Photo by Cat Sparks
The Australian Shadows Awards for 2022 publications were announced yesterday at Asylumfest 2023 and The Path of Thornswon best novel! Thanks to Cat Sparks and Kirstyn McDermott for letting me know.
Congrats to all the finalists and winners – full list below.
Novel
The Stone Road, Trent Jamieson (Erewhon)
Red Ruin, Ian J. Middleton & Denver Grenell (self-published)
The Path of Thorns, Angela Slatter (Titan)
Denizen, James McKenzie Watson (Viking)
Winner: The Path of Thorns, Angela Slatter (Titan)
Long Fiction
And Then I Woke Up, Malcolm Devlin (Tor dot com)
“Kookaburra Cruel”, Aaron Dries (Damnation Games)
“Among the Faded Woods”, Faith Mudge (The Art of Being Human)
Winner: And Then I Woke Up, Malcolm Devlin (Tor dot com)
Short Fiction
“Little Balloons”, Aaron Dries (Cut to Care: A Collection of LIttle Hurts)
“They Call Me Mother”, Geneve Flynn (Classic Monsters Unleashed)
“Break the Skin If You Have To”, Emma Osborne, Jess Essey & Cadwell Turnbull (Nightmare 12/22)
“The Tub”, J. Ashley Smith (Midnight Echo 17)
Winner: “Little Balloons”, Aaron Dries (Cut to Care: A Collection of LIttle Hurts)
Collected Works
The Devil Took Her: Tales of Horror, Michael Botur (The Sager Group)
Cut to Care: A Collection of Little Hurts, Aaron Dries (IFWG Australia)
Hard Places, Kirstyn McDermott (Trepidatio)
Liminal Spaces: Horror Stories, Deborah Sheldon (IFWG Australia)
Reflections, Tabatha Wood (Wild Wood)
Winner: Hard Places, Kirstyn McDermott (Trepidatio)
Edited Works
Midnight Echo 17, Greg Chapman (AHWA)
Found: An Anthology of Found Footage Horror Stories, Andrew Cull & Gabino Iglesias, eds. (Vermillion2One)
Death in the Mouth: An Anthology of Original Horror, People of Color, Cassie Hart & Sloane Leong, eds. (self-published)
Winner: Death in the Mouth: An Anthology of Original Horror, People of Color, Cassie Hart & Sloane Leong, eds. (self-published)
Poetry
“Hip Gnomes”, PS Cottier (AntipodeanSF 291)
“Night Terrors”, L.E. Daniels (HWA)
“How Does Your Garden Grow?”, Gene Flynn (Hybrid: Misfits, Monsters and Other Phenomena)
“If I Touch You, You’ll Know”, Rebecca Fraser (Nightmare Fuel 12/22)
Winner: “Hip Gnomes”, PS Cottier (AntipodeanSF 291)
Non-Fiction
“The Slow Burn Brilliance of Midnight Mass”, Kris Ashton (Aurealis 5/22)
“Vampire, the Ageless Monster”, Tim Hawken (Aurealis 149)
“I Don’t Read Horror (and other weird tales)”, Lee Murray (Interstellar Flight Magazine 10/22)
“No Horror Without the Body”, Tabatha Wood (self-published)
Winner: “The Slow Burn Brilliance of Midnight Mass”, Kris Ashton (Aurealis 5/22)
Graphic Novel 
Batrisha and the Creepy Caretaker, Dillon Naylor (Comicoz)
How to Win a Raid, Emmet O’Cuana (Bird’s Eye)
Gorilla My Dreams Team-Up #1: When Freaks Collide, Big Tim Stiles (Big Tim’s Funny Books)
Winner: Gorilla My Dreams Team-Up #1: When Freaks Collide, Big Tim Stiles (Big Tim’s Funny Books)