- Award Category: Best Professional Achievement Award Category Record # 610
- Award Type: Ditmar Award / Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award
- Display Order: 2000
| 2001 | ||
|---|---|---|
| --- Not on ballot -- Insufficient Nominations ------- | ||
| * | Insufficient Nominations - Category Cancelled | - |
| 2005 | ||
| Win | for negotiating with the US Clarion people, then promoting and establishing Clarion South which gives emerging writer the chance to work with the best in the business | The Clarion South Team (Fantastic Queensland; Convenors Robert Hoge, Kate Eltham, Robert Dobson & Heather Gammage) and Robert Hoge and Kate Eltham and Robert Dobson and Heather Gammage |
| Nomination | for <A HREF="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?157270" target="_blank"><I>Black Juice</I></A> | Margo Lanagan |
| Nomination | for <A HREF="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?172923" target="_blank"><I>Tales of the Crypto-System</I></A>, his short story publications | Geoffrey Maloney |
| Nomination | for <A HREF="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?181001" target="_blank"><I>The Crooked Letter</I></A> and efforts in teaching | Sean Williams |
| Nomination | for editing and writing including winning third place in the Writers of the Future award | Cat Sparks |
| Nomination | for work over the year in internationally published reviews and in editing anthologies | Jonathan Strahan |
| 2006 | ||
| Win | Clarion South 2005, Clarion South Workshop | Robert Dobson and Robert Hoge and Kate Eltham and Heather Gammage |
| Nomination | <A HREF="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1185484" target="_blank">Cosmos (magazine)</A> | Damien Broderick and Wilson da Silva and Kylie Ahern |
| Nomination | Australian Speculative Fiction: A Genre Overview | Donna Maree Hanson |
| Nomination | for co-editing <I>Best Short Novels: 2005</I> (SFBC), </I>Science Fiction: Best of 2004</I> (ibooks), and <I>Fantasy: Best of 2004</I> (ibooks) | Jonathan Strahan |
| Nomination | for screenwriting and directing, Battlestar Galactica Season 2.0, Sci-Fi Channel (IMDB) | Michael Rymer |
| 2007 | ||
| Win | for Mirrordanse Press and 2 issues of the Australian Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy | Bill Congreve |
| Nomination | Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century | Justine Larbalestier |
| Nomination | for establishing Brimstone Press as a mass market publisher | Angela Challis |
| Nomination | for providing new paying markets for readers and writers of both fiction/ non-fiction, art as well as forums for reviews/interviews within the speculative fiction genre, enhancing the profile of Australian speculative fiction | Alisa Krasnostein |
| Nomination | for Ticonderoga Publications | Russell B. Farr |
| Nomination | for work on ABC's Articulate and promoting the genre through radio and other mediums | Gary Kemble |
| 2008 | ||
| Win ⓘGiven to Andromeda Spaceways Publishing Co-op. |
for five issues in 2007, plus three electronic Best Of anthologies | Andromeda Spaceways Publishing Co-Operative Ltd |
| Nomination | for a prolific body of work editing <I>The Jack Vance Treasury</I>, <I>The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year</I>, <I>Best Short Novels of 2007</I>, <I>The New Space Opera</I>, <I>Ascendancies: The Best of Bruce Sterling</I> and <I>Eclipse One: New Science Fiction and Fantasy</I> | Jonathan Strahan |
| Nomination | for compiling and promoting the new Australian Fantasy and SF catalogue in the United States to increase awareness and appreciation of forthcoming Australian SF and to expand creative and professional opportunities for writers | Jonathan Strahan and Garth Nix and Deborah Biancotti and Trevor Stafford |
| Nomination | for his continued coverage of speculative fiction on Articulate and ABC news online | Gary Kemble |
| Nomination | for Ticonderoga Publications; in 2007, Russell produced an issue of <I>Ticonderoga Online</I>, <I>The Workers' Paradise</I> and <I>Fantastic Wonder Stories</I>, which produced five Aurealis Award nominees | Russell B. Farr |