Life has to go on and the dreadful fuss over the Hugos can't take up everything online so, here it is!
This is pinched from Tsana Dolichva's excellent review blog, tsanasreads.blogspot.com, which you should definitely check out. Tsana was actually there when the awards were presented and I gather that Glenda Larke, who ended up winning both a Ditmar and a Tin Duck, was thrilled, as it was her first. I must say I'm also pleased for Merv Binns, a veteran Melbourne fan with a history going back to the fifties, I think, if not earlier, who ran the amazing Space Age Bookshop, where I used to do my SF shopping years ago. It's about time! I hope he and his wife Helena were able to get there. If they did go, I'm sure Helena will show us a lot of photos!
Congratulations, also, to Donna Maree Hanson for the A. Bertram Chandler Award, also thoroughly deserved.
And thank you to the Snapshot team, who invited me, twice, to have my say as a writer! It makes me feel as if I, too, have a part in this year's awards.
The Ditmar Awards
The winners in each category are in bold.
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
The Peter McNamara Achievement award goes to Merv Binns
The Norma K Hemming award goes to Paddy O'Reilly for The Wonders.
Runners-up Lisa Hannet and Angela Slatter for The Female Factory.
The A. Bertram Chandler Award goes to Donna Maree Hanson.
The Tin Duck Awards
The Tin Ducks are the awards for Western Australian SF achievement awards, given out at Swancon every year.
The Marge Hughes award goes to Damien McGee.
Best WA Professional Long Written Work
The Lascar's Dagger, Glenda Larke (Hachette)
Best Professional Short Written Work
"Siri and the Chaos Maker" by Carol Ryles, in Kisses by Clockwork (Ticonderoga Publications)
Best WA Pro Production or Artwork
Kaleidoscope, edited by Alisa Krasnostein and Julia Rios (Twelfth Planet Press)
Best Fan Written Work
The 2014 Snapshot of Australian Speculative Fiction interview series
WA Fan Artwork
2014 Tin Ducks, by John Parker(Tsana says he had to make his own award. I vaguely recall this happening with Dick "Ditmar" Jenssen, after whom the awards were named!)
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