GOLDEN AUREALIS NOVEL

• Alyzon Whitestarr, Isobelle Carmody (Penguin)

GOLDEN AUREALIS SHORT STORY

• "Nicholas Sayre and the Creature in the Case", Garth Nix (Across the Wall)

SF NOVEL

• Eclipse, K. A. Bedford (Edge Publishing)
• Crash Deluxe, Marianne de Pierres (Orbit)
• Designated Targets, John Birmingham (Macmillan)
• Geodesica: Ascent, Sean Williams & Shane Dix (HarperCollins)

SF SHORT STORY

• "Slow and Ache", Trent Jamieson (Aurealis)
• "The Interminable Suffering of Mysterious Mr. Wu", Rjurik Davidson (Aurealis #33/34/35 2005)
• "The Memory of Breathing", Lyn Triffitt (Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #17)
• "Skein Dogs", Leanne Frahm (Fables & Reflections)
• "Terning tha Weel", Kim Westwood (Aurealis)

FANTASY NOVEL

• Blade of Fortriu, Juliet Marillier (Pan Macmillan Australia)
• Darkwitch Rising, Sara Douglass (HarperCollins)
• The Innocent Mage, Karen Miller (HarperCollins)
• Nightpeople, Anthony Eaton (UQP)
• Surrender, Sonya Hartnett (Penguin)

FANTASY SHORT STORY (tie)

• "The Greater Death of Saito Saku", Richard Harland (Daikaiju! Giant Monster Tales)
• "Once Giants Roamed the Earth", Rosaleen Love (The Traveling Tide; Daikaiju! Giant Monster Tales)
• "Heart of Saturday Night", Adam Browne (Lenox Avenue)
• "Ones and Zeros", Terry Dartnall (Neverary)
• "The Red Priest's Homecoming", Dirk Flinthart (Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #17)

HORROR STORY

• "Paterfamilias", Lee Battersby (Shadowed Realms)
• "Doof, Doof, Doof", Paul Haines (Dark Animus)
• "Eight-Beat Bar", Chuck McKenzie (Aurealis #33/34/35 2005)
• "Macciato Lane", Cat Sparks (Ticonderoga Online)
• "The Ride", James Cain (Dark Krypt)

YOUNG ADULT NOVEL

• Alyzon Whitestarr, Isobelle Carmody (Penguin)
• Magic or Madness, Justine Larbalestier (Penguin)
• Nightpeople, Anthony Eaton (UQP)
• Peeps, Scott Westerfeld (Penguin)
• Uglies, Scott Westerfeld (Simon & Schuster)

YOUNG ADULT SHORT STORY

• "Nicholas Sayre and the Creature in the Case", Garth Nix (Across the Wall)
• "The Red Priest's Homecoming", Dirk Flinthart (Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #17)

CHILDREN'S LONG FICTION

• The Keys to the Kingdom, Book 3: Drowned Wednesday, Garth Nix (Allen & Unwin)
• Little Fur: The Legend Of Little Fur, Isobelle Carmody (Penguin)
• Sassycat: The Night of the Dead, Richard Harland (Omnibus Books)
• Worm Story, Morris Gleitzman (Penguin)

CHILDREN'S SHORT FICTION

• Piccolo & Annabel 2: The Disastrous Party, Stephen Axelsen (Random House)
• The Mystery of Eilean Mor, Gary Crew & Jeremy Geddes (Lothian)
• Piccolo & Annabel 3:The Stinky Cheese Gypsies, Stephen Axelsen (Random House)
• "The Space Gypsies", Goldie Alexander (The School Magazine #7)

PETER MCNAMARA CONVENORS' AWARD

• Grant Stone