THE RESULTS of this year’s Australian Shadows Awards are out and it’s another triumph for Canberra author Kaaron Warren, who won Best Short Story.
The judges from the Australian Horror Writers Association wrote of her story “Mine Intercom”, which appeared in Review of Australian Fiction, “At heart it’s a good old fashioned ghost story, and it’s a story well told by a master at the craft. There’s a sense of foreboding and inevitability running through the narrative, and we feel for our doomed protagonist, with her awful history and her inability to fit into this world…Most of all, the tale is not only horrific, it is also incredibly sad, and that adds to its impact.”
The Shadows Awards, run by the Australian Horror Writers Association, are the country’s only annual awards dedicated solely to horror and dark fiction and recognise the stories or works that linger long after the final page. They are open to Australian and New Zealand authors and writers.
Australian Shadows 2015 winners are:
Best Collected Works: Peripheral Visions: The Collected Ghost Stories – Robert Hood (NSW)
Best Edited Works: Blurring the Line – Marty Young
Rocky Wood Award for Non-Fiction and Criticism: The Literary Gothic – Marija Elektra Rodriguez (NSW)
Best Novel: The Catacombs – Jeremy Bates (NSW)
The Paul Haines Award for Long Fiction: In Vaulted Halls Entombed – Alan Baxter (NSW)
Best Written Works in a Comic/Graphic Novel: The Road to Golgotha – G.N. Braun (VIC) & Amanda J Spedding (NSW)
Best Short Story: Mine Intercom – Kaaron Warren (ACT)
For more information visit australianhorror.com
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