Guest post by Chris Andrews A few years back I found myself with an unwieldy manuscript that wasn’t working, and I couldn’t figure out why. So I rewrote the ending and half the story before applying for two manuscript development programs. I made the short list for both. BUT it [...]
Congratulations! To Kaaron, who was nominated for Ditmar Awards in the Best Novelette or Novella and Best Collected Work categories for her story "Sky" and her collection Through Splintered Walls. "Sky" and Through Splintered Walls were also nominated for Australian Shadows Awards in the Long Fiction and Collection categories, and Kaaron's stories "Creek", [...]
We here at CSFG are very pleased to reveal the wonderful cover art by Shauna O'Meara, for our forthcoming anthology, Next. Next will be launched at the Conflux 9 convention in Canberra on 26 April 2013, and will feature thirty stories of fantasy, science-fiction and horror from some of the [...]
Guest post by Nicole R Murphy Attending a conference like Conflux can take you into the area of being a writer that can be extremely uncomfortable – being a professional. Yep, even if you’re not getting PAID like a professional, it behooves you to behave like one. Yay me [...]
Nominations are open until 20 March for the 2013 Ditmar Awards. The awards rules and nomination forms are available on the Conflux 9 website. A number of CSFG members have works eligible in various categories. (Links from story titles are to stories available to read free online; links from book or magazine titles or [...]
One of the hardest tasks to befall a writer is turning months, years of labour and hundreds of pages, thousands of words, into a few brief sentences. But that is the task that you will take on if you decide to take part in one of the pitches at Conflux [...]
Chris Andrews has posted his Next Big Thing thing. Ross Hamilton has started putting his published stories up on Smashwords to read for free, beginning with the story "Triumph of the Scientific Mind". Simon Petrie has passed on news from two of the publishing projects he's involved in. Peggy Bright Books [...]
The editors of the CSFG's 'Next' anthology, scheduled for release in Canberra at Conflux 9 in--gosh!--a little over four months' time, are delighted to reveal the stories which will appear in the anthology's Table of Contents. There are names in the list that will be familiar to many, as well as some [...]
Here's the next two of our micro-stories from Conflux 8: "Betrayal" by Rob Porteous "A Vain Hope" by Cat Sheely
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 [...]