Guest post by Donna Hanson As writers we know that writing is all about the writer and the writing medium, be it pen and paper, keyboard and blank screen. Put in a nutshell, writing is the transferring of ideas from one’s head to the written word—a lonely endeavour that only [...]
Guest post by Nicole Murphy One of the great things about being a speculative fiction writer in Australia is the speculative fiction community and the way it supports and encourages writers of all levels. Here in Canberra, there’s a couple of opportunities for people interested in writing spec fic to [...]
Guest post by Chris Andrews Eleventeen years ago (clearly too many to count) I decided on a brilliant Get Rich Quick Scheme, or GRQS for complexity. It involved writing a Number-One International Bestselling Novel and retiring before I’d left my teens. To a kid without any real-world experience it seemed [...]
Congratulations! To Kaaron Warren, whose story "The Human Moth" is shortlisted for Best Horror Short Fiction and whose story "Air, Water and the Grove" is shortlisted for Best SF Short Fiction, and Ian McHugh, whose story "Cold, Cold War" is listed for Best Fantasy Short Fiction at the 2013 Aurealis [...]
(and for the last bit of December when we were all flaked out on holidays) CONGRATULATIONS! To Kaaron Warren, whose story "Air, Water and the Grove" has been included in The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror 2014 from Prime Books. To Alan Baxter, whose story "The Fathomed Wreck To See" and [...]
Guest post by Marcus Amann As a full-time writer in the IT industry by day and a comedy writer by night, I take my writing tools seriously. With all the writing I have to do, I have to maximise my productivity. I’ve learned that to achieve my writing goals, I [...]
The program for the Conflux Writers Day, a new event ahead of the Aurealis Awards on 5 April 2014, is now live on the Conflux website. The program features CSFG members Kaaron Warren, Ian McHugh, Phill Berrie, Donna Maree Hanson, Chris Andrews and Rob Porteous.
by Ian McHugh (writing at ianmchugh.wordpress.com) A common question that crops up at writing workshops is “How do you go about getting stories published?” So much so that I’ve started building the short version of the answer into my workshop introductions. The short answer goes like this: McHugh’s 3-step Guide [...]
(and other CSFG Member News for September 2013) CONGRATULATIONS! To Alan, who has signed a THREE BOOK DEAL with HarperVoyager Australia! To (and fingers-crossed for) Shauna O'Meara, who has a story among the finalists in the Writes of the Future contest. Upcoming Workshops and Courses Gillian Polack will be commencing [...]
Congratulations! To Kaaron Warren, whose novella "Sky", having cleaned up all the available Australian national awards, has gone on to win the international Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novella! To Simon Petrie, whose novella "Flight 404" won the Sir Julius Vogel Award for best Novella/Novelette! The cover illustration, by original [...]