Sir Julius Vogel Award Finalists

 

The finalists for the 2016 Sir Julius Vogel Awards have been announced!
I'm thrilled to have made the cut in three categories - Best Novel for "Currents of Change", Best Collected Work for "Shifting Worlds", and Best Short Story for "Drag Marks".  I'd like to say a HUGE thank you to all those who nominated my work and to the organisers of the awards - as well as congratulations to the other authors who were nominated.  This is a great opportunity to showcase New Zealand speculative fiction.
Winners are decided in June and more information about the Sir Julius Vogel Awards can be found here.

The finalists are:

Professional Award Nominees

Best Novel	Ardus - Jean Gilbert Mariah's Dream - Grace Bridges Vestiges of Flames - Lyn McConchie Currents of Change - Darian Smith Shards of Ice - Catherine Mede Sun Touched - J.C. Hart
Best Youth Novel	The Caretaker of Imagination - Z. R. Southcombe Dragons Realm (You Say Which Way) - Eileen Mueller Brave's Journey - Jan Goldie Lucy's Story: The End of the World - Z. R. Southcombe Deadline Delivery - Peter Friend
Best Novella / Novelette	Pocket Wife - I. K. Paterson-Harkness The Way the Sky Curves - J. C. Hart The Molenstraat Music Festival - Sean Monaghan The Last - Grant Stone The Ghost of Matter - Octavia Cade Burn (Maiden, Mother, Crone, bk 1) - J. C. Hart Bree's Dinosaur - A. C. Buchanan
Best Short Story	“The Thief's Tale” - Lee Murray “Pride” - Jean Gilbert “Floodgate” - Dan Rabarts “The Shelver” - Piper Mejia “The Harpsicord Elf” - Sean Monoghan “Drag Marks” - Darian Smith
Best Collected Work	Shifting Worlds: a collection of short stories - Darian Smith Shortcuts: Track 1 - Marie Hodgkinson (ed) The Survivors: Heroic Edition - V. L. Dreyer Write Off Line 2015: The Earth We Knew - Jean Gilbert SpecFicNZ Shorts - SpecFicNZ Beyond the Veil: A collection of Science Fiction and Fantasy Lauren Haddock/Jessica Harvey (eds)
Best Professional Artwork	Cover of The Earth We Knew: A Collection of Science Fiction and Fantasy Kodi Murray Cover for Shortcuts – Track 1 K.C. Bailey Cover for Pisces of Fate Henry Christian-Sloane Cover for Miss Lionheart and the Laboratory of Death Imojen Faith Hancock
Best Professional Production/Publication	“Ahead of her time and lost in time: on feminism, gender, and bisexuality” AJ Fitzwater In Letters to Tiptree, Twelfth Planet Press The Face of Oblivion A LARP written by Catherine Pegg  White Cloud Worlds Anthology 3 Paul Tobin (ed), published by Weta Workshop

Fan Award Nominees

Best Fan Production/ Publication	Phoenixine John & Lynelle Howell Novazine Jacqui Smith
Best Fan Writing	John Toon Available in Phoenixine June Young Available in Phoenixine Jacqui Smith Available in Phoenixine Terri Doyle Available in Novazine
Best Fan Artist	Keith Smith

Special Award Nominees

Best New Talent (Nominations are numbered to aid clarity — the number has no other significance).

1. Jean Gilbert 2. Octavia Cade 3. Y. K. Willemse 4. Eileen Mueller

Services To Science Fiction, Fantasy And Horror (Nominations are numbered to aid clarity — the number has no other significance).	1. Marie Hodgkinson
Services To Fandom (Nominations are numbered to aid clarity — the number has no other significance).	1. Glenn Young