An interesting discussion over at http://coffeeandink.livejournal.com/1055928.html talking about the trials and tribulations of being a judge for the James Tiptree Jnr Award.

Here's what they had to say about my little piece:

Karen Joy Fowler: Jurors sometimes couldn't get along. There are a number of times someone will think a book is feminist in ( Read more... )

Awards

I was lucky enough to pick up the following awards over the last week or two at WorldCon (AussieCon 4) and Au Contraire (NZ)

• 2010 Ditmar Best Collection (Slice of Life)
• 2010 Ditmar Best Novella (Wives)
• 2010 Sir Julius Vogel Best Novella (Wives)

I found out I was only 5 votes off Wives being nominated for the Hugo Best Novella (the most ( Read more... )

Keith Stevenson over at Coeur De Lion has run my X6 novella "Wives" through Wordle.

The image, according to Keith, is almost as visceral and confronting as the original text.

It made me laugh. It's very accurate.

Click here for The Wives Wordle

The Sir Julius Vogel Awards, New Zealand's speculative fiction awards, have announced their shortlist for 2010.

I've been shortlisted for:

Best Collection: Slice Of Life (The Mayne Press, 2009)
Best Novella: "Wives" (X6, Coeur De Lion, 2009)
Best Short Story: "Slice of Life - A Spot of Liver" (Slice of Life, The Mayne Press, 2009)

Nice to see Simon ( Read more... )

For those who may still be stumbling across links that lead to the PDF versions of WIves and Slice of Life - A Spot Of Liver, the page has now been removed. Apologies to all who still want to get their eyes and hearts and souls sullied, but if you really want them, you can still buy them from:

Wives - X6, coeur de lion
A Spot of Liver - Slice of Life ( Read more... )

I am delighted to report that my novella WIVES (X6, coeur de lion, 2009) made the Honours List of the 2009 James Tiptree Jr Award.

"Haines’ “Wives” is a sharp, deeply ugly look at white working class Australian masculinity in a world where women are scarce. The dystopian Australian outback where the story mostly occurs is a place of intense misogyny ( Read more... )

Niall Harrison over at Strange Horizons reviews Some 2009 Short Fiction including "Wives".

"As perhaps is obvious, "Wives" is a very different kind of story to the others I’ve been discussing: a fantasy of irrationality, if you like, a tale of a world whose society sustains and perpetuates itself not in spite of its apparent illogic, but because of ( Read more... )

My novella WIVES (X6, coeur de lion, 2009) has made the shortlist for Best Long Fiction in this year's Australian Shadows Awards.

I thought I'd be in the Short Fiction section, but I'm competing with the big boys and girls. Gulp.

Full list of finalists here.

From Locus, Feb 2010:

Gardnerspace:
An obscurely published (from an American perspective, anyway) anthology from Australian small press coeur de lion, X6, a "novellanthology" of six novellas edited by Keith Stevenson, slips into the original anthology race late in the the year and makes a very respectable showing for itself, nosing ahead of several ( Read more... )

Rich Horton delivers several reviews on his LJ, one of which is X6:

X6 is a quite remarkable collection of novellas by Australian writers. The story that has got the most attention is Paul Haines's "Wives", a thoroughly brutal story of a hopeless future in which men buy wives from the city and are revealed to treat them horrifically -- I can't deny ( Read more... )