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 forever muse. Wounded and wounding guardian spirit. Bottom line: I can’t believe it.
It’s true! In case you don’t believe me, here is the picture of the trophy, along with my Shirley Jackson Award nominee stone. Couldn’t be more grateful to the Aurealis Award Committee, and all the folks who had a hand in Collision’s success, from (especially) my wonderful agent, Matt Bialer, to Meerkat Press for getting…
Sydney Community College is where I’ll be running a novel writing workshop over eight weeks, starting Feb 3. I think it’s sold out but there’s another one scheduled soon. Last year the students wowed me and broke my heart, in equal measure. Combination bad instant coffee, dry cookies, and being in a downtown office building…
LegumeMan Books is a site for great underground stuff, no I mean seriously. Take Orange Crush by Michael Dillon.
Sad, savage, hilarious.Especially the mid-tale riff on limb number five.
Still and still the coalface calls—I’ll be five feet under myself by tomorrow. Sixty juniors await iambic pentameter illumination.
Watch this space.
Two more days to go and I am up to p 190 but I am going to try and get a hundred pp done today. I am worried about losing my mojo by letting this drag on so long and concerned that by becoming a chore I am letting the emotional charge run cold. SO…
I’ll be running a workshop called Writing Horror With Heart as part of Alex Davis’s Winter Haunts Event, on November 6, a day of panels, workshops and talks about ghosts and ghost stories and the supernatural. Hope to see you there!
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