Congratulations to my fellow contributors, we're officially award winning! The Australian Shadow Awards were announced on social media last night and I'm delighted to say our little magazine of dark fantasy and horror won the edited works category! If you haven't read it yet, you can grab a copy here.
If you're in the mood for some horror, also check out the winners and shortlistees below.
Novel
WINNER: Deception Pass, Matthew Tait (Dark Crib)
The Crying Forest, Venero Armanno (IFWG)
Flyaway, Kathleen Jennings (Picador)
Gutterbreed, Marty Young (Eclectic Trio)
Long Fiction
WINNER: “By Touch and By Glance”, Lisa L. Hannett (Songs for Dark Seasons)
The Attic Tragedy, J. Ashley-Smith (Meerkat)
“Kua Hinga Te Kauri”, Dan Rabarts (Outback Horrors Down Under)
“Barralang, pop. 63”, Deborah Sheldon (Dimension6 #19)
“New Wine”, Angela Slatter (Cursed)
Short Fiction
WINNER: “Brumation”, Anthony Ferguson (Midnight Echo #15)
Collected Works
WINNER: The Heart Is a Mirror for Sinners, Angela Slatter (PS)
Bleak Precision, Greg Chapman (self-published)
Grotesque, Lee Murray (Things in the Well)
Red New Day, Angela Slatter (Brain Jar)
Behind the Midnight Blinds, Marty Young (Things in the Well)
Edited Works
WINNER: Midnight Echo #15, Lee Murray, ed.
Hadithi & the State of Black Speculative Fiction, Eugen Bacon & Milton Davis, eds. (Luna)
Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women, Lee Murray & Geneve Flynn, eds. (Omnium Gatherum)
Black Dogs, Black Tales: Where the Dogs Don’t Die, Tabatha Wood & Cassie Hart, eds. (Things in the Well)
Trickster’s Treats 4: Coming, Buried or Not!, Louise Zedda-Sampson & Geneve Flynn, eds. (Things in The Well)
Poetry
WINNER: “This Soundless Murk”, Hester J. Rook (The Future Fire #54)
“The Tongueless Dead”, Leigh Blackmore (Spectral Realms Summer ’20)
“The King of Eyes”, PS Cottier (Monstrous)
“Mouthing Off”, PS Cottier (Monstrous)
“Deadway”, K.S. Nikakis (Journey: Seeking the Sacred, Spirit and Soul in the Australian Wilderness)
Non-Fiction
WINNER: “An Exploration of Menstruation in Horror and Dark Fiction”, Tabatha Wood (Horror Tree 2/6/20)
“Sandalwood and Jade: The Weird and Fantastic Verse of Lin Carter”, Leigh Blackmore (Dead Reckonings Fall ’20)
“What Makes Good Horror?”, Tim Hawken (Aurealis #128)
“Phantasmagoria and the Earliest Forms of Horror Storytelling”, Maria Lewis (ACMI 1/1/21)
“Cthulhu in California: The Writing of Michael Shea”, Emmet O’Cuana (Aurealis #135)
“Queer Vampires in Modern Cinema”, Tabatha Wood (Divination Hollow Reviews 6/20)
Graphic Novel
WINNER: Hellblazer: Rise and Fall, Tom Taylor & Darick Robertson (DC)
Redback Armageddon, Nathan Grixti (self-published)
The Mycelium Complex, Daniel Reed (https://themyceliumcomplex.wordpress.com/)
DCeased: Unkillables, Tom Taylor & Karl Mostert (DC)
Undad: Volume Three, Katie Walsh-Smith, Miranda Richardson, Big Tim Stiles, Ryan K Lindsay, Shane W Smith, Karissa Moloney, Matias Lazaro, Anna Foubert, Mitchell Collins & Simon Robins (Deeper Meanings)