AustLit
Long Fiction (2009-2012)
Subcategory of Australian Shadows Award
Latest Winners / Recipients
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Year: 2022
winner y And Then I Woke Up New York (City) : Tor , 2022 26204975 2022 single work novella horror'In a world reeling from an unusual plague, monsters lurk in the streets while terrified survivors arm themselves and roam the countryside in packs. Or perhaps something very different is happening. When a disease affects how reality is perceived, it’s hard to be certain of anything…
'Spence is one of the “cured” living at the Ironside rehabilitation facility. Haunted by guilt, he refuses to face the changed world until a new inmate challenges him to help her find her old crew. But if he can’t tell the truth from the lies, how will he know if he has earned the redemption he dreams of? How will he know he hasn’t just made things worse?'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
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Year: 2021
winner y Ariadne, I Love You 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.
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Year: 2020
winner By Touch and by Glance 2020 single work short story fantasy
— Appears in: Songs for Dark Seasons 2020; (p. 195-264) -
Year: 2019
winner y Supermassive Black Mass United Kingdom (UK) : Demain Publishing , 2020 18959563 2020 single work novella horror'In 1971, the wicked cult of science-sorceress Thelma O’Therion vanished from Oddfellows Observatory – and rumour is that the place has been growing ever since. Now, in the name of love, stoner-metal singer Terrance will discover the madness that lies within its walls – a terror transcending time, space, and sanity itself...'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
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Year: 2018
winner The Black Sea 2018 single work short story horror
— Appears in: Beneath the Waves : Tales from the Deep 2018;