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 [...]
by Nicole Murphy There’s something really cool happening on the CSFG mailing list at the moment – writing. And talking about writing. And critiquing and revising and more writing. And it’s all Conflux’s fault, so I’m pretty proud of that. Not that there isn’t any talk about writing on the [...]
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 [...]
Book now! Session times have been finalised for the writing workshop program at the ACT Writers Centre on 28 September as part of the Conflux 8 convention. Details for the workshops being delivered by CSFG members are on the Workshops and Courses page.
by Nicole Murphy One of the great ‘a-ha’ moments in my writing came courtesy of a Jack Dann workshop. It was a good thing it happened during that particular workshop, because that weekend also ended up being one of the hardest things I’ve gone through. We were critiquing each other’s [...]
Grammar Basics and The Perils of Punctuation with Gillian Polack - NSW Writers’ Centre, Sunday 22 July Creative Writing (Fiction) with Ian McHugh - Canberra Institute of Technology, Woden Campus, 6x Wednesdays from 1 August Writing – A Novel Approach with Gillian Polack - ANU Centre for Continuing Education, 8x [...]
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 Ross Hamilton's novella "It Hides in Darkness" won the Creative Unpublished Authors Print Ready Competition.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 [...]
Ian McHugh will be delivering a day workshop on "Writing Short Stories for Publication" at the ACT Writers Centre on Saturday 16 June. Nicole Murphy will be starting delivery of an online course on "Creating Colourful Characters" through Savvy Writers on Monday 25 June. Follow the links for more information [...]
Gillian Polack is delivering a 6 week course, "Build your own medieval society for writing or playing"through the ANU Centre for Continuing Education, commencing on Thursday 3 May. For more information go to the ANU CCE website. Book before 25 April! Course summary: Well-constructed fiction and games require solid underpinning. This [...]