Update: Edited to correct the spelling of Rivqa's name - sorry Rivqa! Awards Season Several of the major Australian genre awards are upon us, with nominations recently announced for the Aurealis and Ditmar Awards. CSFG members were well-represented on the shortlists: In the Aurealis Awards shortlist: Kimberley Gaal featured with [...]
It’s officially awards season for the Australian spec fic community. The two major speculative genre awards in Australia are the Ditmar Awards, which are the awards attached to the Australian National Science Fiction Convention (this year that’s Swancon 40 in Perth), and the Aurealis Awards, which will be awarded in [...]
Congratulations! To Tim Napper, who won first prize in the first quarter of the Writers of the Future contest (CSFG's second WotF prize winner for 2014 and CSFG's fifth prize winner overall. Here's hoping he can become our second annual grand prize winner!) To Cat Sparks, who's collection The Bride [...]
Congratulations! To Tim Napper, whose story is a finalist for the first quarter of the 31st Writers of the Future contest. (Fingers crossed that CSFG will soon be adding our fourth WotF winner!) To all our members on the preliminary ballot for the 2014 Ditmar Awards: Cat Sparks, The Bride Price - Best Collected Work and [...]
Voting for the Ditmar Awards is open until 30 March 2014 to members of the 2013 and 2014 natcons (Conflux 9 and Continuum 10). Cast your votes here! A list of eligible works by CSFG members is here.
CSFG members have a whole swag of stuff that's eligible for this year's Ditmar Awards. Voting is due to open soon. Members, including supporting members, of the upcoming and previous national spec fic conventions (Continuum X and Conflux 9) are eligible to vote. Red titles below link to stories that are [...]
Welcome! To new CSFG members Helen Stubbs, Patty Jansen and Zena Shapter. Congratulations! To Kaaron Warren, after her swag of Ditmar and Australian Shadows awards, who completed the trifecta for "Sky" with a win at the Aurealis Awards for Best Horror Short Story. To Simon Dewar, whose first pro sale, [...]
Congratulations! To Kaaron Warren for winning... well, pretty much everything on offer: Through Splintered Walls won the Ditmar and Australian Shadows awards for Best Collection and "Sky" won the Ditmar for Best Novella and Australian Shadow for Best Long Fiction. To Nicole Murphy for launching her In Fabula-divino anthology at Conflux 9 [...]
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", [...]
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 [...]