NOVEL

• The Crooked Letter, Sean Williams (HarperCollins Voyager Australia)
• The Black Crusade, Richard Harland (Chimaera Publications)
• Less than Human, Maxine McArthur (Warner Aspect)

NOVELLA OR NOVELETTE

• "The Last Days of Kali Yuga", Paul Haines (NFG Aug 2004)
• "Catabolic Magic", Richard Harland (Aurealis #32 2004)
• "Home by the Sea", Cat Sparks (Orb #6)
• "Water Babies", Simon Brown (Agog! Smashing Stories)
• "The Whole of the Law", Stephen Dedman (Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #13)

SHORT STORY

• "Singing My Sister Down", Margo Lanagan (Black Juice)
• "The Interminable Suffering of Mysterious Mr. Wu", Rjurik Davidson (Aurealis #33/34/35 2005)
• "Number 3 Raw Place", Deborah Biancotti (Agog! Smashing Stories)
• "R", Ben Peek (Agog! Smashing Stories)

COLLECTED WORK

• Black Juice, Margo Lanagan
• Agog! Smashing Stories, Cat Sparks, ed.
• Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Lyn Triffitt, Edwina Harvey, Andrew Finch & Zarah Baxter, et al
• Encounters, Donna Hanson & Maxine McArthur, eds.
• Orb #6, Sarah Endacott, ed.

FAN WEBSITE/ZINE

• The Australian SF Bullsheet, Edwina Harvey & Edwin Scribner
• Antipodean SF, Ion Newcombe, ed.
• Gynaezine, Emma Hawkes & Gina Goddard

FAN WRITER

• Bruce Gillespie
• Edwina Harvey

FAN ARTIST

• Sarah Xu

ARTWORK

• Kerri Valkova, Cover of The Black Crusade (by Richard Harland; Chimaera Publications)
• Les Petersen, Cover of Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #16 (cover and internals)
• Les Petersen, Cover of Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #12
• Agog! Smashing Stories, Cat Sparks
• Encounters, Les Petersen

NEW TALENT

• Paul Haines
• Chris Barnes
• Stuart Barrow
• Grace Dugan
• Barbara Robson
• Brian Smith

FAN ACHIEVEMENT

• Conflux convention committee
• Continuum 2 convention committee
• Super Happy Robot Hour

WILLIAM ATHELING JR. AWARD FOR CRITICISM OR REVIEW (tie)

• Robert Hood (review of Weight of Water at Hood Reviews, asking "is this film a ghost story?")
• Jason Nahrung ("Why are publishers afraid of horror", BAM, Courier Mail, 20 March 2004)
• Ben Peek (review of Haruki Murakami's work in the Urban Sprawl Project)

PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT

• Clarion South Team (for negotiating with the US Clarion people, then promoting and establishing Clarion South which gives emerging writer the chance to work with the best in the business)
• Cat Sparks (for editing and writing including winning third place in the writers of the future award)
• Jonathan Strahan (for work over the year in internationally published reviews and in editing anthologies)
• Margo Lanagan (for Black Juice)
• Sean Williams (for The Crooked Letter and efforts in teaching)
• Tales of the Crypto-System, Geoffrey Maloney (his short story publications)