Ditmar shortlists announced
The shortlists for the Ditmar awards, fan nominated and fan voted, have been announced. Interesting to note that, outside of the novel realm, small press dominate almost exclusively, and that fan...
View ArticleSalvage launches on June 8!
The time has been confirmed! Salvage will join the Twelfth Planet Press flotilla being celebrated in Melbourne at Continuum at 7pm on Friday 8 June. And the good news: the convention is entry by gold...
View ArticleSnapshot 2012: Australia’s speculative fiction scene
The Aussie Spec Fic Snapshot has taken place three times over the past eight years. In 2005, Ben Peek spent a frantic week interviewing 43 people in the Australian spec fic scene, and since then, it’s...
View ArticleSnapshot 2012: me
Ian Mond, one of my fellow Snapshotters, has posted a Q&A with yours truly. Thoughts on the horror scene, the new book and — most importantly — some tips on great Aussie stories worthy of your...
View ArticleSalvage launches — tomorrow night!
A gentle reminder — well, more of a whoop, really — that Salvage is about to be launch. A bottle of red cracked across the bow and sent out into the stormy waters of the marketplace for your — I hope —...
View ArticleSnapshot 2012: Alison Goodman
ALISON Goodman has been writing and being published for almost 24 years. She began to get published in her second year of university – mainly feature articles and short stories – and her first novel...
View ArticleWriterly round-up: a new book, an award, a farewell
It’s the afternoon after the four days that came before, and what a grand four days Continuum 8 offered. Held at Rydges in Carlton, where the bartenders were, as usual, outgunned by demand, the...
View ArticleOz Horror Con, Sydney Spec Fic Festival: here we come!
So, another idea to make it an easy, homebody year, and look what’s happened: outings! adventures! Hehe. First up, I’ll be hanging out with the horror buffs at Oz Horror Con in Melbourne, which is on...
View ArticleCaution: Contains Small Parts, by Kirstyn McDermott — we have launch!
It’s a little over two weeks until the launch of Kirstyn’s Caution: Contains Small Parts. Why, yes, I have had a preview read, and yes, it rocks in that unsettling McDermott mode that recently snared...
View ArticleContinuum, Chronos … shiny!
Home again, and happy to say, there is new, somewhat unexpected shiny on the shelf. Salvage won for best novel and ‘Mornington Ride’, from Epilogue, won best short story – the first time one of my...
View ArticleContinuum X, at which Kirstyn wins an award and I wear a top hat
By Cat Sparks.Home again from Continuum X, the national science fiction convention held in Melbourne at the weekend. Knackered, but happily so, after much catching up with friends old and new. It was a...
View ArticleAurealis Awards a happening thing
The Aurealis Awards are one of my favourite events on the literary calendar, a crash of companionship, congratulations and commiserations, but above all, good company drawn from the ranks of the Aussie...
View ArticleGet your Aussie vampires here
Picture courtesy of Alison Goodman Home again from the Continuum convention in Melbourne, at which there was much catching up, some learnin’ and some launchin’. Always good to reconnect with the clan,...
View ArticleHeading to Continuum for a climate disaster or two
Speculative fiction convention Continuum runs at Melbourne’s Jasper Hotel June 8-11 (gosh, that’s starting tomorrow!), and I’ll be heading along to talk about climate change (as well as many other...
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