Laura Goodin has adapted her story "The Dancing Mice and the Giants of Flanders", published in CSFG's Masques anthology, into an opera. Laura is seeking support at Pozible to continue development of the opera through to a concert performance on August 25 at the Phoenix Theatre, Wollongong. See here for [...]
CSFG member Nicole R Murphy has released her e-book The Festival, a novella-length sequel to her Dream of Asarlai trilogy - and she's made it free at Smashwords until the end of July! Of Dream of Asarlai, reviewers said: "Murphy’s ability to create a new world within the familiar setting [...]
We've added a Resources page to the site that links to various blogs, webpages and online resources maintained by CSFG members on the crafts of writing, editing and storytelling. more...
Grammar Basics and The Perils of Punctuation with Gillian Polack - NSW Writers’ Centre, Sunday 22 July Creative Writing (Fiction) with Ian McHugh - Canberra Institute of Technology, Woden Campus, 6x Wednesdays from 1 August Writing – A Novel Approach with Gillian Polack - ANU Centre for Continuing Education, 8x [...]
And raised over $500 for the Paediatrics at the Canberra Hospital (PatCH) program! (You can still donate until the end of July.) More on our day and a PDF of our finished story here.
Gillian's novel Ms Cellophane is now available from Momentum Books as an e-book for Kindle, iPad/Pod/Phone and whatever other curious and unusual device you might have. Buy your copy here for AUD $4.99. "Elizabeth Smith, recently made redundant, thinks that her life is deadly dull. She feels like cellophane – like people look [...]
Sales, Wins and Publications Ian McHugh has sold a short-story collection, with the working title of Angel Dust, to Ticonderoga Publications. Ross Hamilton's novella "It Hides in Darkness" won the Creative Unpublished Authors Print Ready Competition. Shauna O'Meara's story "Blood Lilies" won the Australian Horror Writers' Association (AHWA) Flash Fiction [...]
Please support us! CSFG has entered a team in this year's Write-a-Book-in-a-Day contest, raising money for the Paediatrics at the Canberra Hospital (PatCH) program. We'll be writing our book in a day on Sunday 8 July at the ACT Writers Centre, Gorman House. Details on how to support the CSFG [...]
Maxine MacArthur's story "The Soul of the Machine", Ian McHugh's story "The Wishwriter's Wife" and Kaaron Warren's story "All You Can do is Breathe" have been included in The Year's Best Australian Fantasy & Horror 2011. Maxine's story was one of two (the other was Jason Nahrung's "Wraiths") to make [...]
Submissions for the Next anthology have now closed. Thank you all for your submissions. The editors hope to have responses out by around the end of November. Updates will be provided here if that changes.