Judging the 2016 Aurealis Awards

[calissa]

I am super excited to share that I’ve been selected as a judge for the 2016 Aurealis Awards!

If you’ve previously missed me discussing the Aurealis Awards, they are Australia’s premier juried awards for speculative fiction. They cover fantasy, sci-fi and horror, with categories for Best Novel and Best Short Story for each genre. There are also categories for YA, children’s fiction, graphic novels, and anthologies & collections.

Judging for the awards is something I’ve wanted to do for the last few years but I hesitated because of the workload. It is a lot of reading in addition to the review material for this blog. This year is the first year my reading rate is fast enough for me to feel like I have a chance at keeping up.

I’ll be judging Best YA Novel and Best YA Short Story. This means you won’t be seeing a lot of either on this blog for the time being.

A big thank you to Stephanie Gunn, Gillian Polack, and Rivqa Rafael for giving me the confidence to take this step. I’m really looking forward to it.

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Comments

[davidgillon]

Congratulations!

[calissa]

Thank you! I think it's going to be quite an adventure.

[azhure]

Yay! I'm so happy you're judging :) YA is a good panel to start on, too, since you'll get shorter length books in general - and YA in Australia is terrific right now, so you should get a lot of *good* once too :)

I was almost hoping we'd be on the same panel this year, but alas! Hopefully another year :)

[calissa]

That would have been fantastic! Perhaps another year (if I survive this one).

And thank you again for all the encouragement. It helps to talk to people who have done it before.

[moonvoice]

This is so cool! Congratulations!!! <3<3 And I hope you're able to conserve as much energy as possible, but I imagine this will give a lot of fodder for blog posts in the future <3 In the meantime, we have a lot of awesome articles to read back over!

[calissa]

Thank you, lovely. I'm a bit nervous about managing my workload, but looking forward to this new adventure.