Awards
WINS
2007 Ditmar Award, Best Fanzine
HorrorScope (edited by Shane Jiraiya Cummings et al.)
2006 Ditmar Award, Best Fan Writer
NOMINATIONS
2010 Tin Duck Award Nomination, Best Professional Production
Shards (Brimstone Press)
2009 Premios Ignotus [Spanish SF Awards] Nomination, Best Foreign Short Story
“The Autopsy Room” ["The Cutting Room"] (Paura 4)
2009 William Atheling Jr Award Nomination
“Dark Suspense: The End of the Line” (Black: Australian Dark Culture Magazine #3)
2009 Ditmar Award Nomination, Best Fan Publication
HorrorScope (edited by Shane Jiraiya Cummings et al)
2008 Galley Club Award Nomination
Best Non-standard Mono/duotone digitally printed book
For design of Australian Dark Fantasy & Horror 2007 edition
(published by Brimstone Press, printed by Griffin Digital)
2008 Ditmar Award Nomination, Best Novella/Novelette
“Yamabushi Kaidan and the Smoke Dragon” (Fantastic Wonder Stories)
2008 Ditmar Award Nomination, Best Fan Writer
2008 Ditmar Award Nomination, Best Fanzine
HorrorScope (edited by Shane Jiraiya Cummings et al.)
2008 William Atheling Jr Award Nomination
HorrorScope review of David Conyers’ & John Sunseri’s The Spiraling Worm
2008 Tin Duck Award Nomination, Best Professional Short Fiction
“Yamabushi Kaidan and the Smoke Dragon” (Fantastic Wonder Stories)
2008 Tin Duck Award Nomination, Best Professional Short Fiction
“The Cutting Room” (Gratia Placenti)
2008 Tin Duck Award Nomination, Best Fan Production
HorrorScope (edited by Shane Jiraiya Cummings et al.)
2008 Aurealis Award Nomination, Young Adult short story
“Yamabushi Kaidan and the Smoke Dragon” (Fantastic Wonder Stories)
2007 Ditmar Award Nomination, Best New Talent
2007 Ditmar Award Nomination, Best Fan Writer
2007 Tin Duck Award Nomination, Best Professional Short Fiction
“Colossus of Roads” (Ticonderoga Online #9)
2007 Tin Duck Award Nomination, Best Professional Short Fiction
“Prescience” (Borderlands #8)
2006 Ditmar Award Nomination, Best Collected Work
Shadowed Realms (edited by Angela Challis & Shane Jiraiya Cummings)
2006 Ditmar Award Nomination, Best Fanzine
HorrorScope (edited by Shane Jiraiya Cummings et al.)
2006 Australian Shadows Award Finalist
Shadow Box e-anthology (with Angela Challis)
2006 Tin Duck Award Nomination, Best Professional Short Fiction
“Ian” (Ticonderoga Online #5)
2006 Tin Duck Award Nomination, Best Professional Short Fiction
“Hear No Evil” (Borderlands #4)
2006 Tin Duck Award Nomination, Best Professional Production
Shadow Box e-anthology (with Angela Challis)
2006 Tin Duck Award Nomination, Best Fan Production
HorrorScope (edited by Shane Jiraiya Cummings et al.)
2005 Tin Duck Award Nomination, Best Professional Fiction
“Sobek’s Tears” (Aurealis #33-35)
HONOURABLE MENTIONS/OTHER
2010 Bram Stoker Award Preliminary Ballot, Collection
Shards (Brimstone Press)
2006 Aurealis Award Highly Commended, Horror short story
“Revision is Murder” (Simulacrum #11)

Shane Jiraiya Cummings is one of Australia's leading dark fantasy & horror authors. He is the author of Shards and Phoenix and the Darkness of Wolves and the editor of acclaimed publications such as HorrorScope, Black Box, and Black: Australian Dark Culture Magazine.
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