As part of prepping and researching for my phd candidacy application, I’m playing around with lots of gender numbers in Aussie specfic. This is actually going to be far more intensive and fiddly than I originally thought and I keep coming up with extra ideas and tangents to run off in. Meanwhile, I thought I might throw various plots and snippets ( Read more... )

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So the rules for the eligibility of the Norma K Hemming Award have been changed. As per the website:

The Norma K. Hemming Award marks excellence in the exploration of themes of race, gender, sexuality, class and disability:

• in the form of science fiction and fantasy or ( Read more... )

Today I attended the con. This is the first time I have ever gone to a con by myself, without a friend to hang onto or a dealer's table to work behind. As in the first time I have gone to a con and never met anyone at it in person before. I figured that would be fine, I'd attend the programming. And it's a con with a short story focus so ... the ( Read more... )

I forgot to post here that Siren Beat by Tansy Rayner Roberts has been shortlisted in the Washington Science Fiction Association's Small Press Award.

The award honors the efforts of small press publishers in providing a critical venue for short fiction in the area of speculative fiction. The award showcases the best original short fiction ( Read more... )

We're so proud of this book and so delighted with how it's been received.

A Book of Endings has been shortlisted in the Long Fiction category and "Six Suicides" has been shortlisted in the Short Fiction category of the Australian Shadow Awards.

The full shortlist can be viewed here.


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Have your vote in the Locus Poll - the 40th annual Locus Awards ballot, covering works that appeared in 2009 is up: here.

The format of this year's online ballot is different from previous years', but the voting rules remain the same -- subscriber votes count double, but all votes will be counted, as long as you include your name, e-mail, and ( Read more... )

Until March 13, Twelfth Planet Press is offering free electronic copies of Horn by Peter M Ball and "Siren Beat" by Tansy Rayner Roberts and short stories from Deborah Biancotti's A Book of Endings to help you catch up on your Australian specfic reading.

Horn by Peter M Ball was shortlisted for two Aurealis Awards in 2009 and is eligible in the ( Read more... )

From Locus Online:

Jedediah Berry has been named the winner of the 2010 William L. Crawford Award for first novel The Manual of Detection. The Award, presented annually at The International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, is for a new fantasy writer whose first book appeared the previous year. This year's conference will be March 17-21, ( Read more... )

The 2010 Hugo Awards will be presented in Melbourne, Australia during Aussiecon 4, the 68th World Science Fiction Convention.

Members of Aussiecon 4 who join by 31st January 2010 and members of Anticipation, the 67th World Science Fiction Convention, will be eligible to nominate people or works from 2009 in various categories. Nominations will ( Read more... )

The BSFA awards are presented annually by the British Science Fiction Association, based on a vote of BSFA members and - in recent years - members of the British national science fiction convention (Eastercon). Nominations are now open for the BSFA's 2009 awards ( Read more... )