Ditmar Awards
It's that time of year! I'm thrilled to announce that my novel 'Walking the Tree' has been shortlisted for best novel, and that that cover of 'Dead Sea Fruit', by the brilliant Olga Read, has been shortlisted for best artwork!
Press Release below. Congrats to all finalists.
Best Novel
Death Most Definite, Trent Jamieson (Hachette)
Madigan Mine, Kirstyn McDermott (Pan Macmillan)
Power and Majesty, Tansy Rayner Roberts (Voyager)
Stormlord Rising, Glenda Larke (Voyager)
Walking the Tree, Kaaron Warren (Angry Robot Books)
Best Novella or Novelette
"Acception", Tessa Kum (Eneit Press)
"All the Clowns in Clowntown", Andrew J McKiernan (Brimstone Press)
"Bleed", Peter M. Ball (Twelfth Planet Press)
"Her Gallant Needs", Paul Haines (Twelfth Planet Press)
"The Company Articles of Edward Teach", Thoraiya Dyer (Twelfth Planet Press)
Best Short Story
"All the Love in the World", Cat Sparks, Sprawl (Twelfth Planet Press)
"Bread and Circuses", Felicity Dowker, Scary Kisses (Ticonderoga Publications)
"One Saturday Night With Angel", Peter M. Ball, Sprawl (Twelfth Planet Press)
"She Said", Kirstyn McDermott, Scenes From the Second Storey (Morrigan Books)
"The House of Nameless", Jason Fischer, Writers of the Future XXVI (Galaxy Press)
"The February Dragon", Angela Slatter and Lisa L. Hannett, Scary Kisses (Ticonderoga Publications)
Best Collected Work
Baggage, edited by Gillian Polack (Eneit Press)
Macabre: A Journey through Australia's Darkest Fears, edited by Angela Challis and Marty Young (Brimstone Press)
Scenes from the Second Storey, edited by Amanda Pillar and Pete Kempshall (Morrigan Books)
Sprawl, edited by Alisa Krasnostein (Twelfth Planet Press)
Worlds Next Door, edited by Tehani Wessely (FableCroft Publishing)
Best Artwork
Cover art, The Angaelien Apocalypse/The Company Articles of Edward Teach (Twelfth Planet Press), Dion Hamill
Cover art, Australis Imaginarium (FableCroft Publishing), Shaun Tan
Cover art, Dead Sea Fruit (Ticonderoga Publications), Olga Read
Cover art, Savage Menace and Other Poems of Horror (P'rea Press), Andrew J McKiernan
"The Lost Thing" short film (Passion Pictures), Andrew Ruhemann and Shaun Tan
Best Fan Writer
Robert Hood, for Undead Backbrain
Chuck McKenzie, for work in Horrorscope
Alexandra Pierce, for body of work including reviews at Australian Speculative Fiction in Focus
Tehani Wessely, for body of work including reviews at Australian Speculative Fiction in Focus
Best Fan Artist
Rachel Holkner, for Continuum 6 props
Dick Jenssen, for cover art of Interstellar Ramjet Scoop
Amanda Rainey, for Swancon 36 logo
Best Fan Publication in Any Medium
Australian Speculative Fiction in Focus, edited by Alisa Krasnostein et al.
Bad Film Diaries podcast, Grant Watson
Galactic Suburbia podcast, Alisa Krasnostein, Tansy Rayner Roberts, and Alex Pierce
Terra Incognita podcast, Keith Stevenson
The Coode Street podcast, Gary K. Wolfe and Jonathan Strahan
The Writer and the Critic podcast, Kirstyn McDermott and Ian Mond
Best Achievement
Lisa L. Hannett, cover design for The Girl With No Hands and Other Tales (Ticonderoga Publications)
Helen Merrick and Andrew Milner, Academic Stream for Aussiecon 4
Amanda Rainey, cover design for Scary Kisses (Ticonderoga Publications)
Kyla Ward, Horror Stream and The Nightmare Ball for Aussiecon 4
Grant Watson and Sue Ann Barber, Media Stream for Aussiecon 4
Alisa Krasnostein, Kathryn Linge, Rachel Holkner, Alexandra Pierce, Tansy Rayner Roberts, and Tehani Wessely, Snapshot 2010
Best New Talent
Thoraiya Dyer
Lisa L. Hannett
Patty Jansen
Kathleen Jennings
Pete Kempshall
William Atheling Jr Award for Criticism or Review
Leigh Blackmore, for "Marvels and Horrors: Terry Dowling's Clowns at Midnight" in 21st Century Gothic (Scarecrow Press)
Damien Broderick, for editing Skiffy and Mimesis: More Best of Australian Science Fiction Review (Wildside Press)
Ross Murray, for "The Australian Dream Becomes Nightmare – Visions of Suburbia in Australian Science Fiction" in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine 44.
Tansy Rayner Roberts, for "A Modern Woman's Guide to Classic Who"
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The official ballot paper, including postal address information, may be
downloaded as a PDF format file from:
http://ditmars.sf.org.au/2011/2011_Ditmar_Ballot.pdf
Votes can be sent via email to:
Online voting will be available shortly, at:
Postal ballots will be distributed in the near future.
Voting for the Ditmar Award is conducted in accordance with the rules
specified at http://wiki.sf.org.au/Ditmar_rules, and is open to members
of Swancon Thirty Six (including supporting members) and to members of
Dudcon III who were eligible to vote in the 2010 Award. Voting in all
award categories is by the optional preferential system, and each
eligible individual may vote only once. All ballots (including emailed
ballots) should include the name and address of the voter. If you have
questions regarding the ballot or voting procedure, please email
ditmars@sf.org.au.
