Nominees
Madigan Mine by Kirstyn McDermott (Picador Australia)
The Girl With No Hands and other tales by Angela Slatter (Ticonderoga Publications)
Guardian of the Dead by Karen Healy (Allen & Unwin)
Bleed by Peter M Ball (Twelfth Planet Press)
Edited Publication
Macabre: A Journey Through Australia’s Darkest Fears edited by Angela Challis & Dr Marty Young (Brimstone Press)
Nominees
Scenes From The Second Storey, edited by Amanda Pillar & Pete Kempshall (Morrigan Books)
Dark Pages 1, edited by Brenton Tomlinson (Blade Red Press)
Scary Kisses, edited by Liz Grzyb (Ticonderoga Publications)
Midnight Echo #4, edited by Lee Battersby (AHWA)
Short Fiction
“She Said” by Kirstyn McDermott (Scenes from the Second Storey, Morrigan Books)
Nominees
“Bread and Circuses” by Felicity Dowker (Scary Kisses, Ticonderoga Publications)
“Brisneyland by Night” by Angela Slatter (Sprawl, Twelfth Planet Press)
“All The Clowns In Clowntown” by Andrew J McKiernan (Macabre: A Journey through Australia’s Darkest Fears, Brimstone Press)
“Dream Machine” by David Conyers (Scenes from the Second Storey, Morrigan Books)
Sir Julius Vogel Awards
Best Novel
The Heir Of Night by Helen Lowe (Orbit)
The Questing Road by Lyn McConchie (Tor Books)
Nominees
Barking Death Squirels by Douglas A. Van Belle (Random Static)
Tymon’s Flight by Mary Victoria (HarperCollins Publishers Australia)
Geist by Philippa Ballantine (Ace Books)
Best Novella / Novelette
“A Tale Of The Interferers: Hunger For Forbidden Flesh” by Paul Haines (Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #46)
Nominees
“L” by Bill Direen (A Foreign Country: New Zealand Speculative Fiction, Random Static)
“Her Gallant Needs” by Paul Haines (Sprawl, Twelfth Planet Press)
Best Short Story
“High Tide At Hot Water Beach” by Paul Haines (A Foreign Country: New Zealand Speculative Fiction, Random Static)
Nominees
“Consumed” by Lee Murray (A Foreign Country: New Zealand Speculative Fiction, Random Static)
“The Future Of The Sky” by Ripley Patton (A Foreign Country: New Zealand Speculative Fiction, Random Static)
“The Interview” by Darian Smith (Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #49)
“I’ve Seen This Man” by Paul Haines (Scenes From The Second Storey, Morrigan Books)
Best Collected Work
A Foreign Country: New Zealand Speculative Fiction edited by Anna Caro and Juliet Buchanan (Random Static)
Nominees
The Care And Feeding Of Your Lunatic Mage by Douglas A. Van Belle (Andomeda Spaceways Special Project)
2010 Semaphore Anthology edited by Marie Hodgkinson
Rare Unsigned Copy by Simon Petrie (Peggy Bright Books)
Best Production / Publication
White Cloud Worlds Anthology edited by Paul Tobin
Nominees
Semaphore Magazine edited by Marie Hodgkinson
The Art Of District 9: Weta Workshop edited by Daniel Falconer
White Cloud Worlds Art Exhibition: The New Dowse Art Gallery curated by Leanne Wickham
Other Awards and Achievements
The 2010 AHWA Short Story and Flash Fiction competition winner for short story was “Letters of Love from the Once and Newly Dead” by Christopher Green, with Honourable Mentions to Aaron Ashley Garrison and Felicity Dowker. The flash fiction category winner was “Goggy” by Jason Fischer, with Honourable Mentions to Aaron Ashley Garrison and
Eugene Gramelis.
Tansy Rayner Roberts won the Washington SF Association Small Press Short Fiction Award for Siren Beat.
Marianne de Pierres, under the nom de plume Marianne Delacourt, won a Davitt award for Sharp Shooter, book 1 in the Tara Sharp series of paranormal crime novels.
Shaun Tan was recognised as the Artist Guest of Honour at the World Science Fiction Convention and won the Hugo Award for Best Artist. Jonathan Strahan was nominated for the Best Editor (Short Form), and Helen Merrick was nominated for Best Related Work for The Secret Feminist Cabal: A Cultural History of SF Feminisms. Lezli Robyn was a nominee for the John W Campbell Award for Best New Writer.
Shaun Tan also won the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, both the Children’s Literature Award and the Premier’s Award, for his Tales From Outer Suburbia.
Margo Lanagan won the World Fantasy Award for the novella “Sea Hearts” (X6, couer de lion). Jonathan Strahan’s anthology Eclipse Three (Night Shade Books) was nominated and Strahan won the Special—Professional World Fantasy Award.
Lucy Sussex was presented with the Peter McNamara Achievement Award, recognising lifetime achievement.
The Bram Stoker awards featured two nominations of work by Australians. Kirstyn McDermott in the category of Superior Achievement In Long Fiction for “Monsters Among Us” (Macabre: A Journey Through Australia’s Darkest Fears), and in the category of Superior Achievement In An Anthology, Macabre: A Journey Through Australia’s Darkest Fears edited by Angela Challis and Marty Young (Brimstone Press).
Scott Westerfeld was nominated for the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult SF and Fantasy for Behemoth (Simon and Schuster).
The Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards shortlists include Isobel Carmody’s The Red Wind (Penguin) and Sonya Hartnett’s The Midnight Zoo ((Penguin).
Tansy Rayner Roberts and Gary Kemble both received Australia Council grants to write novels.
The Horseman (2008) dominated the A Night Of Horror Film Festival Awards, taking out the following categories: Best Australian Film, Best Australian Director (Steven Kastrissios), Best Female Performance (Caroline Marohasy), and Best Male Performance (Peter Marshall). The A Night Of Horror Film Festival Awards Audience Choice Award from the Australian short showcase was a tie between The Clothes (directed by Toby Morris) and Mr Pin (directed by Andrew Daley). The award for Best Special Effects went to The Dark Lurking (directed by Gregory Connors).
The 2010 Ned Kelly Awards for Australian crime writing were presented at the Melbourne Writers Festival. Garry Disher won best fiction book for Wyatt (Text), best first fiction went to Mark Dapin for King Of The Cross (MacMillan), the true crime award went to Kathy Marks for Pitcairn: Paradise Lost (HarperCollins) and Zane Lovitt won the SD Harvey Short Story Award for “Leaving The Fountainhead” and Lucy Sussex took out second prize with “The Fountain Of Justice”. The lifetime achievement award was presented to Peter Doyle.
Patty Jansen won first place, and Brett Mann won second place, in the second quarter of the Writers of the Future contest.
The winner of the long-running Nameless competition organised by Stephen Studach and Felicity Dowker to raise money for author Paul Haines’ medical treatment was decided by guest judge Ramsey Campbell. The winner was Robert N Stephenson, with finalists Tim Martain and Martin Livings.
About The Editors
Liz Grzyb was born in the middle of a thunderstorm in Perth, Western Australia. She is the award-winning editor of acclaimed paranormal romance anthologies Scary Kisses and More Scary Kisses, the Orientalist pantomime Dreaming of Djinn, steampunk romance Kisses by Clockwork, co-editor of the paranormal noir Damnation and Dames and The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror series from Ticonderoga Publications. Liz is often to be found sipping champagne and debating the fate of the Oxford comma.
Talie Helene is a musician and writer, from Melbourne, Australia. She writes poetry, fiction, and songs. Talie is horror editor for the anthology The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror (Ticonderoga Publications); she was news editor for the Australian Horror Writers’ Association for four years (2006–2010). She is a member of the SuperNova writers’ group. Talie has a background in music journalism, various music industry roles and fine art event management. She performs as a singer/songwriter, and has performed with many artists including The Tenth Stage, Wendy Rule, Saba Persian Orchestra, and Eden. For the latest updates, visit www.taliehelene.com
Also Edited By Liz Grzyb
Scary Kisses
More Scary Kisses
Damnation and Dames (with Amanda Pillar)
Dreaming of Djinn
Kisses by Clockwork
Hear Me Roar
Also Edited By Liz Grzyb & Talie Helene
The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy & Horror 2011
The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy & Horror 2012
The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy & Horror 2013
The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy & Horror 2014
Thank You
The editors would like to thank RJ Astruc, Peter M Ball, Alan Baxter, Jenny Blackford, Gitte Christensen, Matthew Chrulew, Bill Congreve, Rjurik Davidson, Felicity Dowker, Dale Elvy, Jason Fischer, Dirk Flinthart, Bob Franklin, Christopher Green, Paul Haines, Lisa L Hannett, Stephen Irwin, Gary Kemble, Pete Kempshall, Tessa Kum, Martin Livings, Maxine McArthur, Kirstyn McDermott, Andrew McKiernan, Ben Peek, Simon Petrie, Lezli Robyn, Angela Rega, Angela Slatter, Grant Stone, Kaaron Warren, Janeen Webb, Jonathan Strahan, Chuck McKenzie, Angela Challis and Russell B Farr.
Liz would like to thank Talie Helene, Helen Grzyb, Shane Cummings, Amanda Pillar, Kate Dunbar-Smith, Kate Williams, Andrew Williams, Matthew Williams, Debbie Wilson, Jacinta Rosielle, Ambre Hillier, Michael Hillier, Tasmar Dixon, Kylie Dainton, Mel Barndon, Mel Donald, Phil Ward, Ruza Foster, Lina Piscitelli, Nikki Irwin, Andrea Orlowsky, Angie Irwin, Fee Wort, Jane Hebiton, Lynne Keenan, Zoe Brooks, Jane McKenzie, Dionn Godhino, Clare MacFarlane, Anne Hodgson, Meredith Wright and Suad Majrouh.
Talie would like to thank Liz Grzyb, Jason Nahrung, Gillian Polack, Sharyn Liley, Ellen Gregory, Lee Battersby, Marty Young, Alisa Krasnostein, Tehani Wessely, Jack Dann, Stephen Dedman, Danny Lovecraft, Leigh Blackmore, Robert Hood, David Conyers, Robert Shearman, Lucy Sussex, Kim Wilkins, Fiona Trembath, Earl Livings, Barry Watts, Mary Mannning, Barry Dickens, Deborah Crabtree, Sonia van Maanenberg, David Wattie, Mark Evans, Lee Du-Caine, Lisa and Leon Macey, Calum Harvie, the HorrorScope team, Nyssa Pascoe, Peter Hurley and Barbara Crowe.
Acknowledgements
“After the Jump” copyright (c) 2010 Felicity Dowker. First published in Aurealis #43, July 2010.
“L’esprit de L’escalier” copyright (c) 2010 Peter M Ball. First published in Apex Magazine #16, September 2010.
“That Girl” copyright (c) 2010 Kaaron Warren. First published in Haunted Legends (Tor, 2010).
“Walker” copyright (c) 2010 Dirk Flinthart. First published in Sprawl (Twelfth Planet Press, 2010).
“The Bone Mother” copyright (c) 2010 Angela Slatter. First published in The Girl With No Hands and other tales (Ticonderoga Publications 2010).
“Children’s Story” copyright (c) 2010 Bob Franklin. First published in Under Stones (Affirm Press, 2010).
“Night Shift” copyright (c) 2010 Dale Elvy. First published in A Foreign Country (Random Static Press, 2010).
“Manifest Destiny”, copyright (c) 2010 Janeen Webb. First published in Baggage (Eneit Press, 2010).
“Hive” copyright (c) 2010 Stephen M Irwin. First published in Macabre: A Journey Through Australia’s Darkest Fears (Brimstone Press, 2010).
“Acception” copyright (c) 2010 Tessa Kum. First published in Baggage (Eneit Press, 2010).
“Brave Face” copyright (c) 2010 Pete Kempshall. First published in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #46, 2010.
“Home” copyright (c) 2010 Martin Livings. First published in Scenes from the Second Storey (Morrigan Books, 2010).
“Soil From
My Fingers” copyright (c) 2010 Lisa L Hannett. First published in Tesseracts 14 (Hades Publications, 2010).
“Feast or Famine” copyright (c) 2010 Gary Kemble. First published in Macabre: A Journey Through Australia’s Darkest Fears (Brimstone Press, 2010).
“Johnny and Babushka” copyright (c) 2010 RJ Astruc. First published in Electric Spec vol 5 issue 4, November 2010.
“Schubert by Candlelight” copyright (c) 2010 Matthew Chrulew. First published in Macabre: A Journey Through Australia’s Darkest Fears (Brimstone Press, 2010).
“Slow Cookin’” copyright (c) 2010 Angela Rega. First published in Belong (Ticonderoga Publications, 2010).
“The School Bus” copyright (c) 2010 Jason Fischer. First published in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #46 2010.
“The King’s Accord” copyright (c) 2010 Alan Baxter. First published in Flesh & Bone: Rise of the Necromancers (Pill Hill Publishers, 2010).
“Dark Rendezvous” copyright (c) 2010 Simon Petrie. First published in Destination: Future (Hadley Rille Books, 2010).
“A Sweet Story” copyright (c) 2010 Gitte Christensen. First published in Moonlight Tuber #1, May 2010.
“A Pearling Tale” copyright (c) 2010 Maxine McArthur. First published in Baggage (Eneit Press, 2010).
“White Crocodile Jazz” copyright (c) 2010 Ben Peek. First published in Sprawl (Twelfth Planet Press, 2010).
“Anne-droid of Green Gables” copyright (c) 2010 Lezli Robyn. First published in Classics Mutilated (IDW Publications, 2010).
“Ghia Likes Food”, copyright (c) 2010 Bill Congreve. First published in Souls Along the Meridian (Blade Red Press, 2010).
“Lovers In Caeli-Amur” copyright (c) 2010 Rjurik Davidson. First published in The Library of Forgotten Books (PS Publishing, 2010).
“The Memory of Water” copyright (c) 2010 Andrew McKiernan. First published in Eclecticism #13, July 2010.
“Wood” copyright (c) 2010 Grant Stone. First published in Semaphore Magazine, September 2010.
“She Said” copyright (c) 2010 Kirstyn McDermott. First published in Scenes from the Second Storey (Morrigan Books, 2010).