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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
$60 plus postage for a set of 5 of our back catalogue anthologies (or buy from our dealer's table at Conflux 8 and save the postage). That's 25%* off! Details here. * ish
A bunch of CSFG members have received honourable mentions from Ellen Datlow in her reading for The Best Horror of the Year #4: Baxter, Alan, “Punishment of the Sun”, Dead Red Heart Hanson, Donna Maree, “The Life Stealer”, Dead Red Heart McHugh, Ian, “The Godbreaker of Seggau-li”, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight [...]
Conflux 7, Canberra’s speculative fiction convention, is set to get underway on Friday. A large number of multi-talented CSFG members will be there to launch books, speak on panels and participate in kaffeeklatches. If you’re keen to support them or are looking to find out more about the CSFG, you [...]
At the end of September, as part of the Conflux science fiction convention, the CSFG will be launching its latest speculative fiction anthology Winds of Change. Click on the invitation to magnify it and see the details - we welcome any and all who are interested in speculative writing and [...]