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 [...]
President Leife Shallcross kicks off the 2015 discussions with some musing on some CSFG'ers recent encounter with a literary hero and how reading is a vital ingredient of writing. This essay is crossposted from Leife's website. I’ve had quite a literary week. On Monday I went to see the entertaining [...]
Did you guys even realise it was 2015 already? FEBRUARY 2015. That’s only 320 days away from 2016. AND WHAT HAVE YOU DONE SO FAR?!?! If the answer is ‘Not as much as I’d like’, then our February meeting is for you. (If the answer isn’t that, you should still [...]
The table of contents for CSFG's massive 2015 anthology The Never Never Land has been announced by the triple-threat editorial team of Ian McHugh, Phill Berrie and Mitchell Akhurst. Congratulations to the successful authors! The Never Never Land: Table of Contents Consumed - Elizabeth Jakimow Memory Lane - Suzanne J. [...]
It's the end of the year, and CSFG is on hiatus until early February, but that doesn't mean our members aren't busy beavering away at their craft. Several CSFG members have reported exciting publication news: Novels Justin Woolley's first novel A Town Called Dust is out now from Momentum. Zena [...]
Guest post by Ian McHugh As I’ve mentioned elsewhere, lots of people (ie, jealous writers) love to disparage novelists like J.K. Rowling and Stephenie Meyer for the quality of their writing. It’s clunky, repetitive, boring, grammatically questionable and blah. At the same time, they love to idolise writers who possess a [...]