Independent Inkwell is a documentary by film maker Max Rowan looking at the work of Australian independent press and includes interviews with local speculative fiction publishers Alan Baxter (Blade Red Press) and Keith Stevenson (coeur de lion publishing). First screened on TVS, the program looks at the reasons behind independent publishing and the motivations of those [...]
Bill Congreve is best known in the Australian speculative fiction community as an anthologist, most recently in his Year’s Best Australian Science Fiction And Horror series, and as the SF and horror reviewer for fifteen years with Aurealis Magazine. But he’s also a writer – predominantly in horror – and Souls Along the Meridian is his [...]
The Terra Incognita Speculative Fiction podcast is a monthly showcase of the best Australian Speculative Fiction read by the authors who created it. TISF 25 is up now, free on the TISF website (www.tisf.com.au) as well as on iTunes.
The latest podcast features Simon Petrie reading his aptly named SF story ‘Podcast’ as well as [...]
Thanks to the amazing generosity of many people within our local speculative fiction community – SpecFaction NSW are hosting a fundraising Ebay auction.
You can bid on an original print from Scott Westerfield’s Leviathan or a bundle of autographed fantasy, science fiction or horror novels from a huge list of Aussie authors including: Sara Douglass, Ian Irvine, [...]
We couldn’t be happier here at coeur de lion after hearing that Margo Lanagan won a well-deserved World Fantasy Award over the weekend for her truly wonderful X6 novella, ‘Sea-Hearts’. This caps a fantastic year for our little anthology which has scooped an Aurealis, Ditmar and Sir Julius Vogel award and made the Tiptree Honour list [...]