Ditmar Awards 2018
science fiction awards database
Where and When:
Swancon 43,
Perth, Australia :
April 2, 2018
Eligibility Year: 2017
Eligibility Year: 2017
Novel
- Winner: Crossroads of Canopy, Thoraiya Dyer (Tor)
- Corpselight, Angela Slatter (Hachette Australia)
- How to Bee, Bren McDibble (Allen & Unwin)
- In the Dark Spaces, Cally Black (Hardie Grant Egmont)
- Lotus Blue, Cat Sparks (Skyhorse)
Novella Or Novelette
- Winner: Girl Reporter, Tansy Rayner Roberts (Book Smugglers)
- “Island Green”, Shauna O'Meara (Ecopunk!)
- Matters Arising from the Identification of the Body, Simon Petrie (Peggy Bright)
- “Monkey Business”, Janeen Webb (Ecopunk!)
- “My Sister's Ghost”, Kate Forsyth & Kim Wilkins (The Silver Well)
Short Story
- Winner: “A Pearl Beyond Price”, Janeen Webb (Cthulhu Deep Down Under Vol 1)
- “A Harem of Six Legs”, Edwina Harvey (An Eclectic Collection of Stuff and Things)
- “Mr Mycelium”, Claire McKenna (Ecopunk!)
- “Prayers to Broken Stone”, Cat Sparks (Kaleidotrope Spr 2017)
- “Trivalent”, Rivqa Rafael (Ecopunk!)
Collected Work
- Winner: Ecopunk!, Cat Sparks & Liz Grzyb (Ticonderoga)
- An Eclectic Collection of Stuff and Things, Edwina Harvey (Peggy Bright)
- The Silver Well, Kate Forsyth & Kim Wilkins (Ticonderoga)
- Singing My Sister Down and Other Stories, Margo Lanagan (Allen & Unwin)
Fan Publication In Any Medium
- Winner: SF Commentary, Bruce Gillespie
- Earl Gray Editing, Elizabeth Fitzgerald
- Galactic Suburbia, Alisa Krasnostein, Alexandra Pierce & Tansy Rayner Roberts
- No Award, Liz Barr & Stephanie Lai
- The Writer and the Critic, Kirstyn McDermott & Ian Mond
Fan Writer
Fan Artist
- Winner: Shauna O'Meara
Artwork
- Winner: Lewis Morley for Matters Arising from the Identification of the Body by Petrie Simon (Peggy Bright)
- The Grief Hole Illustrated: An Artist’s Sketchbook Companion to Kaaron Warren’s Supernatural Thriller, Keely Van Order (IFWG Australia)
New Talent
- Winner: Stephanie Lai
- Claire G. Coleman
William Atheling Jr. Award For Criticism Or Review
- Winner: “Reflecting on Indigenous Worlds, Indigenous Futurisms and Artificial Intelligence”, Ambelin Kwaymullina (Mother of Invention)
- Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler, Alexandra Pierce & Mimi Mondal (Twelfth Planet)
- “Science fiction and climate fiction: contemporary literatures of purpose”, Cat Sparks (Ecopunk!)
- Science Fiction and the Moral Imagination, Russell Blackford (Springer)
- Star Trek: Discovery reviews, Liz Barr (No Award)
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