The past week-end, at the 51st Australian
National Science Fiction Convention, the winners of the 2012 Ditmar Awards,
recognizing the achievements in the Australian science fiction, fantasy and
horror, were announced:
Best Novel: “The Courier's New Bicycle” by Kim Westwood (HarperCollins)
Best Novella or Novelette: “The Past is a Bridge Best
Left Burnt” by Paul Haines (The
Last Days of Kali Yuga, Brimstone Press)
Best Short Story: “The Patrician” by Tansy
Rayner Roberts (Love
and Romanpunk, Twelfth Planet Press)
Best Collected Work: “The Last Days of Kali Yuga” by Paul Haines, edited by Angela Challis (Brimstone Press)
Best Artwork: “Finishing School” by
Kathleen Jennings (Steampunk!: An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories, Candlewick Press)
Best Fan Writer: Robin Pen, for “The Ballad of the Unrequited Ditmar”
Best Fan Artist: Kathleen Jennings, for work in “Errantry” (tanaudel.wordpress.com) including “The
Dalek Game”
Best Fan Publication in Any Medium: “The Writer and the Critic”, Kirstyn McDermott and Ian Mond
Best New Talent: Joanne Anderton
William Atheling Jr Award
for Criticism or Review: Alexandra Pierce and Tehani Wessely, for reviews of “Vorkosigan Saga”, in Randomly
Yours, Alex
The A Bertram Chandler
Award: Richard Harland
The Norma K Hemming Award: AA Bell, for “Hindsight”, and Sara
Douglass, for “The Devil's Diadem”
The Peter McNamara Award: Bill Congreve
Congratulations to
all the winners!
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