News: Australian Shadows Award finalists

The list of finalists for the 2008 Australian Shadows Award (for works published in 2007) has been released. The Australian Shadows Award is an annual jury-judged literary award issued by the Australian Horror Writers Association (AHWA) that honours the best works of Australian dark fiction published in the preceding year.

Finalists (in alphabetical order):

• Matthew Chrulew - "Between the Memories" (Aurealis #38/39)
• David Conyers - "Subtle Invasion" (The Black Book of Horror, Mortbury Press)
• Terry Dowling - "Toother" (Eclipse 1, Night Shade Books)
• Rick Kennett - "The Dark and What It Said" (Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #28)
• Martin Livings - "There Was Darkness" (Fantastic Wonder Stories, Ticonderoga Publications)
• Jason Nahrung - The Darkness Within (Hachette Livre)

Honourable Mentions:

• David Conyers & John Sunseri - The Spiraling Worm (Chaosium)
• Kaaron Warren - "Cooling the Crows" (In Bad Dreams, Eneit Press)
• Marty Young - "The Wildflowers" (Fantastic Wonder Stories, Ticonderoga Publications)
  

The winner of the 2008 Australian Shadows Award, to be determined by guest judge Richard Harland (award-winning author of The Black Crusade and the Ferren and the Angel series), will be announced in April 2008.

For further information, including reports from the judging panel, visit the AHWA website: http://www.australianhorror.com/index.php?view=118

Source: AHWA