The Ditmar Award winners were announced at Conjecture this weekend past. They are:

Best Novel – Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan (published by Allen & Unwin)

Best Novella – "Painlessness" by Kirstyn McDermott (GUD: Greatest Uncommon Denominator #2)

Best Short Story (tie) – "This Is Not My Story" by Dirk Flinthart (ASIM #37) and "The Goosle" by Margo Lanagan (The Del Rey Book of Australian Science Fiction, Del Rey)

Best Collected Work – Dreaming Again edited by Jack Dann (Harper Voyager)

Best Artwork – Tales from Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan (Allen & Unwin)

Best Fan Writer – Rob Hood

Best Fan Artist – Cat Sparks for Scary Food Cookbook (Agog! Press)

Best Fan Publication – ASif! Australian Speculative Fiction In Focus edited by Alisa Krasnostein and Gene Melzack (Twelfth Planet Press)

William Atheling Jr Award for Criticism or Review – "Popular genres and the Australian literary community: the case of fantasy fiction" by Kim Wilkins (Journal of Australian Studies, Vol 32, Issue 2)

Best Professional Achievement – Angela Challis for Black: Australian Dark Culture Magazine and Brimstone Press

Best New Talent – Felicity Dowker

Also awarded were:

The A. Bertram Chandler Award – Rosaleen Love

The Peter McNamara Award – Sean Williams

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