News: 2009 Ditmar Award winners

The 2009 Ditmar Awards for Australian SF, fantasy, and horror have been presented this evening at Conjecture in Adelaide. The winners are:

Best Novel
Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan (Allen & Unwin)

Best Novella or Novelette
"Painlessness" by Kirstyn McDermott (GUD #2)

Best Short Story (tie)
"This Is Not My Story" by Dirk Flinthart (Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #37)
"The Goosle" by Margo Lanagan (The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction, ed. Ellen Datlow)

Best Collected Work
Dreaming Again, edited by Jack Dann (Harper Voyager)

Best Artwork
Tales from Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan

Best Fan Writer
Robert Hood (for Undead Backbrain)

Best Fan Artist
Cat Sparks for Scary Food cookbook

Best Fan Publication
ASif! (Australian Speculative Fiction In Focus), edited by Alisa Krasnostein & Gene Melzack (Twelfth Planet Press)

Best Achievement
Angela Challis for Black: Australian Dark Culture Magazine and Brimstone Press.

Best New Talent
Felicity Dowker

William Atheling Jr Award for Criticism or Review
"Popular genres and the Australian literary community: the case of fantasy fiction" by Kim Wilkins (in Journal of Australian Studies)


Other awards presented:

A. Bertram Chandler Award
Rosaleen Love

Peter McNamara Award
Sean Williams



Source: Cheryl Morgan