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03
26
2020
2019 Aurealis Awards Finalists
The finalists for the 2019 Aurealis Awards have been announced. The nominees in the SF, Fantasy, and Horror novel categories are:
- The Subjects by Sarah Hopkins (Text)
- Aurora Rising by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff (Allen & Unwin)
- The Trespassers by Meg Mundell (University of Queensland Press)
- The Year of the Fruit Cake by Gillian Polack (IFWG Australia)
- The Glad Shout by Alice Robinson (Affirm)
- Daughter of Bad Times by Rohan Wilson (Allen & Unwin)
- Angel Mage by Garth Nix (Allen & Unwin)
- Darkdawn by Jay Kristoff (HarperCollins)
- The Wailing Woman by Maria Lewis (Little, Brown)
- The Harp of Kings by Juliet Marillier (Macmillan Australia)
- Shadowscent: The Darkest Bloom by P.M. Freestone (Scholastic)
- Graveyard Shift in Ghost Town by Michael Pryor (Allen & Unwin)
- Chuwa: The Rat People of Lahore by Brian Craddock (Broken Puppet)
- Remains by Andrew Cull (IFWG Australia)
- A Riddle in Bronze by Simon Haynes (Bowman)
- The Rich Man’s House by Andrew McGahan (Allen & Unwin)
- Body Farm Z by Deborah Sheldon (Severed)
See the official press release for the all the nominees in all categories.
Winners will be announced at the Aurealis Awards ceremony in Melbourne or perhaps online.
03
11
2020
The Kitschies: 2019 Red Tentacle and Golden Tentacle Finalists
The finalists for the 2019 Kitschies Red Tentacle and Golden Tentacle awards have been announced!
The Kitschies reward the year’s most progressive, intelligent and entertaining works that contain elements of the speculative or fantastic published in the UK.
- The Fire Starters by Jan Carson
- This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone
- Always North by Vicki Jarrett
- The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
- From The Wreck by Jane Rawson
- My Name Is Monster by Katie Hale
- The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
- She Would Be King by Wayetu Moore
- Wilder Girls by Rory Power
- Jelly by Clare Rees
Our congrats to all the finalists! What do you think of this crop of books? Anything stand out to you?
