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Aurealis Award for Best Collection

Field	Value
name	Aurealis Award for best collection
caption	The Aurealis Award design is often placed on the winning book's cover as a promotional tool.
awarded_for	Excellence in speculative fiction collections
presenter	Chimaera Publications,
Continuum Foundation
country	Australia
year	2008
holder	Alan Baxter
website	Official site

Continuum Foundation

The Aurealis Awards are presented annually by the Australia-based Chimaera Publications and WASFF to published works in order to "recognise the achievements of Australian science fiction, fantasy, horror writers". To qualify, a work must have been first published by an Australian citizen or permanent resident between 1 January and 31 December of the corresponding year; the presentation ceremony is held the following year. It has grown from a small function of around 20 people to a two-day event attended by over 200 people.

Since their creation in 1995, awards have been given in various categories of speculative fiction. Categories currently include science fiction, fantasy, horror, speculative young adult fiction—with separate awards for novels and short fiction—collections, anthologies, illustrative works or graphic novels, children's books, and an award for excellence in speculative fiction. The awards have attracted the attention of publishers by setting down a benchmark in science fiction and fantasy. The continued sponsorship by publishers such as HarperCollins and Orbit has identified the award as an honour to be taken seriously.

The results are decided by a panel of judges from a list of submitted nominees; the long-list of nominees is reduced to a short-list of finalists. The judges are selected from a public application process by the Award's management team.

The award for best collection was first awarded in 2008 along with two other categories; best anthology and best illustrated book or graphic novel to replace the discontinued Golden Aurealis awards.

This article lists all the short-list nominees and winners in the best collection category. As of the 2021 awards, and August 2022, Angela Slatter holds the record for most wins, having won four times. Slatter also holds the record for most nominations, having been nominated ten times.

Winners and nominees

In the following table, the years correspond to the year of the book's eligibility; the ceremonies are always held the following year. Each year links to the corresponding "year in literature" article. Entries with a blue background have won the award; those with a white background are the nominees on the short-list.

Winners and joint winners

Nominees on the shortlist

Year	Author & Editor	Collection	Publisher	Ref	2022
& Russell B. Farr (editor)	Magic Dirt: The Best of Sean Williams	Ticonderoga Publications	url=http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Aurealis2009.html	title=The Locus Index to SF Awards: 2009 Aurealis Awards	publisher=Locus Online	access-date=2010-04-05	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100103043752/http://locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Aurealis2009.html	archive-date=3 January 2010	url-status=live }}
	Creeping in Reptile Flesh	Altair Australia Books
*	Oceanic	Gollancz	url=http://aurealisawards.com/downloads/Antho.pdf	title=Aurealis Awards 2009 Anthology/Collection Judges' Report	publisher=Aurealis Awards	access-date=2010-04-05	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707185431/http://aurealisawards.com/downloads/Antho.pdf	archive-date=7 July 2011	url-status=dead }}
& Alisa Krasnostein (editor)	**	Twelfth Planet Press
& Geoffrey Maloney (editor)	Slice of Life
& Donna Hanson (editor)	Johnny Phillips Werewolf Detective	Australian Speculative Fiction
*	**	Ticonderoga Publications	url=http://www.aurealisawards.com/winners2010.pdf	title=2010 Aurealis Award winners	publisher=SpecFaction NSW	date=21 May 2011	access-date=2011-05-30	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110821155648/http://www.aurealisawards.com/winners2010.pdf	archive-date=21 August 2011	url-status=dead }}
	**	PS Publishing	url=http://www.aurealisawards.com/finalists2010.pdf	title=Aurealis Awards Finalists 2010	publisher=SpecFaction NSW	access-date=2011-03-24	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110521042923/http://www.aurealisawards.com/finalists2010.pdf	archive-date=21 May 2011	url-status=dead }}
	Under Stones	Affirm Press
	Sourdough and Other Stories	Tartarus Press
	Dead Sea Fruit	Ticonderoga Publications
*	Bluegrass Symphony	Ticonderoga Publications	url=http://www.aurealisawards.com/media-release_winners2011.pdf	title=2011 Aurealis Award winners	publisher=SpecFaction NSW	access-date=2012-05-19	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130903075928/http://www.aurealisawards.com/media-release_winners2011.pdf	archive-date=3 September 2013	url-status=dead }}
	Bad Power	Twelfth Planet Press	url=http://www.aurealisawards.com/finalists2011.pdf	title=Aurealis Awards Finalists 2010	publisher=SpecFaction NSW	access-date=2012-04-28	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120503231940/http://www.aurealisawards.com/finalists2011.pdf	archive-date=3 May 2012	url-status=dead }}
	Last Days of Kali Yuga	Brimstone Press
	Nightsiders	Twelfth Planet Press
	Love and Romanpunk	Twelfth Planet Press
*	That Book Your Mad Ancestor Wrote	K. J. Bishop	url=http://www.aurealisawards.com/AA-winners_2012_media-release.pdf	title=2012 Aurealis Award winners	publisher=SpecFaction NSW	access-date=2013-05-19	url-status=dead	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131030221659/http://www.aurealisawards.com/AA-winners_2012_media-release.pdf	archive-date=30 October 2013 }}
	Metro Winds	Allen & Unwin	url=http://www.aurealisawards.com/media-release_finalists-March-2013.pdf	title=2012 Aurealis Awards finalists announced	publisher=SpecFaction NSW	access-date=2013-04-06	url-status=dead	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150218061332/http://www.aurealisawards.com/media-release_finalists-March-2013.pdf	archive-date=18 February 2015 }}
& Angela Slatter	Midnight and Moonshine	Ticonderoga Publications
	Living With the Dead	Dark Prints Press
	Through Splintered Walls	Twelfth Planet Press
*	**	FableCroft Publishing	url=http://www.aurealisawards.com/Media%20Release%20-%20Finalists%20Feb%202014.pdf	title=2013 Aurealis Awards finalists announced	publisher=Conflux	access-date=2014-03-15	url-status=dead	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140315100521/http://www.aurealisawards.com/Media%20Release%20-%20Finalists%20Feb%202014.pdf	archive-date=15 March 2014 }}
	Asymmetry	Twelfth Planet Press
	Caution: Contains Small Parts	Twelfth Planet Press
	**	Ticonderoga Publications
	**	Ticonderoga Publications
& Angela Slatter	**	Twelfth Planet Press	title = And the winners are...	url=http://aurealisawards.org/2015/04/12/and-the-winners-are/	publisher = Conflux	date = 2015-04-12}}
	Secret Lives	Twelfth Planet Press	title = 2014 Aurealis Awards finalists announced	url=http://aurealisawards.org/2015/02/27/announcement-2014-aurealis-awards-shortlist/	publisher = Conflux	access-date = 2015-03-08}}
	Angel Dust	Ticonderoga Publications
	Difficult Second Album: more stories of Xenobiology, Space Elevators, and Bats Out of Hell	Peggy Bright Books
		Tartarus Press
	Black-Winged Angels	Ticonderoga Publications
*	To Hold the Bridge	Allen & Unwin	title = The Winners of the 2015 Aurealis Awards	url=https://aurealisawards.org/2016/03/25/the-winners-of-the-2015-aurealis-awards/	publisher = WASFF	date = 2016-03-25	access-date = 2016-03-25}}
	**	Brimstone Press	title = ANNOUNCEMENT: 2015 Aurealis Awards Shortlists	url=http://aurealisawards.org/2016/02/17/announcement-2015-aurealis-awards-shortlist/	publisher = WASFF	access-date = 2016-03-14}}
	Striking Fire	FableCroft Publishing
	Cherry Crow Children	Twelfth Planet Press
	**	(self-published)
	**	Ticonderoga Publications
*		Prime	title = Announcing the Winners of the 2016 Aurealis Awards!	url=https://aurealisawards.org/2017/04/14/announcing-the-winners-of-the-2016-aurealis-awards/	publisher = WASFF	date = 2017-04-14	access-date = 2017-04-22}}
	Crow Shine	Ticonderoga Publications	title = 2016 Aurealis Awards shortlist announcement	url=https://aurealisawards.org/2017/02/20/2016-aurealis-awards-shortlist-announcement/	publisher = WASFF	date = 2017-02-20	access-date = 2017-02-22}}
	Concentration	PS Publishing
	Winter Children	PS Publishing
& Kim Wilkins	**	Ticonderoga Publications	title = aurealis awards WINNER	url=https://aurealisawards.org/2018/03/31/757/	publisher = WASFF	date = 2018-03-31	access-date = 2018-04-01}}
	**	Brain Jar Press	title = 2017 Aurealis Awards shortlist announcement!	url=https://aurealisawards.org/2018/02/15/2017-aurealis-awards-shortlist-announcement/	publisher = WASFF	date = 2018-02-15	access-date = 2018-03-12}}
	Beneath the Floating City	(self-published)
	Singing My Sister Down and Other Stories	Allen & Unwin
	Please Look After This Angel & Other Winged Stories	(self-published)
	Perfect Little Stitches and Other Stories	IFWG Publishing
*	Tales from The Inner City	Allen & Unwin	title = 2018 Aurealis Awards Winners	url=https://aurealisawards.org/2019/05/05/2018-aurealis-awards-winners/	publisher = Continuum Foundation	date = 2019-05-05	access-date = 2019-05-05}}
	Not Quite the End of the World	Brain Jar Press	title = 2018 Aurealis Awards shortlist announcement!	url=https://aurealisawards.org/2019/02/20/2018-aurealis-awards-shortlist-announcement/	publisher = Continuum Foundation	date = 2019-02-20	access-date = 2019-04-25}}
	Phantom Limbs	PS Publishing
	Exploring Dark Short Fiction 2: A Primer to Kaaron Warren	Dark Moon Books
*	Collision: Stories	Meerkat Press	url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2020/03/27/148459/aurealis-awards-2019-finalists-announced/	title=Aurealis Awards 2019 finalists announced	date=2020-03-27	website=Books+Publishing	language=en-AU	access-date=2020-03-29}}
	Blackbirds Sing	CAT Press
	Scar Tissue and Other Stories	Clan Destine Press
	Five Dragons	Four Ink Press
	Stray Bats	Small Beer Press
	Men and Machines I: Space Operas and Special Ops	Flying Nun Publications
*		PS Publishing	date=2021-07-09	title=Aurealis Awards 2020 winners announced	url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2021/07/09/189384/aurealis-awards-2020-winners-announced/	url-status=live	access-date=2021-07-09	website=Books+Publishing	language=en-AU	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709012007/https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2021/07/09/189384/aurealis-awards-2020-winners-announced/	archive-date=9 July 2021 }}
	Songs for Dark Seasons	Ticonderoga Publications	date=2021-04-06	title=Aurealis Awards 2020 finalists announced	url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2021/04/06/184772/aurealis-awards-2020-finalists-announced/	url-status=live	access-date=2021-04-07	website=Books+Publishing	language=en-AU	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210415102926/https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2021/04/06/184772/aurealis-awards-2020-finalists-announced/	archive-date=15 April 2021 }}
	Mother Thorn and Other Tales of Courage and Kindness	Serenity Press
	Castle Charming	(self-published)
	Unreal Alchemy	(self-published)
	Dark Harvest	NewCon Press
*		(self-published)	title=sfadb: Aurealis Awards 2022	url=http://www.sfadb.com/Aurealis_Awards_2022	access-date=2022-08-02	website=www.sfadb.com}}
	Danged Black Thing	Transit Lounge
	Little Labyrinths: Collection Microfictions	Brain Jar Press
		Tartarus Press
		Four Ink Press
Joanne Anderton	The Art of Broken Things	Trepidatio Publishing
Alan Baxter	The Fall: Tales From The Gulp 2	13th Dragon Books
Else Fitzgerald	Everything Feels Like the End of the World	Allen & Unwin
Chris Flynn	Here be Leviathans	University of Queensland Press
Kirstyn McDermott	Hard Places	Trepidatio Publishing
Tansy Rayner Roberts	Team Queen	self-published

Egan declined to accept the award for Oceanic.

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