Ditmar Awards 2015
science fiction awards database
Where and When:
Swancon 40,
Perth, Australia :
April 5, 2015
Eligibility Year: 2014
Eligibility Year: 2014
Novel
- Winner (tie): The Lascar's Dagger, Glenda Larke (Hachette)
- Winner (tie): Thief's Magic, Trudi Canavan (Hachette Australia)
- Bound, Alan Baxter (Voyager)
- Clariel, Garth Nix (HarperCollins)
- The Godless, Ben Peek (Tor UK)
Novella Or Novelette
- Winner: “The Legend Trap”, Sean Williams (Kaleidoscope)
- “The Darkness in Clara”, Alan Baxter (SQ Mag #14)
- “Escapement”, Stephanie Gunn (Kisses by Clockwork)
- “The Female Factory”, Lisa L. Hannett & Angela Slatter (The Female Factory)
- “The Ghost of Hephaestus”, Charlotte Nash (Phantazein)
- “St Dymphna's School for Poison Girls”, Angela Slatter (Review of Australian Fiction Volume 9, Issue 3)
Short Story
- Winner: “The Seventh Relic”, Cat Sparks (Phantazein)
- “Bahamut”, Thoraiya Dyer (Phantazein)
- “Cookie Cutter Superhero”, Tansy Rayner Roberts (Kaleidoscope)
- “Signature”, Faith Mudge (Kaleidoscope)
- “Vanilla”, Dirk Flinthart (Kaleidoscope)
Collected Work
- Winner: Kaleidoscope, Alisa Krasnostein & Julia Rios, eds. (Twelfth Planet)
- Phantazein, Tehani Wessely, ed. (FableCroft)
- The Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2013, Liz Grzyb & Talie Helene, eds. (Ticonderoga)
Fan Publication In Any Medium
- Winner: The Writer and the Critic, Kirstyn McDermott & Ian Mond
- Galactic Chat, Sean Wright, Helen Stubbs, David McDonald & Alexandra Pierce, et al (plus Sarah Parker and Mark Webb)
- Galactic Suburbia, Alisa Krasnostein, Alexandra Pierce, Tansy Rayner Roberts & Andrew Finch
- It Grows!, Nick Stathopoulos
- Snapshot 2014, Tsana Dolichva, Nick Evans, Stephanie Gunn & Kathryn Linge, et al (plus Elanor Matton-Johnson, David McDonald, Helen Merrick, Jason Nahrung, Ben Payne, Alex Pierce, Tansy Rayner Roberts, Helen Stubbs, Katharine Stubbs, Tehani Wessely, and Sean Wright)
Fan Writer
Fan Artist
- Winner: Kathleen Jennings, for body of work, including Fakecon art and Illustration Friday series
- Nalini Haynes, for body of work, including �Interstellar Park Ranger Bond, Jaime Bond�, �Gabba and Slave Lay-off: Star Wars explains Australian politics�, �The Driver�, and �Unmasked� in Dark Matter Zine
- Nick Stathopoulos, for movie poster of It Grows!
Artwork
- Winner: Kathleen Jennings for Black-Winged Angels by Angela Slatter (Ticonderoga)
- Kathleen Jennings for The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings by Angela Slatter (Tartarus Press)
- Kathleen Jennings for Phantazein by Tehani Wessely, ed. (FableCroft)
New Talent
William Atheling Jr. Award For Criticism Or Review
- Winner: “Does Sex Make Science Fiction Soft?”, Tansy Rayner Roberts (Uncanny Magazine #1)
- “The Eddings Reread series”, Tehani Wessely, Jo Anderton & Alexandra Pierce (A Conversational Life)
- The Reviewing New Who series, David McDonald, Tansy Rayner Roberts & Tehani Wessely
- Reviews in Adventures of a Bookonaut, Sean Wright
- Reviews in FictionMachine, Grant Watson
- Reviews in The Angrist, Grant Watson
Remarks:
Only Katherine Stubbs is a first time Ditmar finalist this year. This year's ballot includes Bruce Gillespie's 46th Ditmar nomination (with 21 wins), Alisa Krasnostein's 30th Ditmar nomination (with 10 prior wins and 1 this year), Tansy Rayner Roberts' 35th Ditmar nomination (also with 10 prior wins and an Atheling win this year), Cat Sparks' 28th Ditmar nomination (with 13 prior wins and 1 this year). Note that database limitations do not permit indexing all nominees for two of the fan publications this year. Results this year include Glenda Larke's first Ditmar win, after two prior nominations; Trudi Canavan's second Ditmar win; and Sean Williams' 8th Ditmar win.
Only Katherine Stubbs is a first time Ditmar finalist this year. This year's ballot includes Bruce Gillespie's 46th Ditmar nomination (with 21 wins), Alisa Krasnostein's 30th Ditmar nomination (with 10 prior wins and 1 this year), Tansy Rayner Roberts' 35th Ditmar nomination (also with 10 prior wins and an Atheling win this year), Cat Sparks' 28th Ditmar nomination (with 13 prior wins and 1 this year). Note that database limitations do not permit indexing all nominees for two of the fan publications this year. Results this year include Glenda Larke's first Ditmar win, after two prior nominations; Trudi Canavan's second Ditmar win; and Sean Williams' 8th Ditmar win.
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