Aurealis Award for best young adult short story

The Aurealis Awards are presented annually by the Australia-based Chimaera Publications and WASFF to published works in order to "recognise the achievements of Australian science fiction, fantasy, horror writers".[2] To qualify, a work must have been first published by an Australian citizen or permanent resident between 1 January and 31 December of the corresponding year;[3] the presentation ceremony is held the following year. It has grown from a small function of around 20 people to a two-day event attended by over 200 people.[4]

Aurealis Award for young adult short story
The Aurealis Award design is often placed on the winning book's cover as a promotional tool.[1]
Awarded forExcellence in young adult speculative fiction short stories
CountryAustralia
Presented byChimaera Publications,
Continuum Foundation
First awarded1995
Currently held byJo Hart
WebsiteOfficial site

Since their creation in 1995, awards have been given in various categories of speculative fiction. Categories currently include science fiction, fantasy, horror, speculative young adult fiction—with separate awards for novels and short fiction—collections, anthologies, illustrative works or graphic novels, children's books, and an award for excellence in speculative fiction.[2] The awards have attracted the attention of publishers by setting down a benchmark in science fiction and fantasy. The continued sponsorship by publishers such as HarperCollins and Orbit has identified the award as an honour to be taken seriously.[5]

The results are decided by a panel of judges from a list of submitted nominees; the long-list of nominees is reduced to a short list of finalists.[2] Ties can occur if the panel decides both entries show equal merit, however they are encouraged to choose a single winner.[6] The judges are selected from a public application process by the Award's management team.[7]

This article lists all the short-list nominees and winners in the best young-adult short story category. Margo Lanagan has won the award three times and Isobelle Carmody has won it twice. Lanagan also holds the record for most nominations, with ten.

Winners and nominees

In the following table, the years correspond to the year of the story's eligibility; the ceremonies are always held the following year. Each year links to the corresponding "year in literature" article. Entries with a blue background have won the award; those with a white background are the nominees on the short-list. If the short story was originally published in a book with other stories rather than by itself or in a magazine, the book title is included after the publisher's name.

  *   Winners and joint winners
  *   Nominees on the shortlist

Year Author(s) Short story Publisher or publication Ref
1995No award given[8]
1996Isobelle Carmody*"Green Monkey Dreams"Viking Press (Green Monkey Dreams)[9][10]
1996Dave LuckettThe Wizard and MeOmnibus Books[9]
1996James MoloneyThe PipeLothian Books[9]
1996Gillian Rubinstein"B'ku, B'ku"Hyland House (Annie's Brother's Suit)[9][10]
1996Keith Taylor"At the Edge of the Sea"Penguin Books (Dream Weavers)[9][10]
1997Ruth Starke*The Twist in the TaleLothian Books[11]
1997Sheryl GardnerThe Peppercorn TreeLothian Books[11]
1997Julie Ireland"Hanging by a Thread"HarperCollins (Hanging by a Thread and Other Stories)[10][11]
1998No award given[12]
1999No award given[13]
2000Margo Lanagan*"The Queen's Notice"Allen & Unwin (White Time)[10][14]
2000Brian Caswell"Avalon"Hodder Headline (Tales from the Wasteland)[10][14]
2000Margo Lanagan"The Boy Who Didn't Yearn"Allen & Unwin (White Time)[10][14]
2000Margo Lanagan"Midsummer Mission"Allen & Unwin (White Time)[10][14]
2000Margo Lanagan"White Time"Allen & Unwin (White Time)[10][14]
2001Isobelle Carmody*DreamwalkerLothian Books[15]
2001Garth Nix"Lightning Bringer"Simon & Schuster (Love & Sex: Ten Stories of Truth)[10][15]
2002No award given[16]
2003No award given[17]
2004Margo Lanagan*"Singing My Sister Down"Allen & Unwin (Black Juice)[10][18]
2004Chris Barnes"The Glass Flower"CSFG Publishing (Encounters)[10][18]
2004Bill Congreve"The Shooter at Heartrock Waterhole"Viking Press (The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm)[10][18]
2004Margo Lanagan"Rite of Spring"Allen & Unwin (Black Juice)[10][18]
2005Garth Nix*"Nicholas Sayre and the Creature in the Case"Allen & Unwin (Across the Wall: Tales of the Old Kingdom and Elsewhere)[10][19]
2005Dirk Flinthart"The Red Priest's Homecoming"Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine[19]
2006Shaun Tan*The ArrivalLothian Books[20]
2006Deborah Biancotti"The Dying Light"Eidolon Books (Eidolon I)[10][20]
2006Simon Brown"Leviathan"Eidolon Books (Eidolon I)[10][20]
2006Margo Lanagan"Baby Jane"Allen & Unwin (Red Spikes)[10][20]
2006Margo Lanagan"A Feather in the Breast of God"Allen & Unwin (Red Spikes)[10][20]
2006Margo Lanagan"Forever Upward"Allen & Unwin (Red Spikes)[10][20]
2007Deborah Biancotti*"A Scar for Leida"Ticonderoga Publications (Fantastic Wonder Stories)[10][21]
2007Shane Jiraiya Cummings"Yamabushi Kaidan and the Smoke Dragon"Ticonderoga Publications (Fantastic Wonder Stories)[10][21]
2007Garth Nix"Bad Luck, Trouble, Death and Vampire Sex"Eclipse[21]
2007Garth Nix"Holly and Iron"Allen & Unwin (Dark Alchemy)[10][21]
2007Tracey Rolfe"Cast Off"Ticonderoga Publications (Fantastic Wonder Stories)[10][21]
2008Trent Jamieson*"Cracks"Shiny[22]
2008Deborah Biancotti"The Tailor of Time"Norilana Books (Clockwork Phoenix)[10][22]
2008Dirk Flinthart"This Is Not My Story"Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine[22]
2008Kevin Maclean"Eye of the Beholder"DAW Books (Misspelled)[10][22]
2009Cat Sparks*"Seventeen"CSFG Publishing (Masques)[10][23]
2009Joanne Anderton"Dragon Bones"Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine[23]
2009Sue Isle"Paper Dragons"Shiny[23]
2009Ian McHugh"Once a Month, On a Sunday"Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine[23]
2009Tansy Rayner Roberts"Like Us"Shiny[23]
2010Margo Lanagan*"A Thousand Flowers"Allen & Unwin (Zombies Vs Unicorns)[24]
2010Aidan Doyle"Inksucker"FableCroft Publishing (Worlds Next Door)[25]
2010Dirk Flinthart"One Story, No Refunds"Shiny[25]
2010Kaia Landelius & Tansy Rayner Roberts"Nine Times"FableCroft Publishing (Worlds Next Door)[25]
2010Jen White"An Ordinary Boy"Tangled Bank Press (The Tangled Bank)[25]
2011Sue Isle*"Nation of the Night"Twelfth Planet Press (Nightsiders)[26]
2011Kathleen Jennings"Finishing School"Candlewick Press (Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories)[27]
2011Cate Kennedy"Seventy-Two Derwents"Allen & Unwin (The Wicked Wood: Tales From the Tower Volume 2)[27]
2011Martine Murray"One Window"Allen & Unwin (The Wilful Eye: Tales From the Tower Volume 1)[27]
2011Tansy Rayner Roberts"The Patrician"Twelfth Planet Press (Love and Romanpunk)[27]
2012Thoraiya Dyer*"The Wisdom of the Ants"Clarkesworld Magazine[28]
2012Justin D'Ath"Stilled Lifes x 11"Ford Street Publishing (Trust Me Too)[29]
2012Jack Heath"Rats"Ford Street Publishing (Trust Me Too)[29]
2012Jack Nicholls"The Statues of Melbourne"Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine 56[29]
2012Adrienne Tam"The Worry Man"BusyBird Publishing ([Untitled] 5)[29]
2013Juliet Marillier*"By Bone-light"Ticonderoga Publications (Prickle Moon)[30][31]
2013Joanne Anderton"Mah Song"FableCroft Publishing (The Bone Chime Song and Other Stories)[30]
2013D. K. Mok"Morning Star"FableCroft Publishing (One Small Step, an anthology of discoveries)[30]
2013Kim Wilkins"The Year of Ancient Ghosts"Ticonderoga Publications (The Year of Ancient Ghosts)[30]
2014Dirk Flinthart*"Vanilla"Twelfth Planet Press (Kaleidoscope)[32]
2014Goldie Alexander"In Hades"Celapene Press[33]
2014Liz Argyll"Falling Leaves"Apex Magazine[33]
2014D M Cornish"The Fuller and the Bogle"Omnibus Books (Tales from the Half-Continent)[33]
2014Faith Mudge"Signature"Twelfth Planet Press (Kaleidoscope)[33]
2015Deborah Kalin*"The Miseducation of Mara Lys"Twelfth Planet Press (Cherry Crow Children)[34]
2015Kimberley Gaal"In Sheep's Clothing"Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine 61[35]
2015Kimberley Gaal"The Nexus Tree"CSFG (The Never Never Land)[35]
2015D. K. Mok"The Heart of the Labyrinth"Sorin Suciu (In Memory: A Tribute to Sir Terry Pratchett)[35]
2015Faith Mudge"Blueblood"Ticonderoga Publications (Hear Me Roar)[35]
2015Marlee Jane WardWelcome to OrphancorpSeizure[35]
2016Leife Shallcross*"Pretty Jennie Greenteeth"Belladonna Publishing (Strange Little Girls)[36][37]
2016Lisa L. Hannett"A Right Pretty Mate"PS Australia (Dreaming in the Dark)[36]
2016Jack Nicholls"Dune Time"Tor.com[36]
2016Shauna O'Meara"No One Here is Going to Save You"FableCroft Publishing (In Your Face)[36]
2016Tansy Rayner Roberts"Did We Break the End of the World"Twelfth Planet Press (Defying Doomsday)[36]
2017Tansy Rayner Roberts*Girl ReporterBook Smugglers[38][39]
2017Amie Kaufman"One Small Step"HarperCollins Australia (Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology)[36][38]
2017Will Kostakis"I Can See the Ending"HarperCollins Australia (Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology)[38]
2017Jaclyn Moriarty"Competition Entry #349"HarperCollins Australia (Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology)[38]
2017Michael Pryor"First Casualty"HarperCollins Australia (Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology)[38]
2017Lili Wilkinson"Oona Underground"HarperCollins Australia (Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology)[38]
2018Shauna O'Meara*"The Sea-Maker of Darmid Bay"Interzone 277[40][41]
2018Lee Cope"A Robot Like Me"Twelfth Planet Press (Mother of Invention)[40]
2018D. K. Mok"The Moon Collector"Owl Hollow Press (Under the Full Moon's Light)[40]
2018Anya Ow"Eight Step Koan"Ate Bit Bear (Sword and Sonnet)[40]
2018Deborah Sheldon"For Weirdless Days and Weary Nights"Breach 08[40]
2019Jo HartThe Jindabyne SecretDeadset Press[42][43]
2019K. S. NikakisGlass-HeartSOV Media[42]
2019Tansy Rayner Roberts"Dragon By Subscription"(self-published on Patreon)[42]
2019Andrea Teare"Seaweed"Breach 11[42]
2019Ellen van Neerven"Each City"Walker Books Australia (Kindred: 12 Queer #LoveOZYA Stories)[42]
2019Marlee Jane Ward"Rats"Walker Books Australia (Kindred: 12 Queer #LoveOZYA Stories)[42]

See also

  • Ditmar Award, an Australian science fiction award established in 1969

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