Australasian Shadows Awards Shortlist 2024

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2024 Australasian Shadows Awards Shortlist
April 29, 2024

The 2024 Australasian Shadows Awards (previously known as the Australia Shadows Awards) shortlist has been announced. The award is given by the Australasian Horror Writers Association (AHWA) for “the finest in horror and dark fiction published by an Australasian within the calendar year.”
Novel

• Polyphemus, Zachary Ashford (Darklit)
• When Ghosts Call Us Home, Katya de Becerra (Page Street; Pan Macmillan)
• The Graveyard Shift, Maria Lewis (Angry Robot; Datura)
• Cretaceous Canyon, Deborah Sheldon (Severed)

Long Fiction

• We Called it Graffitiville, Aaron Dries (Crystal Lake)
• After I Found Her, Claire Low (Clan Destine)
• Those That Pursue Us Yet, Kyla Ward (Independent Legion)
• Bitters, Kaaron Warren (Cemetery Dance)

Short Fiction

• “All the Eyes That See”, Alan Baxter (Cosmic Horror Monthly 12/23)
• “Camp Never,” J.S. Bruekelaar (Darkness Beckons)
• “Death Interrupted,” Pamela Jeffs (Body of Work)
• “What Bones These Tides Bring”, Nikky Lee (Remains to be Told)

Collected Works

• Midnight Masquerade, Greg Chapman (IFWG)
• Bites Eyes, Matthew R. Davis (Brain Jar)
• Precarious Waters, Pamela Jeffs (Four Ink)
• Stingers, Noel Osualdini & T.M. McLean (self-published)

Edited Works

• SNAFU Punk’d, Geoff Brown & AJ Spedding, eds. (Cohesion)
• Remains to be Told, Lee Murray, ed. (Clan Destine)
• Black Beacon Book of Horror, Cameron Trost, ed. (Black Beacon)
• Killer Creatures Down Under, Deborah Sheldon, ed. (IFWG)

Poetry

• “Guiding Star,” Tim Jones (Remains to be Told)
• “Dancers on the Road,” K.S. Nikakis (SOV Media)
• “The Broonie”, Deborah Sheldon (Nightmare Fuel Magazine 5/18/23)
• “Never Leave the Path,” Kyla Lee Ward (Eternal Haunted Summer Winter Solstice 2023)
• “What It Means to be With You, Pauline Yates (HWA Poetry Showcase: Volume X)

Non-Fiction

• “Holy Revelations”, Grace Chan (Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror)
• A Vindication of Monsters, Claire Fitzpatrick, ed. (IFWG Publishing International)
• “Displaced Spirits: Ghosts of the Diaspora”, Lee Murray (Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror)

Graphic Novel

• Fables of Fear, Karl Brandt (KB Comics)
• Yuletide Flame, Hayden Fryer (Siberian Productions)
• Monomyth, David Hazan (Mad Cave)
• Splitting Sides 2, David Schembri (North Forest)

For more information, see the AHWA announcement.