Novel

• WINNER: Slashed Beauties, A. Rushby (Berkley) amazon / bookshop

• Black Soil White Bread, Madeleine D’Este (self-published) amazon / bookshop
• The Woman in the Well, Dmetri Kakmi (IFWG) amazon / bookshop
• The Obituary, Martin Livings (self-published) amazon
• This Stays Between Us, Margaret McGovern (Penguin) amazon
• The Crimson Road, A.G. Slatter (Titan) amazon / bookshop

Paul Haines Award for Long Fiction

• WINNER: The Cold House, A.G. Slatter (Titan) amazon / bookshop

• “The Leper’s Garden”, Jeff Clulow (The Leper’s Garden: And Other Contagions)
• “The Hidden God”, T.R. Napper (Asimov’s 3-4/25)
• “The Meatamorphosis”, Aaron Sterns (Into the Cthulhu-Universe: Lovecraftian Horrors in Other Literary Realities)
• “Drowning in the Dark”, Matt Tighe (Drowning in the Dark and Other Stories)

Short Fiction

• WINNER: “If I am to Earn my Tether”, Geneve Flynn (Silk & Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror from the Asian Diaspora)

• “Wrong”, Emma Gertz (Never Say Die)
• “Whispers”, Martin Livings (Samhain Screams)
• “It Will Only Hurt If I Want It To”, Kirstyn McDermott (Midnight Echo 10/25)
• “The Shelter”, Carol Ryles (Midnight Echo 10/25)
• “Bitter Skin”, Kaaron Warren (Night and Day)

Collected Work

• WINNER: The Leper’s Garden: And Other Contagions, Jeff Clulow (Third Eye) amazon / bookshop

• This Dark Architect and Other Grim Tales, Pamela Jeffs (Four Ink) amazon / bookshop
• Shadows of Razorhurst, Craig Stanton (Oceaniacom) amazon / bookshop
• The Connections We Keep, Pauline Yates (self-published) amazon

Rocky Wood Award for Non-Fiction and Criticism

• WINNER: “The Horror of Australia’s Literary Censorship”, Louise Zedda-Sampson (Midnight Echo 10/25)

• “Folklore Beginnings for Horror Writers”, Monica Carroll (Midnight Echo 10/25)
• “Frankenstein in Pop-Culture – Atomic Adaptations”, Claire Fitzpatrick (Aurealis 10/25)
• “August Derleth and the Rise of the Cthulhu Mythos”, Stephen Herczeg (The Pontine Dossier: Millenium Edition Winter ’25)
• “Fox Girl: A Speculative Journey”, Lee Murray (Speculative Insight 6/25)

Poetry

• WINNER: “Anatomy of a Haunting”, Katya de Becerra (Midnight Echo 10/25)

• “Speak”, L.E. Daniels (This Way Lies Madness)
• “A Pocket of Soil”, Geneve Flynn (Silk & Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror from the Asian Diaspora)
• “Charcoal Skies”, Lee Murray (Silk & Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror from the Asian Diaspora)

Edited Work

• WINNER: This Way Lies Madness, Dave Jeffery & Lee Murray, eds. (Flame Tree) amazon / bookshop

No award in the Graphic Novels/Comics category was presented. No shortlist was presented in the Edited Work category.

For more information, see the AHWA website.