2018 Shadows Award Winners Announced at Continuum

Continuum 15 hosted the Australian Horror Writers Association Shadow Awards Ceremony in Melbourne on June Saturday June 8. Congratulations to all of the winners. Here’s another great speculative fiction reading list:

Collected Works

*WINNER: Shadows on the Wall by Steven Paulsen

FINALISTS
Bones by Andrew Cull
The Dalziel Files by Brian Craddock
Exploring Dark Fiction A Primer by Kaaron Warren
Beneath the Ferny Tree by David Schembri

Edited Works

*WINNER: Hellhole Anthology of Subterranean Horror Lee Murray

FINALISTS
Cthulhu Land Long White Cloud | Sequeira, Proposch, Stevens
Cthulhu Deep Down Under Vol. 2 | Sequeira, Proposch, Stevens
Behind the Mask Steve Dillon

Graphic Novel

(The judges for Graphic Novel unanimously agreed on a winner but not a shortlist.)

*WINNER: THE DEMON HELL IS EARTH written by Andrew Constant

Novel

*WINNER: Tide of Stone by Kaaron Warren

FINALISTS
Devouring Dark by Alan Baxter
Contrition by Deborah Sheldon
Teeth of the Wolf by Dan Rabarts & Lee Murray

Paul Haines Award for Long Fiction

*WINNER: The Black Sea by Chris Mason

FINALISTS
Time and Tide by Robert Hood
Love Thee Better by Kaaron Warren
Thylacines by Deborah Sheldon

Poetry

*WINNER: Revenants of the Antipodes by Kyla Lee Ward

FINALISTS
Your Mortician Knows by Bee Nielsen
Matinee by Hester J. Rook
Polarity by Jay Caselberg
The Middle of the Night by Rebecca Fraser

Short Fiction

*WINNER: Riptide by Dan Rabarts

FINALISTS
Planned and Expected by Piper Mejia
Slither by Jason Nahrung
The Ward of Tindalos by Debbie & Matt Cowens
The House of Jack’s Girls by Lee Battersby

For more information please visit the Australian Horror Writers website.