The Aeon Award is a contest for short fiction in any speculative genre, including fantasy

Fantasy

Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic is common...

, science fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

, and horror

Horror fiction

Horror fiction also Horror fantasy is a philosophy of literature, which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten its readers, inducing feelings of horror and terror. It creates an eerie atmosphere. Horror can be either supernatural or non-supernatural...

. The Award is sponsored by Aeon Press has a grand prize of €1000 and publication in Albedo One

Albedo one

Albedo One is an Irish horror, fantasy and science fiction magazine founded in 1993 and currently published by Albedo One Productions.-Overview:...

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2005-2006 Awards

The winner was Julian West, who was presented the award by Ian Watson

Ian Watson (author)

Ian Watson is a British science fiction author. He currently lives in Northamptonshire, England.His first novel, The Embedding, winner of the Prix Apollo in 1975, is unusual for being based on ideas from generative grammar; the title refers to the process of center embedding...

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The top six shortlisted stories for the inaugural Aeon Award were:

• Queen of Engines by Dev Agarwal
• Letting Out The Angels by Andrew McKenna
• I Hold My Father's Paws by David D. Levine
  David D. Levine
  David D. Levine is an American science fiction writer who won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 2006....
  
  
• Like Snow by Brian Richmond
• Expiating Ancestral Sins by Tais Teng
  Tais Teng
  Tais Teng is a pseudonymous Dutch fantasy fiction and science fiction writer, illustrator and sculptor.His real name is Thijs van Ebbenhorst Tengbergen and he was born in 1952 in The Hague....
  
  
• My Marriage by Julian West
  Julian West
  Julian West may refer to:*Julian West , election candidate in the 2008 Canadian election for the New Democratic Party in the riding of Saanich-Gulf Islands*Julian West, stage name for Nicolas de Gunzburg in the 1932 film Vampyr...
  
  

Long-Listed Stories:

• Sooterkin by Corina Bechko
• Dirk Snigby's Guide to the Afterlife by Elizabeth Eve
• Black Hole Baby by Peter Loftus
• Juju by Lee Moan

David D. Levine

David D. Levine

David D. Levine is an American science fiction writer who won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 2006....

's story I Hold My Father's Paws was included in Gardner Dozois

Gardner Dozois

Gardner Raymond Dozois is an American science fiction author and editor. He was editor of Asimov's Science Fiction magazine from 1984 to 2004...

's anthology The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection is a science fiction anthology edited by Gardner Dozois that was published in 2007...

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2006-2007 Awards

The winner was Nina Allan, second place went to Larry Taylor and third was Devon Code-McNeil.
The top six shortlisted stories were:

• Isle of Beauty by Larry Taylor
• Angelus by Nina Allan
• Partial Recall by Sean Day
• The Dreamy Sloth by Jennifer Glyn
• The White Knight by Devon Code-McNeil
• A Giant in the House by Daniel Pearlman

Long-Listed Stories:

• Dress Rehearsal by Michael Furlong
• Ezekiel, Prophet to Bones by Eric M Witchey
• The Waters and the West by Jennifer Harwood-Smith
• Forbidden Fruit by Marie-Catherine Mousseau
• One In One Out by Jennifer Glyn
• High Rise by Joanna Owen
• Holes by Eric S Smith
• Saviours by Jennifer Harwood-Smith
• The Torturess by Philip Lentz
• Rourke by Andrew McKenna
• To the End of the Earth by Geoff Nuttal
• Faithless by Jaine Fenn
  Jaine Fenn
  Jaine Fenn is a British science fiction author.Fenn studied Linguistics and Astronomy at the University of Hertfordshire, where she became the president of PSiFA from 1984-1985...
  
  
• Lux Lucas by Rosie Reynolds
• Beware of Falling Rocks by Christine Stanton
• The Patron by Michael Simon
• Stowaway by David Sakmyster
• Shadows of Inspiration by Eric S Smith
• The Sleepers by Alastair Duncan
• Black Water by David Conyers
  David Conyers
  David Conyers writes predominantly science fiction and Lovecraftian horror.Most of his childhood was spent in the Adelaide Hills, before moving to Melbourne. There he achieved a bachelor's degree in civil engineering at the University of Melbourne in 1993...
  
  

2008 Awards

The winner was Colin Henchley, second place went to D.T. Neal and third was Allison Francisco.
The top seven shortlisted stories were:

• Twinkle Twinkle by Colin Henchley
• Aegis by D.T. Neal
• The Better to See You With by Allison Francisco
• Extracts from a Three Volume Novel by Ian Wild
• Inventions by Alex Carnevale
• Sundays Off by Gerard Farrell
• The Hot Chocolate Rocket by Martin Belderson

Long-Listed Stories:

• The Trapped Tailcoat by Ian Wild
• Doors by Julian West
• Shadow Plains by Kelvin M. Knight
• Lessons in Love by Kelvin M. Knight
• Breaking the Mould by Steven J. Hopley
• Escher by Helgard de Barros
• The Walnut Tree by Malcolm Bray
• Stay Special by Susan Lanigan
• Hot Chocolate by Susan Lanigan
• Regret Me Not by Jennifer Harwood Smith
• 55286 by Jennifer Harwood Smith
• Come the Spring by Ahmed Jamel
• Swan Wing by Joanne Mills
• YoYo by Romily McNulty
• Hood" by Alice Goodwin
• You, Me and Them by Alexis Boddy
• A Bump in the Night by Nakia Johnson
• The Horror of Life by Clive Maxwell-Yates
• Dreamscape by Matt Bone
• Windproject NX104 by Anne Lente
• Convicts by Robert Boumis
• The Firebird by Roshni Beeharry
• Lies by Kelly Harmon
• The Den Ghost by Eleanor Thom
  Eleanor Thom
  Eleanor Thom was born in London in 1979. She is a British writer who won a major UK creative writing competition, New Writing Ventures 2006, with "Burns", a chapter from her first novel "The Tin-Kin" . The book recalls experiences of her mother's family who were Scottish Travellers and settled in...
  
  
• Went Wrong by Jeff Nottingham
• Doorways by Catherine Edmunds
• The Fatal Book by Loren Rhoads
• The Flower Builder by Bernadette Owens
• The Paper Garden by T.E. Peploe
• Thirstlands by Nick Wood
• Facing Demons by Nigel Plane
• iDementia by Helmut Obermeir
• The Cursed by Lisa Clarkson

2009 Awards

The winner was "Frogs on My Doorstep" by Annette Reader. Grand Judge Ian Watson described the story as “very intriguing and full of emotional impact.” Reader received the €1000 Grand Prize and publication in Albedo One.

In second place was "Bridges" by Nick Wood. Watson said the story was “politically acute and powerful… and is in many ways a 'textbook story', because it's so well done.” Wood received €200 and publication in Albedo One.

Third place went to "Canis Lupus, Rosa Canina" by Judith Brown. Watson said "the story is nasty, but brilliantly written, with masterly descriptions of landscape and powerful imagery." Third prize was €100 and publication in Albedo One.

Short-Listed Stories:

• A Falcon Sharp and Passing - Donald Mead
• Something Other - David Heaton
• Fenn, Brother of Francis - Susan McElheran
• He Who Picks the Bones - Frank W. Haubold (translated by Jason Roberts)
• Trimble Does Time - Gerard Farrell
• In the Boughs of his Blood Orange Tree a Vampire Sat to Dream of Love - Ian Wild
• Stars in the Skies - Jennifer Harwood-Smith
• Don't Go Playing with Naiads - Alice Godwin
• The Girl in the Blue Bikini - Peter Loftus
• Once, When the Sun Rose in the West - Susan Lanigan
• Deconstruction - Alexis Boddy
• Reflected Glory - Peter Loftus
• Conversion - Jennifer Harwood-Smith
• All the Beautiful Lights of Heaven - Russ Colson
• Star in a Glass - Vaughan Stanger
• Wailing Wheel - Joe Nazare
• Angele Dei - Chandler Kaiden
• Lost Things - Jennifer Harwood-Smith
• On the Feast of Stephen - Cyril Simsa
• The Art of the Intractable - Nathan Jones
• Gordon Street - Katharine Clayden
• Pirate Copies - Ian D. Martin

2011 Awards

Short-Listed Stories:

• Dying Moon -
• Leftovers -
• Doctor Suess is Dead -
• Stained -
• Funeral March -
• The Graydon Chronicles: Johannes Burman (1858-1888) -
• A Well-Known Figure from the Area -
• The Stray -
• Darke Wing -
• The Creeper -
• Young Woman with a Horn
• Where the Sun Shines Brightly
• Tokyo Haze
• Do I Owe You Something?
• No Foundation
• Case Notes of a Witch Doctor
• Smokedogs