The Devil in Mr Pussy – Paul Haines
Paul Haines was raised in the ’70s, in the wrong part of Auckland, New Zealand. Vowing to never call Australia home, he now lives in Melbourne with his wife and daughter, who all successfully navigated...
View ArticleThe Bride Price – Cat Sparks and Blood Drunk – Adam Browne
‘Bride Price’ appeared in New Ceres #2 (Twelfth Planet Press) and The Bride Price (Ticonderoga Publicaitons) ‘Blood Drunk’ appeared in NFG Magazine. Cat Sparks is a multi-award winning author, editor...
View ArticleThe Slimelight and How to Step Into It – Robert Hood
Appeared in Creeping in Reptile Flesh (Morrigan Books) Robert Hood writes speculative fiction, generally of a dark nature. Even his science fiction tends to explore those nasty little gooey bits that...
View ArticleThe Little Demon – Louise Katz
Appeared in Mystery, Magic, Voodoo and the Holy Grail (HarperCollins) Louise is an award winning speculative fiction writer. Her previously published works include The Other Face of Janus...
View ArticleNightship – Kim Westwood
Appeared in Dreaming Again (HarperVoyager) Kim Westwood first came to prominence when her short story ‘The Oracle’ won a 2002 Aurealis Award. Since then‚ more stories have appeared: in anthologies such...
View ArticleSouls Along The Meridian – Bill Congreve
Appeared in Souls Along the Meridian (Blade Red Press) Bill is an award winning writer, editor, book reviewer and independent publisher (MirrorDanse Books). His collection of vampire stories is called...
View ArticleSmoking, Waiting for The Dawn – Jason Nahrung
Appeared in Dreaming Again (HarperVoyager) Jason Nahrung grew up on a Queensland cattle property and works as a newspaper journalist in Brisbane. He has travelled widely, both within Australia and...
View ArticleSlow and Ache – Trent Jamieson
Appeared in Aurealis 36 (Chimeara Publications) Trent Jamieson – Brisbane SF writer – has sold over sixty short stories and won the 2005 Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Short Story (‘Slow and...
View ArticleA Longing for The Dark – Sean Williams
An excerpt from Geodesica: Descent (HarperVoyager) Author website Sean Williams has been described as ‘the premier Australian speculative fiction writer of the age’ and ‘King of Chameleons’ for the...
View ArticleSpecial Perceptions – Richard Harland
Appeared in At Ease with the Dead (Ash Tree Press) Richard Harland is the author of numerous adult and YA speculative fiction novels, including his steampunk adventure Worldshaker from Allan and Unwin,...
View ArticleA Louder Echo – Brendan Duffy
Appeared in Agog! Terrific Tales (Agog! Press) Brendan Duffy is the Aurealis Awards winner for science fiction short stories in 2003 and 2004, with ‘Louder Echo’ and ‘Come to Daddy’. ‘Louder Echo’ was...
View ArticleAleph Mem Tav – Miranda Siemienowicz
Appeared in Aurealis #41 (Chimeara Publications) Miranda Siemienowicz is a Melbourne writer of dark literary surrealism. She has had stories and essays published in venues including Overland, Quadrant,...
View ArticleHush – Deborah Biancotti
Appeared in A Book of Endings (Twelfth Planet Press) Deborah Biancotti’s debut short story collection, A Book of Endings was described as a ‘superb collection of short stories’ by Graham Joyce, with...
View ArticleAlways – Trent Jamieson, … They First Make Mad – Keith Stevenson, Come to...
The 2009 Christmas Special ‘Always’ is previously unpublished. ‘… They First Make Mad’ appeared in Agog! Fantastic Fiction (Agog! Press) ‘Come to Daddy’ appeared in Agog! Smashing Stories (Agog! Press)...
View ArticleIn The Bookshadow – Marianne De Pierres
Appeared in Shelf Life: Fantastic Stories Celebrating Bookstores (DreamHaven Books) Marianne lives in Queensland and is the author of the best-selling Parrish Plessis and Sentients of Orion series. She...
View ArticleBeast Machine Fableaux – Matthew Chrulew
Appeared in Antennae Issue 9 “Mechanical Animals” Matthew Chrulew’s fiction has been published in Canterbury 2100, Australian Dark Fantasy & Horror, The Worker’s Paradise, ASIF and Aurealis. He is...
View ArticleUnder the Red Sun – Ben Peek
Appeared in Fantasy Magazine Issue #4 (Prime Books) Ben Peek is the author of Twenty-Six Lies/One Truth and Black Sheep. His short fiction has been reprinted in numerous Year’s Best volumes, and have...
View ArticleFor Want of a Jesusman – Jason Fischer
Appeared in Aurealis Magazine Issue #42 (Chimaera Publications) Jason Fischer is based in Adelaide, South Australia. He attended Clarion South in 2007, was shortlisted in the 2009 Ditmar Awards for...
View ArticleFlower and Weed – Margo Lanagan
The story is unpublished, but is set in the same world as ‘Sea-Hearts’ novella in X6: a novellanthology (coeur de lion publishing) and Sea Hearts (Allen and Unwin). Sydney-based writer Margo Langan...
View ArticleBlack Dog – Peter Ball
Appeared in Interfictions II (Interstitial Arts Foundation/ Small Beer Press) Peter M Ball is a Brisbane-based writer whose short fiction has appeared in Fantasy Magazine, Strange Horizons, Apex...
View ArticleFleshy – Tansy Rayner Roberts
Appeared in 2012 (Twelfth Planet Press) Tansy Rayner Roberts is a Tasmanian writer of speculative fiction. Her Creature Court Trilogy is published by HarperVoyager featuring shapechangers and...
View ArticleThe Fear of White – Rjurik Davidson
Appeared in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine Issue 7 Rjurik Davidson has written short stories, essays, screenplays and reviews. He has been short-listed for the Ditmar Award for Best Short Story...
View ArticleBlack and Bitter, Thanks – Nathan Burrage
Appeared in The Workers’ Paradise (Ticonderoga Press) Nathan Burrage is a Sydney-based writer and author of Fivefold, a mystic thriller drawing on the rich tradition of the Kabbalah. Nathan has...
View ArticleFather Muerte and The Flesh – Lee Battersby
Appeared in Aurealis Magazine Issue #36 (Chimaera Publications) Lee Battersby is the multi-award winning author of over seventy stories in Australia, the US and Europe, as well as numerous poems,...
View ArticlePodcast – Simon Petrie
Appeared in Rare Unsigned Copy (Peggy Bright Books) Simon Petrie is a NZ-born research scientist now living in Canberra. His short fiction has appeared in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine,...
View ArticleIn From The Snow – Lee Battersby and Undead Camels Ate Their Flesh – Jason...
Lee Battersby is the multi-award winning author of over seventy stories in Australia, the US and Europe, as well as numerous poems, reviews, and ephemera, including a stream of minicomics and comic...
View ArticleBats – Jane Routley
This story was inspired by my first visit to Queensland . As I listened to the fruit bats fighting in the outside in the warm thick Townsville night, I thought about how perfect this sound was for...
View ArticleThe Duchess of Newcastle – Lucy Sussex
Appeared in Shelf Life: Fantastic Stories Celebrating Bookstores (DreamHaven Books) Lucy Sussex was born in New Zealand in 1957. She has degrees in English and Librarianship from Monash University, and...
View ArticleLike a Bug Underfoot – Chuck McKenzie
Appeared in Daikaiju! Giant Monster Tales (Agog! Press) Chuck McKenzie was born in 1970, and still spends much of his time there. He currently fills multiple roles as a bookseller, reviewer, and zombie...
View ArticleAlien Tears – Wendy Waring
Appeared in Anywhere But Earth (coeur de lion publishing) Originally from Canada, Wendy has made a home in Australia and her speculative fiction has appeared in Interzone and Tesseracts. She was an...
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