Ditmar Awards

The Ditmar Awards, the Australian national achievement awards, were presented at Conjecture, the 48th annual Australian national convention in Adelaide the weekend of June 5.

• Novel: Tender Morsels, by Margo Lanagan
• Novella: “Painlessness,” by Kirstyn McDermott
• Short Story (tie): “The Goosle,” by Margo Lanagan and “This Is Not My Story,” by Dirk Flinthart
• Collected Work: Dreaming Again, edited by Jack Dann
• Best Professional Artwork: Tales from Outer Suburbia, by Shaun Tan
• Best New Talent: Felicity Dowker.
• William Atheling Jr. Award: Popular Genres and the Australian Literary Community: The Case of Fantasy Fiction, by Kim Wilkins
• Peter McNamara Award: Sean Williams
• Best Professional Achievement: Black, the Australian Dark Culture Magazine, edited by Angela Challis
• Best Fan Publication: Asif!, edited by Alisa Krasnostein & Gene Melzack
• Best Fan Artist: Cat Sparks for Scary Food Cookbook
• Best Fan Writer: Rob Hood for Undead Backbrain
• A. Bertram Chandler Award: Rosaleen Love.

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