Aurealis Award for best young-adult short story

From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
Jump to: navigation, search
Aurealis Award for young-adult short story
A gold colored circle with the words "aurealis awards" across the middle, and "winner" situated in the lower portion. In the top portion is a smaller black and white circle with various curving lines and a shape of an eye in the middle
The Aurealis Award design is often placed on the winning book's cover as a promotional tool.[1]
Awarded for Excellence in young-adult speculative fiction short stories
Country Australia
Presented by Chimaera Publications,
Conflux Inc
First awarded 1995
Currently held by Thoraiya Dyer
Official website Official site

The Aurealis Awards are presented annually by the Australia-based Chimaera Publications and Conflux Inc 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 current 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, and both Dirk Flinthart and Tansy Rayner Roberts have the most nominations without winning, having been a losing finalists three times.

Winners and nominees

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 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 Ruth Starke* The Twist in the Tale 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* "The Queen's Notice" 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 (Across the Wall: Tales of the Old Kingdom and Elsewhere) [10][19]
2005 Dirk Flinthart "The Red Priest's Homecoming" 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 "A Feather in the Breast of God" Allen & Unwin (Red Spikes) [10][20]
2006 Margo Lanagan "Forever Upward" Allen & Unwin (Red Spikes) [10][20]
2007 Deborah Biancotti* "A Scar for Leida" Ticonderoga Publications (Fantastic Wonder Stories) [10][21]
2007 Shane Jiraiya Cummings "Yamabushi Kaidan and the Smoke Dragon" Ticonderoga Publications (Fantastic Wonder Stories) [10][21]
2007 Garth Nix "Bad Luck, Trouble, Death and Vampire Sex" Eclipse [21]
2007 Garth Nix "Holly and Iron" Allen & Unwin (Dark Alchemy) [10][21]
2007 Tracey Rolfe "Cast Off" Ticonderoga Publications (Fantastic Wonder Stories) [10][21]
2008 Trent Jamieson* "Cracks" Shiny [22]
2008 Deborah Biancotti "The Tailor of Time" Norilana Books (Clockwork Phoenix) [10][22]
2008 Dirk Flinthart "This Is Not My Story" Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine [22]
2008 Kevin Maclean "Eye of the Beholder" DAW Books (Misspelled) [10][22]
2009 Cat Sparks* "Seventeen" CSFG Publishing (Masques) [10][23]
2009 Joanne Anderton "Dragon Bones" Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine [23]
2009 Sue Isle "Paper Dragons" Shiny [23]
2009 Ian McHugh "Once a Month, On a Sunday" Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine [23]
2009 Tansy Rayner Roberts "Like Us" Shiny [23]
2010 Margo Lanagan "A Thousand Flowers" Allen & Unwin (Zombies Vs Unicorns) [24]
2010 Aidan Doyle "Inksucker" FableCroft Publishing (Worlds Next Door) [25]
2010 Dirk Flinthart "One Story, No Refunds" Shiny [25]
2010 Kaia Landelius & Tansy Rayner Roberts "Nine Times" FableCroft Publishing (Worlds Next Door) [25]
2010 Jen White "An Ordinary Boy" Tangled Bank Press (The Tangled Bank) [25]
2011 Sue Isle "Nation of the Night" Twelfth Planet Press (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" Twelfth Planet Press (Love and Romanpunk) [27]
2012 Thoraiya Dyer* "The Wisdom of the Ants" Clarkesworld Magazine [28]
2012 Justin D'Ath "Stilled Lifes x 11" Ford Street Publishing (Trust Me Too) [29]
2012 Jack Heath "Rats" Ford Street Publishing (Trust Me Too) [29]
2012 Jack Nicholls "The Statues of Melbourne" Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine 56 [29]
2012 Adrienne Tam "The Worry Man" BusyBird Publishing ([Untitled] 5) [29]
2013 Juliet Marillier* "By Bone-light" Ticonderoga Publications (Prickle Moon) [30][31]
2013 Joanne Anderton "Mah Song" FableCroft Publishing (The Bone Chime Song and Other Stories) [30]
2013 D. K. Mok "Morning Star" FableCroft Publishing (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 Dirk Flinthart* "Vanilla" Twelfth Planet Press (Kaleidoscope) [32]
2014 Goldie Alexander "In Hades" Celapene Press [33]
2014 Liz Argyll "Falling Leaves" Apex Magazine [33]
2014 D M Cornish "The Fuller and the Bogle" Omnibus Books (Tales from the Half-Continent) [33]
2014 Faith Mudge "Signature" Twelfth Planet Press (Kaleidoscope) [33]

See also

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

References

  1. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  3. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  4. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  5. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  6. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  7. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  8. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  10. ↑ 10.00 10.01 10.02 10.03 10.04 10.05 10.06 10.07 10.08 10.09 10.10 10.11 10.12 10.13 10.14 10.15 10.16 10.17 10.18 10.19 10.20 10.21 10.22 10.23 10.24 10.25 10.26 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  12. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  13. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 14.4 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  16. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  17. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 18.3 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 20.2 20.3 20.4 20.5 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 21.2 21.3 21.4 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  22. ↑ 22.0 22.1 22.2 22.3 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  23. ↑ 23.0 23.1 23.2 23.3 23.4 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  24. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  25. ↑ 25.0 25.1 25.2 25.3 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  26. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  27. ↑ 27.0 27.1 27.2 27.3 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  28. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  29. ↑ 29.0 29.1 29.2 29.3 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  30. ↑ 30.0 30.1 30.2 30.3 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  31. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  32. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  33. ↑ 33.0 33.1 33.2 33.3 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

External links

Retrieved from "https://infogalactic.com/w/index.php?title=Aurealis_Award_for_best_young-adult_short_story&oldid=2819792"