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 [...]
Our Workshops and Courses page is now up to date. Note the classes coming up in July and August: The Three Richards with Gillian Polack ANU Centre for Continuing Education 6-8pm on 7 Tuesdays from 30 July Write The Fight Right and other secrets to action with Alan Baxter ACT [...]
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 [...]
UPDATED! Book Launch Friday 26 April, 6-7pm - launch of Next, edited by Simon Petrie and Rob Porteous Dealer's Room From 1pm, Thursday 25 April - come see the special offers at the CSFG dealers table Workshops Thursday 25 April, 12-3pm - Writing using the five senses with Gillian Polack Friday 26 April, 8-10am [...]
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 [...]
Nicole R Murphy is teaching both the standard online version and a class-based adaptation of Kim Wilkins's Year of the Novel course in 2013. Both courses are enrolling now - the online course starts January 2013 and the class-based course starts in February at the ACT Writers Centre. See here [...]
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 [...]