The 12th Annual Aurealis Awards were once again held in Brisbane last Saturday, 26th of January, 2008.
The awards are  nominated to Australian speculative fiction authors who had work published during 2007.
"Speculative fiction" covers the fiction genres of horror, science fiction and fantasy. 
Jason's and my co-written novel "The Darkness Within" received an "Honourable Mention" under the horror novel category.

The weekend was a great chance to catch up and host some of our friends and fellow spec-fic authors from interstate - Sean Williams, Cat Sparks and Robert Hood.  It seems to have become a yearly tradition for the five of us to catch up over the Aurealis weekend and share some jokes between drinks.

The awards themselves were once again great fun.  The Fantastic Queensland and Aurealis Team seem to keep outdoing themselves each year.  The visual presentation gets bigger and better, as does the standard of brilliant spec-fic works from our Australian authors.
Big thanks go to Fantastic Queensland, Queensland Writer's Centre, Orbit Publishers and Pulp Fiction Booksellers for presenting us with such a wonderful night.

Big congratulations go to all the winners of Aurealis Awards.
A full list of the winners can be found here:
http://www.aurealisawards.com/Winners.htm

Special congratulations to our friend Cat Sparks who won both the 'Science Fiction Short Story Aurealis Award' and the 'Short Story Golden Aurealis Award' for her story "Hollywood Roadkill".

I would also like to thank Sean Williams and Kim Wilkins for being fun MCs for the evening and for doing a super job.

Photos below:

Sean Williams and Kim Wilkins - Mil Clayton and Jason Nahrung -
Mil Clayton - Cat Sparks

More photos from the Awards can be found here:

Mil Clayton's Aurealis Photos
Mil's Pix

Cat Spark's Aurealis Photos
Cat's Pix

Other links of interest:

Aurealis Awards
http://www.aurealisawards.com/

Orbit Books
http://www.myspace.com/orbitbooks 

Fanastic Queensland
http://www.fantasticqueensland.com/