BEST CHILDREN’S FICTION
When the Lyrebird Calls, Kim Kane (Allen & Unwin)
BEST GRAPHIC NOVEL / ILLUSTRATED WORK
Negative Space, Ryan K Lindsay (Dark Horse Comics)
BEST YOUNG ADULT SHORT STORY
“Pretty Jennie Greenteeth”, Leife Shallcross (Strange Little Girls, Belladonna Publishing)
BEST HORROR SHORT STORY
“Flame Trees”, TR Napper (Asimov’s Science Fiction, April/May 2016)
BEST HORROR NOVELLA
“Burnt Sugar”, Kirstyn McDermott (Dreaming in the Dark, PS Australia)
BEST FANTASY SHORT STORY
“Where the Pelican Builds Her Nest”, Thoraiya Dyer (In Your Face, FableCroft Publishing)
BEST FANTASY NOVELLA
“Forfeit”, Andrea K Höst (The Towers, the Moon, self-published)
BEST SCIENCE FICTION SHORT STORY
“Of Sight, of Mind, of Heart”, Samantha Murray (Clarkesworld #122)
BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVELLA
“Salto Mortal”, Nick T Chan (Lightspeed #73)
BEST COLLECTION
A Feast of Sorrows, Angela Slatter (Prime Books)
BEST ANTHOLOGY
Year’s Best YA Speculative Fiction 2015, Julia Rios and Alisa Krasnostein (eds.) (Twelfth Planet Press)
BEST YOUNG ADULT NOVEL
Lady Helen and the Dark Days Pact, Alison Goodman (HarperCollins Publishers)
BEST HORROR NOVEL
The Grief Hole, Kaaron Warren (IFWG Publishing Australia)
BEST FANTASY NOVEL
Nevernight, Jay Kristoff (Harper Voyager)
BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL
Gemina: Illuminae Files 2, Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff (Allen & Unwin)
THE CONVENORS’ AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE
The Rebirth of Rapunzel: A Mythic Biography of the Maiden in the Tower, Kate Forsyth (FableCroft Publishing)
