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2011 Australian Shadows Award Winners – News

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The Winners and Honourable Mentions for the 2011 Australian Shadows Award have been announced by the Australian Horror Writers Association.

The winners of the 2011 Australian Shadows Awards have been announced:

Novel:
- No Award.
- Honourable Mention: The Broken Ones by Stephen M Irwin

Long Fiction:
WINNER: ‘The Past is a Bridge Best Left Burnt‘ by Paul Haines
- Honourable Mentions:
* ‘And the Dead Shall Outnumber the Living‘ by Deborah Biancotti
* ‘Sleeping and the Dead‘ by Cat Sparks
* ‘From the Teeth of Strange Children‘ by Lisa L. Hannett

Collection:
WINNER: Tales of Sin and Madness by Brett McBean
- Honourable Mentions:
* Bluegrass Symphony by Lisa
* The Last Days of Kali Yuga by Paul Haines
* Matilda Told Such Dreadful Lies by Lucy Sussex
* Apocrypha Sequence (all four volumes) by Shane Jiraiya Cummings

Edited Publication:
WINNER: Dead Red Heart ed. Russell B Farr
- Honourable Mentions:
* More Scary Kisses ed. Liz Grzyb
* Midnight Echo 6 ed. David Kernot, David Conyers and Jason Fischer
* The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror ed. Liz Grzyb & Talie Helene

Short Stories:
WINNER: ‘Shovel Man Joe‘ by Amanda J Spedding
- Honourable Mentions:
* ‘Taking It for the Team‘ by Tracie McBride,
* ‘The Sea at Night‘ by Joanne Anderton
* ‘The Wanderer in Darkness‘ by Andrew J. McKiernan
* ‘Out Hunting for Teeth‘ by Joanne Anderton

Thirteen O’Clock would like to congratulate all of the Winners and the authors and editors who have received an Honourable Mention.

Source: http://australianhorror.com/index.php?view=304

2011 Ditmar Award finalists announced – news

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Thirteen O’Clock would like to congratulate all the finalists for the 2012 Ditmar Awards.

The awards are now open for voting and winners will be announced at Continuum in June. Here is the full list of 2012 finalists:

Best Novel
* The Shattered City (Creature Court 2), Tansy Rayner Roberts (HarperCollins)
* Burn Bright, Marianne de Pierres (Random House Australia)
* Mistification, Kaaron Warren (Angry Robot Books)
* The Courier’s New Bicycle, Kim Westwood (HarperCollins)
* Debris (The Veiled Worlds 1), Jo Anderton (Angry Robot Books)

Best Novella or Novelette
* “The Sleeping and the Dead”, Cat Sparks, in Ishtar (Gilgamesh Press)
* “Above”, Stephanie Campisi, in Above/Below (Twelfth Planet Press)
* “The Past is a Bridge Best Left Burnt”, Paul Haines, in The Last Days of Kali Yuga(Brimstone Press)
* “And the Dead Shall Outnumber the Living”, Deborah Biancotti, in Ishtar (Gilgamesh Press)
* “Julia Agrippina’s Secret Family Bestiary”, Tansy Rayner Roberts, in Love and Romanpunk (Twelfth Planet Press)
* “Below”, Ben Peek, in Above/Below (Twelfth Planet Press)

Best Short Story
* “Breaking the Ice”, Thoraiya Dyer, in Cosmos 37
* “Alchemy”, Lucy Sussex, in Thief of Lives (Twelfth Planet Press)
* “The Last Gig of Jimmy Rucker”, Martin Livings and Talie Helene, in More Scary Kisses(Ticonderoga Publications)
* “All You Can Do Is Breathe”, Kaaron Warren, in Blood and Other Cravings (Tor)
* “Bad Power”, Deborah Biancotti, in Bad Power (Twelfth Planet Press)
* “The Patrician”, Tansy Rayner Roberts, in Love and Romanpunk (Twelfth Planet Press)

Best Collected Work
* The Last Days of Kali Yuga by Paul Haines, edited by Angela Challis (Brimstone Press)
* Nightsiders by Sue Isle, edited by Alisa Krasnostein (Twelfth Planet Press)
* Bad Power by Deborah Biancotti, edited by Alisa Krasnostein (Twelfth Planet Press)
* Love and Romanpunk by Tansy Rayner Roberts, edited by Alisa Krasnostein (Twelfth Planet Press)
* Ishtar, edited by Amanda Pillar and K. V. Taylor (Gilgamesh Press)

Best Artwork
* “Finishing School”, Kathleen Jennings, in Steampunk!: An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories (Candlewick Press)
* Cover art, Kathleen Jennings, for The Freedom Maze (Small Beer Press)

Best Fan Writer
* Tansy Rayner Roberts, for body of work including reviews in Australian Speculative Fiction in Focus! and Not If You Were The Last Short Story On Earth
* Alexandra Pierce, for body of work including reviews in Australian Speculative Fiction in Focus!, Not If You Were The Last Short Story On Earth, and Randomly Yours, Alex
* Robin Pen, for “The Ballad of the Unrequited Ditmar”
* Sean Wright, for body of work including “Authors and Social Media” series in Adventures of a Bookonaut
* Bruce Gillespie, for body of work including “The Golden Age of Fanzines is Now”, and SF Commentary 81 & 82

Best Fan Artist
* Rebecca Ing, for work in Scape
* Lisa Rye, for “Steampunk Portal” series
* Dick Jenssen, for body of work including work in IRS, Steam Engine Time, SF Commentary and Scratchpad
* Kathleen Jennings, for work in Errantry (tanaudel.wordpress.com) including “The Dalek Game”
* Rhianna Williams, for work in Nullas Anxietas Convention Programme Book

Best Fan Publication in Any Medium
* SF Commentary, edited by Bruce Gillespie
* The Writer and the Critic, Kirstyn McDermott and Ian Mond
* The Coode Street Podcast, Jonathan Strahan and Gary K. Wolfe
* Galactic Chat, Alisa Krasnostein, Tansy Rayner Roberts and Sean Wright
* Galactic Suburbia, Alisa Krasnostein, Tansy Rayner Roberts, and Alex Pierce

Best New Talent
* Steve Cameron
* Alan Baxter
* Joanne Anderton

William Atheling Jr Award for Criticism or Review
* Liz Grzyb and Talie Helene, for “2010: The Year in Review”, in The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2010 (Ticonderoga Publications)
* Damien Broderick and Van Ikin, for editing Warriors of the Tao: The Best of Science Fiction: A Review of Speculative Literature (Borgo Press)
* David McDonald, Tansy Rayner Roberts and Tehani Wessely for “Reviewing New Who” series, in A Conversational Life
* Alexandra Pierce and Tehani Wessely, for reviews of Vorkosigan Saga, in Randomly Yours, Alex
* Russell Blackford, for “Currently reading: Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke”, in Metamagician and the Hellfire Club

http://continuum.org.au/ditmar-awards-ballot-released/

2011 Aurealis Awards finalists announced – news

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Thirteen O’Clock would like to congratulate all the finalists for the 2011 Aurealis Awards.

Recently announced by SpecFaction NSW, organisers of the 2010 and 2011 Aurealis Awards, here is the full list of 2011 finalists:

FANTASY NOVEL

  • The Undivided by Jennifer Fallon (HarperVoyager)
  • Ember and Ash by Pamela Freeman (Hachette)
  • Stormlord’s Exile by Glenda Larke (HarperVoyager)
  • Debris by Jo Anderton (Angry Robot)
  • The Shattered City by Tansy Rayner Roberts (HarperVoyager)

FANTASY SHORT STORY

  • “Fruit of the Pipal Tree” by Thoraiya Dyer (After the Rain, FableCroft Publishing)
  • “The Proving of Smollett Standforth” by Margo Lanagan (Ghosts by Gaslight, HarperVoyager)
  • “Into the Clouds on High” by Margo Lanagan (Yellowcake, Allen & Unwin)
  • “Reading Coffee” by Anthony Panegyris (Overland)
  • “The Dark Night of Anton Weiss” by D.C. White (More Scary Kisses, Ticonderoga Publications)

SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL

  • Machine Man by Max Barry (Scribe Publications)
  • Children of Scarabaeus by Sara Creasy (HarperVoyager)
  • The Waterboys by Peter Docker (Fremantle Press)
  • Black Glass by Meg Mundell (Scribe Publications)
  • The Courier’s New Bicycle by Kim Westwood (HarperVoyager) – read our review

SCIENCE FICTION SHORT STORY

  • “Flowers in the Shadow of the Garden” by Joanne Anderton (Hope, Kayelle Press)
  • “Desert Madonna” by Robert Hood (Anywhere but Earth, Couer de Lion)
  • “SIBO” by Penelope Love (Anywhere but Earth, Couer de Lion)
  • “Dead Low” by Cat Sparks (Midnight Echo)
  • “Rains of la Strange” by Robert N Stephenson (Anywhere but Earth, Couer de Lion)

HORROR NOVEL

NO SHORTLIST OR WINNING NOVEL – TWO HONORABLE MENTIONS AWARDED TO:

  • The Broken Ones by Stephen M. Irwin (Hachette)
  • The Business of Death by Trent Jamieson (Hachette)

HORROR SHORT STORY

  • “And the Dead Shall Outnumber the Living” by Deborah Biancotti (Ishtar, Gilgamesh Press) – read our review
  • “The Past is a Bridge Best Left Burnt” by Paul Haines (The Last Days of Kali Yuga, Brimstone Press) – read our review
  • “The Short Go: a Future in Eight Seconds” by Lisa L. Hannett (Bluegrass Symphony, Ticonderoga Publications)
  • “Mulberry Boys” by Margo Lanagan (Blood and Other Cravings, Tor)
  • “The Coffin Maker’s Daughter” by Angela Slatter (A Book of Horrors, Quercus)

YOUNG ADULT NOVEL

  • Shift by Em Bailey (Hardie Grant Egmont)
  • Secrets of Carrick: Tantony by Ananda Braxton-Smith (black dog books)
  • The Shattering by Karen Healey (Allen & Unwin)
  • Black Glass by Meg Mundell (Scribe Publications)
  • Only Ever Always by Penni Russon (Allen & Unwin)

YOUNG ADULT SHORT STORY

“Nation of the Night” by Sue Isle (Nightsiders, Twelfth Planet Press)

“Finishing School” by Kathleen Jennings (Steampunk! An anthology of fantastically rich and strange stories, Candlewick Press)

“Seventy-Two Derwents” by Cate Kennedy (The Wicked Wood – Tales from the Tower Volume 2, Allen and Unwin)

“One Window” by Martine Murray (The Wilful Eye: Tales from the Tower Volume 1, Allen and Unwin)

“The Patrician” by Tansy Rayner Roberts (Love and Romanpunk, Twelfth Planet Press)

CHILDREN’S FICTION (told primarily through words)

  • The Outcasts by John Flanagan (Random House Australia)
  • The Paradise Trap by Catherine Jinks (Allen & Unwin)
  • “It Began with a Tingle” by Thalia Kalkapsakis (Headspinners, Allen & Unwin)
  • The Coming of the Whirlpool by Andrew McGahan (Allen & Unwin)
  • City of Lies by Lian Tanner (Allen & Unwin)

CHILDREN’S FICTION (told primarily through pictures)

  • The Ghost of Annabel Spoon by Aaron Blabey (author and illustrator) (Penguin/ Viking Books)
  • Sounds Spooky by Christopher Cheng (author) and Sarah Davis (illustrator) (Random House Australia)
  • The Last Viking by Norman Jorgensen (author) and James Foley (illustrator) (Fremantle Press)
  • The Deep: Here be Dragons by Tom Taylor (author) and James Brouwer (illustrator) (Gestault Publishing)
  • Vampyre by Margaret Wild (author) and Andrew Yeo (illustrator) (Walker Books)

ILLUSTRATED BOOK / GRAPHIC NOVEL

  • Hidden by Mirranda Burton (author and illustrator ) (Black Pepper)
  • Torn by Andrew Constant (author) and Joh James (illustrator ), additional illustrators Nicola Scott, Emily Smith (Gestalt Publishing)
  • Salsa Invertebraxa by Mozchops (author and illustrator) (Pecksniff Press)
  • The Eldritch Kid: Whiskey and Hate by Christian Read (author) and Michael Maier (illustrator) (Gestalt Publishing)
  • The Deep: Here be Dragons by Tom Taylor (author) and James Brouwer (illustrator) (Gestault Publishing)

ANTHOLOGY

  • Ghosts by Gaslight edited by Jack Dann and Nick Gevers (HarperVoyager)
  • Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2010 edited by Liz Grzyb and Talie Helene (Ticonderoga Publications)
  • Ishtar edited by Amanda Pillar and KV Taylor (Gilgamesh Press) – read our review
  • The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume 5 edited by Jonathan Strahan (Night Shade Books)
  • Life on Mars edited by Jonathan Strahan (Viking)

COLLECTION

  • Bad Power by Deborah Biancotti (Twelfth Planet Press)
  • Last Days of Kali Yuga by Paul Haines (Brimstone Press) – read our review
  • Bluegrass Symphony by Lisa Hannett (Ticonderoga Publications)
  • Nightsiders by Sue Isle (Twelfth Planet Press)
  • Love and Romanpunk by Tansy Rayner Roberts (Twelfth Planet Press)

The Aurealis Awards ceremony will be held on the evening of Saturday 12th May at the Independent Theatre in North Sydney. Tickets are now available through the Aurealis Awards website: http://www.aurealisawards.com/

Australians Nominated for Bram Stoker Awards – News

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Horror Writers Association President, Rocky Wood, has issued a press release announcing the nomination of three Australians for the 2011 Bram Stoker Awards. The ‘Stokers’ are considered the world’s premier literary awards for the Horror Genre and Thirteen O’Clock sends its heartiest congratulations to Kaaron Warren, Rocky Wood and Jack Dann for their nominations.

The press release reads:

AUSTRALIANS NOMINATED FOR INTERNATIONAL LITERARY AWARD

Three more Australians have joined the ranks of those nominated for international literary awards – this time the Bram Stoker Award, the premiere literary Awards in the Horror genre, for the year 2011. The Awards will be presented at the World Horror Convention in Salt Lake City on 31 March 2012. More information here: http://www.horror.org/blog/?p=2331.

The Awards are named for Bram Stoker, the author of Dracula, and are regarded as the premier horror genre awards each year. Previous winners include Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates, Ray Bradbury, Anne Rice and Ira Levin.

Rocky Wood, from Melbourne, has been nominated for a Bram Stoker Award in the Non-Fiction category for his book Stephen King: A Literary Companion (McFarland, 2011).
Wood, who lives in South Yarra, has been a non-fiction writer for 30 years. His nominated work is the latest in a series of books on Stephen King’s works. “Obviously, it is very exciting to be nominated for such a prestigious international literary award, one that has been won by idols of mine such as Stephen King, Ray Bradbury and Peter Straub,” he said, “I’m also pleased that writing by an Australian has been recognised by my peers in the HWA.” The book covers all of King’s published works, putting them in context and revealing many little known details, including King’s inspiration in many.

Wood, who is also the first non-American President of the Association, will attend the Awards Dinner in Salt Lake City, Utah on 31 March.

For further information and interviews contact: Rocky Wood rockywood1959@yahoo.com.au . Please note Rocky suffers from Motor Neurone Disease. His speech is badly impacted by the disease and he prefers contact via email.

Kaaron Warren, from Canberra, has been nominated for the Bram Stoker Award in the Short Fiction category for her story, All You Can Do Is Breathe.

Warren has been publishing fiction for twenty years, with three novels and three short story collections in print. She has twice won the ACT Publisher’s and Writers Award for fiction, along with the Canberra Critics’ Circle Fiction Award, the Ditmar Award, the Aurealis Award and the Australian Shadows Award. This is her first international nomination, and she says, “I’ve long used the Bram Stoker Awards as my reading list of excellent fiction for the year, so I’m thrilled to be on the shortlist alongside two of my favourite writers, Stephen King and George Saunders”. The short listed story explores our obsession with survivors.’ Kaaron is on Twitter @kaaronwarren and her webpage is kaaronwarren.wordpress.com

Jack Dann has been nominated along with his fellow editor Nick Gevers, for the Bram Stoker Award in the Anthology category for Ghosts By Gaslight (Harper Voyager, 2011). Dann is a multiple-award winning author who has written or edited over seventy-five books, including the international bestseller The Memory Cathedral, which was #1 on The Age Bestseller List, and The Silent, which Library Journal chose as one of their ‘Hot Picks’ and wrote: “This is narrative storytelling at its best… Most emphatically recommended.” He is also the editor of the anthology Dreaming Down-Under (with Janeen Webb), which won the World Fantasy Award in 1999, and Dreaming Again, which Bookseller+Publisher gave a five star review and chose as their ‘Pick of the Week’. Dann lives in South Gippsland and Melbourne, and his website is jackdann.com.

Ditmar Awards open for nominations

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The Australian spec-fic fan-voted Ditmar Awards are now open for nominations. Any active fan or member of Continuum can vote. Continuum is the Melbourne SF convention, which is this year’s NatCon, and will be happening in June. The Ditmars are always awarded during the annual NatCon. You can vote electronically here: http://ditmars.sf.org.au/2012/nominations.html and electronic voting is open until April 15th.

All the rules and details are here: http://wiki.sf.org.au/Ditmar_rules

There’s also a massive, though probably not comprehensive, list of eligible works here: http://wiki.sf.org.au/2012_Ditmar_eligibility_list. This list is a good place to start reminding yourself of what you read and enjoyed last year.

Please do get active and vote for any work you really enjoyed in 2011. The more people that get involved and vote, the more realistic and honest the resulting awards. When it comes to fan-voted (as opposed to judging panel) awards, it’s important to get as many votes in as possible. And voting really couldn’t be easier. So if you’ve read something you enjoyed, take a few minutes and vote for it. Make your voice heard and give that good work the recognition it deserves.

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