The 2005 Australian National Science Fiction Achievement ‘Ditmar’ Awards were presented at Thylacon, the 44th Australian National Science Fiction Convention, on Saturday 11 June 2005, in a ceremony at the Wrest Point Hotel, Hobart, Tasmania. Tbe winners were:

Best Novel

The Crooked Letter, Sean Williams (HarperCollins Australia)

Best Collected Work

Black Juice, Margo Lanagan (Allen & Unwin Australia)

Best Novella/Novelette

“The Last Days of Kali Yuga”, Paul Haines (NFG Magazine, August 2004)

Best Short Story

“Singing My Sister Down”, Margo Lanagan (Black Juice)

Best Professional Artwork

Kerri Valkova for the cover to The Black Crusade (Chimaera Publications)

Best Professional Achievement

Clarion South committee

Fan Achievement

Conflux convention committee

Fan Artist

Sarah Xu

Fanzine

The Bullsheet, ed Edwina Harvey & Ted Scribner

Fan Writer

Bruce Gillespie

Best New Talent

Paul Haines

The organisers also presented two further awards, not Ditmars, at the ceremony.

William Atheling Jnr Award for Criticism or Review (tie)

Robert Hood, for his review of Weight of Water at HoodReviews; and

Jason Nahrung for “Why are publishers afraid of horror” (BAM, Courier Mail, 20 March 2004)

The Peter McNamara Achievement Award

Jonathan Strahan