Aurealis Award for best horror short story
Aurealis Award for best horror short story | |
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Awarded for | Excellence in horror fiction short stories |
Country | Australia |
Presented by | Chimaera Publications, Continuum Foundation |
First awarded | 1995 |
Currently held by | |
Website | Official site |
The Aurealis Awards are presented annually by the Australia-based Chimaera Publications and WASFF to published works in order to "recognise the achievements of Australian science fiction, fantasy, and horror writers".[2] To qualify, a work must have been first published by an Australian citizen or permanent resident between 1 January and 31 December of the corresponding year;[3] the presentation ceremony is held the following year. It has grown from a small function of around 20 people to a two-day event attended by over 200 people.[4]
Since their creation in 1995, awards have been given in various categories of speculative fiction. Categories currently include science fiction, fantasy, horror, speculative young adult fiction—with separate awards for novels and short fiction—collections, anthologies, illustrative works or graphic novels, children's books, and an award for excellence in speculative fiction.[2] The awards have attracted the attention of publishers by setting down a benchmark in science fiction and fantasy. The continued sponsorship by publishers such as HarperCollins and Orbit has identified the award as an honour to be taken seriously.[5]
The results are decided by a panel of judges from a list of submitted nominees; the long-list of nominees is reduced to a short-list of finalists.[2] Ties can occur if the panel decides both entries show equal merit, however they are encouraged to choose a single winner.[6] The judges are selected from a public application process by the Award's management team.[7]
This article lists all the short-list nominees and winners in the best horror short story category, as well as short stories that have received honourable mentions or have been highly commended. A work of fiction is defined as a short story if it is fewer than 40,000 words long.[3] Since 2001, honourable mentions and high commendations have been awarded intermittently. Paul Haines has won the award four times, while three people have won the award twice – Simon Brown, Kaaron Warren and Sean Williams. Warren holds the record for most nominations, with nine. Robert Hood holds the record for most nominations without winning, having been a losing finalist four times.
Winners and nominees[]
In the following table, the years correspond to the year of the story's eligibility; the ceremonies are always held the following year. Each year links to the corresponding "year in literature" article. Entries with a blue background have won the award; those with a white background are the nominees on the short-list. If the short story was originally published in a book with other stories rather than by itself or in a magazine, the book title is included after the publisher's name.
* Winners and joint winners
* Nominees on the shortlist
Year | Author(s) | Short story | Publisher or publication | Ref |
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1995 | Francis Payne* | "" | () | [8][9] |
1995 | Terry Dowling | "Scaring the Train" | MirrorDanse (The Man Who Lost Red) | [8][9] |
1995 | Leanne Frahm | "Entropy" | () | [8][9] |
1995 | Philip Neilsen | "Rock and Roll Has to Die" | Reed Books () | [8][9] |
1995 | Kaaron Warren | "Skin Holes" | Penguin () | [8][9] |
1996 | Sean Williams* | "" | Eidolon | [10] |
1996 | Stephen Dedman | "Never Seen by Waking Eyes" | F&SF | [10] |
1996 | Terry Dowling | "Beckoning Nightframe" | Eidolon | [10] |
1996 | Patricia MacCormack | "The Bloom of Decay" | Bloodsongs | [10] |
1996 | Kaaron Warren | "The Hanging People" | Bloodsongs | [10] |
1997 | Terry Dowling* | "" | Eidolon | [11] |
1997 | Bill Congreve | "The Mullet That Screwed John West" | MirrorDanse (Epiphanies of Blood) | [9][11] |
1997 | J. M. Earle | "Ten Minutes of Midnight" | Aurealis | [11] |
1997 | Sean Williams | "The Freezing of Sarah" | Bloodsongs | [11] |
1998 | Kaaron Warren* | "A Positive" | Bloodsongs | [12] |
1998 | Paul Brandon | "The Marsh Runners" | Voyager (Dreaming Down-Under) | [9][12] |
1998 | Glyn Parry | "Dawn Chorus" | Moonstone (Fantastic Worlds) | [9][12] |
1998 | Aaron Sterns | "The Third Rail" | Voyager (Dreaming Down-Under) | [9][12] |
1998 | Kaaron Warren | "The Glass Woman" | Aurealis | [12] |
1999 | Sean Williams & Simon Brown* | "" | Ticonderoga () | [9][13] |
1999 | Allan Baillie | "The Mouth" | Longman () | [9][13] |
1999 | Stephen Dedman | "Honest Ghosts" | [13] | |
1999 | Kain Massin | "Escape from Stalingrad" | [13] | |
1999 | Alison Venugoban | "Funeral Rights" | [13] | |
2000 | Deborah Biancotti* | "" | [14] | |
2000 | Jack Dann | "Marilyn" | Eidolon | [14] |
2000 | Stephen Dedman | "A Sentiment Open to Doubt" | [14] | |
2000 | Robert Hood | "That Old Black Graffiti" | Hodder (Tales from the Wasteland) | [9][14] |
2000 | Michael Pryor | "Sewercide" | Aurealis | [14] |
2001 | Simon Haynes* | "" | [15] | |
2001 | Stephen Dedman | "Probable Cause" | Orb | [15] |
2001 | Robert Hood | "Rotten Times" | Aurealis | [15] |
2001 | Rick Kennett & Paul Collins | "Whispers" | Cosmos Books () | [9][15] |
2001 | Alison Venugoban | "Happy Birthday to Me" | (Nor of Human...) | [9][15] |
2002 | Kim Westwood* | "" | [16] | |
2002 | Stephen Dedman | "Wastelands" | Agog! () | [9][16] |
2002 | Claire McKenna | "What the Tide Brings" | [16] | |
2002 | Chris McMahon | "Within Twilight" | [16] | |
2003 | Simon Brown* | "" | HarperCollins () | [9][17] |
2003 | Stephen Dedman | "The Wind Shall Blow For Ever Mair" | HarperCollins () | [9][17] |
2003 | Sue Isle | "Amy's Stars" | Orb | [17] |
2003 | Kyla Ward | "Kijin Tea" | Agog! () | [9][17] |
2003 | Janeen Webb | "Blake's Angel" | HarperCollins () | [9][17] |
2004 | Paul Haines* | "" | [18] | |
2004 | Stephen Dedman | "Twilight of the Idols" | DAW () | [9][18] |
2004 | Richard Harland | "The Border" | Agog! (Agog! Smashing Stories) | [9][18] |
2004 | Ben Peek | "Dr Who (or the day I learned to love Tom Baker)" | Wakefield Press () | [9][18] |
2004 | Alinta Thornton | "Kathleen, Furnished with Bees" | [18] | |
2005 | Lee Battersby* | "" | Shadowed Realms | [19] |
2005 | James Cain | "The Ride" | [19] | |
2005 | Paul Haines | "Doof, Doof, Doof" | [19] | |
2005 | Chuck McKenzie | "Eight-Beat Bar" | Aurealis | [19] |
2005 | Cat Sparks | "Macciato Lane" | [19] | |
2006 | Stephen Dedman* | "Dead of Winter" | Weird Tales | [20] |
2006 | Margo Lanagan | "Winkie" | Allen & Unwin (Red Spikes) | [9][20] |
2006 | Chris Lawson | "Hieronymous Boche" | Eidolon Books (Eidolon I) | [9][20] |
2006 | Kaaron Warren | "Dead Sea Fruit" | Fantasy Magazine | [20] |
2006 | Kaaron Warren | "Woman Train" | (The Outcast) | [9][20] |
2007 | Anna Tambour* | "" | Subterranean | [21] |
2007 | Terry Dowling | "Toother" | Night Shade Books () | [21][22] |
2007 | Richard Harland | "Special Perceptions" | Ash-Tree Press () | [9][21] |
2007 | Rick Kennett | "The Dark and What It Said" | Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine | [21] |
2007 | Ben Peek | "Black Betty" | [21] | |
2008 | Kirstyn McDermott* | "" | Greatest Uncommon Denominator | [23] |
2008 | Lee Battersby | "In From the Snow'" | HarperVoyager () | [9][23] |
2008 | Deborah Biancotti | "Pale Dark Soldier" | Midnight Echo | [23] |
2008 | Trent Jamieson | "Day Boy" | Murky Depths | [23] |
2008 | Ian McHugh | "" | Galaxy Press () | [9][23] |
2009 | Paul Haines* (tie) | "" | () | [9][24] |
2009 | Paul Haines* (tie) | "" | () | [9][24] |
2009 | Felicity Dowker | "Jesse's Gift" | Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine | [24] |
2009 | Christopher Green | "Having Faith" | [24] | |
2009 | Andrew J. McKiernan | "The Message" | Midnight Echo | [24] |
2010 | Richard Harland* | "The Fear" | Brimstone Press (Macabre: A Journey Through Australia's Darkest Fears) | [25] |
2010 | Bob Franklin | "Take the Free Tour" | Affirm Press (Under Stones) | [26] |
2010 | Paul Haines | "Her Gallant Needs" | (Sprawl) | [26] |
2010 | Robert Hood | "Wasting Matilda" | Constable & Robinson (Zombie Apocalypse!) | [26] |
2010 | Martin Livings | "Lollo" | Apex Publishing (Close Encounters of the Urban Kind) | [26] |
2011 | Paul Haines* (tie) | "" | Brimstone Press (The Last Days of Kali Yuga) | [27] |
2011 | * (tie) | "" | Ticonderoga Publications (Bluegrass Symphony) | [27] |
2011 | Deborah Biancotti | "And the Dead Shall Outnumber the Living" | (Ishtar) | [28] |
2011 | Margo Lanagan | "Mulberry Boys" | Tor Books (Blood and Other Cravings) | [28] |
2011 | Angela Slatter | "The Coffin Maker's Daughter" | Quercus Books (A Book of Horrors) | [28] |
2012 | Kaaron Warren* | "Sky" | (Through Splintered Walls) | [29] |
2012 | "Sanaa's Army" | Ticonderoga Publications (Bloodstones) | [30] | |
2012 | "Elyora" | Review of Australian Fiction, Rabbit Hole Special Issue | [30] | |
2012 | Felicity Dowker | "To Wish Upon a Clockwork Heart" | Ticonderoga Publications (Bread And Circuses) | [30] |
2012 | Robert Hood | "Escena de un Asesinato" | PS Publishing (Exotic Gothic 4) | [30] |
2013 | Kim Wilkins* | "The Year of Ancient Ghosts" | Ticonderoga Publications (The Year of Ancient Ghosts) | [31][32] |
2013 | "Fencelines" | (The Bone Chime Song and Other Stories) | [31] | |
2013 | Terry Dowling | "The Sleepover" | PS Publishing (Exotic Gothic 5) | [31] |
2013 | Kirstyn McDermott | "The Home for Broken Dolls" | (Caution: Contains Small Parts) | [31] |
2013 | Kaaron Warren | "The Human Moth" | (The Grimscribe's Puppets) | [31] |
2014 | Angela Slatter* | "Home and Hearth" | (Home and Hearth) | [33] |
2014 | Deborah Biancotti | "The Executioner Goes Home" | Review of Australian Fiction Volume 11, Issue 6 | [34] |
2014 | James Bradley | "Skinsuit" | Island Magazine 137 | [34] |
2014 | Kirstyn McDermott | "By The Moon's Good Grace" | Review of Australian Fiction Volume 12, Issue 3 | [34] |
2014 | Garth Nix | "Shay Corsham Worsted" | (Fearful Symmetries) | [34] |
2015 | * | "Bullets" | (In Sunshine Bright and Darkness Deep) | [35] |
2015 | "Consorting With Fish" | (Blurring the Line) | [36] | |
2015 | "Heirloom Pieces" | Apex Publications (Apex Magazine) | [36] | |
2015 | "The Briskwater Mare" | (Cherry Crow Children) | [36] | |
2015 | "Breaking Windows" | Aurealis 84 | [36] | |
2015 | Kirstyn McDermott | "Self, Contained" | (The Dark) | [36] |
2016 | * | "Flame Trees" | Asimov's Science Fiction, April/May 2016 | [37][38] |
2016 | "Non Zero Sum" (SNAFU: Hunters) | [37] | ||
2016 | Garth Nix | "Penny for a Match, Mister?" | Saga Press (The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales | [37] |
2016 | Angela Slatter | "The Red Forest" | PS Publishing (Winter Children and Other Chilling Tales) | [37] |
2016 | Kaaron Warren | "68 Days" | (Tomorrow's Cthulhu | [37] |
2016 | "Life, or Whatever Passes For It" | (Peel Back the Skin) | [37] | |
2017 | * | "Old Growth" | (SQ Mag 31) | [39][40] |
2017 | "Reef" | (SQ Mag 31) | [39] | |
2017 | "Outside, a Drifter" | (Looming Low) | [39] | |
2017 | "Angel Hair" | (Perfect Little Stitches and Other Stories) | [39] | |
2017 | "The Endless Below" | Breach Issue #02 | [39] | |
2017 | "On the Line" | (Midnight Echo 12) | [39] | |
2018 | * | "Sub-Urban" | Breach 07 | [41][42] |
2018 | Michael Gardner | "The Offering" | Aurealis 112 | [41] |
2018 | Jason Nahrung | "Slither" | (Cthulhu Deep Down Under 2) | [41] |
2018 | "By Kindle Light" | AntipodeanSF 235 | [41] | |
2018 | "Hit and Rot" | Breach 08 | [41] | |
2018 | "The Further Shore" | Bourbon Penn 15 | [41] | |
2019 | "Vivienne and Agnes" | self-published Beside the Seaside – Tales from the Day Tripper | [43] | |
2019 | "Loose Stones" | Infinite Threads | [44] | |
2019 | "The Mark" | Verge 2019, ""Uncanny | [44] | |
2019 | "Pilgrimage" | Breach #10 | [44] | |
2019 | Terry Dowling | "The Unwrapping" | Echoes | [44] |
2019 | Jason Fischer | "Of Meat and Man" | SNAFU: Last Stand, Cohesion Press | [44] |
2019 | "The Moth Tapes" | Aurealis #117, Chimaera Publications | [44] | |
2020 | Jessica Nelson-Tyers | "Phoenix Pharmaceuticals" | Cancer, The Zodiac Series, #7, Deadset Press | [45][46] |
2020 | Elaine Cuyegkeng | "The Genetic Alchemist's Daughter" | Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women, Omnium Gatherum | [45] |
2020 | Martin Livings | "The Bone Fairy" | Midnight Echo 15, Australasian Horror Writers Association | [45] |
2020 | Garth Nix | "Many Mouths to Make a Meal" | Final Cuts, Blumhouse/Anchor | [45] |
2020 | Helena O'Connor | "How We Felt" | Aurealis #136 | [45] |
Honourable mentions and high commendations[]
In the following table, the years correspond to the year of the book's eligibility; the ceremonies are always held the following year. Each year links to the corresponding "year in literature" article. Entries with a grey background have been noted as highly commended; those with a white background have received honourable mentions. If the short story was originally published in a book with other stories rather than by itself or in a magazine, the book title is included after the publisher's name.
* Highly commended
* Honourable mentions
Year | Author | Short story | Publisher or publication | Ref |
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2001 | Kirstyn McDermott | "Smile for Me" | [9] | |
2001 | Stephen Dedman | "Ravens" | Interzone | [9] |
2002 | Robert Hood | "Number 7" | MirrorDanse (Immaterial) | [9] |
2002 | Deborah Biancotti | "Silicon Cast" | [9] | |
2004 | Paul Haines* | "They Say It’s Other People" | Agog! (Agog! Smashing Stories) | [9] |
2005 | Peter Barber* | "Dust" | Aurealis | [9] |
2005 | Shane Jiraiya Cummings* | "Revision Is Murder" | [9] | |
2005 | Greg Guerin* | "The Deviation Road" | [9] | |
2005 | Paul Haines* | "The Light in Autumn’s Leaves" | [9] | |
2005 | Martin Livings* | "In Nomine Patris" | Shadowed Realms | [9] |
2006 | Jacinta Butterworth | "Love Affair" | () | [9][47] |
2006 | "One Night Stand" | Agog! () | [9] | |
2006 | Margo Lanagan | "Under Hell, Over Heaven" | Allen & Unwin (Red Spikes) | [9] |
2006 | "Mosquito Story" | Fantasy Magazine | [9] | |
2007 | Margo Lanagan | "She-Creatures" | Night Shade Books () | [9][22] |
2007 | Martin Livings | "There was Darkness" | Ticonderoga () | [9] |
2007 | "Lion’s Breath" | [9] |
See also[]
- Ditmar Award, an Australian science fiction award established in 1969
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External links[]
- Aurealis Awards
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