FINALISTS: 2015 Ditmar Awards

The finalists for the 2015 Ditmar Awards, given by members of the Australian National Science Fiction Convention for professional and fan works by Australians, have been announced:

• The Dagger’s Path, by Glenda Larke
• Day Boy, by Trent Jamieson
• Graced, by Amanda Pillar
• Lament for the Afterlife, by Lisa L. Hannett
• Zeroes, by Scott Westerfeld, Margo Lanagan, and Deborah Biancotti

• “The Cherry Crow Children of Haverny Wood,” by Deborah Kalin
• “Fake Geek Girl,” by Tansy Rayner Roberts
• “Hot Rods,” by Cat Sparks
• “The Miseducation of Mara Lys,” by Deborah Kalin
• “Of Sorrow and Such,” by Angela Slatter
• “The Wages of Honey,” by Deborah Kalin

• “2B,” by Joanne Anderton
• “The Chart of the Vagrant Mariner,” by Alan Baxter
• “A Hedge of Yellow Roses,” by Kathleen Jennings
• “Look how cold my hands are,” by Deborah Biancotti

• Bloodlines, by Amanda Pillar
• Cherry Crow Children, by Deborah Kalin, edited by Alisa Krasnostein
• Cranky Ladies of History, by Tansy Rayner Roberts and Tehani Wessely
• Letters to Tiptree, by Alexandra Pierce and Alisa Krasnostein
• Peripheral Visions: The Collected Ghost Stories, by by Robert Hood

• Cover art, Rovina Cai, for “Tom, Thom”
• Cover art, Kathleen Jennings, for Bloodlines
• Cover and internal artwork, Kathleen Jennings, for Cranky Ladies of History
• Cover, Shauna O’Meara, for The Never Never Land
• Illustrations, Shaun Tan, for The Singing Bones

• Tsana Dolichva, for body of work, including reviews and interviews in Tsana’s Reads and Reviews
• Foz Meadows, for body of work, including reviews in Shattersnipe: Malcontent & Rainbows
• Ian Mond, for body of work, including The Hysterical Hamster
• Alexandra Pierce, for body of work, including reviews in Randomly Yours, Alex
• Katharine Stubbs, for body of work, including Venture Adlaxre
• Grant Watson, for body of work, including reviews in The Angriest

• Kathleen Jennings, for body of work, including Illustration Friday
• Belinda Morris, for body of work, including Belinda Illustrates

• The Angriest, by Grant Watson
• The Coode Street Podcast, by Jonathan Strahan and Gary K. Wolfe
• Galactic Suburbia, by Alisa Krasnostein, Alexandra Pierce, and Tansy Rayner Roberts
• SF Commentary, by Bruce Gillespie
• The Writer and the Critic, by Kirstyn McDermott and Ian Mond

• Rivqa Rafael
• T. R. Napper
• DK Mok
• Liz Barr

• Letters to Tiptree, by Alexandra Pierce and Alisa Krasnostein
• The Rereading the Empire Trilogy review series, by Tansy Rayner Roberts
• The Reviewing New Who series, by David McDonald, Tansy Rayner Roberts and Tehani Wessely
• “Sara Kingdom Dies at the End,” by Tansy Rayner Roberts in Companion Piece
• “SF Women of the 20th Century,” by Tansy Rayner Roberts
• Squeeing over Supergirl, by David McDonald and Tehani Wessely

This year’s ceremony will take place at Contact the weekend of March 25-28 in Brisbane, Australia.

Congratulations to all the nominees!