Personal writing achievements and news for happy sharing.
Wow – look at this! My Ditmar Award just arrived and it’s so beautiful. I love it! So of course the first thing to do is snap a photo to share with you. I’m so lucky to have been awarded this, thanks to Australia’s amazing speculative fiction community. Thank you,…
What a week! First I won a Ditmar Award (read more about that here), and now my flash fiction story Shy has been published over at AntipodeanSF. “Our skies are covered in everlasting cloud, except for one hole we call the Break. It arrives above our island at the same…
You know how sometimes you enter a competition and think to yourself: Gee, it would be nice to win, but that won’t happen so I may as well just get on with other things And then you don’t win, so at least you win at ‘being right’…? Well *that* but…
Because I’m incredibly lucky to be a mother of two wonderful healthy children… Because giving sick kids a story to read and spending the next few months raising money for them is definitely something I can do… Because my writers’ group wanted to do the same… The Northern Beaches Writers’…
This week I’m over on Need Help Write Now being interviewed by the very lovely and influential Eda Utku about my favourite books, geography, themes I explore in my writing, inspiration and my next writing project… Spotlight on Zena Shapter Zena Shapter is a British-English fiction writer, published author and…
I can’t believe it… I’ve been nominated for a Ditmar Award for Best New Talent! Thank you so much to everyone who nominated me for this wonderful honour – I’m seriously indebted to you 🙂 For anyone who doesn’t know, the Ditmar Awards celebrate achievements by Australians in speculative fiction…
Is it good to be chirpy all the time? I’ve been asking myself this lately because I am, mostly, chirpy. Over the years, I’ve become fairly comfortable in my own skin. And on the odd day when I’m not comfortable in that skin, I go jog it off. Simple. But……
