awards

Dowling’s fiction has won 21 national and international awards: eleven Ditmar and four Aurealis Awards (two of them Convenors’ Awards for Excellence), an Australian Shadows Award, the International Horror Guild Award and two Readercon Awards in the US, a Prix Wolkenstein in Germany and a Grand Prix at Utopiales 2001 in France. Dowling also won the 1983 William Atheling Jr Award for Criticism for his essay: “Kirth Gersen: The Other Demon Prince”, Science Fiction: A Review of Speculative Literature, Vol 4, No 2, June 1982. He has received three World Fantasy Award nominations and a 2007 Stoker nomination for Best Collection.

1. “The Man Who Walks Away Behind the Eyes”
   Omega Science Digest, May/June 1982
   Ditmar Award for Best Australian Short SF, 1983

2. “The Terrarium”
   Omega Science Digest, May/June 1984
   Ditmar Award for Best Australian Short SF, 1985

3. “The Bullet That Grows in the Gun”
   Urban Fantasies, David King & Russell Blackford (Eds.), Ebony Books 1985
   Ditmar Award for Best Australian Short SF, 1986

4. “The Man Who Lost Red”
   Aphelion, Autumn 1986
   Ditmar Award for Best Australian Short SF, 1987

5. “For As Long As You Burn”
   Aphelion, Summer 1986
   Ditmar Award for Best Australian Long SF, 1988

6. “The Last Elephant”
   Australian Short Stories 20, Pascoe Publishing 1987
   Ditmar Award for Best Australian Short SF, 1988

7. “The Quiet Redemption of Andy the House”
   Australian Short Stories 26, Pascoe Publishing 1989
   Ditmar Award for Best Australian Short SF, 1990

8. Rynosseros
   Aphelion Publications, May 1990
   Ditmar Award for Best Australian Long SF, 1991
    

9. Prix Wolkenstein, 1991 (Germany)

10. Wormwood
    Aphelion Publications, April 1991
    Ditmar Award for Best Australian Long SF, 1992
     

11. Readercon Award for Best Collection, 1991 (USA)

12. “Breaking Through to the Heroes”
    Blue Tyson, Aphelion 1992
    Readercon Award for Best Short Story, 1993 (USA)

13. An Intimate Knowledge of the Night
    Aphelion Publications, May 1995
    1996 Aurealis Award for Best Horror Novel, 1995

14. “Jenny Come to Play”
    Eidolon, Spring 1997
    Aurealis Award, Best Horror Short Story, 1997

15. Antique Futures: The Best of Terry Dowling
    MP Books, September 1999
    2000 Aurealis Convenor’s Award for Excellence, 1999

16. Blackwater Days
    Eidolon Publications, April 2000
    Ditmar Award for Best Collection, 2001
    (World Fantasy Award nomination for Best Collection 2001)

17. “The Saltimbanques”
    Eidolon 29/30, April 2000
    Ditmar Award for Best Short Story, 2001
    (World Fantasy Award nomination for Best Short Story 2001)

18. Schizm: Mysterious Journey
    L.K. Avalon, October 2001
    Grand Prix, Graphics, Utopiales 2001, France

19. Basic Black: Tales of Appropriate Fear
    Cemetery Dance, March 2006
    International Horror Guild Award, Best Collection, 2007
    Publishers Weekly (Starred Review), May 2006
    2006 Locus Recommended Reading List, Locus, February 2007 (42)
    Bram Stoker Award Nomination, Best Collection, 2007

20. Rynemonn
    coeur de lion, September 2007
    Peter McNamara Convenors’ Award for Excellence, 2007
    Aurealis Awards Ceremony, January 2008

21. Toother
    Eclipse One: New Fantasy and Science Fiction, Night Shade Books, 2007
    2007 Australian Shadows Award, 2008
    

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