The winners of the 2013 Ditmar Awards, for Australian SF, have been announced at Conflux 9, the 52nd Australian NatCon. Congratulations to all the winners and nominees. All the nominees are listed below, with the winner in each category separated as the first item on the list. Great to see Aussie horror taking the wins in open genre categories!

Best Novel

• Sea Hearts, Margo Lanagan (Allen & Unwin)

• Suited, Jo Anderton (Angry Robot)
• The Corpse-Rat King, Lee Battersby (Angry Robot)
• Bitter Greens, Kate Forsyth (Random House Australia)
• Perfections, Kirstyn McDermott (Xoum)
• Salvage, Jason Nahrung (Twelfth Planet)

Best Novella or Novelette

• “Sky”, Kaaron Warren (Through Splintered Walls)

• “Significant Dust”, Margo Lanagan (Cracklescape)
• “Flight 404”, Simon Petrie (Flight 404/The Hunt for Red Leicester)

Best Short Story

• “The Wisdom of Ants”, Thoraiya Dyer (Clarkesworld 12/12)

• “The Bone Chime Song”, Joanne Anderton (Light Touch Paper Stand Clear)
• “Sanaa’s Army”, Joanne Anderton (Bloodstones)
• “Oracle’s Tower”, Faith Mudge (To Spin a Darker Stair)

Best Collected Work

• Through Splintered Walls, Kaaron Warren (Twelfth Planet)

• The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2011, Liz Grzyb & Talie Helene, eds. (Ticonderoga)
• Midnight and Moonshine, Lisa L. Hannett & Angela Slatter (Ticonderoga)
• Light Touch Paper Stand Clear, Edwina Harvey & Simon Petrie, eds. (Peggy Bright Books)
• Cracklescape, Margo Lanagan (Twelfth Planet)
• Epilogue, Tehani Wessely, ed. (FableCroft)

Best Artwork

• Cover art, Kathleen Jennings, for Midnight and Moonshine (Ticonderoga)

• Illustrations, Adam Browne, for Pyrotechnicon (Coeur de Lion)
• Cover art and illustrations, Kathleen Jennings, for To Spin a Darker Stair (FableCroft)
• Cover art, Les Petersen, for Light Touch Paper Stand Clear (Peggy Bright Books)
• Cover art, Nick Stathopoulos, for Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine 56 (ASIM Collective)

Best Fan Writer

• Tansy Rayner Roberts, for body of work including reviews in Not If You Were The Last Short Story On Earth

• Alex Pierce, for body of work including reviews in Australian Speculative Fiction in Focus
• Grant Watson, for body of work including the “Who50” series in The Angriest
• Sean Wright, for body of work including reviews in Adventures of a Bookonaut

Best Fan Artist

• Kathleen Jennings, for body of work including “The Dalek Game” and “The Tamsyn Webb Sketchbook”

Best Fan Publication in Any Medium

• The Writer and the Critic, Kirstyn McDermott and Ian Mond

• Australian Speculative Fiction in Focus, Alisa Krasnostein, Tehani Wessely, et. al.
• Galactic Chat, Alisa Krasnostein, Tansy Rayner Roberts, and Sean Wright
• Galactic Suburbia, Alisa Krasnostein, Tansy Rayner Roberts, and Alex Pierce
• Snapshot 2012, Alisa Krasnostein, Kathryn Linge, David McDonald, Helen Merrick, Ian Mond, Jason Nahrung et. al.
• Antipodean SF, Ion Newcombe
• The Coode Street Podcast, Jonathan Strahan and Gary K. Wolfe

Best New Talent

• David McDonald

• Steve Cameron
• Stacey Larner
• Faith Mudge

William Atheling Jr. Award for Criticism or Review

• Tansy Rayner Roberts, for “Historically Authentic Sexism in Fantasy. Let’s Unpack That.” (Tor.com)
  

• Rjurik Davidson, for “An Illusion in the Game for Survival”, a review of Reamde by Neal Stephenson (The Age)
• Liz Grzyb and Talie Helene, for “The Year in Review” (The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2011)
• Alisa Krasnostein, Kathryn Linge, David McDonald, and Tehani Wessely, for review of Mira Grant’s Newsflesh (Australian Speculative Fiction in Focus)
• David McDonald, Tansy Rayner Roberts, and Tehani Wessely, for the “New Who in Conversation” series

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