CSFG members have a whole swag of stuff that’s eligible for this year’s Ditmar Awards.
Voting is due to open soon. Members, including supporting members, of the upcoming and previous national spec fic conventions (Continuum X and Conflux 9) are eligible to vote.
Red titles below link to stories that are free to read online.
Best Collected Work
Simon Petrie and Rob Porteous (eds)
Next (CSFG Publishing)
Cat Sparks **NEW ENTRY**
The Bride Price (Ticonderoga Publications)
Kaaron Warren
The Gate Theory (Cohesion Press)
Best Novelette or Novella
Ian McHugh
Grey Snow in the Shadows (ASIM)
Cold, Cold War (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
The Canal Barge Magician’s Number Nine Daughter (Clockwork Phoenix 4)
Tim Napper
The Gambler (Omni Reboot)
Zena Shapter
Darker (Midnight Echo #10)
Kaaron Warren **CORRECTION**
The Unwanted Women of Surrey (Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells, Tor Books)
Best Short Story
Alan Baxter
Not the Worst of Sins (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
Roll the Bones (Crowded Magazine)
The Beat Of A Pale Wing (A Killer Among Demons, Dark Prints Press)
The Fathomed Wreck To See (Midnight Echo #9)
On A Crooked Leg Lightly (Dreaming Of Djinn, Ticonderoga Publications)
Quantum Echoes (Next, CFSG Publishing)
A Time For Redemption (Urban Occult, Anachron Press)
It’s Always the Children Who Suffer (Midnight Echo #10)
Exposure Compensation (Midnight Echo #10)
Ian McHugh
When the Rain Comin (Asimov’s Oct/Nov 2013)
Vandiemensland (Next, CSFG Publishing)
From Sorrow’s Gate (Crowded Magazine)
Shauna O’Meara
The Dream Tracker (Next, CSFG Publishing)
Leife Shallcross
A Little Warning (Next, CSFG Publishing)
Cat Sparks **NEW ENTRY**
Daughters of Battendown (One Small Step, FableCroft Publishing)
Scarp (The Bride Price, Ticonderoga Publications)
Dave Versace
Imported Goods – Aisle Nine (Next, CSFG Publishing)
Kaaron Warren
Born and Bread (Once Upon a Time: New Fairy Tales, Prime Books)
Air, Water and the Grove (The Lowest Heaven, Pandemonium Press)
Sleeping with the Bower Birds (Shivers 7, Cemetary Dance)
The Human Moth (The Grimscribe’s Puppets, Miskatonic River Press)
Best Artwork
Shauna O’Meara
Cover art (Next)
Internal illustrations (Next)
Cover art (In Fabula-divino)
Best New Talent
Zena Shapter
Best Fan Writer
Zena Shapter
Body of work including blog series How Editors Select Short Stories and Where Writers Write
Best Fan Publication
Zena Shapter
Conflux 9 / 2013 Natcon progress reports