The Ditmar Awards were announced at the 51st Australian National Science Fiction Convention held over the weekend.
Best Novel
The Courier's New Bicycle, Kim Westwood (HarperCollins)
Best Novella or Novelette
"The Past is a Bridge Best Left Burnt", Paul Haines, in The Last Days of Kali Yuga (Brimstone Press)
Best Short Story
"The Patrician", Tansy Rayner Roberts, in Love and Romanpunk (Twelfth Planet Press)
Best Collected Work
The Last Days of Kali Yuga by Paul Haines, edited by Angela Challis (Brimstone Press)
Best Artwork
"Finishing School", Kathleen Jennings, in Steampunk!: An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories (Candlewick Press)
Best Fan Writer
Robin Pen, for "The Ballad of the Unrequited Ditmar"
Best Fan Artist
Kathleen Jennings, for work in Errantry (tanaudel.wordpress.com) including "The Dalek Game"
Best Fan Publication in Any Medium
The Writer and the Critic, Kirstyn McDermott and Ian Mond
Best New Talent
Joanne Anderton
William Atheling Jr Award for Criticism or Review
Alexandra Pierce and Tehani Wessely, for reviews of Vorkosigan Saga, in Randomly Yours, Alex
You can read the shortlists here.
The following awards were also presented at the same ceremony:
The A Bertram Chandler Award: Richard Harland
The Norma K Hemming Award: AA Bell, for Hindsight, and Sara Douglass, for The Devil's Diadem
The Peter McNamara Award: Bill Congreve
Best Novel
The Courier's New Bicycle, Kim Westwood (HarperCollins)
Best Novella or Novelette
"The Past is a Bridge Best Left Burnt", Paul Haines, in The Last Days of Kali Yuga (Brimstone Press)
Best Short Story
"The Patrician", Tansy Rayner Roberts, in Love and Romanpunk (Twelfth Planet Press)
Best Collected Work
The Last Days of Kali Yuga by Paul Haines, edited by Angela Challis (Brimstone Press)
Best Artwork
"Finishing School", Kathleen Jennings, in Steampunk!: An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories (Candlewick Press)
Best Fan Writer
Robin Pen, for "The Ballad of the Unrequited Ditmar"
Best Fan Artist
Kathleen Jennings, for work in Errantry (tanaudel.wordpress.com) including "The Dalek Game"
Best Fan Publication in Any Medium
The Writer and the Critic, Kirstyn McDermott and Ian Mond
Best New Talent
Joanne Anderton
William Atheling Jr Award for Criticism or Review
Alexandra Pierce and Tehani Wessely, for reviews of Vorkosigan Saga, in Randomly Yours, Alex
You can read the shortlists here.
The following awards were also presented at the same ceremony:
The A Bertram Chandler Award: Richard Harland
The Norma K Hemming Award: AA Bell, for Hindsight, and Sara Douglass, for The Devil's Diadem
The Peter McNamara Award: Bill Congreve
