Australian Award-Winning Women (in SF, Horror and Fantasy)
November 28th, 2011 at 23:45This is a resource for the Australian Women Writers 2012 National Year of Reading Challenge.
If you spot any awards or writers I am missing that you think might be relevant, let me know! I’m starting with the most obvious SF & Fantasy awards but consider this post a work in progress, mostly because there were only so many awards lists I could read tonight before my eyeballs exploded. Come back later to find out what’s been added…
Works marked with a double asterisk have received international awards.
I have included YA work in with the adult and created a separate children’s section. Just because.
I know the challenge is about books but while I was trawling through lists for info I thought I might as well note the Australian women winning short story awards too. That will follow in a later post.
To make this really useful I am also thinking of differentiating between those books still in print and those not – if you try hunting for any of these and discover they are impossible to access, please let me know in comments! I started trying to use alphabetical order and decided in the end that starting with the most recent and moving down means the books near the top of the lists are the most current ones.
I may reorganise all this data in different combinations at any time. You have been warned.
Novels:
[Aurealis Best SF Novel 2011]
Marianne De Pierres, Transformation Space,
[Aurealis Best YA Novel 2011]
Karen Healey, Guardian of the Dead,
[Aurealis Best Horror Novel 2011]
Kirstyn McDermott, Madigan Mine
[Aurealis Best Fantasy Novel 2011 & Ditmar Best Novel 2011]
Tansy Rayner Roberts, Power and Majesty
[Aurealis Best Horror Novel 2010]
Honey Brown, Red Queen,
[Aurealis Best Fantasy Novel 2010]
Trudi Canavan, The Magician’s Apprentice,
[Ditmar Best Novel 2010]
Kaaron Warren, Slights
[Aurealis Best Fantasy Novel 2009]
Alison Goodman, The Two Pearls of Wisdom (published also as Eon)
**[World Fantasy Best Novel 2009, Ditmar Best Novel 2009]
Margo Lanagan, Tender Morsels
[Aurealis Best YA Novel 2009]
Melina Marchetta, Finnikin of the Rock,
[Aurealis Best Fantasy Novel 2008]
Lian Hearn, Heaven’s Net Is Wide
[Aurealis Best Horror Novel 2008]
Susan Parisi, Blood of Dreams,
[Aurealis Best Fantasy Novel 2007]
Juliet Marillier, Wildwood Dancing
[Aurealis Best Horror Novel 2007]
Edwina Grey, Prismatic
[Golden Aurealis Novel & Aurealis Best YA Novel 2006]
Isobelle Carmody, Alyzon Whitestar
[Aurealis Best Fantasy Award 2006]
Juliet Marillier, Blade of Fortriu
**[Andre Norton Award 2005]
Justine Larbalestier, Magic or Madness
[Aurealis Best SF Novel 2004]
Kate Orman & Jonathan Blum, Fallen Gods
[Ditmar Best Novel 2004]
K.J. Bishop, The Etched City
[Aurealis Best YA Novel 2004]
Carole Wilkinson, Dragonkeeper
[Aurealis Best YA Novel 2003]
Sophie Masson, The Hand of Glory
[Aurealis Best Fantasy Novel 2002]
Sara Douglass, The Wounded Hawk
[Aurealis Best Horror Novel 2002]
Kim Wilkins, Angel of Ruin
[Aurealis Best YA Novel 2002]
Louise Katz, The Other Face of Janus
[Aurealis Best Fantasy Novel 2001]
Juliet Marillier, Son of the Shadows
[Aurealis Best Horror Novel 2001]
Kim Wilkins, The Resurrectionists
[Aurealis Best YA Novel 2001]
Sonya Hartnett, Thursday’s Child
[Aurealis Best Fantasy Novel 2000]
Jane Routley, Aramaya
[Aurealis Best Horror Novel 2000]
Christine Harris, Foreign Devils
[Aurealis Best YA Novel 1999]
Alison Goodman, Singing the Dogstar Blues
[Aurealis Best Fantasy Novel & Aurealis Best Horror Novel 1998]
Kim Wilkins, The Infernal
[Aurealis Best YA Novel 1998]
Catherine Jinks, Eye to Eye & Isobelle Carmody, Greylands
[Aurealis Best Fantasy Novel 1997]
Sara Douglass, Enchanter and Starman: The Axis Trilogy
[Aurealis Best YA Novel 1997]
Kerry Greenwood, The Broken Wheel
[Ditmar Best Novel 1997]
Lucy Sussex, The Scarlet Rider
[Ditmar Best Novel 1977]
Cherry Wilder, The Luck of Brin’s Five
Collections written by and Anthologies edited by women:
[Aurealis Best Collection 2011]
Angela Slatter, The Girl With No Hands,
[Aurealis Best Anthology 2011]
Marianne S. Jablon and Jonathan Strahan, eds, Wings of Fire,
[Ditmar Best Collected Work 2011]
Alisa Krasnostein, ed, Sprawl
[Ditmar Best Collected Work 2007]
Michelle Marquardt & Bill Congreve, eds, The Year’s Best Australian Science Fiction & Fantasy Volume Two
**[World Fantasy Award 2005 & Ditmar Best Collected Work 2005]
Margo Lanagan, Black Juice
[Ditmar Best Collected Work 2004]
Cat Sparks, ed. Agog! Terrific Tales,
Margaret Winch & Peter McNamara, Forever Shores.
[Ditmar Best Collected Work 2003]
Cat Sparks, Agog! Fantastic Fiction
**[World Fantasy Award 1999 & Ditmar Best Magazine or Anthology 1999] Janeen Webb and Jack Dann, eds, Dreaming Down-Under
Non Fiction:
[William Atheling Jr Award for Criticism or Review 2011]
Tansy Rayner Roberts, for “A Modern Woman’s Guide to Classic Who”
[William Atheling Jr Award for Criticism or Review 2010]
Helen Merrick, The Secret Feminist Cabal: A Cultural History of Science Fiction Feminisms,
[William Atheling Jr Award for Criticism or Review 2009]
Kim Wilkins, “Popular Genres and the Australian Literary Community: the Case of Fantasy Fiction”, (Journal of Australian Studies)
[William Atheling Jr Award for Criticism or Review 2007]
Justine Larbalestier, Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century
[William Atheling Jr Award for Criticism or Review 2000]
Helen Merrick & Tess Williams, Women of Other Worlds
[William Atheling Jr Award for Criticism or Review 1979]
Susan Wood, “Women and SF”, (Algol #33)
For Children:
[Aurealis Best Children's Novel 2011]
Lian Tanner, The Keepers
[Aurealis Best Children's Picture Book 2011]
Sonya Hartnett (writer) & Lucia Masciullo (illustrator), The Boy and His Toy
[Aurealis Best Children's Novel 2010]
Gabrielle Wang, A Ghost in My Suitcase
[Aurealis Best Picture Book 2010]
Pamela Freeman (writer) & Kim Gamble (illustrator), Victor’s Challenge
[Aurealis Best Children's Novel 2009]
Emily Rodda, The Wizard of Rondo
[Aurealis Best Children's Long Fiction 2008]
Kate Forsyth, The Chain of Charms Books #2-#6
[Aurealis Best Children's Short Fiction 2008]
Briony Stewart, Kumiko and the Dragon
[Aurealis Best Children's Novel 2007]
Mardi McConnochie, Melissa Queen of Evil
[Aurealis Best Children's Short Fiction 2007]
Jane Godwin, The True Story of Mary Who Wanted to Stand on Her Head
Margaret Wild & Anne Spudvilas, Woolves in the Sitee.
[Aurealis Best Children's Short Fiction 2004]
Natalie Jane Prior, Lily Quench and the Lighthouse of Skellig Mor
[Aurealis Best Children's Long Fiction 2003]
Gabrielle Wang, In the Garden of Empress Cassia
[Aurealis Best Children's Short Fiction 2003]
Anna Fienberg & Kim Gamble, Tashi and the Haunted House
[Aurealis Best Children's Long Fiction 2002]
Sally Odgers, Candle Iron
[Aurealis Best Children's Short Fiction 2002]
Jackie French, Café on Callisto
Others of Interest:
**[World Fantasy Special Award Non-Professional 2011] Alisa Krasnostein (publisher), Twelfth Planet Press
Awards not currently held by/awarded to any Australian women writers: Hugo, Nebula, John W Campbell…
[coming soon: Tiptree, Stoker, WSFSPA, others... I got sleepy.]
Tags: aurealis, aurealis awards, australian women writers, awards, ditmars
November 29th, 2011 at 9:04 pm
Didn’t Sprawl get the 2011 Ditmar for Best Collection? Baggage was short-listed, but not, as far as I know, the winner.
November 29th, 2011 at 9:30 pm
Wow, sorry Gillian! I misread the Ditmar results wiki – your book was highlighted because it was the only one in the category linked elsewhere, and I was dizzy from hours of data sorting. Thanks for letting me know!
November 30th, 2011 at 12:14 pm
What a useful resource. Thanks for all the work, Tansy.
November 30th, 2011 at 5:16 pm
I only wish I were good enough to be on that list!
December 5th, 2011 at 4:06 am
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December 20th, 2011 at 4:00 pm
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December 21st, 2011 at 11:54 pm
Lezli Robyn.
Australian woman Campbell Award nominee 2010? (c/o Peter Ball)
December 22nd, 2011 at 8:41 am
Hey Thoraiya
This one was specifically about award winners – otherwise it would have been a *lot* longer. I ended up ditching the short story categories for the same reason, it was just too huge, and I had specifically been asked for a resource on books by Australian women that had won spec fic awards.
Cheers,
Tansy xx
December 22nd, 2011 at 2:15 pm
Aha. Sorry! My mix-up!
May 7th, 2012 at 11:39 pm
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May 7th, 2012 at 11:39 pm
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