Several CSFG members are providing workshops in the next few months through the ACT Writers Centre. Chris Andrews will be presenting Creating Compelling Novels on Saturday 25 July 2015. Gillian Polack is doing an introduction to Fiction Writing and History on Saturday 1 August 2015. Ian McHugh will present The [...]
The competition is now closed for submissions. The winners will be announced at Conflux in October! The CSFG is partnering up with Canberra's premier speculative fiction convention, Conflux 11, to run a short story competition. We want your stories of 4000 words or under, in any speculative fiction genre, [...]
CSFG members have been busily working away at their craft and appear to be taking over Australia’s premier online magazine of speculative fiction Aurealis, if this month’s news is anything to go by. Congratulations to everyone getting their art out there! For those of you eager for news of CSFG’s [...]
Gillian Polack's long-awaited, much-anticipated, allegedly-cursed novel "The Art of Effective Dreaming" was launched in Canberra on Wednesday the 1st of April 2015! After enduring quite a few setbacks, included among which were several hurricanes and more than a decade of waiting, "The Art of Effective Dreaming" is now out from [...]
Workshops, training and other events CSFG includes a number of members who provide training through workshops and courses of study. the following opportunities are coming up very soon: The art of science fiction and fantasy (Woden Library, Wednesday 18 March 12:30 - 1:30 pm) Gillian Polack will be presenting an [...]
Short stories Ian McHugh's story "Uncle Bob's Crocodile" is out in this month's edition of Urban Fantasy magazine (available now for subscribers and it'll be archived online for everyone else later in the month). Ian wanted to mention that he credits this story to a discussion with fellow CSFG'er David [...]
There's so much news to catch up on after the summer break that we've broken up the details into three posts. This first one covers the books coming out from (or already out) from our busy, busy members. Donna Maree Hanson, in her alternate guise as Dani Kristoff, has [...]
It’s officially awards season for the Australian spec fic community. The two major speculative genre awards in Australia are the Ditmar Awards, which are the awards attached to the Australian National Science Fiction Convention (this year that’s Swancon 40 in Perth), and the Aurealis Awards, which will be awarded in [...]
President Leife concludes her thoughts on why she reads what she reads. See Part 1 here. In my last post, I talked about how being a writer has limited my capacity as a reader. But I don’t want to give the impression that I don’t read any more. Far from it. [...]
The next General Meeting, on 18 March, will be a Special General Meeting. At the AGM in October 2014, the Committee asked the membership to vote on a proposal to amend the rules to allow the CSFG to be able confer life memberships. The membership voted to approve the proposal [...]