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 [...]
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 [...]