2021 Aurealis Awards Winners
Posted on May 28, 2022
by aaconvenor
The Aurealis Awards management team, on behalf of the Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild, would like to congratulate the winners of this year’s Awards. We also take this opportunity to once again thank the judging panels for all their hard work making the difficult decisions of shortlists and the winning works, the CSFG committee for organising the ceremony, and all the creators and publishers who continue to make the Aurealis Awards Australia’s premier speculative fiction award each year.
BEST CHILDREN’S FICTION
Dragon Skin, Karen Foxlee (Allen & Unwin)
BEST GRAPHIC NOVEL / ILLUSTRATED WORK
The Curiosities, Zana Fraillon & Phil Lesnie (illustrator) (Hachette Australia)
BEST YOUNG ADULT SHORT STORY
“Don’t Look!”, Lisa Fuller (Hometown Haunts: #LoveOzYA Horror Tales, Wakefield Press)
BEST HORROR SHORT STORY
“Don’t Look!”, Lisa Fuller (Hometown Haunts: #LoveOzYA Horror Tales, Wakefield Press)
BEST HORROR NOVELLA
“All The Long Way Down”, Alf Simpson (Cthulhu Deep Down Under Volume 3, IFWG Publishing Australia)
BEST FANTASY SHORT STORY
“So-called Bin Chicken”, E J Delaney (Curiouser Magazine #2)
BEST FANTASY NOVELLA
Bones Of The Sea, Amy Laurens (Inkprint Press)
BEST SCIENCE FICTION SHORT STORY
“Relict: (noun) A Widow; a Thing Remaining From the Past”, Alison Goodman (Relics, Wrecks & Ruins, CAT Press)
BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVELLA
“Preserved in Amber”, Samantha Murray (Clarkesworld #178)
BEST COLLECTION
The Gulp, Alan Baxter, (self-published)
BEST ANTHOLOGY
Relics, Wrecks & Ruins, Aiki Flinthart (Ed.), Lauren Elise Daniels & Geneve Flynn (assistant Eds.), CAT Press
BEST YOUNG ADULT NOVEL
Waking Romeo, Kathryn Barker (Allen & Unwin)
BEST HORROR NOVEL
Holly and the Nobodies, Ben Pienaar (Hellbound Books LLC)
BEST FANTASY NOVEL
Dark Rise, C S Pacat (Allen & Unwin)
BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL
Waking Romeo, Kathryn Barker (Allen & Unwin)
SARA DOUGLASS BOOK SERIES AWARD
Blood and Gold [Crown of Rowan (enovella, 2014); Daughters of the Storm (2014); Sisters of the Fire (2016); Queens of the Sea (2019)], Kim Wilkins (HarperCollins)
CONVENORS’ AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE
Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950-1985, Andrew Nette & Iain McIntyre (Eds.) (PM Press)
