Personal writing achievements and news for happy sharing.
The 2012 Aussie Speculative Fiction Snapshot Wow – how chuffed am I? I’ve just been included in the 2012 Australian speculative fiction snapshot, a series of interviews designed to celebrate the breadth and depth of Australia’s speculative fiction scene.
Today, there are congratulations all round. CONGRATULATIONS… me! I sold another short story today – yay! It’s my first international sale (details to follow soon), so… watch out world! (he he) CONGRATULATIONS… Ditmar nominees! A lot of my author mates got nominated today… for Ditmar Awards. Ditmar Awards have been…
Three personal updates Update 1: My writing is being studied at university! It’s quite an honour to have my writing studied at university. In fact, wow! Okay, so that statement probably makes it sound more than what it is. But my writing really has just been studied, analysed and dissected…
A multimedia storytelling project that might just inspire you. A short time ago, I received an intriguing message through the Northern Beaches Writers’ Group website (which is the critique group I run in Manly, Sydney). The message was from a rather clever cookie at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS),…
Excitement and nerves had me tugging at my husband’s sleeve and sipping back the wine last Sunday evening. I was at Manly Library for the annual Fellowship of Australian Writers Manly & Peninsula awards night, and I was on the shortlist for a prize.
2011 Oberon Writing Competition I’m thrilled to announce that I’ve just won first place in the 2011 Oberon Writing Competition, open prose section, with my short story Invisible Dirt. Yay! Woot woot! Distance thwarted my ability to attend the award ceremony, which took place last Saturday in Oberon, over 200km away.…
I’m pleased to announce the publication of two of my short stories, Trigger and Breakthrough, in the following two print anthologies: Winds of Change From the first roiling dust clouds, Winds of Change draws the reader in with tales of darkness and horror, of wonder and hope. Twenty four authors…
