The 2024 Australasian Shadows Awards shortlists have been announced!
Congratulations to everyone who made the shortlists. The winners will be announced at the awards ceremony at Conflux 19, to be held in Canberra in October.
Short Fiction
“The Absolute” by Aaron Dries (Grimdark Magazine)
“The Gift” by Chuck McKenzie (Daft Notions, self-published)
“We Have Children Now” by Anthony O’Connor (Spawn 2: More Weird Horror Tales About Pregnancy, Birth and Babies, IFWG)
“Sleep, Empty ” by Matt Tighe (The NoSleep Podcast S21E11, The NoSleep Podcast)
“Archive of the Dead” by Pamela Jeffs (SNAFU: AI Insurrection, Cohesion Press)
“Envelopes” by Matt Tighe (Spawn 2: More Weird Horror Tales About Pregnancy, Birth and Babies, IFWG)
Paul Haines Award for Long Fiction
“The Emporium” by Kaaron Warren (Meerkat Press)
“Redhead Town” by Deborah Sheldon (PsychoToxin Press, USA)
“Maleficium” by Kyla Lee Ward (Discontinue If Death Ensues, Flame Tree Publishing, UK)
“Shattered” by Pauline Yates (Black Hare Press)
“Effigy in Flagrante” by Matthew R. Davis (The Black Beacon Book of Ghosts, Black Beacon Books)
Novel
“The Briar Book of the Dead” by Angela Slatter (Titan Publishing)
“Jasper Cliff” by Joshua Kemp (Fremantle Press)
“Remedy” by JS Brukelaar (PS Publishing)
“The Underhistory” by Kaaron Warren (Viper Books, UK)
“The Dead Spot” by Caroline Angel (Red Cape Publishing)
Collected work
“Remixed Myths” by Jeff Clulow (Third Eye Press)
“Black Days and Bloody Nights” by Greg Chapman (IFWG Publishing)
“The Dark Man, by Referral and Less Pleasant Tales” by Chuck McKenzie (Daft Notions)
Edited work
“Nosferatu Unbound”, Steven Paulsen and Christopher Sequeira (eds) (IFWG Publishing International)
“Found 2: More Stories of Found Footage Horror”, Andrew Cull and Gabino Iglesias (eds) (Vermillion2One Press)
“Monsters in the Mills”, L. E. Daniels and Christa Carmen (eds) (Interactive Publications Pty Ltd)
“Midnight Echo #19”, Dan Rabarts (ed) (Australasian Horror Writers Association)
“Death in the Mouth Volume 2: Original Horror from the Margins”, Sloane Leong and Cassie Hart (eds) (Sloane Leong and Cassie Hart)
Graphic novel or comic
No shortlist. Winner to be announced at the awards ceremony.
Rocky Wood Award for Non-fiction and Criticism
“Long be nightmar’d” by Kyla Ward ( JOURN-E 3.1, Mind’s Eye Publications)
“A Little Bit of Adrenaline is my Favourite Medicine” by Tee Wood (Tabatha Wood, self-published)
Poetry
“You Had to Learn How to Live After Her” by Monica Carroll (Midnight Echo #19, Australasian Horror Writers Association)
“Fox Spirit on a Distant Cloud” by Lee Murray (The Cuba Press)
“You Swallowed Your Tongue” by Geneve Flynn (Bestiary of Blood: Modern Fables & Dark Tales, Crystal Lake Publishing)
“Galérien” by Deborah Sheldon (Illumen Magazine Summer 2024, Hiraeth Publishing)
“Hot Enough to Collapse” by Eugen Bacon (Galaxy Science Fiction #263, Galaxy SF)
“Just an Unnerving Sensation” by Pauline Yates (HWA Poetry Showcase Volume XI, HWA)
