Award
Ditmar Award
57 years tracked (1969–2026), 548 entries total.
The Ditmar Award has been awarded annually since 1969 at the Australian National Science Fiction Convention to recognise achievement in Australian science fiction and science fiction fandom. The award is similar to the Hugo Award but on a national rather than international scale.
2026
A Second Coming
A Shortcut via the New Tunnel, M-ate
Bitter Skin
Cinder House
Drowning in the Dark
Drowning in the Dark and Other Stories
Honeyeater
Phantom Loop
Scorpion Girl
Scorpion Girl and Other Stories
Songs of Shadow, Words of Woe
The Cold House
The Crimson Road
The Girlfriend Experience
The Hidden God
The Leper’s Garden and Other Contagions
This Dark Architect and Other Grim Tales
Through These Moments, Darkly
Upon a Starlit Tide
Veil
When Dark Waters Burn
2025
Bellow of the Steamship Cow
Calvaria Fell
Ghost of the Neon God
The Underhistory
Archive of the Dead
Blood Covenant
Bright Hearts
Cruel Nights
Ghost Cities
Kindling
Maleficium
Monsters in the Mills
Nightmare Logic: Tales of the Macabre, Fantastic and Cthulhuesque
Shattered
The Emporium
The Escher Man
The Market of Loss
The Medusa Situation
Wilder
2024
Bitters
Jimmy Flip Brings His Little One to Work, and It Comes My Turn to Hold It
The Measure of Sorrow: Stories
The Sinister Booksellers of Bath
A Marked Man
Antarctica Starts Here
Body of Work
Dream Weaver
Eight or Die
Highway Requiem
Polyphemus
Quicksilver
The Deathplace Set
The Leaves Forget
The Measure of Sorrow
The Tangled Lands
There Are Things on Me
This Fresh Hell
Traitor’s Run
Trial by Fire
Vandal: Stories of Damage
When Dark Roots Hunt
2023
36 Streets
Cut to Care: A Collection of Little Hurts
Everything so slow and quiet
Remnants and Bad Water
The Smell of Waiting
Bluebells
Damnation Games
Greatheart
Gulpepper Curios
Phase Change
Sallow Bend
Scavengers
Songs We Sing at Sea are the Lies We Tell Ourselves
The Art of Being Human
The Dark Matter of Natasha
The Fall
The Quick Study
The Stone Road
X-Dimensional Assassin Zai Through the Unfolded Earth
2022
Ariadne, I Love You
The Bridge
The King in Yella
Tool Tales
A Good Big Brother
A Marvellous Light
A Vast Silence
A Whisper in the Death Pit
All the Murmuring Bones
Coralesque and Other Tales To Disturb and Distract
Dirty Heads
Ghost Recall
Goon of Fortune
Legacy of the Species
Papa Lucy & The Boneman
Relics, Wrecks & Ruins
She Who Became the Sun
The Councillor
The Gulp
The House That Hungers
The Little One
The Rose Daughter
The Terralight Collection
2021
Dark Harvest
Flyaway
The Calenture
The Left-Handed Booksellers of London
Bad Weather
Hacking Santorini
Hollow Empire
Monstrous Heart
Neon Leviathan
Poison & Light
Rebuilding Tomorrow
Repo Virtual
Songs for Dark Seasons
The Animals in That Country
The Attic Tragedy
The Crying Forest
The Genetic Alchemist’s Daughter
The Roo
The Weight of the Air, The Weight of the World
The Zookeeper's Tales of Interstellar Oddities
2020
2019
2018
2017
2014
2013
2012
2011
2009
2008
2007
The Devil in Mr Pussy (Or how I found God inside my wife)
The Fear of White
The Pilo Family Circus
The Year's Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy Vol.2
Aftermath
Agog! Ripping Reads
Burning from the Inside
C0ck
Carnies
Cold
Doorways for the Dispossessed
Eidolon I
Honeymoon
Prismatic
Surrender 1: Rope Artist
The Bat's Boudoir
The Dead of Winter
The Mother
The Silver Road
The Souls of Dead Soldiers are for Blackbirds, Not Little Boys
Under the Red Sun
World's Whackiest Upper Atmosphere Re-Entry Disasters Dating Game
2006
Other
Daikaiju! Giant Monster Tales
Fresh Young Widow
Geodesica: Ascent
A Tour Guide in Utopia
Countless Screaming Argonauts
Leviathan
Magic or Madness
Matricide
Midnight 2: Touching Darkness
Once Giants Roamed the Earth
Passing of the Minotaurs
Shadowed Realms
Summa Seltzer Missive
The Grinding House
The Memory of Breathing
The Red Priest's Homecoming
Years Best Australian SF & Fantasy
2005
Best Collection and Best Short Story for "Singing My Sister Down"
Black Juice
Other
Singing My Sister Down
The Crooked Letter
The Last Days of Kali Yuga
Agog! Smashing Stories
Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine
Catabolic Magic
Encounters
Home by the Sea
Less than Human
Number 3 Raw Place
Orb 6
R
The Black Crusade
The Interminable Suffering of Mysterious Mr Wu
The Whole of the Law
Water Babies
2004
Other
Agog! Terrific Tales
Forever Shores
La Sentinelle
Room for Improvement
Alien Space Nazis Must Die
Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine
Elsewhere
Fallen Gods
Frozen Charlottes
Kijin Tea
Louder Echo
Orphans of Earth
Rynemonn
Sigmund Freud & the Feral Freeway
Southern Blood
The Mark of His Hands
The Singular Life of Eddy Dovewater
The Truth About Pug Roberts
Uncharted
2003
Agog! Fantastic Fiction
Echoes of Earth
King of All and The Metal Sentinel
Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine
AustrAlien Absurdities
Blue Silence
Cigarettes and Roses
Father Muerte and the Thief
Machinations
Passing Strange
Scratches in the Sky
Sovereign
Stealing Alice
The Sky Warden and the Sun
The Storm Weaver and the Sand
Time Past
Transcension
2002
2001
Blackwater Days
Evergence 2: The Dying Light
The Devotee
The Lost Thing
The Saltimbanques
Waking Henson: A Jim Henson Retrospective
Basic Black
Cyberskin
Sea as Mirror
Tales from the Wasteland
That Old Black Graffiti
The First and Final Game
The King with Three Daughters
The Miocene Arrow
White Time
2000
New Adventures in Sci-Fi
Teranesia
Written in Blood
A Dark Victory
Antique Futures
Aramaya
Centaurus
Foreign Bodies
Generation X
Ground Underfoot
Hidden From View
Primal Etiquette
Souls in the Great Machine
Spinouts
The Book of Revelation
The Lady Of Situations
The Nabakov Affair
