One of the stories, "Merlusine" by Lucy Sussex won the 1997 Aurealis Award for best fantasy short story.

"A Fine Magic" won the 2006 Aurealis Award for best fantasy short story and finished 15th in the 2007 Locus Awards for best short story.

Another winning story was "A Walk-On Part in the War" by Stephen Dedman which won the Aurealis Award for best fantasy short story.

"Whispers of the Mist Children" won the 1999 Aurealis Award for best fantasy short story.

Harvest Bay won the 1995 Aurealis Award for best fantasy short story.

"A Walk-On Part in the War" won the 1998 Aurealis Award for best fantasy short story.

Issue 24 featured "Father's Kill" by Christopher Green which won the 2009 Aurealis Award for best fantasy short story.

"The Woman of Endor" won the 2001 Aurealis Award for best fantasy short story.

One of the stories featured in the anthology, Cat Sparks's "Sammarynda Deep", won the 2008 Aurealis Award for best fantasy short story.

In 2001 he won the 2000 Aurealis Award for best fantasy short story for "The World According to Kipling (A Plain Tale from the Hills)".