Ian McHugh is a graduate of Clarion West and the 2008 grand prize winner in the Writers of the Future contest. He is an intermittently active member of the Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild. In 2009, his stories appeared in markets including Asimov's, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Greatest Uncommon Denominator, Andromeda Spaceways and Clockwork Phoenix ( Read more... )

Dirk Flinthart is somewhere on the wrong side of 40. He started out writing in Brisbane, doing crime fiction with Duffy & Snellgrove. That led to backpacker's guides, and then to "How To Be A Man" with John Birmingham. But just about then, Mr Flinthart acquired a family, and since then he's been mostly involved in short fiction. He's been well ( Read more... )

Ben Payne was born in a cinema near you. He has been the queen of several books, such as Potato Monkey, Andromeda Spaceways, Aurealis, Shiny, 2012, Dog versus Sandwich, Moonlight Tuba (sic) and virtually every other thing you can think of that you enjoyed, well he did that too, just don’t ask him for details. In his spare tire he writes fictional ( Read more... )

Christopher Green was born in the United States. After moving to Australia at the age of 20, he attended Clarion South in 2007 and has been published in Dreaming Again, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and The Tangled Bank: Love, Wonder and Evolution. His work has won an Aurealis Award and been shortlisted for the Australian Shadows Award. When he isn’t ( Read more... )

Gabrielle Wang is an award winning author and illustrator of junior fiction and Young Adult novels. She was born in Melbourne of Chinese heritage. Her great grandfather came to Australia during the Victorian Gold Rush in 1853. As a result, Gabrielle’s books are a blend of both Australian and Chinese culture with a touch of fantasy. Her first novel ( Read more... )

Kim Falconer lives in Byron Bay with two gorgeous black cats. As well as her author website, she runs an astrology forum and alternative science site, trains with a sword and is completing a Masters Degree in writing through Open Universities Australia. Her novel writing is done early every morning, seven days a week. Currently she’s working on her ( Read more... )

Jack Dann is a multiple-award winning author who has written or edited over seventy-five books, including the international bestseller The Memory Cathedral, which was 1 on The Age Bestseller list, The Rebel: an Imagined Life of James Dean, and The Silent, which Library Journal chose as one of their ‘Hot Picks’ and wrote: “This is narrative ( Read more... )

Kate is Chief Executive Officer of Queensland Writers Centre. She has previously worked as a small business consultant focusing on micro enterprises, non-profits and individual artists in the creative sectors. As a consultant for Creative Economy, she worked with indigenous creative businesses to develop sustainable enterprise and participated in ( Read more... )

An illustrator by training and a deeply unrepentant word-nerd, D.M. Cornish is old enough to have seen the very first Star Wars (the now unhappily titled ‘Episode 4’). From such flights of delight and fancy he has developed an almost habitual outlet for his passion of word conjuring through the invention of secondary worlds. A fortuitous encounter ( Read more... )

Tehani has been active in the Aussie spec fic scene since 2001. She is currently focussed on editing an anthology for 9-13 year olds (Worlds Next Door, due out mid-2010) and enjoying her growing family!

1. You're currently working on an anthology of speculative fiction for children, which I think is really exciting. Do you think this is an ( Read more... )