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Glutonlumps Chilling Tales

Glutonlumps Chilling Tales is now accepting orders for the first edition – and submissions for the third edition.

Fantastic Planet Bestsellers January 2008

Fantastic Planet regularly announce Bestsellers, new arrivals and events via their Livejournal. Recent Bestsellers list for January shows the following top sales…

Two Genre Icons Awarded HWA Lifetime Achievement Awards

The Horror Writers Association will award two Lifetime Achievement Awards at this year’s World Horror Convention and Bram Stoker Awards Banquet…

AHWA Members’ Sales, Acceptances & Wins #3

The Australian Horror Writers Association has a diverse membership of established and emerging writers, who are consistently purveying their fiction in a wide variety of publications. The following recent and forthcoming sales, acceptances and wins have been reported to AHWA news….

Studies in Australian Weird Fiction #1

Studies in Australian Weird Fiction (SiAWF) is a new non-fiction journal edited by Benjamin Szumskyj, James Doig, Leigh Blackmore, and Phillip A. Ellis, and published by Equilibrium Books. Orders for issue #1 can now be made through the publisher’s website.

Australian Dark Fantasy & Horror 2007 Edition Now Available

Brimstone Press’ ‘year’s best’ anthology Australian Dark Fantasy & Horror 2007 edition is now available for purchase from the Brimstone Press website (click under the books link). The anthology has been printed as a limited edition and is not available in general bookstores, so get in quick to avoid disappointment.

Tin Ducks Open For Nominations

Like their national counterpart, the Ditmar Awards, WA’s Tin Ducks (the Western Australian Science Fiction Awards) are now open for nominations. Both awards will be presented at Swancon 33 (the 2008 national SF convention) in Perth on the Easter long weekend (March 20-24).

Call For HorrorScope Reviewers

HorrorScope needs you! HorrorScope is a Ditmar award-winning news and review zine that has been serving Australian horror and speculative fiction fans since 2005…

The Specusphere Updates For 2008

The Specusphere is changing the way submissions are processed.

Aurealis Award Horror (Full List)

As an addendum to the prior post about the 2007 Aurealis Award winners, the full list of AA horror finalists (including honourable mentions) is…

2007 Aurealis Award Winners

The winners of the 2007 Aurealis Awards, honouring works written by Australians in the speculative fiction genres and published in 2007, have been announced at a ceremony at the Judith Wright Centre for Contemporary Arts in Brisbane.

Eclecticism #3 Released

Issue #3 of Eclecticism – The Eclectic E-zine for Creative Minds has been released!

Bram Stoker Awards Preliminary Ballot

The preliminary ballot of the Bram Stoker Awards has been made public.

Benjamin Szumskyj EditsTwo New Volumes Of Literary Criticism

Australian Horror Writers’ Association member Benjamin Szumskyj has recently launched two new volumes of literary criticism, adressing the works of Fritz Leiber and Thomas Harris; Szumskyj is the editor of both volumes.

The Shirley Jackson Award

A new award has been established, named for Shirley Jackson, to Honor Writers of Psychological Suspense, Horror, and the Dark Fantastic.

2008 NAFF Race Opens

Nominations for the NAFF race to attend Swancon 33 in Perth are now open.

Exposure Opportunity For Australian Indie Publishers

Ben Peek is seeking recent publications by independent press publishers in Australia, as research for an overview on indie books for literary journal Overland.

Tasmaniac Publications Newsletter

Tasmaniac Publications are launching a newsletter. Those who sign up before April 20th are entered into a prize draw; the winner will receive a signed, short story manuscript by Simon Clark.

Shocklines Forum Has Moved

The Shocklines Forum has a new home, and a new domain-name at Yuku: shocklinesforum.yuku.com

Apex Book Company Publishes First Anthology Of Speculative Author Jennifer Pelland

Jennifer Pelland’s Unwelcome Bodies, an anthology of eleven speculative tales, is the latest release from Apex Book Company‘s growing line of dark science fiction and horror.

Infinitas Newsletter January 2008

The Infinitas Newsletter – published by Infinitas Bookshop – is now available for January 2008 at www.infinitas.com.au.

ChiZine Publications

Brett Alexander Savory and Sandra Kasturi have announced the formation of a new small press: ChiZine Publications.

Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #31 PDF

Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #32 is at the printer, which means that the PDF of issue 31 is about to disappear into the ether, to be seen nevermore.

Curious Volumes Publishing

Curious Volumes Publishing (CVP) is a small electronic publishing house specializing in horror, fantasy, and mystery.

AntipodeanSF #116

Issue 116 of AntipodeanSF is available for your enjoyment on the web.

Articulate Soapbox

The ABC arts blog Articulate is introducing a new section called the Soapbox; every Monday there will be a 200-word opinion piece by an Articulate reader, discussing some aspect of the arts.

Ditmar Award Nominations Now Open

Nominations for the 2008 Ditmar Awards (the Australian Science Fiction Awards) are now open. The 2008 Ditmars are an award for the best Australian science fiction, fantasy and horror fiction, artwork, and achievements (professional and fan) from 2007.

AHWA Flash & Short Story Competition

The AHWA Flash & Short Story Competition is open to submissions from the 1st January until the 31st May, 2008.

International Aeon Award 2008

Albedo One, a speculative fiction magazine published in Ireland, has launched the International Aeon Award 2008 Short Fiction Contest.

One Day At A Time: Life, The Zombie Apocalypse, And All That

AHWA member Chuck McKenzie is currently writing a “blow by blow” online horror novel, entitled One Day At A Time: Life, The Zombie Apocalypse, And All That.

Year’s Best Fantasy And Horror Final Call

Please note:  submissions for horror material published in 2007 to the long-standing year’s best anthology series edited by Ellen Datlow are now CLOSED.

HorrorScope Editorial: Horror In 2007

To see out the death of 2007, HorrorScope assembled a team of experts within the field of horror and dark fantasy to compile an experts’ choice recommended reading list.