The Ditmar Award nominations are out and a damn fine list it is too! Official: The Ditmar subcommittee are pleased to announce that voting for the Australian SF (“Ditmar”) Award for 2010 is now open, and will remain open until one minute before midnight Perth time on Wednesday, 1st of September, 2010 (ie. 11.59pm, GMT+8). Best Novel [...]
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Ditmar Awards
Posted in Awards on August 2, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Australian Shadows Awards
Posted in Awards on April 5, 2010 | 5 Comments »
I’ve just heard that Slights won the Australian Shadows Best Long Fiction Award! Very, very thrilled to win this one, as I was up against some very, very strong books. Deb Biancotti’s “Six Suicides” from her collection A Book of Endings won Best Short Fiction, beating my “Gaze Dogs of Nine Waterfall.” Grant’s Pass, edited [...]
Awards
Posted in Awards on March 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Slights has made the longlist of the British Fantasy Awards!
Australian Shadows
Posted in Awards on March 8, 2010 | 2 Comments »
The Australian Shadows Awards finalists have been announced. What an incredibly strong year for Australian Horror Fiction! Long Fiction A Book of Endings by Deborah Biancotti (Twelfth Planet Press) Red Queen by H. M. Brown (Penguin Australia) “Wives” by Paul Haines (X6, Coeur de Lion Publishing) The Dead Path by Stephen M. Irwin (Hachette Australia) [...]
Hugos
Posted in Awards on March 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Lauren Beukes, author of the brilliant novel Moxyland, has pressed me to post my Hugo-eligible short stories. I can’t vote for Moxyland till next year, but will definitely do so then. In the meantime, I had two stories out last year. “The Gaze Dogs of Nine Waterfall” appeared in the AshTree Press anthology Exotic Gothic [...]
Prelim Stoker Ballot
Posted in Awards on February 3, 2010 | 5 Comments »
This early list has been announced, and Slights has made the cut! The next stage is to make it to the final ballot, which will be tough, given the other fantastic first novels on the list. Stephen H. Irwin was also nominated for Best Horror Novel at the Aurealis Awards for The Dead Path. I [...]
Stokers
Posted in Awards, Slights on November 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My novel, ‘Slights‘ has scored a couple of recommendations for “Best First Novel” in the Stoker Awards, and there are a few other Aussies on the list, too. Sinister Reads will profile all those recommended over the next few weeks.
