BEST CHILDREN’S FICTION

• A Week Without Tuesday, Angelica Banks (Allen & Unwin)
• The Cut-Out, Jack Heath (Allen & Unwin)
• A Single Stone, Meg McKinlay (Walker Books Australia)
• Bella and the Wandering House, Meg McKinlay (Fremantle Press)
• The Mapmaker Chronicles: Prisoner of the Black Hawk, A.L. Tait (Hachette Australia)

BEST GRAPHIC NOVEL / ILLUSTRATED WORK

• The Undertaker Morton Stone Vol.1, Gary Chaloner, Ben Templesmith, and Ashley Wood (Gestalt)
• The Diemenois, Jamie Clennett (Hunter Publishers)
• Unmasked Vol.1: Going Straight is No Way to Die, Christian Read (Gestalt)
• The Singing Bones, Shaun Tan (Allen & Unwin)
• Fly the Colour Fantastica, various authors (Veriko Operative)

BEST YOUNG ADULT SHORT STORY

• “In Sheep’s Clothing”, Kimberly Gaal (Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #61)
• “The Nexus Tree”, Kimberly Gaal (The Never Never Land, CSFG)
• “The Miseducation of Mara Lys”, Deborah Kalin (Cherry Crow Children, Twelfth Planet Press)
• “The Heart of the Labyrinth”, DK Mok (In Memory: A Tribute to Sir Terry Pratchett, Sorin Suciu)
• “Blueblood”, Faith Mudge (Hear Me Roar, Ticonderoga Publications)
• Welcome to Orphancorp, Marlee Jane Ward (Seizure)

BEST HORROR SHORT STORY

• “Bullets”, Joanne Anderton (In Sunshine Bright and Darkness Deep, AHWA)
• “Consorting with Filth”, Lisa L Hannett (Blurring the Line, Cohesion Press)
• “Heirloom Pieces”, Lisa L Hannett (Apex Magazine, Apex Publications)
• “The Briskwater Mare”, Deborah Kalin (Cherry Crow Children, Twelfth Planet Press)
• “Breaking Windows”, Tracie McBride (Aurealis #84)
• “Self, Contained”, Kirstyn McDermott (The Dark, TDM Press)

BEST HORROR NOVELLA

• “Night Shift”, Dirk Flinthart (Striking Fire, FableCroft Publishing)
• “The Cherry Crow Children of Haverny Wood”, Deborah Kalin (Cherry Crow Children, Twelfth Planet Press)
• “The Miseducation of Mara Lys”, Deborah Kalin (Cherry Crow Children, Twelfth Planet Press)
• “Wages of Honey”, Deborah Kalin (Cherry Crow Children, Twelfth Planet Press)
• “Sleepless”, Jay Kristoff (Slasher Girls and Monster Boys, Penguin)
• “Ripper”, Angela Slatter (Horrorology, Jo Fletcher Books)

BEST FANTASY SHORT STORY

• “The Giant’s Lady”, Rowena Cory Daniells (Legends 2, Newcon Press)
• “The Jellyfish Collector”, Michelle Goldsmith (Review of Australian Fiction Vol. 13 Issue 6)
• “A Shot of Salt Water”, Lisa L Hannett (The Dark, TDM Press)
• “Almost Days”, DK Mok (Insert Title Here, FableCroft Publishing)
• “Blueblood”, Faith Mudge (Hear Me Roar, Ticonderoga Publications)
• “Husk and Sheaf”, Suzanne Willis (SQ Mag 22, IFWG Publishing Australia)

BEST FANTASY NOVELLA

• “Lodloc and The Bear”, Steve Cameron (Dimension6, coeur de lion)
• “Defy the Grey Kings”, Jason Fischer (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Firkin Press)
• “Broken Glass”, Stephanie Gunn (Hear Me Roar, Ticonderoga Publications)
• “The Flowers that Bloom Where Blood Touches the Earth”, Stephanie Gunn (Bloodlines, Ticonderoga Publications)
• “Haunting Matilda”, Dmetri Kakmi (Cthulhu: Deep Down Under, Horror Australis)
• “Of Sorrow and Such”, Angela Slatter (Tor.com)

BEST SCIENCE FICTION SHORT STORY

• “2B”, Joanne Anderton (Insert Title Here, Fablecroft)
• “The Marriage of the Corn King”, Claire McKenna (Cosmos)
• “Alchemy and Ice”, Charlotte Nash (Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #61)
• “Witnessing”, Kaaron Warren (The Canary Press Story Magazine #6)
• “All the Wrong Places”, Sean Williams (Meeting Infinity, Solaris)

BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVELLA

• “Blood and Ink”, Jack Bridges, Prizm Books
• “The Molenstraat Music Festival”, Sean Monaghan (Asimov’s Science Fiction)
• “By Frogsled and Lizardback to Outcast Venusian Lepers”, Garth Nix (Old Venus, Random House)

BEST COLLECTION

• The Abandonment of Grace and Everything Thereafter, Shane Jiraiya Cummings (Brimstone Press)
• Striking Fire, Dirk Flinthart (FableCroft Publishing)
• Cherry Crow Children, Deborah Kalin (Twelfth Planet Press)
• To Hold the Bridge, Garth Nix (Allen & Unwin)
• The Fading, Carole Nomarhas (self-published)
• The Finest Ass in the Universe, Anna Tambour (Ticonderoga Publications)

BEST ANTHOLOGY

• Hear Me Roar, Liz Grzyb (ed.) (Ticonderoga Publications)
• The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2014, Liz Grzyb and Talie Helene (eds.) (Ticonderoga Publications)
• Bloodlines, Amanda Pillar (ed.) (Ticonderoga Publications)
• Meeting Infinity, Jonathan Strahan (ed.), (Solaris)
• The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 9, Jonathan Strahan (ed.) (Solaris)
• Focus 2014: highlights of Australian short fiction, Tehani Wessely (ed.) (FableCroft Publishing)

BEST YOUNG ADULT NOVEL

• In The Skin of a Monster, Kathryn Barker (Allen & Unwin)
• Lady Helen and the Dark Days Club, Alison Goodman (HarperCollins)
• The Fire Sermon, Francesca Haig (HarperVoyager)
• Day Boy,Trent Jamieson (Text Publishing)
• Illuminae, Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff (Allen & Unwin)
• The Hush, Skye Melki-Wagner (Penguin Random House Australia)

BEST HORROR NOVEL
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BEST FANTASY NOVEL

• In The Skin of a Monster, Kathryn Barker (Allen & Unwin)
• Lady Helen and the Dark Days Club, Alison Goodman (HarperCollins)
• Day Boy,Trent Jamieson (Text Publishing)
• The Dagger’s Path, Glenda Larke (Hachette Australia)
• Tower Of Thorns, Juliet Marillier (Pan Macmillan Australia)
• Skin, Ilka Tampke (Text Publishing)

BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL

• Crossed, Evelyn Blackwell (self-published)
• Clade, James Bradley (Penguin)
• Illuminae, Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff (Allen & Unwin)
• Their Fractured Light, Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner (Allen & Unwin)
• Renegade, Joel Shepherd (Kindle Direct)
• Twinmaker: Fall, Sean Williams (Allen & Unwin)

SARA DOUGLASS BOOK SERIES AWARD

• The Chronicles of King Rolen’s Kin [The King’s Bastard (2010), The Uncrowned King (2010), The Usurper (2010), The King’s Man (2012), King Breaker (2013)], Rowena Cory Daniells (Solaris Press)
• The Watergivers [The Last Stormlord (2009), Stormlord Rising (2010), Stormlord’s Exile (2011)], Glenda Larke (HarperVoyager)
• The Lumatere Chronicles [Finnikin of the Rock (2008), Froi of the Exiles (2011), Quintana of Charyn (2012)], Melina Marchetta (Penguin Random House)
• Sevenwaters [Daughter of the Forest (2000), Son of the Shadows (2001), Child of the Prophecy (2002), Heir to Sevenwaters (2009), Seer of Sevenwaters (2011), Flame of Sevenwaters (2013)], Juliet Marillier (Pan Macmillan Australia)
• The Laws of Magic [Blaze Of Glory (2007), Heart Of Gold (2007), Word Of Honour (2008),  Time Of Trial (2009), Moment Of Truth (2010), Hour Of Need (2011)], Michael Pryor (Random House Australia)
• Creature Court [Power and Majesty (2010), Shattered City (2011), Reign of Beasts (2012)], Tansy Rayner Roberts (HarperVoyager)