The Aurealis Awards, Australia’s premier awards for speculative fiction, are for works created by an Australian citizen or permanent resident, and published for the first time between 1 January 2019 and 31 December 2019. Full guidelines and FAQ can be found on the Aurealis Awards website.
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The Continuum Foundation, organisers of the Aurealis Awards, have announced the finalists for the 2018 Aurealis .Awards The winners will be announced at the Aurealis Awards ceremony taking place in Melbourne on Saturday May 4, 2019.
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This is one for our Australian readers. The Aurealis Awards, the premier Science Fiction and Fantasy awards in Australia, have put out an open call for new judges for 2017! Aurealis judges are all volunteers and (from their webiste) the only qualification you need to be a judge is “a demonstrated knowledge of and interest in their chosen category”.
Read moreNext up in announcing their shortlists are the Aurealis Awards. A relative newcomer to the award scene, the Aurealis Awards was founded in 1995 in association with Aurealis magazine. These awards are different from the big players in the field for two reasons. The first, and most obvious, is that these awards are exclusively national awards, only Australian authors are
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