Grammar Basics and The Perils of Punctuation with Gillian Polack - NSW Writers’ Centre, Sunday 22 July Creative Writing (Fiction) with Ian McHugh - Canberra Institute of Technology, Woden Campus, 6x Wednesdays from 1 August Writing – A Novel Approach with Gillian Polack - ANU Centre for Continuing Education, 8x [...]
And raised over $500 for the Paediatrics at the Canberra Hospital (PatCH) program! (You can still donate until the end of July.) More on our day and a PDF of our finished story here.
Gillian's novel Ms Cellophane is now available from Momentum Books as an e-book for Kindle, iPad/Pod/Phone and whatever other curious and unusual device you might have. Buy your copy here for AUD $4.99. "Elizabeth Smith, recently made redundant, thinks that her life is deadly dull. She feels like cellophane – like people look [...]
Sales, Wins and Publications Ian McHugh has sold a short-story collection, with the working title of Angel Dust, to Ticonderoga Publications. Ross Hamilton's novella "It Hides in Darkness" won the Creative Unpublished Authors Print Ready Competition. Shauna O'Meara's story "Blood Lilies" won the Australian Horror Writers' Association (AHWA) Flash Fiction [...]
Please support us! CSFG has entered a team in this year's Write-a-Book-in-a-Day contest, raising money for the Paediatrics at the Canberra Hospital (PatCH) program. We'll be writing our book in a day on Sunday 8 July at the ACT Writers Centre, Gorman House. Details on how to support the CSFG [...]
Maxine MacArthur's story "The Soul of the Machine", Ian McHugh's story "The Wishwriter's Wife" and Kaaron Warren's story "All You Can do is Breathe" have been included in The Year's Best Australian Fantasy & Horror 2011. Maxine's story was one of two (the other was Jason Nahrung's "Wraiths") to make [...]
Submissions for the Next anthology have now closed. Thank you all for your submissions. The editors hope to have responses out by around the end of November. Updates will be provided here if that changes.
Ian McHugh will be delivering a day workshop on "Writing Short Stories for Publication" at the ACT Writers Centre on Saturday 16 June. Nicole Murphy will be starting delivery of an online course on "Creating Colourful Characters" through Savvy Writers on Monday 25 June. Follow the links for more information [...]
Alan Baxter is on the Ditmar Ballot for Best New Talent. Kaaron Warren's novel Mistification is on the Ditmar Ballot for Best Novel and her short story "All You Can Do Is Breathe" is on the ballot for Best Short Story. Nicole Murphy has launched the first issue of her [...]
Writer and editor (and CSFG member) Donna Maree Hanson is posting a series of interviews with novelists on beta reading (ie, having their draft manuscripts read and critiqued by friends and colleagues). The first interview, with Gillian Polack, is up now. Useful insights for the beginning novelist and, as Donna [...]