Vandal: Stories of Damage, dropped on Tuesday 21 Feb! Live launch to come but you can look at some of the Facebook Event activity here. Thank you to Crystal Lake Publishing, and to Team V: Aaron Dries and Kaaron Warren. And to all the readers and fans out there who are buying and raving about…
This is one of the courses that makes me love teaching as much as writing. My students routinely go on to publish stories workshopped here, which makes me happy.Magic realism, Gothic weird, bizarro, slipstream… let’s face it, what fiction, at its heart, isn’t weird AF? Here is a peak into what I mean. Plus, you’ll…
Honoured to be listed in the novel category along with literary friends Angela Slatter and Maria Lewis, and so many other cool folks across all categories. Looking forward to Conflux in a few weeks.
Very excited about this event to be held at Merrigong Theatre Company as part of the SWF, live and local program. Alan and I will chat about his new book, The Fall, which is a wild weird cosmic horror set in the remote and deeply unpleasant town of Gulpepper. You can get an intro to…
Thrilled to announce The Bridge’s shortlisting among so many many talented friends.
I’m teaching a Creative Writing Stage 1 Course, and Novel Writing Essentials Course at AWC – just finished the first couple of rounds—and although it’s early days, I’m already loving it. Lots of keen students, a fantastic curriculum for all levels, really great support, and a very effective online learning platform—which is a big plus….
One or two places left – I’m already loving this group. Looking forward to introducing some new and old fiction that I’ve loved this year by Angela Slatter, Ursula LeGuin, Jeffrey Ford and Yoko Ogawa.
Thank you to Meerkat Press for hosting the joint launch of The Bridge and J.Ashley Smith’s Ariadne: I love you. Thanks to all who attended, asked questions and got our over-caffeinated answers and congratulations to Andrea Teare for winning the swag.
Collision:Stories is a finalist for the Aurealis Awards in two categories. Best novella, fantasy, for “Like Ripples on a Blank Shore,” and best collection. So many pals, new and old are also on the list, which is here. Acclaimed authors Eugen Bacon and Kat Clay and will be frocking up to be socially distanced hosts…
You can view the full list here. Lots of friends, colleagues, idols on the short list, including Karron Warren’s brilliant novella Into Bones Like Oil, also from Meerkat. I just keep looking at my name alongside Nathan Ballingrud’s, Brian Evenson’s (both of whose collections are among my most treasured rereads) and under hers—Shirley’s herself. My…
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