CSFG luminary Donna Maree Hanson is currently doing a blog tour to promote her Dragon Wine duology: Shatterwing and Skywatcher. Ian McHugh has an extensive interview with Donna about the reception to the books' launch last year and to the thorny topic of writing about confronting subjects. Here's an [...]
The National Australian Fan Fund (NAFF) is on again. NAFF is an annual fundraiser that provides an opportunity for a member of the speculative fiction community to attend Natcon aka the National Science Fiction Convention. Next year that will be Contact 2016 (to be held in Brisbane over the Easter [...]
CSFG's latest anthology The Never Never Land has been featured in Alexandra Pierce's recent Aurora Australis column over at Tor.com. AA is highly recommended as a great monthly resource for all the buzz in Australian and New Zealand/Aotearoan speculative fiction. Check it out!
Canberra-based author-illustrator Shane W. Smith, who spoke at a recent CSFG meeting about writing and producing comics, is seeking contributions for his upcoming anthology All the King's Men. Shane is looking for original short stories and comic scripts set in the galaxy-spanning science fiction universe of his previous graphic novels: [...]
CSFG's tenth anthology (*) has launched: The Never Never Land, edited by Mitchell Akhurst, Phillip Berrie and Ian McHugh, is now available in trade paperback (ebook is coming soon). The Never Never Land features thirty speculative stories about Australia themes, from its hostile environment to its violent history, from the [...]
We have comparatively little news to report this month – so little that I suspect we’ve missed something huge – but as usual CSFG members have been busily infiltrating the ranks of the world’s SFFH elite! Short stories Tim Napper is continuously his riotously busy writing year with sales of [...]
The CSFG has a new postal address, for anyone who wants to send us a parcel or is otherwise still mired in the Flesh Ages of non-digital communication. Ahem. The new address is: PO Box 1150 Dickson ACT 2602 Please direct any and all future correspondence of the physical, made-of-wood-pulp [...]
Our own Doctor-Doctor Gillian Polack invites medieval history enthusiasts and book lovers everywhere* to join her for the launch of her hefty non-fiction tome The Middle Ages Unlocked: A Guide to Life in Medieval England, 1050 - 1300. The event will be hosted by Matthew Farrer and will feature medieval [...]
CSFG Secretary Elizabeth Fitzgerald has been running a series of interviews over at her Earl Grey Editing Services blog around the theme of the writing community (also tea). In a recent installment of "Brewing Community", Ian McHugh, one of the editors of CSFG's upcoming anthology The Never Never Land, talked [...]
As usual, the brave little quokkas and quolls of the CSFG semi-autonomous collective have been busy racking up wins, plaudits and sparkling achievements! Here's just some of their outstanding accomplishments for the month of July! Awards In possibly the biggest news of the month and a distinctive career highlight, Kaaron [...]