Swancon 2016

The 2016 Tin Duck Awards, the annual Western Australian Science Fiction Foundation (WASFF) Achievement Awards for WA writers and artists, were presented at the Awards Ceremony for SWANCON 2016, held at the Pan Pacific Hotel on Sunday the 27th of March 2016.

The short list is below, with winners in bold.

Best WA Fan Work:

• Coode Street Podcast by Jonathan Strahan and Gary Wolf
  
• Video (Duel) by Cupidsbow
  
• Convention ‘FurWag 2015’
  
• Galactic Suburbia Podcast by Alisa Krasnostein, Alexandra Pierce and Tansy Rayner Roberts
  
• Short story ‘Spaghetti’ by Prema Aras
  
• Convention ‘Swancon 40’
  
• ‘This!’, the Australian Science Fiction Distributed Archive blog, by Anna Hepworth, Chris Creagh, Doug Burbidge and Elaine Walker

Best WA Professional Art Work:

• Ayi-Ig (interior illustration from She Walks in Shadows anthology), by Pia Ravenari
  
• ‘The Colour of Fun’ art book by Voracious Fescue
  
• Cover for Letters to Tiptree by Amanda Rainey
  
• Cover for Cherry Crow Children by Amanda Rainey

Best WA Professional Production:

• Cherry Crow Children by Deborah Kalin, edited by Alisa Krasnostein(Twelfth Planet Press)
  
• Hear Me Roar edited by Liz Grzyb (Ticonderoga Publications)
  
• Letters to Tiptree, edited by Alexandra Pierce and Alisa Krasnostein (Twelfth Planet Press)
  
• The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2014 edited by Liz Grzyb and Talie Helene(Ticonderoga Publications)
  
• The Year’s Best Young Adult Speculative Fiction 2013 edited by Alisa Krasnostein and Julia Rios (Twelfth Planet Press)
  
• COGZ by Wez from RAEZ

Best WA Professional Short Written Work:

• ‘A Red Mist’ by Martin Livings, in Bloodlines (Ticonderoga Publications)
  
• ‘Azimuth’ by Pete Kempshall, in Bloodlines (Ticonderoga Publications)
  
• ‘Lady Killer’ by Anthony Panegyres, in Bloodlines (Ticonderoga Publications)
  
• ‘The Flowers That Bloom Where Blood Touches Earth’ by Stephanie Gunn, in Bloodlines (Ticonderoga Publications)

Best WA Professional Long Written Work:

• Aurora: Centralis (Aurora 4) by Amanda Bridgeman (Momentum)
  
• Aurora: Eden (Aurora 5) by Amanda Bridgeman (Momentum)
  
• Black Light by K.A. Bedford (Fremantle Press)
  
• The Dagger’s Path by Glenda Larke (Orbit)
  
• Tower of Thorns by Juliet Marillier (Pan Macmillan Australia)

In addition to the Tin Duck awards, WASFF also presented:

Pin for 20 years of Swancon attendance:

• Liz Grzyb
  
• Sarah Parker

Pin for 33 years of Swancon attendance:

• Peter Lyons
  
• Ann Griffiths

Chair’s Award for making a significant contribution to WASFF or Swancon:

• Brendan Ragan

Silver Swan Award for making an overwhelming contribution to WA Science Fiction Community:

• Gynaecon including but not limited to Sally Beasley, Gina Goddard, Emma Hawkes, Sarah Xu, Sarah Parker, Ju Landéesse, Jack Bridges, Fe Waters, Sandra Norman, Cathy Cupitt, Karen McKenna, Jenny Owens, and Anna Hepworth

Congratulations to all Tin Duck Finalists, Winners, and Award Recipients.