DITMAR AWARDS FOR 2007

Congratulations to all the winners and nominees for the 2007 Ditmar Awards.

The presentation of the Ditmar Awards, for work published in the previous calendar year (2006), was held Saturday 9th June, at Convergence 2, the 46th National SF Convention.

Novel

Carnies.  Martin Livings, Lothian

Prismatic.  Edwina Grey, Lothian

The Mother.  Brett McBean, Lothian

The Pilo Family Circus.  Will Elliot, ABC Books (W)

The Silver Road.  Grace Dugan, Penguin

Novella/Novelette

Aftermath.  David Conyers, Agog! Ripping Reads, Agog! Press

The Dead of Winter.  Stephen Dedman, Weird Tales, #339

The Devil in Mr Pussy (Or how I found God inside my wife).  Paul Haines, C0ck, Couer de Lion Publishing (W)

The Souls of Dead Soldiers are for Blackbirds, Not Little Boys.  Ben Peek, Agog! Ripping Reads, Agog! Press

Under the Red Sun.  Ben Peek, Fantasy Magazine #4, Prime Books

World’s Whackiest Upper Atmosphere Re-Entry Disasters Dating Game.  Brendan Duffy, Agog! Ripping Reads, Agog! Press

(Fifth place nomination a tie)

Short Story

Burning from the Inside.  Paul Haines, Doorways for the Dispossessed, Prime Books

Cold.  Kirstyn McDermott, Shadowed Realms #9

Honeymoon.  Adam Browne and John Dixon, C0ck, Couer de Lion Publishing

Surrender 1: Rope Artist.  Deborah Biancotti, Shadowed Realms #9

The Bat's Boudoir.  Kyla Ward, Shadowed Realms #9

The Fear of White.  Rjurik Davidson, Borderlands #7 (W)

(Fifth place nomination a tie)

Collected Work

Agog! Ripping Reads edited by Cat Sparks. Agog! Press

C0ck edited by Keith Stevenson & Andrew Macrae

Doorways for the Dispossessed edited by Paul Haines and Geoffrey Maloney, Prime Books

The Year’s Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy Vol.2 edited by Bill Congreve & Michelle Marquardt, Mirrordanse Books (W)

Eidolon I edited by Jonathan Strahan and Jeremy Byrne, Eidolon Books

Artwork

26Lies/1Truth, cover art by Andrew MacRae, Wheatland Press (W)

Agog! Ripping Reads, cover art by Cat Sparks, Agog! Press

Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century cover art by Cat Sparks, Wesleyan University Press

The Devoured Earth, cover art by Greg Bridges, HarperCollins Press

The Arrival, cover art by Shaun Tan, Lothian

Fan Writer

Stephanie Gunn

Shane Jiraiya Cummings

Danny Oz (W)

Miranda Siemienowicz

Mark Smith-Briggs

Matthew Tait

(Fifth place nomination a tie)

Fan Artist

Christopher Johnstone

Jon Swabey (W)

Fan Production

ASif website, Alisa Krasnostein – Executive Editor (W)

Inkspillers website, Tony Plank

Outland, Directed by John Richards

Tabula Rasa website, David Carroll

The Bullsheet website & ezine, Edwina Harvey & Ted Scribner

Fanzine

AntipodeanSF, editor Ion Newcombe

ASIF – Australian Specfic in Focus, editor Alisa Krasnostein

The Captain's Log, Austrek clubzine.  Edited by Clare McDonald

Ethel the Aardvark, MSFC clubzine

HorrorScope, editor Shane Jiraiya Cummings (W)

Professional Achievement

Angelia Challis for establishing Brimstone Press as a mass market publisher

Bill Congreve for Mirrordanse Press and 2 issues of the Australian Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy (W)

Russell B Farr for Ticonderoga Publications

Gary Kemble for work on ABC’s Articulate and promoting the genre through radio and other mediums

Alisa Krasnostein for providing new paying markets for readers and writers of both fiction/ non fiction, art as well as forums for reviews/interviews within the speculative fiction genre, enhancing the profile of Australian speculative fiction.

Justine Larbalestier, for editing Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century

Fan Achievement

Marty Young for his work establishing and promoting the Australian Horror Writers Association

Alisa Krasnostein for establishing ASIf (W)

Tony Plank for establishing and maintaining the Inkspillers website

New Talent

Stephanie Campisi

David Conyers

Shane Jiraiya Cummings

Alisa Krasnostein (W)

Brett McBean

The William Atheling Jr Award

Miranda Siemienowicz for her review of Paraspheres appearing in Horrorscope

Justine Larbalestier for Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century (W)

Robert Hood for Man and Super-Monster: A History of Daikaiju Eiga and its Metaphorical Undercurrents. Borderlands #7

Grant Watson for Bad Film Diaries - Sink or Swim: The Truth Behind Waterworld. Borderlands #8

Kathryn Linge for her review Through Soft Air, ASif