Best Short Fiction
Subcategory of Chronos Awards
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Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 2013

winner The Mornington Ride Jason Nahrung , 2013 single work short story horror
— Appears in: Focus 2012 : Highlights of Australian Short Fiction 2013; Epilogue 2013; (p. 161-182)

Year: 2012

winner The Past Is a Bridge Best Left Burnt Paul Haines , 2010 single work novella horror
— Appears in: The Last Days of Kali Yuga 2010; Aurealis : Australian Fantasy & Science Fiction , November no. 56 2012; The Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2011 2012; (p. 455-483)
'Self-consciously autobiographical, and yet subtly playful in its interrogation of the nature of dream and reality, it is an extraordinary tour de force of a story. Consisting of many short, often apparently unrelated sections which seem to mirror the narrator's confusion, The Past is a Bridge Best Left Burnt takes us on a journey through past and present times, in New Zealand and Australia.'

Source: Review of The Last Days of Kali Yuga, in Australian Speculative Fiction in Focus, [posted: 27/05/2011], http://aussiespecficinfocus.wordpress.com/
Sighted 17/05/2012

Year: 2011

winner Her Gallant Needs Paul Haines , 2010 single work short story horror
— Appears in: Sprawl 2010; (p. 297-337) The Last Days of Kali Yuga 2010;

Year: 2010

winner y separately published work icon Gamers' Quest Game On! George Ivanoff , Ormond : Ford Street , 2010 Z1636440 2010 single work novel young adult science fiction fantasy "Tark and Zyra are teenaged thieves on a quest. In a world of magic and science, where dragons and mages exist alongside drones and lasers, they endeavour to reach the haven of Designers' Paradise. But their world is not what it appears to be and their haven is about to come under threat of destruction. Can Tark and Zyra save Designers' Paradise ... and their own." -- Publisher's blurb.

Year: 2009

joint winner Neverland Blues Adam Browne , 2008 single work short story science fiction
— Appears in: Dreaming Again 2008; (p. 81-96)
joint winner Painlessness Kirstyn McDermott , 2008 single work short story horror
— Appears in: Greatest Uncommon Denominator , Spring no. 2 2008; Year's Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy : Fifth Annual Volume 2010; (p. 15-44)
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