Aurealis Award for best horror short story

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 Payne, FrancisFrancis Payne* "Olympia" Bambada Press (Olympia) [8][9]
1995 Dowling, TerryTerry Dowling "Scaring the Train" MirrorDanse (The Man Who Lost Red) [8][9]
1995 Frahm, LeanneLeanne Frahm "Entropy" Sybylla (She's Fantastical) [8][9]
1995 Neilsen, PhilipPhilip Neilsen "Rock and Roll Has to Die" Reed Books (Dark House) [8][9]
1995 Warren, KaaronKaaron Warren "Skin Holes" Penguin (Strange Fruit) [8][9]
1996 Williams, SeanSean Williams* "Passing the Bone" Eidolon [10]
1996 Dedman, StephenStephen Dedman "Never Seen by Waking Eyes" F&SF [10]
1996 Dowling, TerryTerry Dowling "Beckoning Nightframe" Eidolon [10]
1996 Patricia MacCormack "The Bloom of Decay" Bloodsongs [10]
1996 Warren, KaaronKaaron Warren "The Hanging People" Bloodsongs [10]
1997 Dowling, TerryTerry Dowling* "Jenny Come to Play" Eidolon [11]
1997 Congreve, BillBill Congreve "The Mullet That Screwed John West" MirrorDanse (Epiphanies of Blood) [9][11]
1997 J. M. Earle "Ten Minutes of Midnight" Aurealis [11]
1997 Williams, SeanSean Williams "The Freezing of Sarah" Bloodsongs [11]
1998 Warren, KaaronKaaron Warren* "A Positive" Bloodsongs [12]
1998 Paul Brandon "The Marsh Runners" Voyager (Dreaming Down-Under) [9][12]
1998 Parry, GlynGlyn Parry "Dawn Chorus" Moonstone (Fantastic Worlds) [9][12]
1998 Aaron Sterns "The Third Rail" Voyager (Dreaming Down-Under) [9][12]
1998 Warren, KaaronKaaron Warren "The Glass Woman" Aurealis [12]
1999 Williams, SeanSean Williams & Simon Brown* "Atrax" Ticonderoga (New Adventures in Sci-Fi) [9][13]
1999 Baillie, AllanAllan Baillie "The Mouth" Longman (SpinOuts) [9][13]
1999 Dedman, StephenStephen Dedman "Honest Ghosts" Gothic.net [13]
1999 Massin, KainKain Massin "Escape from Stalingrad" Harbinger [13]
1999 Alison Venugoban "Funeral Rights" Harbinger [13]
2000 Biancotti, DeborahDeborah Biancotti* "The First and Final Game" Altair [14]
2000 Dann, JackJack Dann "Marilyn" Eidolon [14]
2000 Dedman, StephenStephen Dedman "A Sentiment Open to Doubt" Ticonderoga Online [14]
2000 Hood, RobertRobert Hood "That Old Black Graffiti" Hodder (Tales from the Wasteland) [9][14]
2000 Pryor, MichaelMichael Pryor "Sewercide" Aurealis [14]
2001 Haynes, SimonSimon Haynes* "Sleight of Hand" Potato Monkey [15]
2001 Dedman, StephenStephen Dedman "Probable Cause" Orb [15]
2001 Hood, RobertRobert Hood "Rotten Times" Aurealis [15]
2001 Kennett, RickRick 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 Westwood, KimKim Westwood* "Oracle" Redsine [16]
2002 Dedman, StephenStephen 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 Brown, SimonSimon Brown* "Love is a Stone" HarperCollins (Gathering the Bones) [9][17]
2003 Dedman, StephenStephen Dedman "The Wind Shall Blow For Ever Mair" HarperCollins (Gathering the Bones) [9][17]
2003 Isle, SueSue Isle "Amy's Stars" Orb [17]
2003 Ward, KylaKyla Ward "Kijin Tea" Agog! (Agog! Terrific Tales) [9][17]
2003 Webb, JaneenJaneen Webb "Blake's Angel" HarperCollins (Gathering the Bones) [9][17]
2004 Haines, PaulPaul Haines* "The Last Days of Kali Yuga" NFG [18]
2004 Dedman, StephenStephen Dedman "Twilight of the Idols" DAW (Conqueror Fantastic) [9][18]
2004 Harland, RichardRichard Harland "The Border" Agog! (Agog! Smashing Stories) [9][18]
2004 Peek, BenBen 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 Battersby, LeeLee Battersby* "Pater Familias" Shadowed Realms [19]
2005 James Cain "The Ride" Dark Krypt [19]
2005 Haines, PaulPaul Haines "Doof, Doof, Doof" Dark Animus [19]
2005 McKenzie, ChuckChuck McKenzie "Eight-Beat Bar" Aurealis [19]
2005 Sparks, CatCat Sparks "Macciato Lane" Ticonderoga Online [19]
2006 Dedman, StephenStephen Dedman* "Dead of Winter" Weird Tales [20]
2006 Lanagan, MargoMargo Lanagan "Winkie" Allen & Unwin (Red Spikes) [9][20]
2006 Lawson, ChrisChris Lawson "Hieronymous Boche" Eidolon Books (Eidolon I) [9][20]
2006 Warren, KaaronKaaron Warren "Dead Sea Fruit" Fantasy Magazine [20]
2006 Warren, KaaronKaaron Warren "Woman Train" CSFG Publishing (The Outcast) [9][20]
2007 Tambour, AnnaAnna Tambour* "The Jeweller of Second-Hand Roe" Subterranean [21]
2007 Dowling, TerryTerry Dowling "Toother" Night Shade Books (Eclipse One) [21][22]
2007 Harland, RichardRichard Harland "Special Perceptions" Ash-Tree Press (At Ease with the Dead) [9][21]
2007 Kennett, RickRick Kennett "The Dark and What It Said" Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine [21]
2007 Peek, BenBen Peek "Black Betty" Lone Star Stories [21]
2008 McDermott, KirstynKirstyn McDermott* "Painlessness" Greatest Uncommon Denominator [23]
2008 Battersby, LeeLee Battersby "In From the Snow’" HarperVoyager (Dreaming Again) [9][23]
2008 Biancotti, DeborahDeborah Biancotti "Pale Dark Soldier" Midnight Echo [23]
2008 Jamieson, TrentTrent Jamieson "Day Boy" Murky Depths [23]
2008 McHugh, IanIan McHugh "Bitter Dreams" Galaxy Press (L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume XXIV) [9][23]
2009 Haines, PaulPaul Haines* (tie) "Slice of Life – A Spot of Liver" The Mayne Press (Slice of Life) [9][24]
2009 Haines, PaulPaul Haines* (tie) "Wives" Coeur de Lion Publishing (X6) [9][24]
2009 Dowker, FelicityFelicity Dowker "Jesse's Gift" Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine [24]
2009 Green, ChristopherChristopher Green "Having Faith" Nossa Morte [24]
2009 McKiernan, Andrew J.Andrew J. McKiernan "The Message" Midnight Echo [24]
2010 Harland, RichardRichard Harland* "The Fear" Brimstone Press (Macabre: A Journey Through Australia's Darkest Fears) [25]
2010 Franklin, BobBob Franklin "Take the Free Tour" Affirm Press (Under Stones) [26]
2010 Haines, PaulPaul Haines "Her Gallant Needs" Twelfth Planet Press (Sprawl) [26]
2010 Hood, RobertRobert Hood "Wasting Matilda" Constable & Robinson (Zombie Apocalypse!) [26]
2010 Livings, MartinMartin Livings "Lollo" Apex Publishing (Close Encounters of the Urban Kind) [26]
2011 Haines, PaulPaul Haines* (tie) "The Past is a Bridge Best Left Burnt" Brimstone Press (The Last Days of Kali Yuga) [27]
2011 Hannett, Lisa L.Lisa L. Hannett* (tie) "The Short Go: a Future in Eight Seconds" Ticonderoga Publications (Bluegrass Symphony) [27]
2011 Biancotti, DeborahDeborah Biancotti "And the Dead Shall Outnumber the Living" Gilgamesh Press (Ishtar) [28]
2011 Lanagan, MargoMargo Lanagan "Mulberry Boys" Tor Books (Blood and Other Cravings) [28]
2011 Slatter, AngelaAngela Slatter "The Coffin Maker's Daughter" Quercus Books (A Book of Horrors) [28]
2012 Warren, KaaronKaaron Warren* "Sky" Twelfth Planet Press (Through Splintered Walls) [29]
2012 Anderton, JoanneJoanne Anderton "Sanaa's Army" Ticonderoga Publications (Bloodstones) [30]
2012 Cleghorn, JodiJodi Cleghorn "Elyora" Review of Australian Fiction, Rabbit Hole Special Issue [30]
2012 Dowker, FelicityFelicity Dowker "To Wish Upon a Clockwork Heart" Ticonderoga Publications (Bread And Circuses) [30]
2012 Hood, RobertRobert Hood "Escena de un Asesinato" PS Publishing (Exotic Gothic 4) [30]
2013 Wilkins, KimKim Wilkins* "The Year of Ancient Ghosts" Ticonderoga Publications (The Year of Ancient Ghosts) [31][32]
2013 Anderton, JoanneJoanne Anderton "Fencelines" FableCroft Publishing (The Bone Chime Song and Other Stories) [31]
2013 Dowling, TerryTerry Dowling "The Sleepover" PS Publishing (Exotic Gothic 5) [31]
2013 McDermott, KirstynKirstyn McDermott "The Home for Broken Dolls" Twelfth Planet Press (Caution: Contains Small Parts) [31]
2013 Warren, KaaronKaaron Warren "The Human Moth" Miskatonic Press (The Grimscribe's Puppets) [31]
2014 Slatter, AngelaAngela Slatter* "Home and Hearth" Spectral Press (Home and Hearth) [33]
2014 Biancotti, DeborahDeborah Biancotti "The Executioner Goes Home" Review of Australian Fiction Volume 11, Issue 6 [34]
2014 Bradley, JamesJames Bradley "Skinsuit" Island Magazine 137 [34]
2014 McDermott, KirstynKirstyn McDermott "By The Moon's Good Grace" Review of Australian Fiction Volume 12, Issue 3 [34]
2014 Nix, GarthGarth Nix "Shay Corsham Worsted" ChiZine Publications (Fearful Symmetries) [34]
2015 Anderton, JoanneJoanne Anderton* "Bullets" AHWA (In Sunshine Bright and Darkness Deep) [35]
2015 Hannett, Lisa L.Lisa L. Hannett "Consorting With Fish" Cohesion Press (Blurring the Line) [36]
2015 Hannett, Lisa L.Lisa L. Hannett "Heirloom Pieces" Apex Publications (Apex Magazine) [36]
2015 Kalin, DeborahDeborah Kalin "The Briskwater Mare" Twelfth Planet Press (Cherry Crow Children) [36]
2015 McBride, TracieTracie McBride "Breaking Windows" Aurealis 84 [36]
2015 McDermott, KirstynKirstyn 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 McDermott, KirstynKirstyn McDermott "Smile for Me" Redsine [9]
2001 Dedman, StephenStephen Dedman "Ravens" Interzone [9]
2002 Hood, RobertRobert Hood "Number 7" MirrorDanse (Immaterial) [9]
2002 Biancotti, DeborahDeborah Biancotti "Silicon Cast" Redsine [9]
2004 Haines, PaulPaul Haines* "They Say It’s Other People" Agog! (Agog! Smashing Stories) [9]
2005 Peter Barber* "Dust" Aurealis [9]
2005 Cummings, Shane JiraiyaShane Jiraiya Cummings* "Revision Is Murder" Simulacrum [9]
2005 Greg Guerin* "The Deviation Road" Borderlands [9]
2005 Haines, PaulPaul Haines* "The Light in Autumn’s Leaves" Borderlands [9]
2005 Livings, MartinMartin Livings* "In Nomine Patris" Shadowed Realms [9]
2006 Jacinta Butterworth "Love Affair" Coeur de Lion Publishing (C0ck) [9][37]
2006 Flinthart, DirkDirk Flinthart "One Night Stand" Agog! (Agog! Ripping Reads) [9]
2006 Lanagan, MargoMargo Lanagan "Under Hell, Over Heaven" Allen & Unwin (Red Spikes) [9]
2006 Muffaz, A. M.A. M. Muffaz "Mosquito Story" Fantasy Magazine [9]
2007 Lanagan, MargoMargo Lanagan "She-Creatures" Night Shade Books (Eclipse One) [9][22]
2007 Livings, MartinMartin Livings "There was Darkness" Ticonderoga (Fantastic Wonder Stories) [9]
2007 Siemienowicz, MirandaMiranda Siemienowicz "Lion’s Breath" Island [9]

See also

References

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