2023 Aurealis Award for Excellence in Speculative Fiction

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SF Novel
Win	Time of the Cat	Tansy Rayner Roberts
Nomination	Bishop	T. R. Napper
Nomination	Dronikus	Marko Newman
Nomination	Minds of Sand and Light	Kylie Chan
Nomination	The Comforting Weight of Water	Roanna McClelland
Nomination	Traitor's Run	Keith Stevenson
SF Novella
Win	Once We Flew	Nikky Lee
Nomination	Bitters	Kaaron Warren
Nomination	Eight or Die	Thoraiya Dyer
Nomination	Killware	Tim Hawken
Nomination	Showdown on Planetoid Pencrux	Garth Nix
Nomination	The Last to Go	A. D. Lyall
SF Short Story
Win ⓘTied win	Customer Service	Emily Wyeth
Win ⓘTied win	Hollywood Animals	Corey J. White
Nomination	Change YourView	Matt Tighe
Nomination	Once Upon a Biofuture-Tales for a New Millennium: Beirut Robot Hyenadrome	Thoraiya Dyer
Nomination	Trial by Fire	Matt Tighe
Fantasy Novel
Win	The Will of the Many	James Islington
Nomination	How to Be Remembered	Michael Thompson
Nomination	Of Knives and Night-Blooms	Tansy Rayner Roberts
Nomination	Shadow Baron	Davinia Evans
Nomination	The Blood-Born Dragon	J. C. Rycroft
Nomination	The Sinister Booksellers of Bath	Garth Nix
Fantasy Novella
Win	Gate Sinister	Tansy Rayner Roberts
Nomination	A Marked Man	T. R. Napper
Nomination	A Wicked Blade	Tansy Rayner Roberts
Nomination	Hole World	J. S. Breukelaar
Nomination	The Leaves Forget	Alan Baxter
Nomination	The Wizard Must Be Stopped!	Taylen Carver
Fantasy Short Story
Win	Twelve Days of Witchmas	Tansy Rayner Roberts
Nomination	Sea Mist, Shore Witch	Mikhaeyla Kopievsky
Nomination	The Dark Man, By Referral	Chuck McKenzie
Nomination	The Reeds Remember	Juliet Marillier
Nomination	The Unexpected Excursion of the Murder Mystery Writing Witches	Garth Nix
Nomination	What Bones These Tides Bring	Nikky Lee
Horror Novel
Win	Bunny	S. E. Tolsen
Nomination	Borderland	Graham Akhurst
Nomination	Cretaceous Canyon	Deborah Sheldon
Nomination	Some Shall Break	Ellie Marney
Nomination ⓘAppears to be phycological horror without supernatural elements so not eligible for inclusion in the ISFDB	The Graveyard Shift	Maria Lewis
Nomination	When Ghosts Call Us Home	Katya de Becerra
Horror Novella
Win	Quicksilver	J. S. Breukelaar
Nomination	Bitters	Kaaron Warren
Nomination	Hole World	J. S. Breukelaar
Nomination ⓘListed as "Psychological Thriller" in Amazon so unclear if this has any supernatural elements that would make it eligible for inclusion	Radcliffe	Madeleine D'Este
Nomination	The Leaves Forget	Alan Baxter
Nomination	The Morass: Servant of the Fly God	Zachary Ashford
Horror Short Story
Win	Death Interrupted	Pamela Jeffs
Nomination	Blood Born	Pauline Yates
Nomination	Il Re Giallo	Matthew R. Davis
Nomination	Stokehold	Pamela Jeffs
Nomination	There are Things on Me	Matt Tighe
Nomination	Trial by Fire	Matt Tighe
Anthology
Win	The Book of Witches	Jonathan Strahan
Nomination	An Unexpected Party: Queer Speculative YA Fiction	Seth Malacari
Nomination	Strangely Enough	Gillian Hagenus
Collection
Win	Firelight	John Morrissey
Nomination	The Gold Leaf Executions	Helen Marshall
Nomination	The Measure of Sorrow	J. Ashley-Smith
Young Adult Novel
Win	When Ghosts Call Us Home	Katya de Becerra
Nomination	Archives of Despair	Caleb Finn
Nomination	Borderland	Graham Akhurst
Nomination	The Non-Magical Declan Moore	Nathan Taylor (I)
Nomination	The Spider and Her Demons	sydney khoo
Nomination	The Weaver	Melanie Kanicky
Young Adult Short Story
Win	Follow The Water	J. Palmer
Nomination	An 80's Tenement Love Story	Anthony Panegyres
Nomination	Integrated Learning	C. H. Pearce
Nomination	Moonfall	Alison Evans
Nomination	Precarious Waters	Pamela Jeffs
Nomination ⓘOriginally published on Crystal Lake Patreon page	The Lingering Taste of Your Last Supper	Matthew R. Davis
Children's Fiction
Win	Spellhound	Lian Tanner
Nomination ⓘGraphic novel so ineligible for inclusion in the ISFDB	Ghost Book	Remy Lai
Nomination	Hunted	Skye Melki-Wegner
Nomination	The Hotel Witch	Jessica Miller
Nomination	The Letterbox Tree	Kate Gordon and Rebecca Lim
Nomination	The Lonely Lighthouse of Elston-Fright	Reece Carter
Graphic Novel / Illustrated Work
Win	Ember and the Island of Lost Creatures	Jason Pamment
Nomination	Frankenstein Monstrance Preview #1	Jason Franks and Tam Morris
Nomination	MEAT4BURGERS	Christof Bogacs and Beck Kubrick
Nomination	Monomyth	David Hazan and Cecilia Lo Valvo
Convenors' Award for Excellence
Nomination ⓘFrom Text Journal of Writing and Writing Courses, 27(2)	Science fiction for hire? Notes towards an emerging practice of creative futurism	Helen Marshall and Kathleen Jennings and Joanne Anderton

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