FINALISTS: 2011 Aurealis Awards

The finalists for the 2011 Aurealis Awards have been announced!

• The Undivided, by Jennifer Fallon
• Ember and Ash, by Pamela Freeman
• Stormlord’s Exile, by Glenda Larke
• Debris, by Jo Anderton
• The Shattered City, by Tansy Rayner Roberts

• “Fruit of the Pipal Tree,” by Thoraiya Dyer
• “The Proving of Smollett Standforth,” by Margo Lanagan
• “Into the Clouds on High,” by Margo Lanagan
• “Reading Coffee,” by Anthony Panegyris
• “The Dark Night of Anton Weiss,” by D.C. White

• Machine Man, by Max Barry
• Children of Scarabaeus, by Sara Creasy
• The Waterboys, by Peter Docker
• Black Glass, by Meg Mundell
• The Courier’s New Bicycle, by Kim Westwood

• “Flowers in the Shadow of the Garden,” by Joanne Anderton
• “Desert Madonna,” by Robert Hood
• “SIBO,” by Penelope Love
• “Dead Low,” by Cat Sparks
• “Rains of la Strange,” by Robert N Stephenson

No award will be presented in this category, but there are two honorable mentions.

• The Broken Ones, by Stephen M. Irwin
• The Business of Death, by Trent Jamieson

• “And the Dead Shall Outnumber the Living,” by Deborah Biancotti
• “The Past is a Bridge Best Left Burnt,” by Paul Haines
• “The Short Go: a Future in Eight Seconds,” by Lisa L. Hannett
• “Mulberry Boys,” by Margo Lanagan
• “The Coffin Maker’s Daughter,” by Angela Slatter

• Shift, by Em Bailey
• Secrets of Carrick: Tantony, by Ananda Braxton-Smith
• The Shattering, by Karen Healey
• Black Glass, by Meg Mundell
• Only Ever Always, by Penni Russon

• “Nation of the Night,” by Sue Isle
• “Finishing School,” by Kathleen Jennings
• “Seventy-Two Derwents,” by Cate Kennedy
• “One Window,” by Martine Murray
• “The Patrician,” by Tansy Rayner Roberts

• The Outcasts, by John Flanagan
• The Paradise Trap, by Catherine Jinks
• “It Began with a Tingle,” by Thalia Kalkapsakis
• The Coming of the Whirlpool, by Andrew McGahan
• City of Lies, by Lian Tanner

• The Ghost of Annabel Spoon, by Aaron Blabey (author and illustrator)
• Sounds Spooky, by Christopher Cheng (author) and Sarah Davis (illustrator)
• The Last Viking, by Norman Jorgensen (author) and James Foley (illustrator)
• The Deep: Here be Dragons, by Tom Taylor (author) and James Brouwer (illustrator)
• Vampyre, by Margaret Wild (author) and Andrew Yeo (illustrator)

• Hidden, by Mirranda Burton (author and illustrator)
• Torn, by Andrew Constant (author) and Joh James (illustrator), additional illustrators Nicola Scott, Emily Smith
• Salsa Invertebraxa, by Mozchops (author and illustrator) (Pecksniff Press)
• The Eldritch Kid: Whiskey and Hate, by Christian Read (author) and Michael Maier (illustrator)
• The Deep: Here be Dragons, by Tom Taylor (author) and James Brouwer (illustrator)

• Ghosts by Gaslight, edited by Jack Dann and Nick Gevers
• Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2010, edited by Liz Grzyb and Talie Helene
• Ishtar, edited by Amanda Pillar and KV Taylor
• The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume 5, edited by Jonathan Strahan
• Life on Mars, edited by Jonathan Strahan

• Bad Power, by Deborah Biancotti
• Last Days of Kali Yuga, by Paul Haines
• Bluegrass Symphony, by Lisa Hannett
• Nightsiders, by Sue Isle
• Love and Romanpunk, by Tansy Rayner Roberts

The Awards will be presented Saturday, May 12th at the Independent Theatre in North Sydney.

Congratulations to all the nominees!