Aurealis Award 2015 winners announced
The winners of the 2015 Aurealis Awards for the best science-fiction, fantasy and horror writing in Australia have been announced.
The winning titles were:
Best Fantasy Novel
- Day Boy (Trent Jamieson, Text)
Best Science Fiction Novel
- Illuminae (Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff, A&U)
Best Horror Novel
- Day Boy (Trent Jamieson, Text)
Best Children’s Fiction
- A Single Stone (Meg McKinlay, Walker Books)
Best Young Adult Novel
- In The Skin of a Monster (Kathryn Barker, A&U)
Best Graphic Novel / Illustrated Work
- The Singing Bones (Shaun Tan, A&U)
Best Collection
- To Hold the Bridge (Garth Nix, A&U)
Best Anthology
- Bloodlines (ed by Amanda Pillar, Ticonderoga Publications)
Sara Douglass Book Series Award
- ‘The Watergivers’ (Glenda Larke, HarperVoyager)
The Convenors’ Award for Excellence
- Letters to Tiptree (ed by Alexandra Pierce & Alisa Krasnostein, Twelfth Planet Press)
Best Fantasy Short Story
- ‘The Giant’s Lady’ (Rowena Cory Daniells, Legends 2, Newcon Press)
Best Fantasy Novella
- ‘Defy the Grey Kings’ (Jason Fischer, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Firkin Press)
Best Science Fiction Short Story
- ‘All the Wrong Places’ (Sean Williams, Meeting Infinity, Solaris)
Best Science Fiction Novella
- ‘By Frogsled and Lizardback to Outcast Venusian Lepers’ (Garth Nix, Old Venus, Random House)
Best Horror Short Story
- ‘Bullets’ (Joanne Anderton, In Sunshine Bright and Darkness Deep, AHWA)
Best Horror Novella
- ‘The Miseducation of Mara Lys’ (Deborah Kalin, Cherry Crow Children, Twelfth Planet Press)
Best Young Adult Short Story
- ‘The Miseducation of Mara Lys’ (Deborah Kalin, Cherry Crow Children, Twelfth Planet Press).
The winners were announced in Brisbane on 25 March at the Australian National Science Fiction Convention: Contact2016. The full list of 2015 finalists is available here.
To see the winners of last year’s Aurealis Awards, click here.
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