It’s a wise and true saying that ‘all good things come to he (or she) who waits’. These Australian authors haven’t exactly been standing around waiting, but their success has indeed been a long and hard-worked time coming. So we’re celebrating the upcoming release of three ‘first novels’ from three excellent Australian speculative fiction writers including [...]
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This year’s Ditmar nominations (for works published in the 2009 calendar year) are now open and you can nominate your favourite works on the online nomination form. In case you’re having trouble remembering which fantastic works from last year you’d like to nominate, we have a few excellent suggestions for you: Best Novella Category The recently announced line-up for the 2010 Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror edited by by Bram Stoker and international Horror Guild award-winning editor Paula Guran includes Margo Lanagan’s spellbinding novella from X6, ‘Sea-Hearts’. Fellow Australian author Deborah Biancotti’s story ‘Diamond Shell’ from her debut collection A Book of Endings (Twelfth Planet Press) also made the [...] Paul Haines’s X6 novella ‘Wives’ picked up it’s fourth award nomination with the announcement from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Association of New Zealand that its been shortlisted for ‘best novella’ in this year’s Sir Julius Vogel Awards. This is on top of an Aurealis Award for horror short story, Australian Shadows Award nomination, and Tiptree [...] The Shirley Jackson Awards recognise outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic. Named for Shirley Jackson, acclaimed American author of The Haunting of Hill House and We have Always Lived in the Castle, the awards are selected by a jury of professional writers, editors, critics, and academics, with input from [...] Respected spec fic editor Ellen Datlow’s annual list of ‘honourable mentions’ was posted on her blog earlier this week and appears in print in her new anthology Best Horror of the Year 2 from Night Shade Books. Two novellas from coeur de lion’s X6 are listed amongst the notable reads for the year – Paul Haines’s [...] The Australian Horror Writers Association have announced the winners of the 2009 Australian Shadows Awards. Congratulations to the winners: Long Fiction – Slights (Angry Robot) by Kaaron Warren Congratulations to the [...] Paul Haines’s visceral and compelling X6 novella, ‘Wives’ has made the Tiptree Award Honour List for 2009, adding to an Aurealis Award, recent shortlisting for the Australian Shadows Award and listing on the Locus 2009 Recommended Reads. This from the judges’ report: ‘An interesting counterpoint to Ooku projected effects of gender imbalance, Haines’ “Wives” is a sharp, [...] Reviews of X6 – a novellanthology edited by Keith Stevenson ‘The novellas collected in X6 have little in common except that they are billed as “journeys beyond the borders of the real,” and indeed, none of the stories take place in the real world; all are clever abstractions, magically unreal versions or extrapolations of [...] Fresh from its Aurealis Award horror short story win, Paul Haines’s X6 novella ‘Wives’ has been shortlisted in the long fiction category for the 2009 Australian Shadows Award auspiced by the Australian Horror Writers Association. The winners will be announced on April 5. You can read ‘Wives’ here until 13 March (and also nominate it for [...] |
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