Aurealis Awards 2023
science fiction awards database
Winners announced: June 3, 2023
Where: Canberra
Eligibility Year: 2022
Where: Canberra
Eligibility Year: 2022
Sf Novel
- Winner: 36 Streets, T. R. Napper (Titan)
- Bootstrap, Georgina Young (Text)
- Here Goes Nothing, Steve Toltz (Hamish Hamilton)
- Hovering, Rhett Davis (Hachette AU)
- The Stranger, Kathryn Hore (Allen & Unwin)
Sf Novella
- Winner: Resembling Lepus, Amanda Kool (Grey Matter)
- Cobalt Blue, Matthew Reilly (Macmillan)
- “The Goruden-Mairu Job”, T. R. Napper (Night, Rain, and Neon)
- “The Sisters of Saint Nicola of The Almost Perpetual Motion vs the Lurch”, Garth Nix (Tor.com 13 Jul 2022)
Sf Short Story
- Winner: “As Though I Were a Little Sun”, Grace Chan (Fireside Sep 2022)
- “Death By Water”, Grace Chan (From the Wasteland)
- “Fake Plants”, Scott Limbrick (The Furphy Anthology 2022)
- “One Man Army”, Scott Steensma (Aurealis Nov 2022)
- “Sharing a Meal at the End of the World”, Anya Ow (Haven Speculative Sep 2022)
- “Synaesthetics”, Helena O'Connor (Nature Jan 2022)
Fantasy Novel
- Winner: Path of Thorns, Angela Slatter (Titan)
- Blitz, Daniel O'Malley (HarperCollins)
- Honour Among Ghosts, Sean Williams (Allen & Unwin)
- The Not So Chosen One, Kate Emery (Text)
- A Restless Truth, Freya Marske (Tor)
- The Stone Road, Trent Jamieson (Erewhon)
Fantasy Novella
- Winner: Winterbloom, Kirstyn McDermott (Brain Jar)
- “Among the Faded Woods”, Faith Mudge (The Art of Being Human)
- The Bone Lantern, Angela Slatter (PS Publishing)
- Hovering, Dorothy-Jane Daniels (Luna)
- “Merry in Time”, Kathleen Jennings (Beneath Ceaseless Skies Mar 2022)
- “The Ocean, the Lighthouse Keeper, and the Sunset”, Lee Cope (The Art of Being Human)
Fantasy Short Story
- Winner: “The Icecutter's Daughter”, Aiki Flinthart (The Art of Being Human)
- “Ashes”, Tania Fordwalker (Aurealis Jun 2022)
- “Beautiful Horizon”, Steve Simpson (The Purpose of Reality: Solar)
- “The Past Laid Out on the Table”, Matt Tighe (Cast of Wonders Sep 2022)
- “Salon Faerie”, Tansy Rayner Roberts (self-published)
- “Tastes Like Home”, Kiera Lesley (Andromeda Spaceways Magazine Mar 2022)
Horror Novel
- Winner: The Stone Road, Trent Jamieson (Erewhon)
- Path of Thorns, Angela Slatter (Titan)
- Sallow Bend, Alan Baxter (Cemetery Dance)
- Scavengers, Robert Hood (Clan Destine)
- The Stranger, Kathryn Hore (Allen & Unwin)
Horror Novella
- Winner: “Kookaburra Cruel”, Aaron Dries (Damnation Games)
- “Among the Faded Woods”, Faith Mudge (The Art of Being Human)
- “Glyphlight”, Matan Elul (The New Mythic)
- The New Wife, Kirstyn McDermott (Brain Jar Press)
- “Rat's Alley”, Jeff Clulow (From the Wasteland)
- “Songs from Dark Annie's Bower”, Angela Slatter (Gaslight Ghouls: Uneasy Tales of Sherlock Holmes)
Horror Short Story
- Winner: “They Call Me Mother”, Geneve Flynn (Classic Monster Unleashed)
- “Beach Memories”, Matt Tighe (The NoSleep Podcast Jul 2022)
- “Dread Circus”, Pamela Jeffs (That is TOO Wrong! An Anthology of Offbeat Horror Vol 2)
- “The Hunt”, Martin Livings (Light Falling from a Long Dead Star)
- “Lidless Eyes that See”, Geneve Flynn (From the Wasteland)
- “Nona Doesn't Dance”, Aaron Dries (Cut to Care: A Collection of Little Hurts)
Anthology
- Winner: This All Come Back Now, Mykaela Saunders, ed. (University of Queensland)
- The Art of Being Human, Tehani Croft with Stephanie Lai, eds (FableCroft)
- Clamour and Mischief, Narrelle M. Harris, ed. (Clan Destine)
- Queer Weird West Tales, Julie Bozz, ed. (LIBRAtiger)
- Unlimited Futures, Rafeif Ismail, ed. (Fremantle)
- We are Providence, L E Daniels & Christa Carmen, eds. (Weird House)
Collection
- Winner: Here be Leviathans, Chris Flynn (University of Queensland)
- The Art of Broken Things, Joanne Anderton (Trepidatio)
- Everything Feels Like the End of the World, Else Fitzgerald (Allen & Unwin)
- The Fall: Tales from the Gulp 2, Alan Baxter (13th Dragon)
- Hard Places, Kirstyn McDermott (Trepidatio)
- Team Queen, Tansy Rayner Roberts (self-published)
Graphic Novel/illustrated Work
- Winner: The Tree of Ecstasy and Unbearable Sadness, Matt Ottley (Dirt Lane)
- Dark Heart #1, Scott Wilson, Katie Houghton-Ward & Justin Randall (Gestalt)
- Neverlanders, Tom Taylor & Jon Sommariva (Penguin Random House AU)
- Nottingham Vol. 2: A King's Ransom, David Hazan (Mad Cave)
Young Adult Novel
- Winner: Only a Monster, Vanessa Len (Allen & Unwin)
- If You Could See the Sun, Ann Liang (HQ Fiction)
- League of Liars, Astrid Scholte (Allen & Unwin)
- Night Lights, Sarah Epstein (Fourteen)
- The Rarkyn's Familiar, Nikky Lee (Parliament House)
- We Who Hunt the Hollow, Kate Murray (Hardie Grant Children's)
Young Adult Short Story
- Winner: “Tastes Like Home”, Kiera Lesley (Andromeda Spaceways Mar 2022)
- “Crone and the Girl”, Pamela Jeffs (The Seasonals)
- “Enter Elias Schmidt”, Phoenix Raig (The New Mythic)
- “Forbidden Voices”, EJ Delaney (Cast of Wonders 29 Sep 2022)
- “Tornadoes, Grief and Poutine”, Aline-Mwezi Niyonsenga (Augur Magazine Nov 2022)
- “Witchy Ways”, Tansy Rayner Roberts (Witchy Ways)
Children's Fiction
- Winner: The Wintrish Girl, Melanie La'Brooy (University of Queensland)
- The Goodbye Year, Emily Gale (Text)
- Gus and the Starlight, Victoria Carless (HarperCollins)
- Mars Awakens, HM Waugh (Allen & Unwin)
- The Raven's Song, Zana Fraillon & Bren MacDibble (Allen & Unwin)
- The Wrath of the Woolington Wyrm, Karen Foxlee, illustrated by Frieda Chiu (Allen & Unwin)
Convenors' Award
- Winner: The Phantom Never Dies, Maria Lewis (https://www.novafm.com.au/podcast/the-phantom-never-dies/)
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