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On passing the Bechdel Test

by Ian McHugh (writing at ianmchugh.wordpress.com) I’ve been talking with my little girl, age 8, about how stories work. This started a couple of years ago when we read the first of Cressida Cowell’s How To Train Your Dragon books. When the hero, Hiccup, got exiled from his Viking tribe at about [...]

2018-04-18T09:50:20+10:0024th January, 2014|Tags: , |

CSFG is on Facebook!

Yes, we've finally been dragged kicking and screaming into the Noughties (oh, wait… what?) Come find us! Like us! Witness the evolution of the writerly beard!

2014-01-23T09:07:00+11:0023rd January, 2014|

New Fiction!

Alan Baxter has a new story, "All the Wealth in the World", free to read online at Lakeside Circus. The Time-Maker’s expression is serious. I can’t stop looking at her translucent skin. She must be a thousand years old. Her eyes are almost lost in folds, but dark brown irises glisten, [...]

2018-04-17T15:16:42+10:0023rd January, 2014|Tags: |

Victimless Merchandising from Simon Petrie

Peggy Bright Books have put together a free sampler of CSFG member and Sir Julius Vogel Award winner Simon Petrie's work, titled 'Needs More Dinosaurs': five complete short stories ('Downdraft', 'To Arms', '@Bearhouse', 'Storm in a T-Suit', and 'Three-Horned Dilemma') available as a free ebook, in pdf, epub, and mobi [...]

2018-04-18T09:50:20+10:0022nd January, 2014|Tags: |

Interview with JT Clay

CSFG member Donna Hanson has interviewed CSFG member JT Clay in the wake of her first novel, A Single Girl's Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse. Not that we're a sheltered workshop or anything - it's part of Donna's new author spotlight interview series. The novel is available at Momentum Books [...]

2019-07-06T20:46:51+10:008th January, 2014|Tags: |

On Step 2

by Ian McHugh (writing at ianmchugh.wordpress.com) A common question that crops up at writing workshops is “How do you go about getting stories published?” So much so that I’ve started building the short version of the answer into my workshop introductions. The short answer goes like this: McHugh’s 3-step Guide [...]

2018-04-18T09:49:05+10:0024th November, 2013|Tags: , , , |

Donna Hanson interviewed at Galactic Chat

Helen Stubbs talks to Donna Maree Hanson about her writing career, including publication of her novel Rayessa and the Space Pirates and writing the sequels, and her YA Paranormal Romance, Bespelled. They also talk about the advantages of using a pseudonym and what Donna has enjoyed reading recently, including Untamed [...]

2019-07-06T20:46:52+10:0022nd November, 2013|Tags: |

CSFG Member News (October 2013)

CONGRATULATIONS! To Shauna O'Meara who did indeed win a second placing in the Writers of the Future contest with the story that was shortlisted last month. Yay, Shauna! To Jo Clay (writing as J.T. Clay) whose debut novel, A Single Girl's Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse, has been published by [...]

2019-11-07T14:02:19+11:0011th November, 2013|Tags: , |
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