Guest post by Ian McHugh If you’re writing for publication, you’re going to encounter rejection a lot. As a short story writer, and even now that I’m selling most of my stories to professionally paying markets, my submissions still get rejected about nine times in every ten. So for my thirty-odd [...]
Congratulations! To Kaaron Warren, who continues to win all of the awards, taking out Best Science Fiction Short Story at the 2013 Aurealis Awards with her story "Air, Water and the Grove". To Rob Easterbrook for finishing his PhD! Covers! Alan Baxter's forthcoming novel, Bound Patty Jansen's new novel,For Queen [...]
CSFG's most recent Writers of the Future Contest winner, Shauna O'Meara, has been interviewed at the Sputnik's Orbit blog, about liking spiders, winning at Donkey Kong and being able to warble like an Australian Magpie, among other matters of grave importance. Oh, and writing.
Guest post by Ian McHugh When I set out to write a first novel (or, rather, to finish writing a novel for the first time, having started and abandoned several), I had been writing and selling short stories for a number of years and was conscious of the vast difference [...]
Guest post by Mik Bennett Which is weird, because I first saw it because of somebody I met at writing group. What was I doing at writing group if I hadn’t learned anything about writing yet? Much as I love Avatar – and I do; I drove all the way [...]
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Guest post by Donna Hanson As writers we know that writing is all about the writer and the writing medium, be it pen and paper, keyboard and blank screen. Put in a nutshell, writing is the transferring of ideas from one’s head to the written word—a lonely endeavour that only [...]
CSFG’s new anthology will be opening for submissions on 1 June 2014. See here for the submission guidelines.
Guest post by Zena Shapter Picture this: I was twenty-four, it was my first day working for a top London law firm, and I already knew I’d made the biggest mistake of my life. I blame Tenerife. Two years prior, my housemate and I had flown to the Canary Islands [...]
Bazillions of second-hand books! Games! Comics! Music! Movies! More stuff! In Canberra on the last weekend of March: