2013 Ditmar Awards presented at Australia’s National SF Convention
2013 Ditmar Awards presented at Australia’s National SF ConventionAustralia’s national science fiction and fantasy awards, the Ditmar Awards and a couple of other awards, are presented annually at Australia’s National Science Fiction Convention, held this year in Canberra as part of Conflux. Congratulations to the winners!!!
Best Novel
- Sea Hearts, Margo Lanagan (Allen & Unwin)
- Bitter Greens, Kate Forsyth (Random House Australia)
- Suited (The Veiled Worlds 2), Jo Anderton (Angry Robot)
- Salvage, Jason Nahrung (Twelfth Planet Press)
- Perfections, Kirstyn McDermott (Xoum)
- The Corpse-Rat King, Lee Battersby (Angry Robot)
Best Novella or Novelette
- “Flight 404”, Simon Petrie, in Flight 404/The Hunt for Red Leicester (Peggy Bright Books)
- “Significant Dust”, Margo Lanagan, in Cracklescape (Twelfth Planet Press)
- “Sky”, Kaaron Warren, in Through Splintered Walls (Twelfth Planet Press)
Best Short Story
- “Sanaa’s Army”, Joanne Anderton, in Bloodstones (Ticonderoga Publications)
- “The Wisdom of Ants”, Thoraiya Dyer, in Clarkesworld 75
- “The Bone Chime Song”, Joanne Anderton, in Light Touch Paper Stand Clear (Peggy Bright Books)
- “Oracle’s Tower”, Faith Mudge, in To Spin a Darker Stair (FableCroft Publishing)
Best Collected Work
- Cracklescape by Margo Lanagan, edited by Alisa Krasnostein (Twelfth Planet Press)
- Epilogue, edited by Tehani Wessely (FableCroft Publishing)
- Through Splintered Walls by Kaaron Warren, edited by Alisa Krasnostein (Twelfth Planet Press)
- Light Touch Paper Stand Clear, edited by Edwina Harvey and Simon Petrie (Peggy Bright Books)
- Midnight and Moonshine by Lisa L. Hannett and Angela Slatter, edited by Russell B. Farr (Ticonderoga Publications)
- The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2011, edited by Liz Grzyb and Talie Helene (Ticonderoga Publications)
Best Artwork
- Cover art, Nick Stathopoulos, for Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine 56 (ASIM Collective)
- Cover art, Kathleen Jennings, for Midnight and Moonshine (Ticonderoga Publications)
- Illustrations, Adam Browne, for Pyrotechnicon (Coeur de Lion Publishing)
- Cover art and illustrations, Kathleen Jennings, for To Spin a Darker Stair (FableCroft Publishing)
- Cover art, Les Petersen, for Light Touch Paper Stand Clear (Peggy Bright Books)
Best Fan Writer
- Alex Pierce, for body of work including reviews in Australian Speculative Fiction in Focus
- Tansy Rayner Roberts, for body of work including reviews in Not If You Were The Last Short Story On Earth
- Grant Watson, for body of work including the “Who50” series in The Angriest
- Sean Wright, for body of work including reviews in Adventures of a Bookonaut
Best Fan Artist
- Kathleen Jennings, for body of work including “The Dalek Game” and “The Tamsyn Webb Sketchbook”
Best Fan Publication in Any Medium
- The Writer and the Critic, Kirstyn McDermott and Ian Mond
- Galactic Suburbia, Alisa Krasnostein, Tansy Rayner Roberts, and Alex Pierce
- Antipodean SF, Ion Newcombe
- The Coode Street Podcast, Jonathan Strahan and Gary K. Wolfe
- “Snapshot 2012”, Alisa Krasnostein, Kathryn Linge, David McDonald, Helen Merrick, Ian Mond, Jason Nahrung et. al.
- Australian Speculative Fiction in Focus, Alisa Krasnostein, Tehani Wessely, et. al.
- Galactic Chat, Alisa Krasnostein, Tansy Rayner Roberts, and Sean Wright
Best New Talent
- David McDonald
- Faith Mudge
- Steve Cameron
- Stacey Larner
William Atheling Jr Award for Criticism or Review
- Alisa Krasnostein, Kathryn Linge, David McDonald, and Tehani Wessely, for review of Mira Grant’sNewsflesh, in ASIF
- Tansy Rayner Roberts, for “Historically Authentic Sexism in Fantasy. Let’s Unpack That.”, intor.com
- David McDonald, Tansy Rayner Roberts, and Tehani Wessely, for the “New Who in Conversation” series
- Liz Grzyb and Talie Helene, for “The Year in Review”, in The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2011
- Rjurik Davidson, for “An Illusion in the Game for Survival”, a review of Reamde by Neal Stephenson, in The Age
Norma K. Hemming Award
- Margo Lanagan for Sea Hearts
- runner up: Kate Forsyth for Bitter Greens.
Peter McNamara Lifetime Achievement Award
- Nick Stathopoulos
- runner up: Kate Forsyth for Bitter Greens.
A. Betrand Chandler Award for outstanding achievement
- Russell B. Farr
