Shadows Short List
February 13th, 2009 by Editors
It is Friday the 13th, so the Australian Horror Writers’ Association is busy. They have released the short list for the 2009 Australian Shadows Award. Here it is:
- “The Claws of Native Ghosts”, Lee Battersby (The Beast Within, Matt Hults (ed.), Graveside Tales)
- “This Way To The Exit”, Sara Douglass (Dreaming Again, Jack Dann (ed.), HarperCollins/Voyager)
- “Rick Gets a Job”, Jason Fischer (Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #37)
- “Lakeside”, Christopher Green (Dreaming Again, Jack Dann (ed.), HarperCollins/Voyager)
- “Her Collection of Intimacy”, Paul Haines (Black: Australian Dark Culture Magazine #2)
The press release adds the following information:
This year’s shortlist is notable for the inclusion of Christopher Green, whose first published short story earned him this award nomination, and Paul Haines and best-selling fantasy author Sara Douglass, who are both battling cancer but still producing genre-defining work. Finalist Lee Battersby won the inaugural Australian Shadows Award in 2005. Lee is also notable as the author who has been nominated for the Australian Shadows Award the most number of times. This is his fourth nomination.
The winner of the 2008 Australian Shadows Award, to be determined by guest judge Sarah Endacott (acclaimed editor of Orb magazine) will be announced in April 2009. The judges for this year’s awards were Shane Jiraiya Cummings (AHWA Vice President and author of Shards), Brett McBean (author of The Mother), and Chuck McKenzie (author of Confessions of a Pod Person).
