Ditmar Awards 2022
science fiction awards database
Winners announced: October 1, 2022
Convention: Conflux 16
Where: Canberra, Australia
Eligibility Year: 2021
Convention: Conflux 16
Where: Canberra, Australia
Eligibility Year: 2021
Novel
- Winner: The Bridge, J. S. Breukelaar (Meerkat)
- All the Murmuring Bones, A. G. Slatter (Titan)
- The Councillor, E. J. Beaton (DAW)
- A Marvellous Light, Freya Marske (Tor)
- Papa Lucy & The Boneman, Jason Fischer (Outland)
- The Rose Daughter, Maria Lewis (Hachette Australia/Little Brown)
- She Who Became the Sun, Shelley Parker-Chan (Tor)
Novella Or Novelette
- Winner: Ariadne, I Love You, J. Ashley-Smith (Meerkat)
- Dirty Heads, Aaron Dries (Black T-Shirt)
- Ghost Recall, Alan Baxter (Grey Matter)
- “The Little One”, Rebecca Fraser (Coralesque and Other Tales to Distrub and Distract)
- “A Vast Silence”, T. R. Napper (F&SF Nov/Dec 2021)
Short Story
- Winner: “The King in Yella”, Kaaron Warren (Under Twin Suns: Alternate Histories of the Yellow Sign)
- “A Good Big Brother”, Matt Tighe (Spawn: Weird Tales of Pregnancy, Birth and Babies)
- “Goon of Fortune”, Geneve Flynn (Midnight Echo Nov 2021)
- “The House that Hungers”, Maria Lewis (Aurealais Nov 2021)
- “Legacy of the Species”, Pamela Jeffs (The Terralight Collection)
- “A Whisper in the Death Pit”, Kyla Lee Ward (Weirdbook May 2021)
Collected Work
- Winner: Tool Tales, Ellen Datlow & Kaaron Warren, eds. (IFWG Australia)
- Coralesque and Other Tales to Disturb and Distract, Rebecca Fraser (IFWG Australia)
- The Gulp, Alan Baxter (self-published)
- Relics, Wrecks & Ruins, Aiki Flinthart, ed. (CAT)
- The Terralight Collection, Pamela Jeffs (Four Ink)
Fan Publication In Any Medium
- Winner: Earl Grey Editing, Elizabeth Fitzgerald
- SF Commentary, Bruce Gillespie
Fan Writer
- Winner: Kat Clay, for interviews and reviews on YouTube and katclay.com
Fan Artist
- Winner: C. H. Pearce, for fanart on Instagram, including “Em and Gyre”, “Lysande”, “Cruelty Free”, and “Rocket Launch Good”
William Atheling Jr. Award For Criticism Or Review
- Winner: Ian Mond, for reviews in Locus
- Eugen Bacon, for Aurealis Reviews (editor and reviews)
- Claire Fitzpatrick, for “How Mary Shelley Continues to Influence Modern Science Fiction” (Aurealis 145)
- Andrew Nette & Iain McIntyre, for editing Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950 to 1985 (PM Press)
- Kyla Lee Ward, for “Vampire Poetry” (Penumbra 2)
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