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In Your Face – speculative fiction with bite!
In Your Face, an anthology of confronting speculative fiction from FableCroft Publishing, will soon be in the wild (next month!)! This volume contains 22 stories from some of Australia’s biggest...
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Carmichael mine a ‘white elephant’
Photo: nealehaynes.comTwo telling quotes from a fascinating interview with lawyer James Thornton, the driving force behind environmental law firm ClientEarth: Climate change is so real that people in...
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Keeping up, when the future is now
Image: reneweconomy.com.auOne of the hardest parts about writing a near-future novel is keeping ahead of the news, but that’s not always a bad thing. For instance, here’s a news article about an...
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Ecopunk! The end of the world as we know it
Ticonderoga Publications brought this rather splendid volume out this year — 19 tales of how we might adapt to climate change. It’s an important topic, and given I’ve spent the best of three years...
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Stranded Assets finds a home
I guess the headline is a little contradictory, but anyway, I’m pleased as punch that ‘Stranded Assets’ has found a berth in Colloquy journal — a nice dip of the hat to 2018. The short story was...
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From the page to a coffee table – They Are Us is open
Neale Thompson, who made the coffee table in the background drawing on my piece ‘Ghosts of Us’. Picture: Kirstyn McDermottThe They Are Us collaborative ekphrastic art exhibition filled the room for its...
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Wollemi Dreaming – a new story
Wollemi pines. Picture: NPWS via AAPYes, for the first time since finishing the PhD, I’ve written — and sold — a short story. Whew. ‘Wollemi Dreaming’ was written in response to a call-out for an...
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A prize for Watermarks, the thesis
It is an absolute thrill to be able to share the news that my PhD thesis, (short title) “Watermarks”, has been awarded the Aurealis Awards Convenors’ Award for Excellence. The award, to quote the...
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Oz Is Burning ebook now available
The ebook version of Oz Is Burning is now available, with a print version to follow. The anthology, from B Cubed Press, is centred on Australia’s horror bushfire period of 2019-20, and supports...
View ArticleVampires, climate fiction and getting our goth on with Bohemiana podcast
In which the extremely personable and knowledgeable host George Penney chats with yours truly at Bohemiana about locating vampire fiction in Australia, the importance of fiction in the climate crisis,...
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