Aurealis Award for best young adult short story

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Aurealis Award for young adult short story
Awarded forExcellence in young adult speculative fiction short stories
CountryAustralia
Presented byChimaera Publications,
Continuum Foundation
First awarded1995
Currently held by
WebsiteOfficial 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, 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 young-adult short story category. Margo Lanagan has won the award three times and Isobelle Carmody has won it twice. Lanagan also holds the record for most nominations, with ten.

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
1995 No award given — — [8]
1996 Isobelle Carmody* "Green Monkey Dreams" Viking Press (Green Monkey Dreams) [9][10]
1996 Dave Luckett The Wizard and Me Omnibus Books [9]
1996 James Moloney The Pipe Lothian Books [9]
1996 Gillian Rubinstein "B'ku, B'ku" Hyland House (Annie's Brother's Suit) [9][10]
1996 Keith Taylor "At the Edge of the Sea" Penguin Books (Dream Weavers) [9][10]
1997 * Lothian Books [11]
1997 Sheryl Gardner The Peppercorn Tree Lothian Books [11]
1997 Julie Ireland "Hanging by a Thread" HarperCollins (Hanging by a Thread and Other Stories) [10][11]
1998 No award given — — [12]
1999 No award given — — [13]
2000 Margo Lanagan* "" Allen & Unwin (White Time) [10][14]
2000 Brian Caswell "Avalon" Hodder Headline (Tales from the Wasteland) [10][14]
2000 Margo Lanagan "The Boy Who Didn't Yearn" Allen & Unwin (White Time) [10][14]
2000 Margo Lanagan "Midsummer Mission" Allen & Unwin (White Time) [10][14]
2000 Margo Lanagan "White Time" Allen & Unwin (White Time) [10][14]
2001 Isobelle Carmody* Dreamwalker Lothian Books [15]
2001 Garth Nix "Lightning Bringer" Simon & Schuster (Love & Sex: Ten Stories of Truth) [10][15]
2002 No award given — — [16]
2003 No award given — — [17]
2004 Margo Lanagan* "Singing My Sister Down" Allen & Unwin (Black Juice) [10][18]
2004 Chris Barnes "The Glass Flower" CSFG Publishing (Encounters) [10][18]
2004 Bill Congreve "The Shooter at Heartrock Waterhole" Viking Press (The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm) [10][18]
2004 Margo Lanagan "Rite of Spring" Allen & Unwin (Black Juice) [10][18]
2005 Garth Nix* "Nicholas Sayre and the Creature in the Case" Allen & Unwin () [10][19]
2005 "" Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine [19]
2006 Shaun Tan* The Arrival Lothian Books [20]
2006 Deborah Biancotti "The Dying Light" Eidolon Books (Eidolon I) [10][20]
2006 Simon Brown "Leviathan" Eidolon Books (Eidolon I) [10][20]
2006 Margo Lanagan "Baby Jane" Allen & Unwin (Red Spikes) [10][20]
2006 Margo Lanagan "" Allen & Unwin (Red Spikes) [10][20]
2006 Margo Lanagan "" Allen & Unwin (Red Spikes) [10][20]
2007 Deborah Biancotti* "" Ticonderoga Publications () [10][21]
2007 Shane Jiraiya Cummings "" Ticonderoga Publications () [10][21]
2007 Garth Nix "" [21]
2007 Garth Nix "" Allen & Unwin () [10][21]
2007 "" Ticonderoga Publications () [10][21]
2008 Trent Jamieson* "" [22]
2008 Deborah Biancotti "" Norilana Books () [10][22]
2008 "" Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine [22]
2008 "Eye of the Beholder" DAW Books () [10][22]
2009 Cat Sparks* "" (Masques) [10][23]
2009 "Dragon Bones" Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine [23]
2009 Sue Isle "" [23]
2009 Ian McHugh "Once a Month, On a Sunday" Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine [23]
2009 Tansy Rayner Roberts "Like Us" [23]
2010 Margo Lanagan* "A Thousand Flowers" Allen & Unwin (Zombies Vs Unicorns) [24]
2010 "Inksucker" (Worlds Next Door) [25]
2010 "One Story, No Refunds" [25]
2010 & Tansy Rayner Roberts "Nine Times" (Worlds Next Door) [25]
2010 "An Ordinary Boy" (The Tangled Bank) [25]
2011 Sue Isle* "" (Nightsiders) [26]
2011 Kathleen Jennings "Finishing School" Candlewick Press (Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories) [27]
2011 Cate Kennedy "Seventy-Two Derwents" Allen & Unwin (The Wicked Wood: Tales From the Tower Volume 2) [27]
2011 Martine Murray "One Window" Allen & Unwin (The Wilful Eye: Tales From the Tower Volume 1) [27]
2011 Tansy Rayner Roberts "The Patrician" (Love and Romanpunk) [27]
2012 * "The Wisdom of the Ants" Clarkesworld Magazine [28]
2012 "Stilled Lifes x 11" (Trust Me Too) [29]
2012 Jack Heath "Rats" (Trust Me Too) [29]
2012 Jack Nicholls "The Statues of Melbourne" Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine 56 [29]
2012 "The Worry Man" ([Untitled] 5) [29]
2013 Juliet Marillier* "By Bone-light" Ticonderoga Publications (Prickle Moon) [30][31]
2013 "Mah Song" (The Bone Chime Song and Other Stories) [30]
2013 "Morning Star" (One Small Step, an anthology of discoveries) [30]
2013 Kim Wilkins "The Year of Ancient Ghosts" Ticonderoga Publications (The Year of Ancient Ghosts) [30]
2014 * "Vanilla" (Kaleidoscope) [32]
2014 Goldie Alexander "In Hades" [33]
2014 "Falling Leaves" Apex Magazine [33]
2014 D M Cornish "The Fuller and the Bogle" Omnibus Books (Tales from the Half-Continent) [33]
2014 "Signature" (Kaleidoscope) [33]
2015 * "The Miseducation of Mara Lys" (Cherry Crow Children) [34]
2015 "In Sheep's Clothing" Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine 61 [35]
2015 "The Nexus Tree" CSFG (The Never Never Land) [35]
2015 "The Heart of the Labyrinth" (In Memory: A Tribute to Sir Terry Pratchett) [35]
2015 "Blueblood" Ticonderoga Publications (Hear Me Roar) [35]
2015 Welcome to Orphancorp Seizure [35]
2016 * "Pretty Jennie Greenteeth" (Strange Little Girls) [36][37]
2016 "A Right Pretty Mate" (Dreaming in the Dark) [36]
2016 Jack Nicholls "Dune Time" Tor.com [36]
2016 "No One Here is Going to Save You" (In Your Face) [36]
2016 Tansy Rayner Roberts "Did We Break the End of the World" (Defying Doomsday) [36]
2017 Tansy Rayner Roberts* Girl Reporter [38][39]
2017 Amie Kaufman "One Small Step" (Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology) [36][38]
2017 Will Kostakis "I Can See the Ending" (Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology) [38]
2017 Jaclyn Moriarty "Competition Entry #349" (Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology) [38]
2017 Michael Pryor "First Casualty" (Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology) [38]
2017 Lili Wilkinson "Oona Underground" (Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology) [38]
2018 * "The Sea-Maker of Darmid Bay" Interzone 277 [40][41]
2018 "A Robot Like Me" (Mother of Invention) [40]
2018 "The Moon Collector" (Under the Full Moon's Light) [40]
2018 "Eight Step Koan" Ate Bit Bear (Sword and Sonnet) [40]
2018 "For Weirdless Days and Weary Nights" Breach 08 [40]
2019 The Jindabyne Secret Deadset Press [42][43]
2019 Glass-Heart SOV Media [42]
2019 Tansy Rayner Roberts "Dragon By Subscription" (self-published on Patreon) [42]
2019 "Seaweed" Breach 11 [42]
2019 Ellen van Neerven "Each City" Walker Books Australia (Kindred: 12 Queer #LoveOZYA Stories) [42]
2019 "Rats" Walker Books Australia (Kindred: 12 Queer #LoveOZYA Stories) [42]
2020 Nikky Lee "Dingo & Sister" Andromeda Spaceways Magazine #78 [44][45]
2020 Nikky Lee "Ram's Revenge" Aries, Deadset Press [44]
2020 Juliet Marillier "Pea Soup" Mother Thorn and Other Tales of Courage and Kindness, Serenity Press [44]
2020 Juliet Marillier "The Witching Well" Mother Thorn and Other Tales of Courage and Kindness, Serenity Press [44]
2020 Freya Marske "Eat Prey, Love" Unnatural Order, CSFG [44]
2020 Tansy Rayner Roberts "Kids These Days" Rebuilding Tomorrow, Twelfth Planet Press [44]

See also[]

  • Ditmar Award, an Australian science fiction award established in 1969

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