The judges have read everything with great criticism, arguments were had, fights broke out and bodies were buried in shallow graves… *touches earpiece* Errr, okay. I’m being told none of that happened. In fact, all the judges did an amazing job and our huge thanks go out to them.
And now, the AHWA is very proud to announce the shortlists of finalists for the 2022 Australian Shadows Awards. Massive congratulations to everyone listed below, and thanks to everyone who entered their work. The competition was stiff and the judges job was difficult.
Winners will be announced at a live awards ceremony at Asylumfest on Saturday October 28th.
Congratulations to the NZSA members and NZ writers shortlisted:
The 2022 Australian (&NZ) Shadows Awards Finalists are:
POETRY
“Hip Gnomes” by P S Cottier (Antipodean SF)
“Night Terrors” by L. E. Daniels (HWA)
“How Does Your Garden Grow?” by Gene Flynn (Hybrid: Misfits, Monsters and Other Phenomena)
“If I Touch You, You’ll Know” by Rebecca Fraser (Nightmare Fuel Magazine)
GRAPHIC NOVEL
Gorilla My Dreams Team-Up #1: When Freaks Collide by Big Tim Stiles (Big Tim’s Funny Books)
How to Win a Raid by Emmet O’Cuana (Bird’s Eye Comics)
Batrisha and the Creepy Caretaker by Dillon Naylor (Comicoz)
NON-FICTION
“The Slow Burn Brilliance of Midnight Mass” by Kris Ashton (Aurealis Magazine)
“I Don’t Read Horror (and other weird tales)” by Lee Murray (Interstellar Flight Magazine)
“Vampire, the Ageless Monster” by Tim Hawken (Aurealis Magazine)
“No Horror Without the Body” by Tabatha Wood (Self-published)
EDITED WORKS
Death in the Mouth: An Anthology of Original Horror by People of Colour, edited by Cassie Hart & Sloane Leong (Self-published)
Found: An Anthology of Found Footage Horror Stories, edited by Andrew Cull & Gabino Iglesias (Vermillion2One Press)
Midnight Echo Issue 17, edited by Greg Chapman (AHWA)
COLLECTED WORKS
Cut to Care: A Collection of Little Hurts by Aaron Dries (IFWG Australia)
Liminal Spaces: Horror Stories by Deborah Sheldon (IFWG Australia)
Hard Places by Kirstyn McDermott (Trepidation Publishing)
The Devil Took Her: Tales of Horror by Michael Botur (The Sager Group)
Reflections by Tabatha Wood (Wild Wood Books)
SHORT FICTION
“Break the Skin If You Have To” by Emma Osborne (co-written with Cadwell Turnbull and Jess Essey) (Nightmare Magazine)
“They Call Me Mother” by Geneve Flynn (Classic Monsters Unleashed, Crystal Lake Publishing & Black Spot Books)
“Little Balloons” by Aaron Dries (Cut To Care: A Collection of LIttle Hurts, IFWG Australia)
“The Tub” by J. Ashley Smith (Midnight Echo 17, AHWA)
LONG FICTION
“Among The Faded Woods” by Faith Mudge (The Art of Being Human, FableCroft Publishing)
And Then I Woke Up by Malcolm Devlin (Tor.com)
“Kookaburra Cruel” by Aaron Dries (Damnation Games, Clan Destine Press)
NOVEL
The Stone Road by Trent Jamieson (Erewhon Books)
The Path of Thorns by Angela Slatter (Titan Books)
Denizen by James McKenzie Watson (Viking)
Red Ruin by Ian J. Middleton and Denver Grenell (Self-published)
