headquarters location mount waverley victoria fiction genres speculative fiction official website aurealis.com.au chimaera publications is a publisher based in mount waverley victoria australia . the company currently publishes the speculative fiction magazine aurealis as well as running the aurealis awards . contents 1 history 2 aurealis magazine 3 aurealis awards 4 references 5 external links history edit chimaera publications begun publishing the aurealis magazine in 1990 . 1 in 1995 chimaera established the aurealis awards which is held yearly to reward the achievement in australian speculative fiction . 2 chimaera also publishes books and in 2004 they published the multi award winning novel the black crusade by richard harland . the black crusade won the 2004 aurealis award for best horror novel and was named the 2004 golden aurealis novel . it was a short list nominee for the 2005 ditmar award for best novel . the artwork featured on the cover of the black crusade also won the 2005 ditmar award for best artwork for kerri valkova . 3 aurealis magazine edit main article aurealis aurealis was first released in april 1990 and was edited by dirk strasser and stephen higgins . it is currently edited by stuart mayne . 1 in 1993 it was a short list nominee for the ditmar award for best periodical losing to the eidolon magazine . 4 in 1999 it was a short list nominee for the ditmar award for best australian magazine or anthology losing to jack dann and janeen webb s dreaming down under . 5 the artwork also received nominations at the ditmar awards trudi canavan was a finalist for best professional artwork for the cover aurealis 17 as well as her work on eidolon 22 23 but lost to elizabeth kyle s cover of dream weavers and adam duncan was a short list nominee for best artwork in 2009 but lost to shaun tan s tales from outer suburbia . 6 7 the magazine has featured short stories which have been short listed and won literary awards . these stories have won five aurealis awards and a ditmar award and have been short list nominees at these awards on 21 other occasions . 8 aurealis awards edit main article aurealis award the aurealis awards have been running since 1995 and were developed to award work in speculative fiction . they were administered by fantastic queensland from 2004 to 2010 in partnership with chimaera . the aurealis awards were created to differ from the ditmar award and the australian children s book council awards which don t distinguish between different genres of speculative fiction . the aurealis awards give separate awards for fantasy horror and science fiction works across different age ranges . 2 references edit a b aurealis back issues . chimaera publications . retrieved 2010 02 23 . a b about us . aurealis awards . retrieved 2010 02 23 . index of publishers . locus online . retrieved 2010 02 23 . the locus index to sf awards 1993 ditmar awards . locus online . retrieved 2010 02 23 . the locus index to sf awards 1999 ditmar awards . locus online . retrieved 2010 02 23 . the locus index to sf awards 1997 ditmar awards . locus online . retrieved 2010 02 23 . the locus index to sf awards 2009 ditmar awards . locus online . retrieved 2010 02 23 . index of magazines . locus online . retrieved 2010 02 23 . external links edit official site for the aurealis aurealis awards retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title chimaera publications & oldid 346051716 categories book publishing companies of australiacompanies based in melbournescience fiction publishers navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 24 february 2010 at 07 51 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view