...and the last word(s) go to Phillip Berrie - "Signal Lost" Natalie Maddalena - "The End" Thanks to everyone for their contributions. It was a fun exercise, and one we'll almost certainly be doing again. So watch this space!
Some recent blogging of interest by CSFG members (entertaining, too): Kaaron Warren has been running a series of posts (her own and guests') called "Refreshing the Wells" on the different ways writers refill their wells of inspiration. Thusfar the list includes: agonising death, mondegreens, talking to strangers, orders for boots, [...]
Two more micro stories posted: "Alt Heim" by Jerry Everard "The Fennegal" by Kim Gaal
Congratulations! To Gillian Polack for finishing her (second) PhD, in Creative Writing at the University of WA. To Shauna O'Meara, whose story "The Plague Most Feared" placed second in the Australia's Security Nightmares short story contest. Upcoming workshops, courses and events Nicole Murphy will commence teaching the online version of [...]
Two new micro stories, now free to read: "Killing Two Birds" by Shauna O'Meara "You look like me" by Tuan Linh Nguyen
Here's the next two of our micro-stories from Conflux 8: "Betrayal" by Rob Porteous "A Vain Hope" by Cat Sheely
The CSFG Inc. Annual General Meeting was held last night and duly elected a new committee for the association. The new office holders and other committee members are: Ian McHugh - President Rik Lagarto - Vice President (smile and wave!) Rob Porteous - Treasurer Leife Shallcross - Secretary Mitchell Akhurst - [...]
Results from the 2012 WaBiaD Competition have been posted. CSFG's entry was "Highly Commended" (ie, 2nd) in the national Open category. Our entry's artwork, by Shauna O'Meara, won Best Illustrations in the Open category. Go, Shauna! The rest of us will have to do one better next year. The judge's [...]
CSFG members wrote a number of postcard-sized micro stories for the recent Conflux 8 convention in Canberra. The ten that were used will be published on the website, a couple at a time, over the next few weeks. The first two are: “It Caught Up with Me” by Leife Shallcross [...]
We believe there may be a handful of submissions to the anthology, sent on or before 16 September, that might have been lost as spam. If you submitted a story to Next before 17 September and received an acknowledgement email, your story has been successfully received and will be considered. [...]