The 2011 Ditmar awards shortlist has been announced here: http://2011.swancon.com.au/natcon-fifty-ditmar-awards/

Again, very happy to see Her Gallant Needs(Sprawl, Twelfth Planet Press) making the shortlist  for Best Novella/Novelette.

Very happy. Did I say that already? Congrats to all the other nominees too.

Awards

I was lucky enough to pick up the following awards over the last week or two at WorldCon (AussieCon 4) and Au Contraire (NZ)

• 2010 Ditmar Best Collection (Slice of Life)
• 2010 Ditmar Best Novella (Wives)
• 2010 Sir Julius Vogel Best Novella (Wives)

I found out I was only 5 votes off Wives being nominated for the Hugo Best Novella (the most ( Read more... )

The Ditmar subcommittee are pleased to announce that nominations for the Australian SF ("Ditmar") Award for 2010 are now open, and will remain open until the 23nd of July, 2010.

While online nominations are preferred, nominations can be made in a number of ways:

1. online, via this form:

http://ditmars.sf.org.au/2010/nominations.html

2. via email ( Read more... )

I'm pleased to announce my short story "Her Collection Of Intimacy" (Black Magazine #2) has been shortlisted for the 2009 Ditmar for Best Short Story.

The complete shortlist can be found here: HorrorScope.

I'm also very happy to see several other things I nominated make their respective shortlists, particularly Kirstyn McDermott's "Painlessness" ( Read more... )

The Ditmar 2008 Winners have been announced over at ASif.

I didn't win, but am happy to have lost out to Cat Sparks. It is indeed her year. First Australia, then the world. Go, Sparky!

(Though I thought one of the big boys -- Sean Williams or Garth Nix -- might have won the novella category).