Ganadores de los Australian Shadows Awards 2019

Se anunciaron los ganadores de los Premios de Los Australian Shadows Awards 2019. El premio es otorgado por la Asociación Australiana de Escritores de Terror (AHWA) por «lo mejor en horror y ficción oscura publicado por un australiano dentro del año calendario».

Best Novel

• WINNER: Shepherd, Catherine Jinks (Text)

• The Flower and the Serpent, Madeleine D’Este (self-published)
• Fusion, Kate Richards (Hamish Hamilton Australia)

Best Short Fiction

• WINNER: “Steadfast Shadowsong”, Matthew R. Davis (Dig Two Graves)

• “Vivienne & Agnes”, Chris Mason (Beside the Seaside: Tales from the Daytripper)
• “The Ocean Hushed the Stones”, Alan Baxter (Served Cold)
• “Ava Rune”, J.S. Breukelaar (Collision: Stories)

Best Collected Work

• WINNER: Served Cold, Alan Baxter (Grey Matter)

• Collision: Stories, J.S. Breukelaar (Meerkat)
• Figments and Fragments, Deborah Sheldon (IFWG)

Best Edited Work

• WINNER: Midnight Echo #14, Deborah Sheldon, ed. (Australasian Horror Writers Association)

• Beside the Seaside: Tales from the Day-Tripper, Steve Dillon, ed. (self-published)
• Trickster’s Treats #3: The Seven Deadly Sins Edition, Marie O’Regan & Lee Murray, eds. (self-published)

Paul Haines Award for Long Fiction

• WINNER: Supermassive Black Mass, Matthew R. Davis (self-published)

• “The Neverwhere Line”, Matthew J. Morrison (Midnight Echo #14)
• “Out of Darkness”, Chris Mason (Tales of the Lost, Volume 1)
• “Enemy of My Enemy”, Rick Kennett (War of the Worlds: Battleground Australia)
• 1862, C.J. Halbard (Man on Fire)

Best Poetry

• WINNER: “Taxonomy of Captured Roses”, Hester J. Rook (Kaleidotrope Autumn ’19)

• “Brine and Vanishings”, Hester J. Rook (Liminality #21)
• “Please Do Not Feed the Animals”, Anne Casey (out of emptied cups)
• “Separation”, Jay Caselberg (The Literary Hatchet #23)
• “Ode to a Black Hole”, Charles Lovecraft (Spectral Realms Winter ’19)
• “Boat of a Million Years”, Kyla Lee Ward (The Macabre Modern and Other Morbidities)

Rocky Wood Award for Non-Fiction and Criticism

• WINNER: “The Danse Macabre”, Kyla Lee Ward (The Macabre Modern and Other Morbidities)

• “Suffer the Little Children”, Kris Ashton (Aurealis #119)
• “Horror and the paranormal”, Eugen Bacon (Writing Speculative Fiction)
• “Horror Movies That Mean Something and Childhood Trauma Manifested”, Maria Lewis (flicks.com.au)

Best Graphic Novel

• WINNER: DCeased, Tom Taylor & Trevor Hairsine (DC)

• The Eldritch Kid: The Bone War, Christian D. Read & Paul Mason (Gestalt)
• “Matinee”, Emmet O’Cuana & David Parsons (Something Wicked 2019)
• “Geebung Polo Club”, Jason Fischer & Shauna O’Meara (Skellington #1)

Para más información:  AHWA website.

Fuente: Locus Magazine