The Courier's New Bicycle by Kim Westwood

2012 Ditmar Award, Best Novel, The Courier's New Bicycle.

2011 Aurealis Award, Best Science Fiction Novel, The Courier's New Bicycle.

2011 Scarlet Stiletto Awards, Judges' Prize: Trouble in Nine Acts.

2002 Aurealis Award, Horror Short Story: The Oracle.

Varuna Writers' House Fellowship (2004)Īwards and nominations Award.

'By Any Other Name', Anywhere But Earth (2011).

'Last Drink Bird Head', Last Drink Bird Head (2009).

'Terning tha Weel', Aurealis #36 (2005) The Year’s Best Australian SF and Fantasy Vol.

'Cassandra's Hands', (author's revised version) Escape anthology (2011).

'Cassandra’s Hands', (2006) in Eidolon I (ed.

'Haberdashery', The Devil in Brisbane (2005).

'Tripping Over the Light Fantastic', Orb Speculative Fiction #6 (2004) The Year’s Best Australian SF and Fantasy Vol.

'Stella’s Transformation', Encounters – an Anthology of Australian Speculative Fiction (2004) Year's Best Fantasy #5 (2005).'Temenos', Agog! Smashing Stories (2004).The Courier's New Bicycle (HarperCollins, 2011).The Daughters of Moab (HarperCollins, 2008).By example, The Daughters of Moab has been reviewed as 'a richly peopled canvas, of which perhaps the real star is the landscape, so intensely depicted as to be almost a presence'. Of this she says, 'My imagination has a chemical reaction to living in Australia, and responds strongly to its particular properties'. Darkly poetic, her stories are underscored by feminist and gender politics, and have a preoccupation with humanity's capacity for destruction and equal instinct for survival. Westwood developed her distinctive visual sensibility while working as a theatre performer and deviser. It has been reviewed as 'a disturbingly credible and darkly noir post-cyberpunk tale' with a 'brilliantly evoked atmosphere of secrecy and threat' carried by a 'strong, empathetic central character fast paced narrative'. Award, and won an Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Novel as well as a Ditmar Award for Best Novel ( Ditmar Award results).

Her second novel, The Courier's New Bicycle (2011), was selected for the Honour List of the 2011 James Tiptree, Jr. She received a Varuna Writer's House Fellowship for her first novel, The Daughters of Moab, published in 2008 and shortlisted for an Aurealis Award. She was shortlisted for six awards including the Aurealis Awards, James Tiptree, Jnr., the Ned Kelly and the Davitt awards for her short stories and novels, a number of which have appeared in Years Best anthologies in Australia and the US, as well as broadcast on radio and podcast. She has won the Aurealis Award twice, a Scarlet Stiletto Award and a Ditmar Award.

The Courier's New Bicycle by Kim Westwood