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 [...]
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!
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Congratulations! To Kaaron Warren, for continuing to win all of the awards in 2013 and picking up an ACT Publishing Award for Through Splintered Walls. To Zena Shapter, for winning the Glen Miles Short Story Prize with her story "Champions". Covers! Donna Hanson has the cover of (technically) her first [...]
The program for the Conflux Writers Day, a new event ahead of the Aurealis Awards on 5 April 2014, is now live on the Conflux website. The program features CSFG members Kaaron Warren, Ian McHugh, Phill Berrie, Donna Maree Hanson, Chris Andrews and Rob Porteous.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]