Welcome to the Aurealis Awards 2009

Congratulations to the winners of the 2009 Aurealis Awards!
You can read the complete list of winning titles here!

Performed Readings

The Awards Ceremony held on 23 January 2010 included performances of selected readings from classic works of Australian speculative fiction published before 1995, in other words, before such works would have been eligible to receive an Aurealis Award. Below is a list of the works from which readings were selected:

May Gibbs, Snugglepot & Cuddlepie, Angus & Robertson, 1918
Gary Crew, Strange Objects, William Heinnemann, 1990
Jack Dann & Janeen Webb (eds), Nick Stathopolous (cover artist) Dreaming Down Under, HarperCollins Australia, 1994
Robert Hood, 'Dem Bones', Intimate Armageddons, ed. Bill Congreve, Five Mile Press, 1992
Isobelle Carmody, 'Long Live the Giants!', The Lottery, ed. Lucy Sussex, Omnibus Books, 1994
Rosaleen Love, 'The Total Devotion Machine', The Total Devotion Machine & Other Stories, The Women's Press, 1989

2010 and beyond...

The 2009 Aurealis Awards were the last to be hosted by Fantastic Queensland. An announcement is expected soon about the new hosts of these wonderful annual literary awards.

The following statement is from Stuart Mayne, Editor of Aurealis Magazine and representative of Chimaera Publications:

As editor of Aurealis and on behalf of Chimaera Publications I'd like to publically thank all the people associated with Fantastic Queensland over the last six years for the hard work and effort they have put into organising and developing the Aurealis Awards.

All these volunteers associated with Fantastic Queensland have helped bring the wealth of Australian SF talent to the eyes of more and more local readers.

I've been representing Aurealis and Chimaera Publications at the Awards ceremony for the past four years. Over that time I've come to know how hard the organisers work. I'd especially like to thank the following: Lea Greenaway for being the first and friendliest face I met in 2007; Ron Serdiuk for being such an open, responsive and friendly co-ordinator, his unfailing work has been inclusive and supportive to all those eligible for the awards; Kate Eltham who in her quiet and efficient way has been instrumental in turning the Aurealis Awards into a professional event; and finally Damon Cavalchini is a quiet administrator whose dedication to the Awards and skills are shown at the event, as the entertainment and delivery of the awards has always proceeded seamlessly.

Chimaera Publications is in detailed negotiations with a party to take over running the Aurealis Awards and hope to make a public an announcement soon on the new hosting arrangements.

Stuart Mayne, Editor