Gillian Polack's long-awaited, much-anticipated, allegedly-cursed novel "The Art of Effective Dreaming" was launched in Canberra on Wednesday the 1st of April 2015! After enduring quite a few setbacks, included among which were several hurricanes and more than a decade of waiting, "The Art of Effective Dreaming" is now out from [...]
Workshops, training and other events CSFG includes a number of members who provide training through workshops and courses of study. the following opportunities are coming up very soon: The art of science fiction and fantasy (Woden Library, Wednesday 18 March 12:30 - 1:30 pm) Gillian Polack will be presenting an [...]
Short stories Ian McHugh's story "Uncle Bob's Crocodile" is out in this month's edition of Urban Fantasy magazine (available now for subscribers and it'll be archived online for everyone else later in the month). Ian wanted to mention that he credits this story to a discussion with fellow CSFG'er David [...]
There's so much news to catch up on after the summer break that we've broken up the details into three posts. This first one covers the books coming out from (or already out) from our busy, busy members. Donna Maree Hanson, in her alternate guise as Dani Kristoff, has [...]
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 [...]
It's the end of the year, and CSFG is on hiatus until early February, but that doesn't mean our members aren't busy beavering away at their craft. Several CSFG members have reported exciting publication news: Novels Justin Woolley's first novel A Town Called Dust is out now from Momentum. Zena [...]
It’s been quite a while since we’ve updated our member news. Here’s a probably-incomplete roundup of the action since July: Novels Donna Maree Hanson’s Dragon Wine duology has launched from Momentum books: Shatterwing and Skywatcher Alan Baxter’s Alex Caine series is now out from Harper Collins in Australian and New [...]
Events Gillian Polack is guest of honour at Liburnicon in Croatia Sales and Publications Gillian has sold more than three books to Satalyte Publishing, including Langue[dot]doc 1305, which will have a pre-release at Loncon. Donna Hanson, writing as Dani Kristoff, has a new book out from HarperImpulse, The Sorceror's Spell. Donna [...]
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 [...]