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Paul Haines Award for Long Fiction (2013-)
Long Fiction (2009-2012)
Subcategory of Australian Shadows Award
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Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 2022

winner y separately published work icon And Then I Woke Up Malcolm Devlin , 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.

Year: 2021

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: 2020

winner By Touch and by Glance Lisa L. Hannett , 2020 single work short story fantasy
— Appears in: Songs for Dark Seasons 2020; (p. 195-264)

Year: 2019

winner y separately published work icon Supermassive Black Mass Matthew R. Davis , 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.

Year: 2018

winner The Black Sea Chris Mason , 2018 single work short story horror
— Appears in: Beneath the Waves : Tales from the Deep 2018;
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