Aurealis Award winners

2007 Aurealis Awards Winners --with a special shout out to Anna Tambour for her story in my issue of Subterranean!!! Whoopie. Anna--go go go.

Best Science Fiction Novel
David Kowalski, The Company of the Dead, Pan Macmillan

Best Science Fiction Short Story
Cat Sparks, ‘Hollywood Roadkill’, On Spec, #69

Best Fantasy Novel
Lian Hearn, Heaven’s Net is Wide, Tales of the Otori The First Book, Hachette Livre Australia

Best Fantasy Short Story
Garth Nix, ‘Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz go to War Again’, Jim Baen’s Universe, April 2007

Best Horror Novel
Susan Parisi, Blood of Dreams, Penguin Group (Australia)

Best Horror Short Story
Anna Tambour, ‘The Jeweller of Second-Hand Roe’, Subterranean, #7

Best Young Adult Novel
Anthony Eaton, Skyfall, UQP

Best Young Adult Short Story
Deborah Biancotti, ‘A Scar for Leida’, Fantastic Wonder Stories, Ticonderoga Publications

Best Children’s (8-12 years) Long Fiction
Kate Forsyth, The Chain of Charms Books 2-6, Pan Macmillan
The Silver Horse
The Herb of Grace
The Cat’s Eye Shell
The Lightning Bolt
The Butterfly in Amber

Best Children’s (8-12 years) Short Fiction – Co-Winners
Marc McBride, World of Monsters, Scholastic Australia, AND
and
Briony Stewart, Kumiko and the Dragon, UQP

Peter McNamara Convenors’ Award for Excellence
Terry Dowling, Rynemonn, Coeur de Lion

Golden Aurealis Award – Best Short Story
Cat Sparks, ‘Hollywood Roadkill’, On Spec, #69

Golden Aurealis Award – Best Novel
David Kowalski, The Company of the Dead, Pan Macmillan

Here are comments from the horror judges panel discussing Anna's winning story:
Winner, Short Story: Anna Tambour, 'The Jeweller of Second-Hand Roe.'

"The 2007 horror story winner is more a disturbing look into unsavoury eating habits in 19th century Paris than traditional horror, but the concept is well-researching and the story has flashes of wit, charm, and creepiness. The story is well-paced, with a clever rate of reveal, the characters are interesting and sympathetic, and the writing is engaging. The true horror of Tambour's story is houw the author shows the bizarre side of human nature and juxtaposes it with a richly detailed world that is similar to our own yet slightly bent."