2021 Awards Eligibility Post

It’s that time of the year again, where people are compiling their best reads of the year lists and considering what they might nominate for awards. Speaking for myself, I love it when people make eligibility posts like these to help us remember what came out...

2021 Ditmar Awards open for nominations

The Australian fan-voted Ditmar Awards are open for nominations for all eligible work published in 2020. Last year was a bit of a mess as hardly anyone knew about the awards opening and not many nominations or votes went through. This year, there’s not a huge...

2020 Awards eligibility post

It’s that time of year again. I know people are thinking about Awards, the Stoker Awards Recommended Reading List is up, and so on. I think it’s always worth reminding people of what you’ve had published in any given year, so here’s my post to...

SERVED COLD wins Australian Shadows Award for Best Collected Work

Holy freaking shirtballs! I won another of these sweet demon head trophies. Last night the Australian Shadows Awards were announced. I was already stoked to be a finalists in two categories – one for Best Short Fiction for my story, “The Ocean Hushed the...

Awards eligibility post for 2019

We’re getting towards the pointy end of the year again (honestly, time is fleeting!) and it’s about now that I like to look back on published work for the year. It serves two purposes – one is a reminder for myself of what I’ve accomplished in...

Award nominations-arama!

Well, award season is on us and I have to say, I’m both stunned and ecstatic about the shortlists that are coming out. Australia has three national genre awards – the Aurealis Awards (covering Australian fantasy, sci-fi, and horror, and jury voted), the...