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", [...]
Upcoming workshops, courses and events The list of courses and workshops being taught by CSFG members in 2013 has been updated - and there's more to come! Sales and publications Alan Baxter sold his story "The Fathomed Wreck To See" to Midnight Echo magazine Simon Petrie sold his story "Emptying [...]
Congratulations! To Simon Dewar, who had his first win (and sale for publication), with his story "The Kettle" a finalist in the Bloody Parchment contest and selected for inclusion in the contest anthology. To Kaaron Warren, whose novella "Sky" made the 2012 Locus Recommended Reading List. Upcoming workshops, courses and [...]
Congratulations! To Nicole Murphy (writing as Elizabeth Dunk), who sold her contemporary romance novel "Arranged to Love" to Harlequin Escape - due out in March February. Upcoming workshops, courses and events Nicole will be teaching The Year of the Novel course in 2013, both online through the Queensland Writers Centre [...]
Congratulations! To Gillian Polack for finishing her (second) PhD, in Creative Writing at the University of WA. To Shauna O'Meara, whose story "The Plague Most Feared" placed second in the Australia's Security Nightmares short story contest. Upcoming workshops, courses and events Nicole Murphy will commence teaching the online version of [...]
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 [...]
Upcoming Workshops and Events Nicole Murphy will be teaching a workshop on writing fundamentals, Saturday 8 September, ACT Writers Centre, Gorman House - still time to book! Sales and Publications Nicole Murphy, writing as Elizabeth Dunk, will have a story in the contemporary romance anthology URL Love from HarperCollins. Kaaron [...]
Simon Petrie's story "Cruisy" has been accepted by Ticon4 webzine. Elizabeth Fitzgerald's story "Rousabout" has been accepted by Burley magazine. Ian McHugh's story "Red Dirt" will be reprinted in The Best of BCS Year Three anthology, and his story "The Navigator and the Sky" will be podcast by Podcastle. Simon's [...]
Sales, Wins and Publications Ian McHugh has sold a short-story collection, with the working title of Angel Dust, to Ticonderoga Publications. Ross Hamilton's novella "It Hides in Darkness" won the Creative Unpublished Authors Print Ready Competition. Shauna O'Meara's story "Blood Lilies" won the Australian Horror Writers' Association (AHWA) Flash Fiction [...]
Maxine MacArthur's story "The Soul of the Machine", Ian McHugh's story "The Wishwriter's Wife" and Kaaron Warren's story "All You Can do is Breathe" have been included in The Year's Best Australian Fantasy & Horror 2011. Maxine's story was one of two (the other was Jason Nahrung's "Wraiths") to make [...]