Aurealis Awards shortlists announced

The shortlists for the 2022 Aurealis Awards, presented for science fiction, fantasy and horror writing in Australia, have been announced.

Among the shortlists are:

Best Fantasy Novel

• The Not So Chosen One (Kate Emery, Text)
• The Stone Road (Trent Jamieson, Erewhon)
• A Restless Truth (Freya Marske, Tor)
• Blitz (Daniel O’Malley, HarperCollins)
• Path of Thorns (Angela Slatter, Titan)
• Honour Among Ghosts (Sean Williams, A&U)

Best Science Fiction Novel

• Hovering (Rhett Davis, Hachette)
• The Stranger (Kathryn Hore, A&U)
• 36 Streets (T R Napper, Titan)
• Here Goes Nothing (Steve Toltz, Hamish Hamilton)
• Bootstrap (Georgina Young, Text)

Best Horror Novel

• Sallow Bend (Alan Baxter, Cemetery Dance)
• Scavengers (Robert Hood, Clan Destine Press)
• The Stranger (Kathryn Hore, A&U)
• The Stone Road (Trent Jamieson, Erewhon)
• Path of Thorns (Angela Slatter, Titan)

Best Young Adult Novel

• Night Lights (Sarah Epstein, Fourteen Press)
• The Rarkyn’s Familiar (Nikky Lee, Parliament House Press)
• Only a Monster (Vanessa Len, A&U)
• If You Could See the Sun (Ann Liang, HQ Fiction)
• We Who Hunt the Hollow (Kate Murray, Hardie Grant Children’s Books)
• League of Liars (Astrid Scholte, A&U)

Best Children’s Fiction

• The Wintrish Girl (Melanie La’Brooy, UQP)
• Gus and the Starlight (Victoria Carless, HarperCollins)
• The Wrath of the Woolington Wyrm (Karen Foxlee, illus by Frieda Chiu, A&U)
• The Raven’s Song (Zana Fraillon & Bren MacDibble, A&U)
• The Goodbye Year (Emily Gale, Text)
• Mars Awakens (H M Waugh, A&U).

Shortlists were also announced for categories including best YA, horror, fantasy and science fiction short stories and novellas, as well as best graphic novel/illustrated work, collection and anthology. To see the full shortlists, click here.

The winners will be presented by the Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild at the Aurealis Awards ceremony in Canberra on 3 June 2023.

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