Kris Ashton

I’m delighted to report my essay ‘The Curious Reclassification of Peter Benchley’s Jaws’ has been nominated for an Australian Shadows Award.

The essay investigates the question of genre, specifically whether the novel Jaws should be deemed thriller or horror and how the uncertainty came about.

It’s my second Shadows Award nomination – another essay, ‘Suffer the Little Children: An Analysis of Parental Horror in Stephen King’s Early Fiction’, was shortlisted in the 2019 awards.

Big thanks go to non-fiction editor Terry Wood at Aurealis for his continued interest in my ramblings. He has agreed to publish two more of my speculative fiction essays during 2022.

The Aurealis issues in which these essays appeared (#119 and #127) are still available – click on the bibliography link above if you’re interested in buying a copy.

Fingers crossed I can get the gong this year!