CSFG's Write-a-Book-in-a-Day contest entry has been included in the shortlist for National Best Book in the Open category. So what does all that mean? Well, it may just mean that of the three entries in the Open category, we were in the top three. Or it may mean that we actually did [...]
Congratulations to Rob Porteous and Shauna O'Meara! Rob's story "First Steps" won first prize and Shauna's story "You and Me and the Sand and the Sea" won second prize in the Conflux 8 Short Story Contest. Upcoming workshops and courses in October Ian McHugh will be teaching a workshop on [...]
A new addition to the links on our Writing Resources page is Giulio Zambon's blog, which ranges across topics of writerly interest from history to technology to physics. (A personal favourite is his post on keeping up with the sun while walking on the moon).
As part of SpecFicNZ blogging week, Simon Petrie is currently writing the fifth of his Gordon Mamon stories, 'A Night to Remember', between 17 and 23 September with each day's instalment hosted on a different SpecFicNZer's website. The first day's instalment is up on Simon's Wordpress site, and he's listing on his [...]
Matthew's new novel Strange Flesh is out now from Fantasy Flight Games (available in e-book formats with paperback to follow). While the world has changed, crime has not. A tangled web of lies and corruption surrounds the New Angeles headquarters of Jinteki, a massive mega-corporation that leads the industry in [...]
by Nicole Murphy There’s something really cool happening on the CSFG mailing list at the moment – writing. And talking about writing. And critiquing and revising and more writing. And it’s all Conflux’s fault, so I’m pretty proud of that. Not that there isn’t any talk about writing on the [...]
Upcoming Workshops and Events Nicole Murphy will be teaching a workshop on writing fundamentals, Saturday 8 September, ACT Writers Centre, Gorman House - still time to book! Sales and Publications Nicole Murphy, writing as Elizabeth Dunk, will have a story in the contemporary romance anthology URL Love from HarperCollins. Kaaron [...]
Book now! Session times have been finalised for the writing workshop program at the ACT Writers Centre on 28 September as part of the Conflux 8 convention. Details for the workshops being delivered by CSFG members are on the Workshops and Courses page.
Simon Petrie's story "Cruisy" has been accepted by Ticon4 webzine. Elizabeth Fitzgerald's story "Rousabout" has been accepted by Burley magazine. Ian McHugh's story "Red Dirt" will be reprinted in The Best of BCS Year Three anthology, and his story "The Navigator and the Sky" will be podcast by Podcastle. Simon's [...]
by Nicole Murphy One of the great ‘a-ha’ moments in my writing came courtesy of a Jack Dann workshop. It was a good thing it happened during that particular workshop, because that weekend also ended up being one of the hardest things I’ve gone through. We were critiquing each other’s [...]