Kaaron Warren
Australian writer
Kaaron Warren is an Australian author of horror, science fiction, and fantasy short stories and novels.
She is the author of the short story collections Through Splintered Walls , The Grinding House , and Dead Sea Fruit . Her short stories have won Australian Shadows Awards, Ditmar Awards and Aurealis Awards.[ 1] [ 2]
Her six novels are Slights , Walking the Tree , Mistification (published by Angry Robot Books), The Grief Hole , Tide of Stone , and The Underhistory .
Kaaron was Special Guest at the 2013 Australian National Science Fiction Convention .
Bibliography
In 2007
Novels
Contributed chapters
In: Sherlock Holmes: the Australian casebook: all new Holmes stories (Victoria Echo, a division of Bonnier Publishing Australia, November 2017) ISBN 9781760404673
In: Evil is a matter of perspective: an anthology of antagonists (Grimdark Magazine, April 2017) ISBN 9780648010562
Collections
Short fiction
"White Bed" (1993) in Shrieks
"The Blue Stream" (1994) in Aurealis No. 14 (ed. Stephen Higgins , Dirk Strasser )
"The Salamander" (1994) in Don't Cross the Water and Other Warnings
"Summer Coming" (1994) in Narcissus Magazine No. 10
"The Wrong Seat" (1994) in Calling Up the Devil and Associated Misdemeanours
"The First Interview" (1995) in UQ Social Alternatives Magazine , Volume 14, No. 3
"Loud Music" (1995) in Spies, Lies and Watching Eyes
"The Paper Room" (1995) in Going Down Swinging No. 15
"Skin Holes" (1995) in Strange Fruit (ed. Paul Collins )
"The Hanging People" (1996) in Bloodsongs No. 7 (ed. Steve Proposch)
"A Positive " (1998) in Bloodsongs No. 10
"The Glass Woman" (1998) in Aurealis No. 22 (ed. Stephen Higgins, Dirk Strasser)
"My Smile" (1999) in Nasty Snips (ed. Christopher C. Teague )
"The School Fair" (1999) in Ghosts and Ghoulies (ed. Paul Collins, Meredith Costain )
"The Left Behind" (2000) in Orb Speculative Fiction No. 1 (ed. Sarah Endacott )
"The Speaker of Heaven" (2001) in Orb Speculative Fiction No. 2 (ed. Sarah Endacott)
"Survival of the Last (2001) in Aurealis #27/28 (ed. Dirk Strasser, Stephen Higgins)
"State of Oblivion" (2003) in Elsewhere (ed. Michael Barry )
"Bone Dog" (2003) in Agog! Terrific Tales (ed. Cat Sparks )
"Guarding the Mound" (2004) in Encounters (ed. Maxine McArthur , Donna Maree Hanson )
"The Capture Diamonds" (2005), in Shadow Box
"Doll Money" (2005) in Fables and Reflections , No. 7
"Fresh Young Widow " (2005) in The Grinding House
"The Grinding House " (2005) in The Grinding House
"The Smell of Mice" (2005) in The Grinding House
"Smoke" (2005) in The Grinding House
"Smoko" (2005) in The Grinding House
"The Sameness of Birthdays" (2005) in The Grinding House
"Tiger Kill" (2005) in The Grinding House
"Working for the God of the Love of Money " (2005) in The Grinding House
"Al's Iso Bar" (2005) in The Grinding House
"The Gibbet Bell" (2006) in Borderlands No. 7
"The Softening" (2006) in Shadowed Realms No. 9
"Woman Train" (2006) in The Outcast (ed. Nicole R. Murphy)
"Dead Sea Fruit" (2006) in Fantasy magazine (ed. Sean Wallace)
" Ghost Jail" (2007) in 2012 (ed. Alisa Krasnostein and Ben Payne)
"Cooling the Crows" (2007) in In Bad Dreams, Volume One: Where Real Life Awaits (ed. Mark S. Deniz, Sharyn Lilley)
"Coalescence" (2007) in Aurealis #37 (ed. Stephen Higgins, Stuart Mayne)
"His Lipstick Minx" (2007) in The Workers' Paradise
"Polish" (2007) in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine No. 28 (ed. Zara Baxter )
"The Census-Taker's Tale" (2008) in Canterbury 2100 (ed. Dirk Flinthart)
"Buster and Corky" (2008) in Scary Food (ed. Cat Sparks)
"Down to the Silver Spirits" (2008) in Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy (ed. Ekaterina Sedia )
"The Edge of a Thing" (2009) in The Edge of a Thing
"Tontine Mary" (2009) in New Ceres Nights (ed. Alisa Krasnostein)
"The Gaze Dogs of Nine Waterfall" (2009) in Exotic Gothic 3 (ed. Danel Olson)
"The Tell" (2009) in Poe (ed. Ellen Datlow)
"That Girl" (2010) in Haunted Legends (ed. Ellen Datlow, Nick Mamatas )
"Hive of Glass" (2010) in Baggage (ed. Gillian Polack)
"The New Rat in Town " (2010) in Worlds Next Door (ed. Tehani Wessely)
"Purity " (2010) in Scenes from the Second Storey (ed. Mark Deniz)
"Loss" (2010) in Sprawl (ed. Alisa Krasnostein)
"Sins of the Ancestors" (2010) in Dead Sea Fruit (ed. Alisa Krasnostein)
"The Coral Gatherer" (2010) in Dead Sea Fruit (ed. Russell Farr)
"The List of Definite Endings" (2011) in Teeth (ed. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling)
"The Five Loves of Ishtar" (2011) in Ishtar (ed. Amanda Pillar and K. V Taylor)
"All You Can Do Is Breathe" (2011) in Blood and Other Cravings (ed. Ellen Datlow)
"Lucky Fingers" (2011) in Steampunk Cookbook (ed. Sharyn Lilley)
"The Rude Little Girl" (2011) in Black Static Magazine Real Horror issue (ed. Christopher Fowler and Maura McHugh
"The History Thief" (2012) in Visions Fading Fast (ed. Gary McMahon)
"Blame the Neighbours" (2012) in Slices of Flesh (ed. Stan Swanson)
"The River of Memory" (2012) in Robots vs Zombies (ed. Jeff Conner)
"The Pickwick Syndrome" (2012) in Stories of the Smoke (ed. Jared Shurin and Anne C. Perry)
"The Unwanted Women of Surrey" (2012) in Queen Victoria's Book of Spells (ed. Ellen Datlow)
"Blood is Blood" (2013) in Twisted Histories (ed. Scott Harrison)
"Eleanor Atkins is Dead and Her House is Boarded Up" (2014) in SQ Mag Edition 14 (ed. Sophie Yorkston)
"Exurbia" (2021) in Out of the Ruins , edited by Preston Grassman, Titan Books ISBN 978-1789097399
Reprints in Year's Best Anthologies
"The River of Memory" (2012) in Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horror (Ticonderoga Publications, ed. Talie Helene)
"All You Can Do Is Breathe" (2012) in Year's Best Horror and Fantasy (Prime Books, ed. Paula Guran)
"All You Can Do Is Breathe" (2012) in Najlepsze horrory (Best Horror Stories) anthology (Poland) (ed. Bartlomiej Paszylk)
"That Girl" (2011) in Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horror anthology (Ticonderoga Publications, ed. Talie Helene)
"The Census-Taker's Tale" (2010) in Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy anthology (Mirrordanse Books, ed. Bill Congreve and Michelle Marquardt)
"Polish" (2010) in Best Horror anthology (ASIM, ed. Juliet Bathory and Mark Farrugia)
"The Gaze Dogs of Nine Waterfall" (2010) in Year's Best Horror 2 anthology (NightShade Books, ed. Ellen Datlow)
"Dead Sea Fruit" (2006) in Year's Best Horror and Fantasy 20 (Tor Books, ed. Ellen Datlow, Gavin Grant and Kelly Link)
"Dead Sea Fruit" (2006) in Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy (Mirrordanse Books, ed. Bill Congreve and Michelle Marquardt)
"Fresh Young Widow" (2006) in Year's Best Horror (Brimstone Press, ed. Angela Challis)
"Fresh Young Widow" (2006) in Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy (Mirrordanse Books, ed. Bill Congreve and Michelle Marquardt)
Awards
Wins
Year
Award name/type
Title
2017
Ditmar Award, Best Novel
The Grief Hole
2016
Australian Shadows Award, Novel
The Grief Hole
2016
Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction, Horror Division, Novel
The Grief Hole
2015
Australian Shadows Award, Short Fiction
2013
Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction Division, Best Short Story
Air, Water and the Grove: The Lowest Heaven, Focus 2013: Highlights of Australian Short Fiction, 2013
2013
Australian Shadows Award, Paul Haines Shadow Award for Long Fiction
The Unwanted Women of Surrey: Queen Victoria's Book of Spells: An Anthology of Gaslamp Fantasy, 2013
2013
Shirley Jackson Awards: Novella
Sky
2013
Ditmar Award, Best Novella
Sky
2013
ACT Writing and Publishing Awards, Non-fiction-Fiction
Through Splintered Walls
2012
Ditmar Award, Best Collected Work
Through Splintered Walls
2012
Canberra Critics Circle Fiction Award
Through Splintered Walls
2012
Australian Shadows Award, Best Collected Work
Through Splintered Walls
2012
Aurealis Award, Best Horror Story
Sky
2012
Australian Shadows Award, Best Novella
Sky
2011
ACT Writing and Publishing Awards, Fiction
Dead Sea Fruit
2010
Ditmar Award, Best Novel
Slights
2009
Australian Shadows Award, Best Novel
Slights
2009
Canberra Critics Circle Fiction Award
Slights
2006
ACT Writing and Publishing Award , fiction
The Grinding House
2006
Ditmar Award , Novella/novelette
The Grinding House
2006
Ditmar Award, Short story
Fresh Young Widow
1999
Aurealis Award , Horror short story
A Positive
Nominations
Year
Award name/type
Title
2021
Australian Shadows Award, Collected Works
Tool Tales
2021
Australian Shadows Award, Short Fiction
The Steering Wheel Club
2021
Australian Shadows Award, Non-fiction
Capturing Ghosts on the Page
2016
Australian Shadows Award, Short Fiction
All Roll Over
2016
Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction Division, Short Story
68 Days Tomorrow's Cthulhu: Stories at the Dawn of Posthumanity
2016
Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction, Horror Division, Short Story
68 Days Tomorrow's Cthulhu: Stories at the Dawn of Posthumanity
2015
Australian Shadows Award, Edited Publication
Midnight Echo: The Magazine of the Australian Horror Writers Association, no. 11 April 2015
2015
Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction Division, Short Story
Witnessing: The Canary Press Story Magazine, no. 6 December 2015
2015
World Fantasy Award, Best Short Fiction
Death's Door Cafe: Shadows and Tall Trees, Spring no. 6 Focus 2014: Highlights of Australian Short Fiction, Nightmare, no. 43, April 2014
2014
Ditmar Awards, Best Short Story
Air, Water and the Grove: The Lowest Heaven, Focus 2013: Highlights of Australian Short Fiction, 2013
2013
Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction, Horror Division, Best Short Story
The Human Moth: The Grimscribe's Puppets, 2013
2012
Shirley Jackson Award, Best Novella
Sky
2012
Australian Shadows Award, Best Short Story
Road
2012
Australian Shadows Award, Best Short Story
Mountain
2012
Australian Shadows Award, Best Short Story
Creek
2012
Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction Division, Best Short Story
Lighthouse Keeper’s Club
2012
Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction, Best Collection
Through Splintered Walls
2011
Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction, Anthology Division
Ishtar
2011
Bram Stoker Award (Final Ballot), Superior Achievement in Short Fiction
All You Can Do Is Breathe
2011
Ditmar Award, Best Horror Story
All You Can Do Is Breathe
2010
Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction, Best Collection
Dead Sea Fruit
2010
Ditmar Award, Best Short Story
Tontine Mary: New Ceres Nights, Dead Sea Fruit
2010
Ditmar Award, Best Novel
Walking the Tree
2010
Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing, Best First Novel
Slights
2009
Aurealis Award, Best Horror Short Story
The Gaze Dogs of Nine Waterfall
2009
Australian Shadows Award, Best Short Story
The Gaze Dogs of Nine Waterfall
2009
Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction, Best Horror Novel
Slights
2008
Ditmar Award, Short story
His Lipstick Minx
2006
Ditmar Award, Collected work
The Grinding House
2006
Australian Shadows Award
The Grinding House
2007
Aurealis Award, Horror short story
Woman Train
2007
Aurealis Award, Horror short story
Dead Sea Fruit
2004
Aurealis Award, Science Fiction short story
State of Oblivion
2002
Aurealis Award, Fantasy short story
The Speaker of Heaven
2001
Aurealis Award, Fantasy short story
The Left Behind
1999
Aurealis Award, Horror short story
The Glass Woman
1997
Aurealis Award, Horror short story
The Hanging People
1996
Aurealis Award, Horror short story
Skin Holes
1996
Aurealis Award, Fantasy short story
The Blue Stream
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