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Best Novella or Novelette (2004-)
Subcategory of Ditmar Awards
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History

Inaugurated in 2004, this award offered a category for works that fell in length between 'Best Novel' and 'Best Short Story'.

Notes

  • Any work of science fiction, fantasy or horror of 7,500 to 40,000 words.

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 2023

joint winner Remnants and Bad Water Kaaron Warren , 2022 single work short story
— Appears in: Damnation Games 2022;
joint winner The Smell of Waiting Kaaron Warren , 2022 single work short story horror
— Appears in: Screams from the Dark : 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous 2022; (p. 289-305)

Year: 2022

winner y separately published work icon Ariadne, I Love You J. Ashley Smith , Atlanta : Meerkat Press , 2021 23625422 2021 single work novella horror

'Jude is dragged out of Alt-Country obscurity, out of the dismal loop of booze and sadness baths and the boundless, insatiable loneliness, to scrub up and fly to Australia for a last, desperate comeback tour. Hardly worth getting out of bed for—and he wouldn’t, if it weren’t for Coreen.

'But Coreen is dead. And, worse than that, she’s married. Jude’s swan-song tour becomes instead a terminal descent, into the sordid past, into the meaning hidden in forgotten songs, into Coreen’s madness diary, there to waken something far worse than her ghost.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Year: 2021

winner y separately published work icon Flyaway Kathleen Jennings , New York (City) : Tor , 2020 17351781 2020 single work novella fantasy

'Strange what chooses to flourish here. Which plants. Which stories.

'Bettina Scott lives a tidy, quiet life in Runagate, tending to her delicate mother and their well-kept garden after her father and brothers disappear — until a note arrives that sends Bettina into the scrublands beyond, searching for answers about what really happened to this town, and to her family.

'For this is a land where superstitions hunt and folk tales dream — and power is there for the taking, for those willing to look.'

Source: Publisher's blurb (Picador ed.)

Year: 2019

winner y separately published work icon Cabaret of Monsters Tansy Rayner Roberts , Australia : Tansy Rayner Roberts , 2018 15977850 2018 single work novella fantasy

'Saturnalia in Aufleur is a time of topsy-turvy revels, of the world turned upside down and transformed before your eyes. The city's theatres produce an annual display of reversals, surprises and transformations.

'In this city, flappers can transform into wolves. Even the rats are not what they seem.

'Evie Inglirra is on a mission to infiltrate the theatrical world of Aufleur and discover what lies beneath their glamorous cabaret costumes and backstage scandals. Has she bitten off more than she can chew?'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Year: 2018

winner y separately published work icon Girl Reporter Tansy Rayner Roberts , United States of America (USA) : Book Smugglers Publishing , 2017 12890563 2017 single work novella science fiction young adult

 From the award-winning author of Cookie Cutter Superhero and Kid Dark Against the Machine comes a brand new novella about girl reporters, superheroes, and interdimensional travel

'In a world of superheroes, supervillains, and a machine that can create them all, millennial vlogger and girl reporter Friday Valentina has no shortage of material to cover. Every lottery cycle, a new superhero is created and quite literally steps into the shoes of the hero before them--displacing the previous hero. While Fry may not be super-powered herself, she understands the power of legacy: her mother is none other than the infamous reporter Tina Valentina, renowned worldwide for her legendary interviews with the True Blue Aussie Beaut Superheroes and her tendency to go to extraordinary lengths to get her story.

This time, Tina Valentina may have ventured too far.

'Alongside Australia's greatest superheroes--including the powerful Astra, dazzling Solar, and The Dark in his full brooding glory--Friday will go to another dimension in the hopes of finding her mother, saving the day, maybe even getting the story of a lifetime out of the adventure. (And possibly a new girlfriend, too.)'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

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