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Over at Tor.com: St Dymphna’s School for Poison Girls
Art by Kathleen Jennings
The lovely folk at Tor.com have reprinted my Aurealis Award winning fantasy story “St Dymphna’s School for Poison Girls” in its entirety. And with all of Kathleen’s lovely illustrations.
“St Dymphna’s” first appeared
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The Sourdough Posts: The Angel Wood
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This story first appeared in the lovely Shimmer #5 in 2006 (and illustrated by a wondrous piece by Sandro Castelli). The title came from a late night episode of Frost, I think, in which there was indeed a place
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The Sourdough Posts: Dibblespin
“Dipplespin” was a story that came about at Clarion South in 2009 – and a big thanks to Sean Williams for giving me some pointers on how to hone it.
I had the image in my head of flowers
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The Sourdough Posts: Little Radish
I think one of the things that has always annoyed me about Rapunzel stories is that everything that happens to her is forced upon her. She’s seldom a vessel for agency: she’s bartered away by her parents for radishes or bitter greens
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The Sourdough Posts: Gallowberries
Arthur Rackham
“Gallowberries” was one of the stories I wrote while writing other stories for MA. It has all the same kinds of fairy tale themes but it’s not one of the re-written/re-imagined tales that went into Black-Winged
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The Sourdough Posts: The Shadow Tree
Alas, a Rackham will have to do.
So, I’ve been sort of missing writing about The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings and I thought ‘Why not give Sourdough and Other Stories the same
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The Bitterwood Posts: Spells for Coming Forth by Daylight
This is my last Bitterwood Post – I’m a little sad now.
The title for this story came when I was visiting an Ancient Egyptian exhibition at the Queensland Museum with my mother and sister. One of the guide notes on
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The Bitterwood Posts: By the Weeping Gate
This story first appeared in Stephen Jones’ Fearie Tales: Stories of the Grimm and Gruesome (Jo Fletcher Books). The title came from nowhere; I was thinking about pirates and ports, bordellos and brides – as you do – and the
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Still-life with Awards
All the awards together
So, I went off to Canberra for the Aurealis Awards (their twentieth anniversary) and, no matter what else happened, it was always going to be about catching up with folks, especially my
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The Bitterwood Posts: The Bitterwood Bible
Kathleen’s art
“The Bitterwood Bible” was always going to be an important story in this collection because it tells the history of the actual Bitterwood Bible and Murciana who made it. I’d given a lot of thought
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