Just some late breaking news here. The Tiptree winners and honours list have been released. I love the fact that they do it this way, so the shortlisted people get to appreciate that honour without getting distracted about whether or not they won…

It really is an honour to be shortlisted, you know.

Jonathan Strahan’s well received anthology Eclipse 3, which is full of awesome stories, many of them by women, had two individual stories honoured by this year’s Tiptree, which is pretty extraordinary. Congratulations to Caitlin Kiernan & Maureen McHugh. McHugh’s story in particular was one of my favourites last year.

The other super supremely exciting news for Australians is that Paul Haines’ extraordinary novella “Wives” is on the honour list. It’s really rare for Australians to be noticed in awards like this – and it’s wonderful that this brilliant story about grotesque gender politics has been recognised internationally for what it is.

EDIT: Quote from the judge’s report grabbed from  papersky‘s LJ – “Wives” by Paul Haines (in X6 edited by Keith Stevenson, coeur de lion 2009) —A sharp and powerful but deeply ugly look at white working class Australian masculinity in a world where women are scarce.

SECOND EDIT: Finally found a link to the real judge’s report/press release!

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