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Submissions Closing Soon!
Submissions for the The Never Never Land anthology are closing on 31 August 2014, so you've now got less than 3 weeks to send us your best Australian-flavoured speculative fiction stories of between 1,000 and 5,000 words. Read the submission guidelines here.
Interview with Alan Baxter
by Ian McHugh With the impending release of Bound, the first book of his new Alex Caine series, I interviewed Alan Baxter about babies, writing fu, elevator pitches and how real men (like us) never squee. Bound (Alex Caine #1) Alex Caine is a martial artist fighting in illegal cage [...]
Killing your darlings
Guest post by Ian McHugh I think a lot of people come at this notion the wrong way – that, in writing, you must kill your darlings. A friend in my writers’ group was talking one day about his long-term novel project in these terms – that he needed to kill [...]
Time Management for Writers
Guest post by Zena Shapter Time – as writers it’s probably our most precious commodity. We need it to write. We’d give anything to have more of it. We juggle it. We savour it. We devour it. Sitting down at my computer to write, time can vanish in an instant [...]
CSFG Member News (April 2014)
Congratulations! To Tim Napper, whose story is a finalist for the first quarter of the 31st Writers of the Future contest. (Fingers crossed that CSFG will soon be adding our fourth WotF winner!) To all our members on the preliminary ballot for the 2014 Ditmar Awards: Cat Sparks, The Bride Price - Best Collected Work and [...]
Everything We Know About Storytelling We Learned from The Lord of the Rings: Part III
The Return of EWKASWLFLOTR: Three for the Elves, and One Rule To Rule Them All writtern by Ian McHugh, on behald of the CSFG Hivemind The final chapter of the epic crap-talking journey that began with The Fellowship of EWKASWLFLOTR and continued with The EWKASWLFLOTR Towers! XV: The Unfeasibly Large [...]
The Stars Like Sand book launch – 12 June
The Stars Like Sand, a new speculative poetry anthology edited by Tim Jones and P.S. Cottier and featuring poetry by CSFG's Simon Petrie alongside the likes of (holycrap!) Les Murray. It's being launched by our very own Kaaron Warren.
Authors’ Tips on Handling Unpleasant Online Experiences
Zena Shapter has posted about how writers should respond to trolling and bad reviews: Last week, I asked how far you usually go to solve unpleasant experiences in your life. At what point do you let things go? Well, after I wrote that post, I wondered how other authors handle [...]
(Epic) Interview with Nicole Murphy
by Ian McHugh With the re-release of her Dream of Asarlai trilogy as an e-book omnibus, I took the opportunity to interview Our Nicole about the books, her writing process, cover letters, using life model decoys and planning like Rimmer from Red Dwarf (you’ll see). Dream of Asarlai Trilogy An [...]