If you're brave enough to fly

The Ditmar ballot for 2015 has been announced.  You can see the ballot here, and if you’re eligible to vote for the awards, you can do so here.

I’m kind of stunned that my weird steampunk dystopia Escapement has made it to the novella/novelette ballot.  I doubt I have a hope in hell of winning, given who I’m up against, but I am chuffed to be nominated.  And I also snuck in on the Best Fan Publication as part of Snapshot.

Best Novel

• The Lascar’s Dagger, Glenda Larke (Hachette)
• Bound (Alex Caine 1), Alan Baxter (Voyager)
• Clariel, Garth Nix (HarperCollins)
• Thief’s Magic (Millennium’s Rule 1), Trudi Canavan (Hachette Australia)
• The Godless (Children 1), Ben Peek (Tor UK)
• No Award

Best Novella or Novelette

• “The Ghost of Hephaestus”, Charlotte Nash, in Phantazein (FableCroft Publishing)
• “The Legend Trap”, Sean Williams, in Kaleidoscope (Twelfth Planet Press)
• “The Darkness in Clara”, Alan Baxter, in SQ Mag 14 (IFWG Publishing Australia)
• “St Dymphna’s School for Poison Girls”, Angela Slatter, in Review of Australian Fiction, Volume 9, Issue 3 (Review of Australian Fiction)
• “The Female Factory”, Lisa L. Hannett and Angela Slatter, in The Female Factory (Twelfth Planet Press)
• “Escapement”, Stephanie Gunn, in Kisses by Clockwork (Ticonderoga Publications)
• No Award

Best Short Story

• “Bahamut”, Thoraiya Dyer, in Phantazein (FableCroft Publishing)
• “Vanilla”, Dirk Flinthart, in Kaleidoscope (Twelfth Planet Press)
• “Cookie Cutter Superhero”, Tansy Rayner Roberts, in Kaleidoscope (Twelfth Planet Press)
• “The Seventh Relic”, Cat Sparks, in Phantazein (FableCroft Publishing)
• “Signature”, Faith Mudge, in Kaleidoscope (Twelfth Planet Press)
• No Award

Best Collected Work

• Kaleidoscope, edited by Alisa Krasnostein and Julia Rios (Twelfth Planet Press)
• The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2013, edited by Liz Grzyb and Talie Helene (Ticonderoga Publications)
• Phantazein, edited by Tehani Wessely (FableCroft Publishing)
• No Award

Best Artwork

• Illustrations, Kathleen Jennings, in Black-Winged Angels (Ticonderoga Publications)
• Cover art, Kathleen Jennings, of Phantazein (FableCroft Publishing)
• Illustrations, Kathleen Jennings, in The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings (Tartarus Press)
• No Award

Best Fan Writer

• Tansy Rayner Roberts, for body of work
• Tsana Dolichva, for body of work
• Bruce Gillespie, for body of work
• Katharine Stubbs, for body of work
• Alexandra Pierce for body of work
• Grant Watson, for body of work
• Sean Wright, for body of work
• No Award

Best Fan Artist

• Nalini Haynes, for body of work, including “Interstellar Park Ranger Bond, Jaime Bond”, “Gabba and Slave Lay-off: Star Wars explains Australian politics”, “The Driver”, and “Unmasked” in Dark Matter Zine
• Kathleen Jennings, for body of work, including Fakecon art and Illustration Friday series
• Nick Stathopoulos, for movie poster of It Grows!
• No Award

Best Fan Publication in Any Medium

• Snapshot 2014, Tsana Dolichva, Nick Evans, Stephanie Gunn, Kathryn Linge, Elanor Matton-Johnson, David McDonald, Helen Merrick, Jason Nahrung, Ben Payne, Alex Pierce, Tansy Rayner Roberts, Helen Stubbs, Katharine Stubbs, Tehani Wessely, and Sean Wright
• It Grows!, Nick Stathopoulos
• Galactic Suburbia, Alisa Krasnostein, Alexandra Pierce, Tansy Rayner Roberts, and Andrew Finch
• The Writer and the Critic, Kirstyn McDermott and Ian Mond
• Galactic Chat, Sean Wright, Helen Stubbs, David McDonald, Alexandra Pierce, Sarah Parker, and Mark Webb
• No Award

Best New Talent

• Helen Stubbs
• Shauna O’Meara
• Michelle Goldsmith
• No Award

William Atheling Jr Award for Criticism or Review

• Reviews in The Angriest, Grant Watson
• The Eddings Reread series, Tehani Wessely, Jo Anderton, and Alexandra Pierce, in A Conversational Life
• Reviews in Adventures of a Bookonaut, Sean Wright
• “Does Sex Make Science Fiction Soft?”, in Uncanny Magazine 1, Tansy Rayner Roberts
• Reviews in FictionMachine, Grant Watson
• The Reviewing New Who series, David McDonald, Tansy Rayner Roberts, and Tehani Wessely
• No Award

Mirrored from Stephanie Gunn.

It’s Ditmar nomination time again.

There have been a bunch of lists of recommendations circulating through the blogosphere, and Tehani Wessely is compiling a list of eligible works.

My few recommendations:

Novel:

Slights, Kaaron Warren

Life Through Cellophane, Gillian Polack

Shadow Queen, Deborah Kalin

(there’s a couple of others I should add to this list, including Liar and Leviathan, but I’ve omitted them for the simple reason that I haven’t read them completely yet.)

Novella/novelette

Wives, Paul Haines

The Message, Andrew J. McKiernan

Horn, Peter M. Ball

Short story

Busking, Jason Fischer

Six Suicides, Deborah Biancotti

The Emancipated Dance, Felicity Dowker

Collection

Slice of Life, Paul Haines

Book of Endings, Deborah Biancotti

Grants Pass, ed Amanda Pillar and Jennifer Brozek

Fan Writer

Chuck McKenzie, who has been the backbone of Horrorscope for the last year.

William Atheling Jr

Chuck McKenzie

And of course, the obligatory vanity section of works I have that are eligible:

Short stories:

Narthex, In Bad Dreams 2

An Unkindness of Ravens, Grants Pass.

And I’m also eligible for fan writer for my work with Horrorscope.

Mirrored from Stephanie Gunn.