Aurealis Award for best horror short story

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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,
WASFF
First awarded 1995
Currently held by Joanne Anderton
Official 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, hounarable 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 shares the record for most nominations with Stephen Dedman, both having been nominated eight times. 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
1995 Francis Payne* "Olympia" Bambada Press (Olympia) [8][9]
1995 Terry Dowling "Scaring the Train" MirrorDanse (The Man Who Lost Red) [8][9]
1995 Leanne Frahm "Entropy" Sybylla (She's Fantastical) [8][9]
1995 Philip Neilsen "Rock and Roll Has to Die" Reed Books (Dark House) [8][9]
1995 Kaaron Warren "Skin Holes" Penguin (Strange Fruit) [8][9]
1996 Sean Williams* "Passing the Bone" 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* "Jenny Come to Play" 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* "Atrax" Ticonderoga (New Adventures in Sci-Fi) [9][13]
1999 Allan Baillie "The Mouth" Longman (SpinOuts) [9][13]
1999 Stephen Dedman "Honest Ghosts" Gothic.net [13]
1999 Kain Massin "Escape from Stalingrad" Harbinger [13]
1999 Alison Venugoban "Funeral Rights" Harbinger [13]
2000 Deborah Biancotti* "The First and Final Game" Altair [14]
2000 Jack Dann "Marilyn" Eidolon [14]
2000 Stephen Dedman "A Sentiment Open to Doubt" Ticonderoga Online [14]
2000 Robert Hood "That Old Black Graffiti" Hodder (Tales from the Wasteland) [9][14]
2000 Michael Pryor "Sewercide" Aurealis [14]
2001 Simon Haynes* "Sleight of Hand" Potato Monkey [15]
2001 Stephen Dedman "Probable Cause" Orb [15]
2001 Robert Hood "Rotten Times" Aurealis [15]
2001 Rick Kennett & Paul Collins "Whispers" Cosmos Books (Stalking Midnight) [9][15]
2001 Alison Venugoban "Happy Birthday to Me" CSFG Publishing (Nor of Human...) [9][15]
2002 Kim Westwood* "Oracle" Redsine [16]
2002 Stephen Dedman "Wastelands" Agog! (Agog! Fantastic Fiction) [9][16]
2002 Claire McKenna "What the Tide Brings" Fables and Reflections [16]
2002 Chris McMahon "Within Twilight" Redsine [16]
2003 Simon Brown* "Love is a Stone" HarperCollins (Gathering the Bones) [9][17]
2003 Stephen Dedman "The Wind Shall Blow For Ever Mair" HarperCollins (Gathering the Bones) [9][17]
2003 Sue Isle "Amy's Stars" Orb [17]
2003 Kyla Ward "Kijin Tea" Agog! (Agog! Terrific Tales) [9][17]
2003 Janeen Webb "Blake's Angel" HarperCollins (Gathering the Bones) [9][17]
2004 Paul Haines* "The Last Days of Kali Yuga" NFG [18]
2004 Stephen Dedman "Twilight of the Idols" DAW (Conqueror Fantastic) [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 (Forever Shores) [9][18]
2004 Alinta Thornton "Kathleen, Furnished with Bees" Dark Animus [18]
2005 Lee Battersby* "Pater Familias" Shadowed Realms [19]
2005 James Cain "The Ride" Dark Krypt [19]
2005 Paul Haines "Doof, Doof, Doof" Dark Animus [19]
2005 Chuck McKenzie "Eight-Beat Bar" Aurealis [19]
2005 Cat Sparks "Macciato Lane" Ticonderoga Online [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" CSFG Publishing (The Outcast) [9][20]
2007 Anna Tambour* "The Jeweller of Second-Hand Roe" Subterranean [21]
2007 Terry Dowling "Toother" Night Shade Books (Eclipse One) [21][22]
2007 Richard Harland "Special Perceptions" Ash-Tree Press (At Ease with the Dead) [9][21]
2007 Rick Kennett "The Dark and What It Said" Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine [21]
2007 Ben Peek "Black Betty" Lone Star Stories [21]
2008 Kirstyn McDermott* "Painlessness" Greatest Uncommon Denominator [23]
2008 Lee Battersby "In From the Snow’" HarperVoyager (Dreaming Again) [9][23]
2008 Deborah Biancotti "Pale Dark Soldier" Midnight Echo [23]
2008 Trent Jamieson "Day Boy" Murky Depths [23]
2008 Ian McHugh "Bitter Dreams" Galaxy Press (L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume XXIV) [9][23]
2009 Paul Haines* (tie) "Slice of Life – A Spot of Liver" The Mayne Press (Slice of Life) [9][24]
2009 Paul Haines* (tie) "Wives" Coeur de Lion Publishing (X6) [9][24]
2009 Felicity Dowker "Jesse's Gift" Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine [24]
2009 Christopher Green "Having Faith" Nossa Morte [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" Twelfth Planet Press (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) "The Past is a Bridge Best Left Burnt" Brimstone Press (The Last Days of Kali Yuga) [27]
2011 Lisa L. Hannett* (tie) "The Short Go: a Future in Eight Seconds" Ticonderoga Publications (Bluegrass Symphony) [27]
2011 Deborah Biancotti "And the Dead Shall Outnumber the Living" Gilgamesh Press (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" Twelfth Planet Press (Through Splintered Walls) [29]
2012 Joanne Anderton "Sanaa's Army" Ticonderoga Publications (Bloodstones) [30]
2012 Jodi Cleghorn "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 Joanne Anderton "Fencelines" FableCroft Publishing (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" Twelfth Planet Press (Caution: Contains Small Parts) [31]
2013 Kaaron Warren "The Human Moth" Miskatonic Press (The Grimscribe's Puppets) [31]
2014 Angela Slatter* "Home and Hearth" Spectral Press (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" ChiZine Publications (Fearful Symmetries) [34]
2015 Joanne Anderton* "Bullets" AHWA (In Sunshine Bright and Darkness Deep) [35]
2015 Lisa L. Hannett "Consorting With Fish" Cohesion Press (Blurring the Line) [36]
2015 Lisa L. Hannett "Heirloom Pieces" Apex Publications (Apex Magazine) [36]
2015 Deborah Kalin "The Briskwater Mare" Twelfth Planet Press (Cherry Crow Children) [36]
2015 Tracie McBride "Breaking Windows" Aurealis 84 [36]
2015 Kirstyn McDermott "Self, Contained" TDM Press (The Dark) [36]

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
2001 Kirstyn McDermott "Smile for Me" Redsine [9]
2001 Stephen Dedman "Ravens" Interzone [9]
2002 Robert Hood "Number 7" MirrorDanse (Immaterial) [9]
2002 Deborah Biancotti "Silicon Cast" Redsine [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" Simulacrum [9]
2005 Greg Guerin* "The Deviation Road" Borderlands [9]
2005 Paul Haines* "The Light in Autumn’s Leaves" Borderlands [9]
2005 Martin Livings* "In Nomine Patris" Shadowed Realms [9]
2006 Jacinta Butterworth "Love Affair" Coeur de Lion Publishing (C0ck) [9][37]
2006 Dirk Flinthart "One Night Stand" Agog! (Agog! Ripping Reads) [9]
2006 Margo Lanagan "Under Hell, Over Heaven" Allen & Unwin (Red Spikes) [9]
2006 A. M. Muffaz "Mosquito Story" Fantasy Magazine [9]
2007 Margo Lanagan "She-Creatures" Night Shade Books (Eclipse One) [9][22]
2007 Martin Livings "There was Darkness" Ticonderoga (Fantastic Wonder Stories) [9]
2007 Miranda Siemienowicz "Lion’s Breath" Island [9]

See also

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

References

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