Aurealis Award winners announced

The 2014 Aurealis Award winners were announced at a ceremony in Canberra on Saturday 11 April.

The winning titles were:

Fantasy novel

• Dreamer’s Pool (Juliet Marillier, Pan Macmillan)

Science-fiction novel

• Peacemaker (Marianne de Pierres, Angry Robot)

Young adult novel

• The Cracks in the Kingdom (Jaclyn Moriarty, Pan Macmillan)

Children’s fiction

• Shadow Sister: Dragon Keeper (Carole Wilkinson, Black Dog Books)

 Horror novel

• Razorhurst (Justine Larbalestier, A&U)

Anthology

• Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories (ed by Alisa Krasnostein & Julia Rios, Twelfth Planet Press)

Collection

• The Female Factory (Lisa L Hannett & Angela Slatter, Twelfth Planet Press)

Graphic novel / illustrated work

• Mr Unpronounceable and the Sect of the Bleeding Eye (Tim Molloy, Milk Shadow Books)

Fantasy short story

• ‘St Dymphna’s School for Poison Girls’ (Angela Slatter, The Review of Australian Fiction, Volume 9, Issue 3)

Science-fiction short story

• ‘Wine, Women and Stars’ (Thoraiya Dyer, Analog Volume CXXXIV, Nos 1&2 Jan/Feb)

Horror short story

• ‘Home and Hearth’ (Angela Slatter, Home and Hearth, Spectral Press)

Young adult short story

• ‘Vanilla’ (Dirk Flinthart, Kaleidoscope, Twelfth Planet Press).

The full list of 2014 finalists is available here.

To see the winners of last year’s Aurealis Awards, click here.

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