Aurealis Award for best young adult short story

The Aurealis Awards are presented annually by the Australia-based Chimaera Publications and WASFF to published works in order to "recognise the achievements of Australian science fiction, fantasy, horror writers".[2] To qualify, a work must have been first published by an Australian citizen or permanent resident between 1 January and 31 December of the corresponding year;[3] the presentation ceremony is held the following year. It has grown from a small function of around 20 people to a two-day event attended by over 200 people.[4]

Aurealis Award for young adult short story
The Aurealis Award design is often placed on the winning book's cover as a promotional tool.[1]
Awarded for	Excellence in young adult speculative fiction short stories
Country	Australia
Presented by	Chimaera Publications, Continuum Foundation
First awarded	1995
Currently held by	Jo Hart
Website	Official site

Since their creation in 1995, awards have been given in various categories of speculative fiction. Categories currently include science fiction, fantasy, horror, speculative young adult fiction—with separate awards for novels and short fiction—collections, anthologies, illustrative works or graphic novels, children's books, and an award for excellence in speculative fiction.[2] The awards have attracted the attention of publishers by setting down a benchmark in science fiction and fantasy. The continued sponsorship by publishers such as HarperCollins and Orbit has identified the award as an honour to be taken seriously.[5]

The results are decided by a panel of judges from a list of submitted nominees; the long-list of nominees is reduced to a short list of finalists.[2] Ties can occur if the panel decides both entries show equal merit, however they are encouraged to choose a single winner.[6] The judges are selected from a public application process by the Award's management team.[7]

This article lists all the short-list nominees and winners in the best young-adult short story category. Margo Lanagan has won the award three times and Isobelle Carmody has won it twice. Lanagan also holds the record for most nominations, with ten.

Winners and nominees

In the following table, the years correspond to the year of the story's eligibility; the ceremonies are always held the following year. Each year links to the corresponding "year in literature" article. Entries with a blue background have won the award; those with a white background are the nominees on the short-list. If the short story was originally published in a book with other stories rather than by itself or in a magazine, the book title is included after the publisher's name.

  *   Winners and joint winners
  *   Nominees on the shortlist

Year	Author(s)	Short story	Publisher or publication	Ref
1995	No award given	—	—	[8]
1996	Isobelle Carmody*	"Green Monkey Dreams"	Viking Press (Green Monkey Dreams)	[9][10]
1996	Dave Luckett	The Wizard and Me	Omnibus Books	[9]
1996	James Moloney	The Pipe	Lothian Books	[9]
1996	Gillian Rubinstein	"B'ku, B'ku"	Hyland House (Annie's Brother's Suit)	[9][10]
1996	Keith Taylor	"At the Edge of the Sea"	Penguin Books (Dream Weavers)	[9][10]
1997	Ruth Starke*	The Twist in the Tale	Lothian Books	[11]
1997	Sheryl Gardner	The Peppercorn Tree	Lothian Books	[11]
1997	Julie Ireland	"Hanging by a Thread"	HarperCollins (Hanging by a Thread and Other Stories)	[10][11]
1998	No award given	—	—	[12]
1999	No award given	—	—	[13]
2000	Margo Lanagan*	"The Queen's Notice"	Allen & Unwin (White Time)	[10][14]
2000	Brian Caswell	"Avalon"	Hodder Headline (Tales from the Wasteland)	[10][14]
2000	Margo Lanagan	"The Boy Who Didn't Yearn"	Allen & Unwin (White Time)	[10][14]
2000	Margo Lanagan	"Midsummer Mission"	Allen & Unwin (White Time)	[10][14]
2000	Margo Lanagan	"White Time"	Allen & Unwin (White Time)	[10][14]
2001	Isobelle Carmody*	Dreamwalker	Lothian Books	[15]
2001	Garth Nix	"Lightning Bringer"	Simon & Schuster (Love & Sex: Ten Stories of Truth)	[10][15]
2002	No award given	—	—	[16]
2003	No award given	—	—	[17]
2004	Margo Lanagan*	"Singing My Sister Down"	Allen & Unwin (Black Juice)	[10][18]
2004	Chris Barnes	"The Glass Flower"	CSFG Publishing (Encounters)	[10][18]
2004	Bill Congreve	"The Shooter at Heartrock Waterhole"	Viking Press (The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm)	[10][18]
2004	Margo Lanagan	"Rite of Spring"	Allen & Unwin (Black Juice)	[10][18]
2005	Garth Nix*	"Nicholas Sayre and the Creature in the Case"	Allen & Unwin (Across the Wall: Tales of the Old Kingdom and Elsewhere)	[10][19]
2005	Dirk Flinthart	"The Red Priest's Homecoming"	Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine	[19]
2006	Shaun Tan*	The Arrival	Lothian Books	[20]
2006	Deborah Biancotti	"The Dying Light"	Eidolon Books (Eidolon I)	[10][20]
2006	Simon Brown	"Leviathan"	Eidolon Books (Eidolon I)	[10][20]
2006	Margo Lanagan	"Baby Jane"	Allen & Unwin (Red Spikes)	[10][20]
2006	Margo Lanagan	"A Feather in the Breast of God"	Allen & Unwin (Red Spikes)	[10][20]
2006	Margo Lanagan	"Forever Upward"	Allen & Unwin (Red Spikes)	[10][20]
2007	Deborah Biancotti*	"A Scar for Leida"	Ticonderoga Publications (Fantastic Wonder Stories)	[10][21]
2007	Shane Jiraiya Cummings	"Yamabushi Kaidan and the Smoke Dragon"	Ticonderoga Publications (Fantastic Wonder Stories)	[10][21]
2007	Garth Nix	"Bad Luck, Trouble, Death and Vampire Sex"	Eclipse	[21]
2007	Garth Nix	"Holly and Iron"	Allen & Unwin (Dark Alchemy)	[10][21]
2007	Tracey Rolfe	"Cast Off"	Ticonderoga Publications (Fantastic Wonder Stories)	[10][21]
2008	Trent Jamieson*	"Cracks"	Shiny	[22]
2008	Deborah Biancotti	"The Tailor of Time"	Norilana Books (Clockwork Phoenix)	[10][22]
2008	Dirk Flinthart	"This Is Not My Story"	Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine	[22]
2008	Kevin Maclean	"Eye of the Beholder"	DAW Books (Misspelled)	[10][22]
2009	Cat Sparks*	"Seventeen"	CSFG Publishing (Masques)	[10][23]
2009	Joanne Anderton	"Dragon Bones"	Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine	[23]
2009	Sue Isle	"Paper Dragons"	Shiny	[23]
2009	Ian McHugh	"Once a Month, On a Sunday"	Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine	[23]
2009	Tansy Rayner Roberts	"Like Us"	Shiny	[23]
2010	Margo Lanagan*	"A Thousand Flowers"	Allen & Unwin (Zombies Vs Unicorns)	[24]
2010	Aidan Doyle	"Inksucker"	FableCroft Publishing (Worlds Next Door)	[25]
2010	Dirk Flinthart	"One Story, No Refunds"	Shiny	[25]
2010	Kaia Landelius & Tansy Rayner Roberts	"Nine Times"	FableCroft Publishing (Worlds Next Door)	[25]
2010	Jen White	"An Ordinary Boy"	Tangled Bank Press (The Tangled Bank)	[25]
2011	Sue Isle*	"Nation of the Night"	Twelfth Planet Press (Nightsiders)	[26]
2011	Kathleen Jennings	"Finishing School"	Candlewick Press (Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories)	[27]
2011	Cate Kennedy	"Seventy-Two Derwents"	Allen & Unwin (The Wicked Wood: Tales From the Tower Volume 2)	[27]
2011	Martine Murray	"One Window"	Allen & Unwin (The Wilful Eye: Tales From the Tower Volume 1)	[27]
2011	Tansy Rayner Roberts	"The Patrician"	Twelfth Planet Press (Love and Romanpunk)	[27]
2012	Thoraiya Dyer*	"The Wisdom of the Ants"	Clarkesworld Magazine	[28]
2012	Justin D'Ath	"Stilled Lifes x 11"	Ford Street Publishing (Trust Me Too)	[29]
2012	Jack Heath	"Rats"	Ford Street Publishing (Trust Me Too)	[29]
2012	Jack Nicholls	"The Statues of Melbourne"	Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine 56	[29]
2012	Adrienne Tam	"The Worry Man"	BusyBird Publishing ([Untitled] 5)	[29]
2013	Juliet Marillier*	"By Bone-light"	Ticonderoga Publications (Prickle Moon)	[30][31]
2013	Joanne Anderton	"Mah Song"	FableCroft Publishing (The Bone Chime Song and Other Stories)	[30]
2013	D. K. Mok	"Morning Star"	FableCroft Publishing (One Small Step, an anthology of discoveries)	[30]
2013	Kim Wilkins	"The Year of Ancient Ghosts"	Ticonderoga Publications (The Year of Ancient Ghosts)	[30]
2014	Dirk Flinthart*	"Vanilla"	Twelfth Planet Press (Kaleidoscope)	[32]
2014	Goldie Alexander	"In Hades"	Celapene Press	[33]
2014	Liz Argyll	"Falling Leaves"	Apex Magazine	[33]
2014	D M Cornish	"The Fuller and the Bogle"	Omnibus Books (Tales from the Half-Continent)	[33]
2014	Faith Mudge	"Signature"	Twelfth Planet Press (Kaleidoscope)	[33]
2015	Deborah Kalin*	"The Miseducation of Mara Lys"	Twelfth Planet Press (Cherry Crow Children)	[34]
2015	Kimberley Gaal	"In Sheep's Clothing"	Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine 61	[35]
2015	Kimberley Gaal	"The Nexus Tree"	CSFG (The Never Never Land)	[35]
2015	D. K. Mok	"The Heart of the Labyrinth"	Sorin Suciu (In Memory: A Tribute to Sir Terry Pratchett)	[35]
2015	Faith Mudge	"Blueblood"	Ticonderoga Publications (Hear Me Roar)	[35]
2015	Marlee Jane Ward	Welcome to Orphancorp	Seizure	[35]
2016	Leife Shallcross*	"Pretty Jennie Greenteeth"	Belladonna Publishing (Strange Little Girls)	[36][37]
2016	Lisa L. Hannett	"A Right Pretty Mate"	PS Australia (Dreaming in the Dark)	[36]
2016	Jack Nicholls	"Dune Time"	Tor.com	[36]
2016	Shauna O'Meara	"No One Here is Going to Save You"	FableCroft Publishing (In Your Face)	[36]
2016	Tansy Rayner Roberts	"Did We Break the End of the World"	Twelfth Planet Press (Defying Doomsday)	[36]
2017	Tansy Rayner Roberts*	Girl Reporter	Book Smugglers	[38][39]
2017	Amie Kaufman	"One Small Step"	HarperCollins Australia (Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology)	[36][38]
2017	Will Kostakis	"I Can See the Ending"	HarperCollins Australia (Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology)	[38]
2017	Jaclyn Moriarty	"Competition Entry #349"	HarperCollins Australia (Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology)	[38]
2017	Michael Pryor	"First Casualty"	HarperCollins Australia (Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology)	[38]
2017	Lili Wilkinson	"Oona Underground"	HarperCollins Australia (Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology)	[38]
2018	Shauna O'Meara*	"The Sea-Maker of Darmid Bay"	Interzone 277	[40][41]
2018	Lee Cope	"A Robot Like Me"	Twelfth Planet Press (Mother of Invention)	[40]
2018	D. K. Mok	"The Moon Collector"	Owl Hollow Press (Under the Full Moon's Light)	[40]
2018	Anya Ow	"Eight Step Koan"	Ate Bit Bear (Sword and Sonnet)	[40]
2018	Deborah Sheldon	"For Weirdless Days and Weary Nights"	Breach 08	[40]
2019	Jo Hart	The Jindabyne Secret	Deadset Press	[42][43]
2019	K. S. Nikakis	Glass-Heart	SOV Media	[42]
2019	Tansy Rayner Roberts	"Dragon By Subscription"	(self-published on Patreon)	[42]
2019	Andrea Teare	"Seaweed"	Breach 11	[42]
2019	Ellen van Neerven	"Each City"	Walker Books Australia (Kindred: 12 Queer #LoveOZYA Stories)	[42]
2019	Marlee Jane Ward	"Rats"	Walker Books Australia (Kindred: 12 Queer #LoveOZYA Stories)	[42]

See also

• Ditmar Award, an Australian science fiction award established in 1969

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External links

• Aurealis Awards