What a pleasant surprise, waking up this morning to see that Lament for the Afterlife has appeared on the 2016 Australian SF (‘Ditmar’) Awards ballot in the ‘Best Novel’ category!
Thanks so much, everyone, for this nomination!
A ‘no award’ option will be added to each category, but otherwise the Ditmar ballot for 2016 looks like this. (What choices! What a great reading list.)
Best Novel
- The Dagger’s Path, Glenda Larke (Orbit)
- Day Boy, Trent Jamieson (Text Publishing)
- Graced, Amanda Pillar (Momentum)
- Lament for the Afterlife, Lisa L. Hannett (ChiZine Publications)
- Zeroes, Scott Westerfeld, Margo Lanagan, and Deborah Biancotti (Simon and Schuster)
Best Novella or Novelette
- “The Cherry Crow Children of Haverny Wood”, Deborah Kalin, in Cherry Crow Children (Twelfth Planet Press)
- “Fake Geek Girl”, Tansy Rayner Roberts, in Review of Australian Fiction, volume 14, issue 4 (Review of Australian Fiction)
- “Hot Rods”, Cat Sparks, in Lightspeed Science Fiction & Fantasy 58 (Lightspeed Science Fiction & Fantasy)
- “The Miseducation of Mara Lys”, Deborah Kalin, in Cherry Crow Children (Twelfth Planet Press)
- “Of Sorrow and Such”, Angela Slatter (Tor.com)
- “The Wages of Honey”, Deborah Kalin, in Cherry Crow Children (Twelfth Planet Press)
Best Short Story
- “2B”, Joanne Anderton, in Insert Title Here (FableCroft Publishing)
- “The Chart of the Vagrant Mariner”, Alan Baxter, in Fantasy & Science Fiction, Jan/Feb 2015 (Fantasy & Science Fiction)
- “A Hedge of Yellow Roses”, Kathleen Jennings, in Hear Me Roar (Ticonderoga Publications)
- “Look how cold my hands are”, Deborah Biancotti, in Cranky Ladies of History (FableCroft Publishing)
Best Collected Work
- Bloodlines, Amanda Pillar (Ticonderoga Publications))
- Cherry Crow Children, Deborah Kalin, edited by Alisa Krasnostein (Twelfth Planet Press)
- Cranky Ladies of History, edited by Tansy Rayner Roberts and Tehani Wessely (FableCroft Publishing)
- Letters to Tiptree, edited by Alexandra Pierce and Alisa Krasnostein (Twelfth Planet Press)
- Peripheral Visions: The Collected Ghost Stories, Robert Hood (IFWG Publishing Australia)
Best Artwork
- Cover art, Rovina Cai, for “Tom, Thom” (Tor.com)
- Cover art, Kathleen Jennings, for Bloodlines (Ticonderoga Publications)
- Cover and internal artwork, Kathleen Jennings, for Cranky Ladies of History (FableCroft Publishing)
- Cover, Shauna O’Meara, for The Never Never Land
- Illustrations, Shaun Tan, in The Singing Bone (Allen & Unwin)
Best Fan Publication in Any Medium
- The Angriest, Grant Watson
- The Coode Street Podcast, Jonathan Strahan and Gary K. Wolfe
- Galactic Suburbia, Alisa Krasnostein, Alexandra Pierce, and Tansy Rayner Roberts
- SF Commentary, Bruce Gillespie
- The Writer and the Critic, Kirstyn McDermott and Ian Mond
Best Fan Writer
- Tsana Dolichva, for body of work
- Foz Meadows, for body of work
- Ian Mond, for body of work
- Alexandra Pierce for body of work
- Katharine Stubbs, for body of work
- Grant Watson, for body of work
Best Fan Artist
- Kathleen Jennings, for body of work, including Illustration Friday series
- Belinda Morris, for body of work, including Belinda Illustrates
Best New Talent
- Rivqa Rafael
- T R Napper
- DK Mok
- Liz Barr
William Atheling Jr Award for Criticism or Review
- Letters to Tiptree, edited by Alexandra Pierce and Alisa Krasnostein (Twelfth Planet Press)
- The Rereading the Empire Trilogy series, Tansy Rayner Roberts
- The Reviewing New Who series, David McDonald, Tansy Rayner Roberts, and Tehani Wessely
- “Sara Kingdom dies at the end”, Tansy Rayner Roberts, in Companion Piece (Mad Norwegian Press)
- “SF Women of the 20th Century”, Tansy Rayner Roberts
- The Squeeing over Supergirl series, David McDonald and Tehani Wessely
The Ditmar Awards for 2016 will be awarded at the 2016 Australian National SF Convention, Contact 2016 in Brisbane.
Lisa L. Hannett 