Jordan Prosser's 'Big Time' shortlisted for a 2024 Aurealis Awards

Now in its 30th year, the 2024 Aurealis Awards, Australia’s premier speculative fiction award, attracted more than 830 entries across 15 categories, including 34 nominations in the tri-annual Sara Douglass Book Series Award (totalling over 120 books), and record numbers in the Children’s Fiction category.

Aurealis Awards judging coordinator Tehani Croft said,

We are extremely grateful to our 50-plus judges for the enormous task they take on. While some panels do have relatively small numbers of entries, others regularly read 50 or more book-length works or over 100 short stories each year. We also sometimes see unusually large entry numbers in categories like Children’s Fiction and Graphic Novel, which was the case this year, and it’s always wonderful to see growth in traditionally smaller fields.

Congratulations to this year’s finalists including UQP's own, Jordan Prosser whose novel, Big Time was nominated for the best science fiction novel of 2024.

The winners will be celebrated at the 2024 Aurealis Awards ceremony, which will take place online at 4pm AEST on Sunday 4 May, 2025.