Kaaron Warren | |
|---|---|
In June 2024 | |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Writing career | |
| Genres | Speculative fiction Horror fiction |
Kaaron Warren is an Australian author of horror, science fiction, and fantasy short stories and novels.
She is the author of the short story collections Through Splintered Walls, The Grinding House, and Dead Sea Fruit. Her short stories have won Australian Shadows Awards, Ditmar Awards and Aurealis Awards.
Her six novels are Slights, Walking the Tree, Mistification (published by Angry Robot), The Grief Hole, Tide of Stone, and The Underhistory.
Kaaron was Special Guest at the 2013 Australian National Science Fiction Convention.

| Year | Award name/type | Title | References |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Aurealis Award, Horror short story | A Positive | |
| 2006 | ACT Writing and Publishing Award, fiction | The Grinding House | |
| Ditmar Award, Novella/novelette | The Grinding House | ||
| Ditmar Award, Short story | Fresh Young Widow | ||
| 2009 | Australian Shadows Award, Best Novel | Slights | |
| Canberra Critics Circle Fiction Award | Slights | ||
| 2010 | Ditmar Award, Best Novel | Slights | |
| 2011 | ACT Writing and Publishing Awards, Fiction | Dead Sea Fruit | |
| 2012 | Ditmar Award, Best Collected Work | Through Splintered Walls | |
| Canberra Critics Circle Fiction Award | Through Splintered Walls | ||
| Australian Shadows Award, Best Collected Work | Through Splintered Walls | ||
| Aurealis Award, Best Horror Story | Sky | ||
| Australian Shadows Award, Best Novella | Sky | ||
| 2013 | Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction Division, Best Short Story | Air, Water and the Grove: The Lowest Heaven, Focus 2013: Highlights of Australian Short Fiction, 2013 | |
| Australian Shadows Award, Paul Haines Shadow Award for Long Fiction | The Unwanted Women of Surrey: Queen Victoria's Book of Spells: An Anthology of Gaslamp Fantasy, 2013 | ||
| Shirley Jackson Awards: Novella | Sky | ||
| Ditmar Award, Best Novella | Sky | ||
| ACT Writing and Publishing Awards, Non-fiction-Fiction | Through Splintered Walls | ||
| 2015 | Australian Shadows Award, Short Fiction | ||
| 2016 | Australian Shadows Award, Novel | The Grief Hole | |
| Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction, Horror Division, Novel | The Grief Hole | ||
| 2017 | Ditmar Award, Best Novel | The Grief Hole | |
| 2021 | Ditmar Award, Short Story | The Calenture | |
| 2022 | Ditmar Award, Short Story | The King in Yella | |
| Ditmar Award, Collection | Tool Tales (with Ellen Datlow) | ||
| 2023 | Ditmar Award, Best Novella or Novelette | Remnants and Bad Water | |
| The Smell of Waiting | |||
| Ditmar Award, Best Short Story | Everything so slow and quiet | ||
| 2024 | Ditmar Award, Best Novella or Novelette | Bitters | |
| 2025 | Ditmar Award, Best Novel | The Underhistory | |
| Ditmar Award, Best Collection | Calvaria Fell (with Cat Sparks) |
| Year | Award name/type | Title | References |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Aurealis Award, Horror short story | Skin Holes | |
| 1996 | Aurealis Award, Fantasy short story | The Blue Stream | |
| 1997 | Aurealis Award, Horror short story | The Hanging People | |
| 1998 | Aurealis Award, Horror short story | The Glass Woman | |
| 2001 | Aurealis Award, Fantasy short story | The Left Behind | |
| 2002 | Aurealis Award, Fantasy short story | The Speaker of Heaven | |
| 2004 | Aurealis Award, Science Fiction short story | State of Oblivion | |
| 2006 | Ditmar Award, Collected work | The Grinding House | |
| Australian Shadows Award | The Grinding House | ||
| 2007 | Aurealis Award, Horror short story | Woman Train | |
| Aurealis Award, Horror short story | Dead Sea Fruit | ||
| 2008 | Ditmar Award, Short story | His Lipstick Minx | |
| 2009 | Aurealis Award, Best Horror Short Story | The Gaze Dogs of Nine Waterfall | |
| Australian Shadows Award, Best Short Story | The Gaze Dogs of Nine Waterfall | ||
| Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction, Best Horror Novel | Slights | ||
| 2010 | Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction, Best Collection | Dead Sea Fruit | |
| Ditmar Award, Best Short Story | Tontine Mary: New Ceres Nights, Dead Sea Fruit | ||
| Ditmar Award, Best Novel | Walking the Tree | ||
| Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing, Best First Novel | Slights | ||
| 2011 | Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction, Anthology Division | Ishtar | |
| Bram Stoker Award (Final Ballot), Superior Achievement in Short Fiction | All You Can Do Is Breathe | ||
| Ditmar Award, Best Horror Story | All You Can Do Is Breathe | ||
| 2012 | Shirley Jackson Award, Best Novella | Sky | |
| Australian Shadows Award, Best Short Story | Road | ||
| Australian Shadows Award, Best Short Story | Mountain | ||
| Australian Shadows Award, Best Short Story | Creek | ||
| Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction Division, Best Short Story | Lighthouse Keeper’s Club | ||
| Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction, Best Collection | Through Splintered Walls | ||
| 2013 | Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction, Horror Division, Best Short Story | The Human Moth: The Grimscribe's Puppets, 2013 | |
| 2014 | Ditmar Awards, Best Short Story | Air, Water and the Grove: The Lowest Heaven, Focus 2013: Highlights of Australian Short Fiction, 2013 | |
| 2015 | Australian Shadows Award, Edited Publication | Midnight Echo: The Magazine of the Australian Horror Writers Association, no. 11 April 2015 | |
| Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction Division, Short Story | Witnessing: The Canary Press Story Magazine, no. 6 December 2015 | ||
| World Fantasy Award, Best Short Fiction | Death's Door Cafe: Shadows and Tall Trees, Spring no. 6 Focus 2014: Highlights of Australian Short Fiction, Nightmare, no. 43, April 2014 | ||
| 2016 | Australian Shadows Award, Short Fiction | All Roll Over | |
| Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction Division, Short Story | 68 Days Tomorrow's Cthulhu: Stories at the Dawn of Posthumanity | ||
| Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction, Horror Division, Short Story | 68 Days Tomorrow's Cthulhu: Stories at the Dawn of Posthumanity | ||
| 2019 | Ditmar Awards, Novel | Tide of Stone | |
| 2020 | Ditmar Awards, Short Story | into bones like oil | |
| 2021 | Australian Shadows Award, Collected Works | Tool Tales | |
| Australian Shadows Award, Short Fiction | The Steering Wheel Club | ||
| Australian Shadows Award, Non-fiction | Capturing Ghosts on the Page | ||
| 2023 | Ditmar Awards, Short Story | Songs We Sing at Sea are the Lies We Tell Ourselves | |
| 2024 | Ditmar Awards, Novella or Novelette | The Deathplace Set | |
| Ditmar Awards, Collected Work | Vandal: Stories of Damage | ||
| 2025 | Ditmar Awards, Novella or Novelette | The Emporium | |
| Ditmar Awards, Short Story | Bright Hearts | ||
| 2026 | Ditmar Awards, Short Story | Bitter Skin | |
| Ditmar Awards, Fan Art | Brave New Wardrobe, Conflux 19 art show |