2010 Aurealis Award Winners

The winners of the 2010 Aurealis Awards were announced in Sydney last week.  These jury-judged awards were set up to honour the best Australian sf, fantasy, horror and young adult works.  The winners were:

Best Children's Fiction (told primarily through words)
The Keepers, Lian Tanner (Allen & Unwin)

Best Children's Fiction (told primarily through pictures)
The Boy and the Toy, Sonya Hartnett & Lucia Masciullo (Viking)

Young Adult Short Story
"A Thousand Flowers", Margo Lanagan (Zombies Vs. Unicorns)

Best Young Adult Novel
Guardian of the Dead, Karen Healey (Allen & Unwin)

Best Illustrated Book/Graphic Novel
Changing Ways Book 1, Justin Randall (Gestalt)

Best Collection
The Girl With No Hands, Angela Slatter (Ticonderoga)

Best Anthology
Wings of Fire, Jonathan Strahan & Marianne S. Jablon, eds. (Night Shade Books)

Best Horror Short Story
"The Fear", Richard Harland (Macabre: A Journey Through Australia's Darkest Fears)

Best Horror Novel
Madigan Mine, Kirstyn McDermott (Pan Macmillan)

Best Fantasy Short Story
"Yowie", Thoraiya Dyer (Sprawl)
"The February Dragon", L.L. Hannett & Angela Slatter (Scary Kisses)

Best Fantasy Novel
Power and Majesty, Tansy Rayner Roberts (Harper Voyager)

Best Science Fiction Short Story
"The Heart of a Mouse", K.J. Bishop (Subterranean Online Winter 2010)

Best Science Fiction Novel
Transformation Space, Marianne de Pierres (Orbit)