Once again we find ourselves rocketing towards the Aussie Natcon, which means that it’s once more Ditmar Awards season. I hereby give you my annual shameless self-promoting blog post 🙂 the usual disclaimers apply, this list of my eligible works is for information only, and you should of course be nominating the works that you found most worthy or awesome. Rumours of a Jason Fischer Ditmar pork-barrel are sadly exaggerated, and it seems it’s merit or nothing, until some sort of SF pun category sees the light of day (man, I’d be a SHOE-IN).

There’s a scarily comprehensive wiki being maintained, a pretty thorough list of what Aussie genre writers published in 2010. The relevant page can be found here: http://wiki.sf.org.au/2011_Ditmar_eligibility_list , but to make life easier for you, here are my eligible stories for the 2011 Ditmar Awards.

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Best Novella or Novellette

gunning for a tinkerman, Aurealis Magazine #44

Best Short Story

The House of Nameless, Writers of the Future Vol XXVI

The School Bus, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #46 (Highly Recommended, HorrorScope 2010 Recommended Reading List)

Sebastian, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #44 (Recommended, HorrorScope 2010 Recommended Reading List)

Goodnights to Heaven, Necroscope

The Ward of Hours, An Eclectic Slice of Life

Starship Zamedi, Zombonauts anthology

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A super-handy nomination form can be found here: http://ditmars.sf.org.au/2011/nominations.html, or nominations can be emailed to ditmars@sf.org.au, or by snail mail to Ditmars, 6 Florence Road, NEDLANDS WA 6009, AUSTRALIA 

If you haven’t read any of these works or can’t get hold of them, please comment here, or send me an email at mail AT jasonfischer DOT com DOT au. I will hook you up with a reading copy of any of these, most likely electronic. I’ve made sure to get clearance from the publisher of Writers of the Future to share my winning story for this sort of purpose, so if you couldn’t get hold of the anthology and want to have a peek at my tale, please let me know.

I always take my Ditmar voting very seriously, and put quite a bit of effort into my nomination sheet, often rocking the establishment by not voting solely for myself in every category 🙂 I’m gonna go away and think about what other folks did in 2010 that rocked my socks, and will most likely post a list of this stuff when I figure it all out.