6pm, Friday 26th April, Rydges Capital Hill, Canberra Janeen Webb (World Fantasy, Aurealis and Ditmar Award winner) Richard Harland (Golden Aurealis and Aurealis Award winner) Readings from emerging CSFG authors Leife Shallcross and Rik Lagarto Get your copy of Next signed by the contributors. Get a voucher for a HALF-PRICE [...]
CSFG member Nicole Murphy will be launching her anthology In Fabula-divino at Conflux 9: Take eight authors, work them like they’ve never been worked before and what do you get? Working for the devil, running from zombies, talking your way out of a throat slashing… The In Fabula-divino project – eight months of mentoring, [...]
Guest post by Ian McHugh The first drafts of stories tend to be turds. That can be a difficult thing to admit about your newly completed masterpiece, but it’s okay: Mythbusters have proved that you really can polish a turd. The easiest way to figure out how to polish up your [...]
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 [...]
by Tim Roberts (at thegreencastle.wordpress.com) While I was having fun browsing various dealer tables and stalls at Worldcon in Chicago last year (Chicon7), I discovered some fine and intriguing collections of poems among all the anthologies, novels and books about Speculative Fiction. I ended up buying four different collection of [...]
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 [...]