fred_mouse

Tonight, I went along to the combined Tin Duck* and Ditmar** Awards Ceremony. And there were lots of worthy winners, and it would be great if I could remember exactly who they all are. But there is a really exciting thing that I haven't seen happen before.

At least three of the winners are Indigenous.

From memory:

• Ryan Griffen, along with Wolf Bylsma and Emily Smith, won the Tin Duck for Best Production for the first issue of the Cleverman comic. (This might be the first time that a Tin Duck has been awarded to two guests of the convention -- Ryan and Emily)


• Claire Coleman won the Tin Duck for Long (Professional?) Written Work for Terra Nullius***


• Ambelin Kwaymullina won the William Atheling Jr award for criticism for "Reflecting on Indigenous Worlds, Indigenous Futurisms and Artificial Intelligence"

* Western Australian Science Fiction Achievement Awards. There were four? categories this year -- professional long work, professional short work, production in any medium, something something fan production?
** Australian Science Fiction Achievement Awards. There are also some other awards that go with the Ditmars that have specific names, but I'm grouping them together because they happen together.
*** 1. This is the book I bought today, before I knew it was award winning.