Wow! I’m a finalist in the Australian Shadows Awards. TWICE! Served Cold in Best Collected Works and “The Ocean Hushed the Stones” (from Served Cold) in Best Short Fiction. Amazing. Huge thanks to the judges. BIG congrats to all the finalists! Shortlists here:
COLLECTED WORKS
Finalists:
Collision: Stories by J.S. Breukelaar
Figments and Fragments by Deborah Sheldon
Served Cold by Alan Baxter
EDITED WORKS
Finalists:
Beside the Seaside: Tales from the Day-Tripper edited by Steve Dillon
Trickster’s Treats #3 – the Seven Deadly Sins Edition edited by Marie O’Regan and Lee Murray
Midnight Echo #14 edited by Deborah Sheldon
GRAPHIC NOVEL
Finalists:
The Eldritch Kid: The Bone War written by Christian D. Read
Matinee written by Emmett O’Cuana
Geebung Polo Club written by Shauna O’Meara (adapted from a Banjo Patterson poem)
DCeased written by Tom Taylor
THE ROCKY WOOD AWARD FOR NON-FICTION AND CRITICISM
Finalists:
Suffer the Little Children by Kris Ashton
Horror and the paranormal, chapter 8 of Writing Speculative Fiction by Eugen Bacon
The Danse Macabre by Kyla Lee Ward
Horror Movies That Mean Something and Childhood Trauma Manifested by Maria Lewis
PAUL HAINES AWARD FOR LONG FICTION
Finalists:
Supermassive Black Mass by Matthew R. Davis
The Neverwhere Line by Matthew J. Morrison
Out of Darkness by Chris Mason
Enemy of My Enemy by Rick Kennett
1862 by C.J. Halbard
POETRY
Finalists:
Brine and Vanishings by Hester J. Rook
Taxonomy of Captured Roses by Hester J. Rook
Please Do Not Feed the Animals by Anne Casey
Separation by Jay Caselberg
Ode to a Black Hole by Charles Lovecraft
Boat of a Million Years by Kyla Lee Ward
SHORT FICTION
Finalists:
Steadfast Shadowsong by Matthew R. Davis
Vivienne & Agnes by Chris Mason
The Ocean Hushed the Stones by Alan Baxter
Ava Rune by J.S. Breukelaar
NOVEL
Finalists:
Fusion by Kate Richards
Shepherd by Catherine Jinks
The Flower and the Serpent by Madeleine D’Este
