May 25
The 2024 Australasian Shadows Awards shortlists have been announced! Congratulations to everyone who made the shortlists. The winners will be announced at the awards ceremony at Conflux 19, to be held in Canberra in October. Short Fiction“The Absolute” by Aaron Dries (Grimdark Magazine)“The Gift” by Chuck McKenzie (Daft Notions, self-published)“We Have Children Now” by Anthony …
Sep 24
Eugen Bacon’s AN EARNEST BLACKNESS by Anti-Oedipus Press, a collection of essays that offers critical perspectives on blackness, Afrofuturism, colonialism, historicity, gender and (mis)recognition, has won the British Fantasy Award for Best Non-Fiction. Congratulations to all winners and finalists. Eugen is honoured that this collection has also made the preliminary ballot for the Australian Ditmar …
May 08
The judges have read everything with great criticism, arguments were had, fights broke out and bodies were buried in shallow graves… *touches earpiece* Errr, okay. I’m being told none of that happened. In fact, all the judges did an amazing job and our huge thanks go out to them. And now, the AHWA is very …
Jun 03
Last year, Geneve Flynn won the 2020 Bram Stoker Award® for her work on Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women, an anthology of Southeast Asian horror co-edited with celebrated New Zealand author and AHWA member Lee Murray. This year’s award event was hosted by the Horror Writers Association (HWA) during StokerCon in Denver, Colorado. Flynn, …
Apr 13
For anyone who missed the live broadcast of the Australian Shadows Awards presentations last night, the recording is now up on our YouTube channel here:
Apr 12
Huge congratulations to the 2021 Australian Shadows Awards winners, and to all the finalists. Massive thanks to all the judges and everyone at the AHWA that makes these awards possible. NON-FICTION Vampire Poetry by Kyla Lee Ward (Hippocampus Press) I’m Looking Right At You, HP Lovecraft by Jack Dann (IFWG) The Curious Reclassification of Peter …
Mar 21
AUSTRALIAN SHADOWS AWARDS Live Ceremony! There will be an online Zoom live ceremony to announce the winners of the 2021 Australian Shadows Awards on Tuesday the 12th April at 9pm AEST. Everyone is welcome, it will be a public event. If you’re a finalist, wear your comfy best as winners will be invited to turn …
Mar 17
We are very excited to release the list of finalists for the 2021 Australian Shadows Awards. Firstly, let us just say that the quality of published dark fiction right now is mind-blowing. Our judges had a hell of a time choosing shortlists. Huge thanks to all those judges for their hard work. Congratulations to everyone …
Jun 12
The winners of the 2020 Australian Shadows Awards have been announced. On the 11th June the winners of the 2020 Australian Shadow Awards were announced, celebrating the finest in horror and dark fiction published by an Australasian within the named calendar year. The fields were exceptionally strong this year, reflecting what we all know about …
May 18
The entries have been entered, the judges have read and judged. Great deliberations were made to decide who from Australasia had made the greatest contributions to dark fiction in the plague year of 2020. And now, decisions! Firstly, enormous thanks to the judging panels for their tireless hard work in volunteering to judge. It’s a …
