Talie Helene

GN Braun & the AHWA Committee have done a splendid job assembling a page for Online Donations as a parallel  fundraising strategy for the Halloween Fundraiser Dinner Dance. The page can be found at www.australianhorror.com, viewable to both logged-in members, as well as any interested persons from the wider community who would like to make a contribution. [...]

Kyla Ward infiltrates Martin Livings masterwork Skeletor & Hordak. Kyla Ward is an astonishing versatile artist. Her day job is as an actor with James Adam’s Historic Enterprises, a touring troupe reenacting life in the Middle Ages.  It is absolutely normal for Kyla to exclaim, “I’ve been watching jousting all afternoon – it really is the [...]

Conflux Incorporated is proud to present Five Historical Banquets, a book recording the five Conflux banquets. Written by Dr Gillian Polack, who designed the banquets, it provides an insight into the process of creating the banquets, as well as the menu and recipes for each one. If you want to cook something medieval, Regency, bayou [...]

When I moved my blog to this page, I wondered if a post about having a “blogging identity” was something I could write. But just the phrase “blogging identity” sounds so Reality Television, and stupid – so I shelved it. I can’t write about it framed in cultural theory, because I’m not hooked into that [...]

Wow. Thanks to the vagaries of Facebook, I’ve just realized how many people who I would have once considered to be essentially decent, are still in contact with the monster who bashed me, and who lied to the police about her maniacal and inexcusable crime. These are people I’ve known in my life, for years. [...]

Archiving some music business documents, I found a couple of playlists from HAMMERHEART – METAL THUNDER EVERY THOR’S DAY. And I thought they’d be kind of fun to share. If you didn’t know, HAMMERHEART was a nightclub event I ran at the Ding Dong Lounge (Melbourne, Australia) in 2005-2006. Lots of people dream of running [...]

The Australian American Association in cooperation with The Australian Horror Writers Association invite you to our Halloween Fundraiser Dinner Dance! Please join us to celebrate Halloween the fun way, by dressing up in your favorite Halloween costume and dancing the night away. The night will include a local DJ along with gourmet BBQ buffet meal [...]

In anticipation of the imminent release of The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy & Horror, Ticonderoga Publications is releasing the Recommended Reading List for stories published in 2010, compiled by myself and my co-editor Liz Grzyb. No single volume could contain all the highlights of 2010 Australian horror and fantasy, there is simply too much talent [...]