The Ditmar Awards are the Australian national equivalent of the Hugo Award. The winners for this year’s awards were announced this past weekend at the 2013 Australian National SF Convention, Conflux 9, in Canberra.

The winners are:

Best Novel: Sea Hearts by Margo Lanagan (Allen & Unwin)

Best Novella or Novelette: “Sky” by Kaaron Warren, in Through Splintered Walls (Twelfth Planet Press)

Best Short Story: “The Wisdom of Ants” by Thoraiya Dyer, in Clarkesworld #75

Best Collected Work: Through Splintered Walls by Kaaron Warren, edited by Alisa Krasnostein (Twelfth Planet Press)

Best Artwork: Cover art by Kathleen Jennings for Midnight and Moonshine (Ticonderoga Publications)

Best Fan Writer: Tansy Rayner Roberts, for body of work including reviews in Not If You Were The Last Short Story On Earth

Best Fan Artist: Kathleen Jennings, for body of work including “The Dalek Game” and “The Tamsyn Webb Sketchbook”

Best Fan Publication in Any Medium: The Writer and the Critic, Kirstyn McDermott and Ian Mond

Best New Talent: David McDonald

William Atheling Jr Award for Criticism or Review: Tansy Rayner Roberts, for “Historically Authentic Sexism in Fantasy. Let’s Unpack That.”, in tor.com

We detailed the nominees in this article.