Voting for the 2025 Ditmar Awards is now open
Voting for the Australian SF ("Ditmar") Award for 2025 is now closed. The Awards will be presented this Sunday at 7:30pm in the Binara Room, Crowne Plaza Hotel. All welcome.
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The 2025 ballot is as follows:
Best Novel
'The Medusa Situation' by Gabiann Marin
'Blood Convenant' by Alan Baxter
'The Underhistory' by Kaaron Warren
'Ghost Cities' by Siang Lu
'The Escher Man' by T. R. Napper
Best Novella or Novelette
'Shattered' by Pauline Yates
'The Emporium' by Kaaron Warren
'Wilder' by Pamela Jeffs
'Ghost of the Neon God' by T. R. Napper
'Maleficium' by Kyla Lee Ward
'Cruel Nights' by Jason Nahrung
No Award
Best Short Story
'Bellow of the Steamship Cow' by Aaron Dries
'Archive of the Dead' by Pamela Jeffs
'Bright Hearts' by Kaaron Warren
'Market of Loss' by Matt Tighe
No Award
Best Collected Work
'Calvaria Fell' by Cat Sparks and Kaaron Warren (auths)
'Nightmare Logic: Tales of the Macabre, Fantastic and Cthulhuesque' by Leigh Blackmore (auth)
'Kindling' by Kathleen Jennings (auth)
'Monsters in the Mills' by Lauren Elise Daniels and Christa Carmen (eds)
No Award
Best Artwork
Cover art by C.H. Pearce for 'In the aftermath' by Jessica Nirvana Ram
Cover art by Greg Chapman for 'Black Days and Bloody Nights' by Greg Chapman
Cover art by Kathleen Jennings for 'Kindling' by Kathleen Jennings
Cover art by Meg Wright (Red Wallflower) for 'The Black Beacon Book of Ghosts' by Black Beacon Books
No Award
Best Fan Writer
Ian Mond, for reviews on Substack (@mondy74)
LynC, for contributions to 'Ethel the Aardvark'
Bruce Gillespie, for 'SF Commentary'
Jan MacNally for reviews in 'Ethell the Aardvark'
No Award
Best Fan Artist
David Russell for artwork in 'Ethel the Aardvark' and 'SF Commentary'
Annalise Jensen for fan art of 'The Prisoner's Throne' by Holly Black, 'Arcane', 'Long Live Evil', and 'Dungeon Meshi' on Instagram (@annalisejensen)
Lyss Wickramasinghe for fan art of 'Dragon Age: Inquisition', 'Love and Deepspace', and Cat Brannock from 'The Aurora Cycle' on Facebook
No Award
Best Fan Publication in Any Medium
'Going Prose' with A. D. Ellicott and C.Z. Tacks (podcast)
'Ethel the Aardvark' edited by LynC (fanzine)
'Let the Cat In' with Kaaron Warren, Aaron Dries and J. Ashley-Smith (podcast)
'Ornithopter' edited by Leigh Edmonds (journal)
'SF Commentary' edited by Bruce Gillespie (fanzine)
'Terry Talks Movies' with Terry Frost (YouTube)
No Award
Best New Talent
J. J. Carpenter
K. A. Burgess
Sarah K. Balstrup
Jeff Clulow
No Award
William Atheling Jr Award for Criticism or Review
Gillian Polack for 'A Thing Called the Glugs of Gosh: CJ Dennis and Satirical Fantasy' in 'Aurealis 171'
Ian Mond for reviews in 'Locus'
Joanne Anderton for 'Nice Safe Emotions: How Murderbot copes with the real world through fiction, and so do we' in 'Speculative Insight'
Kyla Ward for 'Long Benightnar'd - on dreams in Gothic and Weird Fiction'
Leigh Blackmore for 'A Dark Magician Meets a Victorian Sleuth' in 'Dead Reckonings: A Review of Horror and the Weird in Arts 36'
Rjurik Davidson for 'Critical Choices: Time Travel and Identity' in 'Speculative Insight'
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Online voting is available here
Voting for the Ditmar Award is conducted in accordance with the rules specified at http://wiki.sf.org.au/index.php/Ditmar_rules, and is open to members of Continuum 19 (including supporting members) and to members of Conflux and other Natcons who were eligible to vote in the 2024 Award. Voting in all award categories is by the optional preferential system, and each eligible individual may vote only once. All ballots should include the name and address of the voter. If you have questions regarding the ballot or voting procedure, or have difficulty using the online form, please email [email protected]
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The 2025 ballot is as follows:
Best Novel
'The Medusa Situation' by Gabiann Marin
'Blood Convenant' by Alan Baxter
'The Underhistory' by Kaaron Warren
'Ghost Cities' by Siang Lu
'The Escher Man' by T. R. Napper
Best Novella or Novelette
'Shattered' by Pauline Yates
'The Emporium' by Kaaron Warren
'Wilder' by Pamela Jeffs
'Ghost of the Neon God' by T. R. Napper
'Maleficium' by Kyla Lee Ward
'Cruel Nights' by Jason Nahrung
No Award
Best Short Story
'Bellow of the Steamship Cow' by Aaron Dries
'Archive of the Dead' by Pamela Jeffs
'Bright Hearts' by Kaaron Warren
'Market of Loss' by Matt Tighe
No Award
Best Collected Work
'Calvaria Fell' by Cat Sparks and Kaaron Warren (auths)
'Nightmare Logic: Tales of the Macabre, Fantastic and Cthulhuesque' by Leigh Blackmore (auth)
'Kindling' by Kathleen Jennings (auth)
'Monsters in the Mills' by Lauren Elise Daniels and Christa Carmen (eds)
No Award
Best Artwork
Cover art by C.H. Pearce for 'In the aftermath' by Jessica Nirvana Ram
Cover art by Greg Chapman for 'Black Days and Bloody Nights' by Greg Chapman
Cover art by Kathleen Jennings for 'Kindling' by Kathleen Jennings
Cover art by Meg Wright (Red Wallflower) for 'The Black Beacon Book of Ghosts' by Black Beacon Books
No Award
Best Fan Writer
Ian Mond, for reviews on Substack (@mondy74)
LynC, for contributions to 'Ethel the Aardvark'
Bruce Gillespie, for 'SF Commentary'
Jan MacNally for reviews in 'Ethell the Aardvark'
No Award
Best Fan Artist
David Russell for artwork in 'Ethel the Aardvark' and 'SF Commentary'
Annalise Jensen for fan art of 'The Prisoner's Throne' by Holly Black, 'Arcane', 'Long Live Evil', and 'Dungeon Meshi' on Instagram (@annalisejensen)
Lyss Wickramasinghe for fan art of 'Dragon Age: Inquisition', 'Love and Deepspace', and Cat Brannock from 'The Aurora Cycle' on Facebook
No Award
Best Fan Publication in Any Medium
'Going Prose' with A. D. Ellicott and C.Z. Tacks (podcast)
'Ethel the Aardvark' edited by LynC (fanzine)
'Let the Cat In' with Kaaron Warren, Aaron Dries and J. Ashley-Smith (podcast)
'Ornithopter' edited by Leigh Edmonds (journal)
'SF Commentary' edited by Bruce Gillespie (fanzine)
'Terry Talks Movies' with Terry Frost (YouTube)
No Award
Best New Talent
J. J. Carpenter
K. A. Burgess
Sarah K. Balstrup
Jeff Clulow
No Award
William Atheling Jr Award for Criticism or Review
Gillian Polack for 'A Thing Called the Glugs of Gosh: CJ Dennis and Satirical Fantasy' in 'Aurealis 171'
Ian Mond for reviews in 'Locus'
Joanne Anderton for 'Nice Safe Emotions: How Murderbot copes with the real world through fiction, and so do we' in 'Speculative Insight'
Kyla Ward for 'Long Benightnar'd - on dreams in Gothic and Weird Fiction'
Leigh Blackmore for 'A Dark Magician Meets a Victorian Sleuth' in 'Dead Reckonings: A Review of Horror and the Weird in Arts 36'
Rjurik Davidson for 'Critical Choices: Time Travel and Identity' in 'Speculative Insight'
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Online voting is available here
Voting for the Ditmar Award is conducted in accordance with the rules specified at http://wiki.sf.org.au/index.php/Ditmar_rules, and is open to members of Continuum 19 (including supporting members) and to members of Conflux and other Natcons who were eligible to vote in the 2024 Award. Voting in all award categories is by the optional preferential system, and each eligible individual may vote only once. All ballots should include the name and address of the voter. If you have questions regarding the ballot or voting procedure, or have difficulty using the online form, please email [email protected]