{"id":3035,"date":"2017-04-16T23:07:52","date_gmt":"2017-04-16T13:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/?p=3035"},"modified":"2018-07-09T21:33:46","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T11:33:46","slug":"2017-ditmar-nominations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/?p=3035","title":{"rendered":"2017 Ditmar nominations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>\n<p id=\"top\" \/>The Ditmars are the primary voted awards for Australian speculative fiction (as opposed to the Aurealis Awards, which is\u00a0a juried award). The 2017 ballot is out, and available for voting for any eligible member of the national convention (this year held in Melbourne at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.continuum.org.au\">Continuum 13<\/a> &#8211; the 56th National Science Fiction Convention).<\/p>\n<p>The ballot is filled with some wonderful people, and my warmest congratulations go to everyone who received a nomination. I especially wanted to note that a story published in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antisf.com.au\"><em>AntipodeanSF<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(which has published many of my flash fiction pieces) made the ballot for Best Short Story. Congratulations Edwina (author) and Nuke (editor)!<\/p>\n<p>I also noted that <em>Dimension6<\/em>, the free magazine published by Keith Stevenson, published 2 of the novella\/novelette nominations &#8211; a fantastic effort showing Keith&#8217;s excellent eye for talent.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.sf.org.au\/2017_Ditmar_preliminary_ballot\">http:\/\/wiki.sf.org.au\/2017_Ditmar_preliminary_ballot<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Best Novel<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><i>The Grief Hole<\/i>, Kaaron Warren, IFWG Publishing Australia.<\/li>\n<li><i>The Lyre Thief<\/i>, Jennifer Fallon, HarperCollins.<\/li>\n<li><i>Squid\u2019s Grief<\/i>, D.K. Mok, D.K. Mok.<\/li>\n<li><i>Vigil<\/i>, Angela Slatter, Jo Fletcher Books.<\/li>\n<li><i>The Wizardry of Jewish Women<\/i>, Gillian Polack, Satalyte Publishing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Best Novella or Novelette<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cAll the Colours of the Tomato\u201d, Simon Petrie, in\u00a0<i>Dimension6 9<\/i>.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cBy the Laws of Crab and Woman\u201d, Jason Fischer, in\u00a0<i>Review of Australian Fiction<\/i>, Vol 17, Issue 6.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cDid We Break the End of the World?\u201d, Tansy Rayner Roberts, in\u00a0<i>Defying Doomsday<\/i>, Twelfth Planet Press.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cFinnegan\u2019s Field\u201d, Angela Slatter, in\u00a0<i>Tor.com<\/i>.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cGlass Slipper Scandal\u201d, Tansy Rayner Roberts, in\u00a0<i>Sheep Might Fly<\/i>.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cGoing Viral\u201d, Thoraiya Dyer, in\u00a0<i>Dimension6 8<\/i>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Best Short Story<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cFlame Trees\u201d, T.R. Napper, in\u00a0<i>Asimov\u2019s Science Fiction<\/i>, April\/May 2016.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cNo Fat Chicks\u201d, Cat Sparks, in\u00a0<i>In Your Face<\/i>, FableCroft Publishing.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThere\u2019s No Place Like Home\u201d, Edwina Harvey, in\u00a0<i>AntipodeanSF 221<\/i>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Best Collected Work<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><i>Crow Shine<\/i>\u00a0by Alan Baxter, Ticonderoga Publications.<\/li>\n<li><i>Defying Doomsday<\/i>, Tsana Dolichva and Holly Kench, Twelfth Planet Press.<\/li>\n<li><i>Dreaming in the Dark<\/i>, Jack Dann, PS Publishing.<\/li>\n<li><i>In Your Face<\/i>, Tehani Wessely, FableCroft Publishing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Best Artwork<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>cover and internal artwork, Adam Browne, for\u00a0<i>The Tame Animals of Saturn<\/i>, Peggy Bright Books.<\/li>\n<li>illustration, Shauna O\u2019Meara, for\u00a0<i>Lackington\u2019s 12<\/i>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Best Fan Publication in Any Medium<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><i>2016 Australian SF Snapshot<\/i>, Greg Chapman, Tehani Croft, Tsana Dolichva, Marisol Dunham, Elizabeth Fitzgerald, Stephanie Gunn, Ju Land\u00e9esse, David McDonald, Belle McQuattie, Matthew Morrison, Alex Pierce, Rivqa Rafael, Tansy Rayner Roberts, Helen Stubbs, Katharine Stubbs and Matthew Summers.<\/li>\n<li><i>The Coode Street Podcast<\/i>, Jonathan Strahan and Gary K. Wolfe<\/li>\n<li><i>Earl Grey Editing Services<\/i>\u00a0(blog), Elizabeth Fitzgerald.<\/li>\n<li><i>Galactic Chat<\/i>, Alexandra Pierce, David McDonald, Sarah Parker, Helen Stubbs, Mark Webb, and Sean Wright.<\/li>\n<li><i>Galactic Suburbia<\/i>, Alisa Krasnostein, Alex Pierce, and Tansy Rayner Roberts.<\/li>\n<li><i>The Writer and the Critic<\/i>, Kirstyn McDermott and Ian Mond.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Best Fan Writer<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>James \u2018Jocko\u2019 Allen, for body of work.<\/li>\n<li>Aidan Doyle, for body of work.<\/li>\n<li>Bruce Gillespie, for body of work.<\/li>\n<li>Foz Meadows, for body of work.<\/li>\n<li>Tansy Rayner Roberts, for body of work.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Best Fan Artist<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Kathleen Jennings, for body of work, including\u00a0<i>Illustration Friday<\/i>\u00a0series.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Best New Talent<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>T R Napper<\/li>\n<li>Marlee Jane Ward<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>William Atheling Jr Award for Criticism or Review<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Kat Clay for essays and reviews in\u00a0<i>Weird Fiction Review<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Tehani Croft &amp; Marisol Dunham, for\u00a0<i>Revisiting Pern: the great McCaffrey reread<\/i>\u00a0review series.<\/li>\n<li>Tsana Dolichva, for reviews, in\u00a0<i>Tsana\u2019s Reads and Reviews<\/i>.<\/li>\n<li>Kate Forsyth, for\u00a0<i>The Rebirth of Rapunzel: a mythic biography of the maiden in the tower<\/i>, FableCroft Publishing.<\/li>\n<li>Alexandra Pierce, for reviews, in\u00a0<i>Randomly Yours, Alex<\/i>.<\/li>\n<li>Gillian Polack, for\u00a0<i>History and Fiction: Writers, their Research, Worlds and Stories<\/i>, Peter Lang.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\"><\/p>\n<p id=\"top\"><\/p>Hi,\n<p>Welcome to Mark Webb&#8217;s author website. At this point the site is rather sparse &#8211; I&#8217;ve only recently started writing and there isn&#8217;t a lot to show for it right now. You can check out\u00a0<a title=\"All About Mark\" href=\"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/?page_id=11\">my biography<\/a>, see &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[46,105,15],"class_list":["post-3035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-antipodean-sf","tag-ditmars","tag-specfic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3036,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3035\/revisions\/3036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}