Alien Tears – Wendy Waring

Sun, 15 Jan 2017 03:07:31 +0000

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 alumnus of the 2004 Clarion South workshop. Also in this episode: Keith Stevenson reviews Greig Beck’s This Green Hell (Pan Macmillan Australia)

Like a Bug Underfoot – Chuck McKenzie

Sun, 15 Jan 2017 03:04:33 +0000

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 obsessive, only one of which pays the bills – although sometimes he also writes short fiction and gets paid for it, which…

The Duchess of Newcastle – Lucy Sussex

Sun, 15 Jan 2017 03:02:10 +0000

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 is a freelance researcher, editor and writer. She has published widely, writing anything from literary criticism to horror and detective stories. In addition she is a…

Bats – Jane Routley

Sun, 15 Jan 2017 03:00:06 +0000

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 Australian Gothic and wondered how a vampire story would work in this setting. – Jane Routley Also in this…

In From The Snow – Lee Battersby and Undead Camels Ate Their Flesh – Jason Fischer

Sun, 15 Jan 2017 02:57:50 +0000

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 strips spread out over the years like illegitimate children. Jason Fischer is based in Adelaide, South Australia. He attended Clarion South in 2007,…

Podcast – Simon Petrie

Sun, 15 Jan 2017 02:55:27 +0000

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, Aurealis, Kaleidotrope, Murky Depths, Sybil’s Garage, and arguably in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.His debut collection Rare Unsigned Copy: Tales of Rocketry, Ineptitude,…

Father Muerte and The Flesh – Lee Battersby

Sun, 15 Jan 2017 02:53:01 +0000

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, reviews, and ephemera, including a stream of minicomics and comic strips spread out over the years like illegitimate children. He blogs irregularly at The Battersblog.…

Black and Bitter, Thanks – Nathan Burrage

Sun, 15 Jan 2017 02:50:26 +0000

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 published short fiction in a number of Australian speculative fiction magazines and anthologies. Also in this episode: Keith Stevenson reviews Death Most Definite by Trent…

The Fear of White – Rjurik Davidson

Sun, 15 Jan 2017 02:48:07 +0000

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 three times, the Aurealis Award once and won the Ditmar award for Best New Talent in 2005 and been published in Years Best Australian Science Fiction…

Fleshy – Tansy Rayner Roberts

Sun, 15 Jan 2017 02:45:53 +0000

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 flappers. Tansy is also one of the three voices of the Galactic Suburbia podcast. Also in this episode: Keith Stevenson reviews The Life Lottery by Ian Irvine.

Black Dog – Peter Ball

Sun, 15 Jan 2017 02:43:13 +0000

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 Magazine and the Interfictions II anthology. He attended Clarion South in 2007 and published a unicorn-noir novella, Horn, with Twelfth Planet Press in 2009. Also in this episode:…

Flower and Weed – Margo Lanagan

Sun, 15 Jan 2017 02:40:43 +0000

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 was predominantly known for writing YA short fiction which was collected in her very successful books White Time, Black Juice and Red Spike.…

For Want of a Jesusman – Jason Fischer

Sun, 15 Jan 2017 02:38:18 +0000

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 Best New Talent, and is a recent Winner of the Writers of the Future contest. He has stories in Dreaming Again, Apex, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight…

Under the Red Sun – Ben Peek

Sun, 15 Jan 2017 02:33:47 +0000

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 appeared in Overland, Polyphony, Leviathan, Fantasy Magazine, Aurealis, and more. In addition to this, he has written reviews, an online comic, and a…

Beast Machine Fableaux – Matthew Chrulew

Sun, 15 Jan 2017 02:30:47 +0000

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 currently writing a cultural and natural history of the mammoth for Reaktion Books. Also in this episode: Keith Stevenson reviews The Terminator Gene by Ian Irvine.

In The Bookshadow – Marianne De Pierres

Sun, 15 Jan 2017 02:27:45 +0000

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 also writes humorous crime novels under the pseudonym, Marianne Delacourt. Also in this episode: Keith Stevenson reviews Beneath The Dark Ice by Greig Beck.

Always – Trent Jamieson, … They First Make Mad – Keith Stevenson, Come to Daddy – Brendan Duffy

Wed, 04 Jan 2017 05:34:31 +0000

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) Trent Jamieson – Brisbane SF writer – has sold over sixty short stories and won the 2005 Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Short Story…

Hush – Deborah Biancotti

Wed, 04 Jan 2017 05:27:21 +0000

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 stories The Age calls ‘succinct and powerful’, and is available from Twelfth Planet Press. Also in this episode: Keith Stevenson reviews Slights by…

Aleph Mem Tav – Miranda Siemienowicz

Wed, 04 Jan 2017 05:24:37 +0000

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, Hecate and Island. Her work has been reprinted in The Best Horror of the Year Vol. 1 (Ellen Datlow, Night Shade Books) and Australian Dark Fantasy and…

A Louder Echo – Brendan Duffy

Wed, 04 Jan 2017 05:22:00 +0000

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 also selected for Hartwell & Cramer’s Year’s Best Fantasy 4, and ‘The Tale of Enis Cash, Smallgoods Smokehand’ was selected for Congreve…

Special Perceptions – Richard Harland

Wed, 04 Jan 2017 05:18:24 +0000

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, and countless adult, YA and children’s fantasy, science fiction and horror short stories. Richard won the Aurealis best fantasy short story award in…

A Longing for The Dark – Sean Williams

Wed, 04 Jan 2017 04:40:09 +0000

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 diversity of his output.  Forthcoming releases include The Grand Conjunction, a gothic/noir space opera set over one million years in the future, and The Scarecrow, a…

Slow and Ache – Trent Jamieson

Wed, 04 Jan 2017 04:32:56 +0000

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 Ache’), and the 2008 Aurealis Award for Best Young Adult Short Story (‘Cracks’). His short story collection Reserved for Travelling Shows was…

Smoking, Waiting for The Dawn – Jason Nahrung

Wed, 04 Jan 2017 03:59:14 +0000

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 internationally, and is a regular attendee at Australian writers conventions. He has been a director and judge for Australia’s premier speculative fiction awards, the Aurealis…

Souls Along The Meridian – Bill Congreve

Wed, 04 Jan 2017 03:56:41 +0000

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 Epiphanies of Blood, and he is the publisher and co-editor of The Year’s Best Australian SF & Fantasy anthology series. He has been a judge…

Nightship – Kim Westwood

Wed, 04 Jan 2017 03:52:57 +0000

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 as Agog!‚ Eidolon I and Dreaming Again‚ as well as in Year’s Bests in Australia and the USA‚ and on ABC Radio National. She…

The Little Demon – Louise Katz

Wed, 04 Jan 2017 03:49:02 +0000

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 (HarperCollins) a novel for young adults which won the YA Aurealis Award and was shortlisted for the Children’s Book Awards;  ‘The Little Demon’ a short story for adults…

The Slimelight and How to Step Into It – Robert Hood

Wed, 04 Jan 2017 01:14:02 +0000

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 lurk in our cultural psyche. Why? Only the zombie in his basement knows – and that dude’s not saying. You can find out about Rob’s…

The Bride Price – Cat Sparks and Blood Drunk – Adam Browne

Wed, 04 Jan 2017 01:11:03 +0000

‘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 and publisher with Agog! Press. Her latest book is The Bride Price. Adam Browne has won five Aurealis Awards. He is the author of Pyrotechnicon…

The Devil in Mr Pussy – Paul Haines

Wed, 04 Jan 2017 00:42:27 +0000

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 the treacherous waters of IVF. ‘The Devil In Mr Pussy’ is dedicated to Mr Pussy, who passed away before the…