2014 Australian Shadows Awards nominees

The Australian Horror Writers Association has announced the shortlist for the 2014 Australian Shadows Awards, awards recognizing annually the best published works of horror fiction written and edited in Australia, New Zealand and Oceania. The winners will be announced on Friday, April 24^th via the AHWA’s social media sites.

BEST NOVEL:

“Suicide Forest” by Jeremy Bates (Ghillinnein Books)
“Book of the Dead” by Greig Beck (Momentum Books)
“Dark Deceit” by Lauren Dawes (Momentum Books)
“Wolf Creek Origin” by Greg McLean & Aaron Sterns (Penguin Books Australia)
“Davey Ribbon” by Matthew Tait (HodgePodge Press)

BEST SHORT FICTION:

“Mephisto” by Alan Baxter (Daily Science Fiction)
“Shadows of the Lonely Dead” by Alan Baxter (Suspended in the Dusk, Books of the Dead Press)
“Mummified Monk” by Rebecca Fung (Daylight Dims Volume 2, Stealth Fiction)
“Bones” by Michelle Jager (SQ Magazine, Issue 14, May 2014)
“Last Year, When We Were Young” by Andrew McKiernan (Last Year, When We Were Young, Satalyte Publishing)

BEST EDITED WORK:

“SQ Magazine, Issue 14, May 2014” edited by Sophie Yorkston (SQ Magazine)
“SNAFU” edited by Geoff Brown and Amanda J Spedding (Cohesion Press)
“Suspended in Dusk” edited by Simon Dewar (Books of the Dead Press)

BEST COLLECTED WORK:

No shortlist, winner to be announced

PAUL HAINES AWARD FOR LONG FICTION (NOVELLA):

“Ghost Camera” by Darcy Coates (self-published)
“Dreams of Destruction” by Shane Jiraiya Cummings (self-published)
“The Shark God Covenant” by Robert Hood (Dimension6, Coeur De Lion Publishing)

Congratulations and good luck to all the nominees!