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 [...]
For any CSFG'ers who might not get their news from the mailing list, this is just a reminder that due to building works at Gorman House, the July 2015 general meeting will be held on Wednesday 22 July. Not the 15th, okay? The 22nd. Don't turn up, because the doors [...]
Please note that due to building work at Gorman House, our next general meeting at the ACT Writers Centre will be at 7:30 pm on WEDNESDAY 22 JULY. This meeting will replace the usual 3rd Wednesday meeting, which would have been held on the 15th. This month's meeting will have [...]
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 [...]