The Aurealis Awards are presented annually by the Australia-based Chimaera Publications and WASFF to published works in order to "recognise the achievements of Australian science fiction, fantasy, horror writers".
Categories currently include science fiction, fantasy, horror, speculative young adult fiction—with separate awards for novels and short fiction—collections, anthologies, illustrative works or graphic novels, children's books, and an award for excellence in speculative fiction.
[2] The awards have attracted the attention of publishers by setting down a benchmark in science fiction and fantasy.
[2] The judges are selected from a public application process by the Award's management team.
Brendan Duffy and Sean Williams are the only people to have won the award multiple times, with two wins each.