Deadline: 31 December 2010
Eligibility: written by Australian citizens or permanent residents
Reading Fee: none
Accepts (genre): speculative fiction, various categories
Prize/Payment: undisclosed
What works are eligible?
Any work of speculative fiction written by an Australian citizen of permanent resident and published for the first time between 1 November 2009 and 31 December 2010 is eligible to be entered.
Who can enter works?
You can enter using the online entry form or download the entry form as a WORD or PDF file. This form will need to be completed and returned by email to the judging coordinator or post to Aurealis Awards, PO Box 23, Forestville NSW 2087.
Anyone can enter a work and there is no entry fee for the Awards, however registrants must agree to send or submit a copy of the entered work to each judge in the category or categories the work is entered in. There are three judges in each category. Details of judges postal addresses will be provided after works are registered.
A list of entries appears on the Aurealis Awards website and is progressively updated during the year. Only formally entered works will be considered for the awards.
Can I submit works electronically?
Short stories of 10,000 words or less can be submitted electronically. However if more than three stories from any one publication are to be entered in the Awards, hard copy entries must be sent.
Entry deadline
Entry forms, AND copies of entered works must be received by the coordinator and relevant judges by midnight EST, Friday 31 December 2010.
For the Peter McNamara Convenors' Award please read information and access an entry form for this award on the Rules and Conditions page.
The Aurealis Awards 2010 are for works of speculative fiction by authors, editors and illustrators, who are Australian citizens or permanent residents, first published in English between 1 November 2009 and 31 December 2010.
Finalists will be announced on the website in late March 2011, and the winners announced at a ceremony in Sydney in late April or early May 2010.
We encourage everyone to use the electronic entry form as it is the quickest and most efficient entry method. There is also a word version/pdf of the entry form if you’d rather submit a hard copy by fax or post.
By entering a work in the Aurealis Awards process, you undertake to supply a copy of the work to each of the judges of the relevant category/categories, i.e. you’ll need to supply five copies of the work in each category entered.
Works may be entered in more than one category, but we encourage you to only choose the most relevant, rather than make across-the-board, blanket entries.
From 2009, Aurealis Awards judges have accepted some electronic entries of short fiction (up to ten thousand words) from small press publishers, if the financial burden of supplying our judges with hard copy is too great. Entering stories electronically will require the submission of both a word document and a pdf of entries to the awards’ coordinator for distribution to the relevant judges.
The Aurealis Awards always aim to be as inclusive as possible. If you are aware of any work that should be entered in the 2010 process but which does not appear on the list of entries please contact the judging coordinator with details so we can encourage the author/publisher to enter it.
More information here.
