Aurealis Award for best young adult short story facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Aurealis Award for young adult short story |
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| Presented by | Chimaera Publications, Continuum Foundation |
| Country | Australia |
| First awarded | 1995 |
| Currently held by | Jo Hart |
The Aurealis Award for young adult short story is a special prize given each year to the best short story written for young adults in Australia. It's part of the bigger Aurealis Awards, which celebrate amazing Australian writers of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. This award helps show off the best new stories that young people aged 12-15 would love to read.
About the Aurealis Awards
The Aurealis Awards are presented every year by Chimaera Publications and WASFF in Australia. They aim to celebrate the great work of Australian writers in science fiction, fantasy, and horror. To be considered, a story must be published by an Australian writer between January 1 and December 31 of a certain year. The awards ceremony happens the next year. What started as a small gathering of about 20 people has grown into a big two-day event with over 200 attendees!
Award Categories
Since they began in 1995, the awards have recognized many types of speculative fiction. This is a type of fiction that includes elements that are not real, like magic or futuristic technology. Today, there are awards for:
- Science fiction
- Fantasy
- Horror
- Speculative young adult fiction (with separate awards for longer books and short stories)
- Collections of stories
- Anthologies (books with stories by different authors)
- Illustrative works or graphic novels
- Children's books
- A special award for overall excellence in speculative fiction
These awards are important because they set a high standard for science fiction and fantasy books. Big publishers like HarperCollins and Orbit support the awards, showing that winning an Aurealis Award is a real honor.
How Winners Are Chosen
A group of judges decides the winners from a list of submitted stories. First, they make a "long list" of many possible nominees. Then, they narrow it down to a "short list" of finalists. Sometimes, if two stories are equally good, they might have a tie. However, judges are encouraged to pick just one winner. The judges themselves are chosen from people who apply for the role.
This article lists all the short-listed stories and winners in the best young adult short story category. Margo Lanagan has won this award three times, and Isobelle Carmody has won it twice. Margo Lanagan also holds the record for being nominated the most times, with ten nominations!
Winners and Nominees
The table below shows all the short-listed stories and the winners for the best young adult short story award. The years listed are when the story was published. The awards ceremony always takes place the following year.
* Winners and joint winners * Nominees on the shortlist
| Year | Author(s) | Short story | Publisher or publication | Ref |
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| 1995 | No award given | — | — | |
| 1996 | Isobelle Carmody* | "Green Monkey Dreams" | Viking Press (Green Monkey Dreams) | |
| 1996 | Dave Luckett | The Wizard and Me | Omnibus Books | |
| 1996 | James Moloney | The Pipe | Lothian Books | |
| 1996 | Gillian Rubinstein | "B'ku, B'ku" | Hyland House (Annie's Brother's Suit) | |
| 1996 | Keith Taylor | "At the Edge of the Sea" | Penguin Books (Dream Weavers) | |
| 1997 | Ruth Starke* | The Twist in the Tale | Lothian Books | |
| 1997 | Sheryl Gardner | The Peppercorn Tree | Lothian Books | |
| 1997 | Julie Ireland | "Hanging by a Thread" | HarperCollins (Hanging by a Thread and Other Stories) | |
| 1998 | No award given | — | — | |
| 1999 | No award given | — | — | |
| 2000 | Margo Lanagan* | "The Queen's Notice" | Allen & Unwin (White Time) | |
| 2000 | Brian Caswell | "Avalon" | Hodder Headline (Tales from the Wasteland) | |
| 2000 | Margo Lanagan | "The Boy Who Didn't Yearn" | Allen & Unwin (White Time) | |
| 2000 | Margo Lanagan | "Midsummer Mission" | Allen & Unwin (White Time) | |
| 2000 | Margo Lanagan | "White Time" | Allen & Unwin (White Time) | |
| 2001 | Isobelle Carmody* | Dreamwalker | Lothian Books | |
| 2001 | Garth Nix | "Lightning Bringer" | Simon & Schuster (Love ***: Ten Stories of Truth) | |
| 2002 | No award given | — | — | |
| 2003 | No award given | — | — | |
| 2004 | Margo Lanagan* | "Singing My Sister Down" | Allen & Unwin (Black Juice) | |
| 2004 | Chris Barnes | "The Glass Flower" | CSFG Publishing (Encounters) | |
| 2004 | Bill Congreve | "The Shooter at Heartrock Waterhole" | Viking Press (The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm) | |
| 2004 | Margo Lanagan | "Rite of Spring" | Allen & Unwin (Black Juice) | |
| 2005 | Garth Nix* | "Nicholas Sayre and the Creature in the Case" | Allen & Unwin (Across the Wall: Tales of the Old Kingdom and Elsewhere) | |
| 2005 | Dirk Flinthart | "The Red Priest's Homecoming" | Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine | |
| 2006 | Shaun Tan* | The Arrival | Lothian Books | |
| 2006 | Deborah Biancotti | "The Dying Light" | Eidolon Books (Eidolon I) | |
| 2006 | Simon Brown | "Leviathan" | Eidolon Books (Eidolon I) | |
| 2006 | Margo Lanagan | "Baby Jane" | Allen & Unwin (Red Spikes) | |
| 2006 | Margo Lanagan | "A Feather in the Breast of God" | Allen & Unwin (Red Spikes) | |
| 2006 | Margo Lanagan | "Forever Upward" | Allen & Unwin (Red Spikes) | |
| 2007 | Deborah Biancotti* | "A Scar for Leida" | Ticonderoga Publications (Fantastic Wonder Stories) | |
| 2007 | Shane Jiraiya Cummings | "Yamabushi Kaidan and the Smoke Dragon" | Ticonderoga Publications (Fantastic Wonder Stories) | |
| 2007 | Garth Nix | "Bad Luck, Trouble, Death *'''" | Eclipse | |
| 2007 | Garth Nix | "Holly and Iron" | Allen & Unwin (Dark Alchemy) | |
| 2007 | Tracey Rolfe | "Cast Off" | Ticonderoga Publications (Fantastic Wonder Stories) | |
| 2008 | Trent Jamieson* | "Cracks" | Shiny | |
| 2008 | Deborah Biancotti | "The Tailor of Time" | Norilana Books (Clockwork Phoenix) | |
| 2008 | Dirk Flinthart | "This Is Not My Story" | Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine | |
| 2008 | Kevin Maclean | "Eye of the Beholder" | DAW Books (Misspelled) | |
| 2009 | Cat Sparks* | "Seventeen" | CSFG Publishing (Masques) | |
| 2009 | Joanne Anderton | "Dragon Bones" | Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine | |
| 2009 | Sue Isle | "Paper Dragons" | Shiny | |
| 2009 | Ian McHugh | "Once a Month, On a Sunday" | Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine | |
| 2009 | Tansy Rayner Roberts | "Like Us" | Shiny | |
| 2010 | Margo Lanagan* | "A Thousand Flowers" | Allen & Unwin (Zombies Vs Unicorns) | |
| 2010 | Aidan Doyle | "Inksucker" | FableCroft Publishing (Worlds Next Door) | |
| 2010 | Dirk Flinthart | "One Story, No Refunds" | Shiny | |
| 2010 | Kaia Landelius & Tansy Rayner Roberts | "Nine Times" | FableCroft Publishing (Worlds Next Door) | |
| 2010 | Jen White | "An Ordinary Boy" | Tangled Bank Press (The Tangled Bank) | |
| 2011 | Sue Isle* | "Nation of the Night" | Twelfth Planet Press (Nightsiders) | |
| 2011 | Kathleen Jennings | "Finishing School" | Candlewick Press (Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories) | |
| 2011 | Cate Kennedy | "Seventy-Two Derwents" | Allen & Unwin (The Wicked Wood: Tales From the Tower Volume 2) | |
| 2011 | Martine Murray | "One Window" | Allen & Unwin (The Wilful Eye: Tales From the Tower Volume 1) | |
| 2011 | Tansy Rayner Roberts | "The Patrician" | Twelfth Planet Press (Love and Romanpunk) | |
| 2012 | Thoraiya Dyer* | "The Wisdom of the Ants" | Clarkesworld Magazine | |
| 2012 | Justin D'Ath | "Stilled Lifes x 11" | Ford Street Publishing (Trust Me Too) | |
| 2012 | Jack Heath | "Rats" | Ford Street Publishing (Trust Me Too) | |
| 2012 | Jack Nicholls | "The Statues of Melbourne" | Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine 56 | |
| 2012 | Adrienne Tam | "The Worry Man" | BusyBird Publishing ([Untitled] 5) | |
| 2013 | Juliet Marillier* | "By Bone-light" | Ticonderoga Publications (Prickle Moon) | |
| 2013 | Joanne Anderton | "Mah Song" | FableCroft Publishing (The Bone Chime Song and Other Stories) | |
| 2013 | D. K. Mok | "Morning Star" | FableCroft Publishing (One Small Step, an anthology of discoveries) | |
| 2013 | Kim Wilkins | "The Year of Ancient Ghosts" | Ticonderoga Publications (The Year of Ancient Ghosts) | |
| 2014 | Dirk Flinthart* | "Vanilla" | Twelfth Planet Press (Kaleidoscope) | |
| 2014 | Goldie Alexander | "In Hades" | Celapene Press | |
| 2014 | Liz Argyll | "Falling Leaves" | Apex Magazine | |
| 2014 | D M Cornish | "The Fuller and the Bogle" | Omnibus Books (Tales from the Half-Continent) | |
| 2014 | Faith Mudge | "Signature" | Twelfth Planet Press (Kaleidoscope) | |
| 2015 | Deborah Kalin* | "The Miseducation of Mara Lys" | Twelfth Planet Press (Cherry Crow Children) | |
| 2015 | Kimberley Gaal | "In Sheep's Clothing" | Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine 61 | |
| 2015 | Kimberley Gaal | "The Nexus Tree" | CSFG (The Never Never Land) | |
| 2015 | D. K. Mok | "The Heart of the Labyrinth" | Sorin Suciu (In Memory: A Tribute to Sir Terry Pratchett) | |
| 2015 | Faith Mudge | "Blueblood" | Ticonderoga Publications (Hear Me Roar) | |
| 2015 | Marlee Jane Ward | Welcome to Orphancorp | Seizure | |
| 2016 | Leife Shallcross* | "Pretty Jennie Greenteeth" | Belladonna Publishing (Strange Little Girls) | |
| 2016 | Lisa L. Hannett | "A Right Pretty Mate" | PS Australia (Dreaming in the Dark) | |
| 2016 | Jack Nicholls | "Dune Time" | Tor.com | |
| 2016 | Shauna O'Meara | "No One Here is Going to Save You" | FableCroft Publishing (In Your Face) | |
| 2016 | Tansy Rayner Roberts | "Did We Break the End of the World" | Twelfth Planet Press (Defying Doomsday) | |
| 2017 | Tansy Rayner Roberts* | Girl Reporter | Book Smugglers | |
| 2017 | Amie Kaufman | "One Small Step" | HarperCollins Australia (Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology) | |
| 2017 | Will Kostakis | "I Can See the Ending" | HarperCollins Australia (Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology) | |
| 2017 | Jaclyn Moriarty | "Competition Entry #349" | HarperCollins Australia (Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology) | |
| 2017 | Michael Pryor | "First Casualty" | HarperCollins Australia (Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology) | |
| 2017 | Lili Wilkinson | "Oona Underground" | HarperCollins Australia (Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology) | |
| 2018 | Shauna O'Meara* | "The Sea-Maker of Darmid Bay" | Interzone 277 | |
| 2018 | Lee Cope | "A Robot Like Me" | Twelfth Planet Press (Mother of Invention) | |
| 2018 | D. K. Mok | "The Moon Collector" | Owl Hollow Press (Under the Full Moon's Light) | |
| 2018 | Anya Ow | "Eight Step Koan" | Ate Bit Bear (Sword and Sonnet) | |
| 2018 | Deborah Sheldon | "For Weirdless Days and Weary Nights" | Breach 08 | |
| 2019 | Jo Hart | The Jindabyne Secret | Deadset Press | |
| 2019 | K. S. Nikakis | Glass-Heart | SOV Media | |
| 2019 | Tansy Rayner Roberts | "Dragon By Subscription" | (self-published on Patreon) | |
| 2019 | Andrea Teare | "Seaweed" | Breach 11 | |
| 2019 | Ellen van Neerven | "Each City" | Walker Books Australia (Kindred: 12 Queer #LoveOZYA Stories) | |
| 2019 | Marlee Jane Ward | "Rats" | Walker Books Australia (Kindred: 12 Queer #LoveOZYA Stories) |
