Chimaera Publications is a publisher based in Mount Waverley, Victoria, Australia.

[1] In 1995 Chimaera established the Aurealis Awards which is held yearly to reward the achievement in Australian speculative fiction.

[3] Aurealis was first released in April 1990 and was edited by Dirk Strasser and Stephen Higgins.

[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.

[6][7] The magazine has featured short stories which have been short-listed and won literary awards.