Monthly Archives: March 2015
Huzzah for Dreams of Shadow and Smoke!
Many and warm congrats to Messrs Brian J. Showers and Jim Rockhill of Swan River Press – their J Sheridan Le Fanu tribute anthology, Dreams of Shadow and Smoke, has won Best Ghost Story Book for 2014 (in 2015, as is the
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The Bitterwood Posts: St Dymphna’s School for Poison Girls
Art by Kathleen Jennings
The title for this story came from a friend’s throwaway line about St Dymphna’s Home for the Wealthy Insane (thanks, Dr Carson). I thought “No, St Dymphna’s Home for Poison Girls” and my mind went off
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The Norma!!
Norma K. Hemming in costume in 1956 – http://www.asff.org.au/hemming.htm
Gods, but I love that Australia has an award called the Norma!
That’s the Norma K. Hemming to you. 🙂
The exciting news is that The Female Factory
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QWC Short Story Clinic
In just over three weeks I’ll be teaching the Short Story Clinic at Queensland Writers Centre. What I aim for is for students to come out of the course with at least one short story that’s fit to begin the process of submitting to
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The Bitterwood Posts: The Night Stair
Art by Kathleen Jennings
In 2012, my Significant Other and I were travelling around the UK and we visited Battle Abbey where the Battle of Hastings had taken place. We wandered through the ruins and one of the signs pointed out the
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