Ditmar Awards 2021
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November 20, 2021
Eligibility Year: 2020
Eligibility Year: 2020
Novel
- Winner: The Left-Handed Booksellers of London, Garth Nix (Allen & Unwin)
- The Animals in That Country, Laura Jean McKay (Scribe)
- The Crying Forest, Venero Armanno (IFWG Publishing Australia)
- Hollow Empire, Sam Hawke (Penguin)
- Monstrous Heart, Claire McKenna (HarperCollins)
- Poison & Light, Gillian Polack (Shooting Star)
- Repo Virtual, Corey J. White (Tor)
Novella Or Novelette
- Winner: Flyaway, Kathleen Jennings (Pan Macmillan Australia; Tordotcom)
- “The Attic Tragedy”, J. Ashley-Smith (The Attic Tragedy)
- “Bad Weather”, Robert Hood (Outback Horrors Down Under)
- The Roo, Alan Baxter (self-published)
- “The Weight of the Air, The Weight of the World”, T. R. Napper (Neon Leviathan)
Short Story
- Winner: “The Calenture”, Kaaron Warren (Of Gods and Globes 2)
- “The Genetic Alchemist's Daughter”, Elaine Cuyegkeng (Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women)
- “Hacking Santorini”, Cat Sparks (Dark Harvest)
Collected Work
- Winner: Dark Harvest, Cat Sparks (NewCon)
- Neon Leviathan, T. R. Napper (Grimdark)
- Rebuilding Tomorrow, Tsana Dolichva (Twelfth Planet)
- Songs for Dark Seasons, Lisa L. Hannett (Ticonderoga)
- The Zookeeper's Tales of Interstellar Oddities, Aiki Flinthart & Pamela Jeffs, eds. (CAT)
Fan Publication In Any Medium
- Winner: The Coode Street Podcast, Jonathan Strahan & Gary K. Wolfe
- The AntipodeanSF Radio Show, Ion Newcombe
- Ethel the Aardvark, LynC
- Pratchat, Elizabeth Flux & Ben McKenzie
Fan Writer
- Winner: SF Commentary, Bruce Gillespie
- Ethen the Aardvark, LynC
Fan Artist
- Winner: Lyss Wickramasinghe, for fanart on Tumblr including Elsie, Hold On, The Gem and the Other, and Vesuvia Pride
Artwork
- Winner: Kathleen Jennings for Mother Thorn and other tales of courage and kindness (Serenity)
- Keely Van Order for Drive, She Said by Tracie McBride (IFWG Publishing Australia)
- Rovina Cai for The Giant and the Sea (Lothian)
New Talent
- Winner: Nikky Lee
William Atheling Jr. Award For Criticism Or Review
- Winner: Terry Frost, for reviews in Terry Talks Movies
- Kathleen Jennings, for “Contracts and Calcifer, or ‘In Which A Contract Is Concluded Before Witnesses’: the transactional structure of Howl’s Moving Castle”, The Proceedings of the Diana Wynne Jones Conference, Bristol 2019 [paper published 2020]
- Grant Watson, for reviews in FictionMachine
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