Simon Petrie

	Simon Petrie Simon Petrie is a New Zealand-born speculative fiction writer now based in Canberra, Australia. He is predominantly recognised as a writer in the science fiction and fantasy genres. Petrie's stories have appeared in a number of Australian publications including Borderlands, Aurealis and Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, in New Zealand publications such as Semaphore Magazine and several Random Static anthologies, and in magazines elsewhere in the English-speaking world such as Redstone Science Fiction, Murky Depths and Sybil's Garage. He is a former member of the Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine collective and has edited five issues of the magazine. Petrie's work has seen several nominations for Australian and New Zealand speculative fiction awards and he has won the Sir Julius Vogel Award (New Zealand SF Award) three times: in 2010 for Best New Talent, and in 2013 and 2018 for Best Novella or Novelette. He is best known for two series of stories: his 'Gordon Mamon' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
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	2008 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2008. Events January 1 – In the UK's 2008 New Year Honours List, Hanif Kureishi (CBE), Jenny Uglow (OBE), Peter Vansittart (OBE) and Debjani Chatterjee (MBE) are all rewarded for "services to literature." February 29 – Belgian-born " Misha Defonseca" admits that her bestselling '' Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust Years'' (1997) is a literary forgery. April – Signet Books announce they will cease to publish the American historical romance novelist Cassie Edwards after a dispute over plagiarism. April 25 – The first Twitter novel, ''Small Places'' by Nicholas Belardes, is launched. May 7– 11 – The first Palestine Festival of Literature is held. June 15 – Gore Vidal, asked in a ''New York Times'' interview how he felt about the death of his rival William F. Buckley, Jr., replies: "I thought hell is bound to be a livelier place, as he joins forever those whom he served in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
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	2018 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2018. Events July – Stormzy's publisher imprint Merky Books is launched in London. August 11 – Writer V. S. Naipaul, on his deathbed in London, has Tennyson's poem " Crossing the Bar" read to him by the newspaper editor Geordie Greig. September 16 – Lady Mary Wroth's pastoral closet drama ''Love's Victory'' receives its first fully professional, publicly staged (filmed) performance, at Penshurst Place in England, where it was probably written about 1618. It is the first known original pastoral drama and thought to be the first original dramatic comedy to be written by a woman. October 19 – The exhibition ''Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Art, Word, War'', opening at the British Library, includes the earliest surviving will of an Englishwoman. Written on "a small, stained sheet of parchment", the detailed testament of Wynflæd is thought to date from the mid- to late 10th century. October 26 – Under ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	2017 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2017. Events March – Emulating Kerouac's '' On the Road'', Ross Goodwin drives from New York to New Orleans with an artificial intelligence device in a laptop hooked up to various sensors, whose output it turns into words printed on rolls of thermal paper; the result is published unedited as '' 1 the Road'' in 2018. August – The Chinese crime novelist Liu Yongbiao is arrested and eventually sentenced to death for four murders committed 22 years before. * August 30 – A hard disk drive containing unfinished work by the English comic fantasy novelist Sir Terry Pratchett (died 2015) is crushed by a steamroller on his instructions. October 5 - The Swedish Academy announce that the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to Kazuo Ishiguro. October – Tianjin Binhai Library opens in China. December – Kristen Roupenian's short story " Cat Person" is published in ''The New Yorker'' and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	2016 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2016. Events May 20 – Writers who sign a letter calling for the United Kingdom to remain in the European Union include Hilary Mantel, John le Carré, Philip Pullman and Tom Stoppard; nevertheless, the June 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum endorses Brexit. May 24 – Hundreds of US writers, including Stephen King, Robert Polito and Nicole Krauss, sign an "open letter to the American people" urging them not to support Donald Trump as a presidential candidate in the November 2016 United States presidential election. * November 26 – UK Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy receives the Wilfred Owen Poetry Award. Anniversaries January 10 – Fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Truman Capote's ''In Cold Blood'' February 1 – 20th anniversary of the publication of David Foster Wallace's ''Infinite Jest''. February 22 – 40th anniversary of the publication of Raymond Car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Aurealis Award The Aurealis Award for Excellence in Speculative Fiction is an annual literary award for Australian science fiction, fantasy and horror fiction. Only Australians are eligible for the award. History The Aurealis Award was established in 1995 by ''Chimaera Publications'', the publishers of '' Aurealis Magazine''. Unlike the other major Australian speculative fiction award, the Ditmar Award, it divides work into subgenre and age categories, and is judged as such. The award was originally given out in the following divisions: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, and Young Adult. Two separate awards are given in each of those divisions, one for novels and one for short stories. A fifth division for Children's books was added in 2001 for fiction for 8-12 year olds, with separate awards for "Short Fiction" and "Long Fiction". With the 2008 Awards the "Short Fiction" children's fiction category became a category for "Illustrated Work/Picture Book". For the 2010 Awards, the two categ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	2014 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2014. Events January – Parts of two previously unknown poems by the female Greek poet Sappho are discovered on ancient papyrus. This is reported by several news sources by the end of the month. January 18 – The first books are transferred from the old to the new National Library of Latvia in Riga. * March 6 – Joseph Boyden's novel ''The Orenda'' wins the 2014 edition of '' Canada Reads''. April 24 – Writers including Mark Haddon and Mary Beard join a campaign against a ban on sending books to U.K. prison inmates. May 22 – J. R. R. Tolkien's 1926 translation of ''Beowulf'' is first published. (His essay " On Translating Beowulf" had appeared in 1940). * June 10 – As part of a Northern Iraq offensive, ISIL and aligned Salafi jihadist forces take Mosul, leading to extensive book burning at its libraries, as part of the destruction of cultural heritage by ISIL. * November 25 – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	2013 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2013. Events * 21 January – An annual Orwell Day is instituted. 26 January – Fleeing Islamist insurgents set fire to library buildings in Timbuktu containing manuscripts, mostly in Arabic, dating back to 1204. 7 March – World Book Day becomes a UNESCO-designated event marked in more than 100 countries. April – J. K. Rowling publishes a detective novel, '' The Cuckoo's Calling'', under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, with the U.K. publisher Sphere Books. The author's identity is revealed by the media in July. 23 April – World Book Night. * 28 April – '' The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time'', Simon Stephens' stage adaptation of a novel by Mark Haddon, wins a record seven awards at the 2013 Laurence Olivier Awards in London. 1 July – Publisher Penguin Random House is created by a merger. 3 September – The new Library of Birmingham, the largest public library in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]

	Simon Petrie Simon Petrie is a New Zealand-born speculative fiction writer now based in Canberra, Australia. He is predominantly recognised as a writer in the science fiction and fantasy genres. Petrie's stories have appeared in a number of Australian publications including Borderlands, Aurealis and Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, in New Zealand publications such as Semaphore Magazine and several Random Static anthologies, and in magazines elsewhere in the English-speaking world such as Redstone Science Fiction, Murky Depths and Sybil's Garage. He is a former member of the Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine collective and has edited five issues of the magazine. Petrie's work has seen several nominations for Australian and New Zealand speculative fiction awards and he has won the Sir Julius Vogel Award (New Zealand SF Award) three times: in 2010 for Best New Talent, and in 2013 and 2018 for Best Novella or Novelette. He is best known for two series of stories: his 'Gordon Mamon' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	:Template:Infobox Writer/doc Infobox writer may be used to summarize information about a person who is a writer/author (includes screenwriters). If the writer-specific fields here are not needed, consider using the more general ; other infoboxes there can be found in :People and person infobox templates. This template may also be used as a module (or sub-template) of ; see WikiProject Infoboxes/embed for guidance on such usage. Syntax The infobox may be added by pasting the template as shown below into an article. All fields are optional. Any unused parameter names can be left blank or omitted. Parameters Please remove any parameters from an article's infobox that are unlikely to be used. All parameters are optional. Unless otherwise specified, if a parameter has multiple values, they should be comma-separated using the template: : which produces: : , language= If any of the individual values contain commas already, add to use semi-colons as separators: : which produces: : , ps ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	2008 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2008. Events January 1 – In the UK's 2008 New Year Honours List, Hanif Kureishi (CBE), Jenny Uglow (OBE), Peter Vansittart (OBE) and Debjani Chatterjee (MBE) are all rewarded for "services to literature." February 29 – Belgian-born " Misha Defonseca" admits that her bestselling '' Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust Years'' (1997) is a literary forgery. April – Signet Books announce they will cease to publish the American historical romance novelist Cassie Edwards after a dispute over plagiarism. April 25 – The first Twitter novel, ''Small Places'' by Nicholas Belardes, is launched. May 7– 11 – The first Palestine Festival of Literature is held. June 15 – Gore Vidal, asked in a ''New York Times'' interview how he felt about the death of his rival William F. Buckley, Jr., replies: "I thought hell is bound to be a livelier place, as he joins forever those whom he served in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	New Zealand Male Short Story Writers New is an adjective referring to something recently made, discovered, or created. New or NEW may refer to: Music * New, singer of K-pop group The Boyz Albums and EPs * ''New'' (album), by Paul McCartney, 2013 * ''New'' (EP), by Regurgitator, 1995 Songs * "New" (Daya song), 2017 * "New" (Paul McCartney song), 2013 * "New" (No Doubt song), 1999 "new", by Loona from '' Yves'', 2017 "The New", by Interpol from ''Turn On the Bright Lights'', 2002 Acronyms * Net economic welfare, a proposed macroeconomic indicator * Net explosive weight, also known as net explosive quantity * Network of enlightened Women, a conservative university women's organization * Next Entertainment World, a South Korean film distribution company Identification codes * Nepal Bhasa language ISO 639 language code * New Century Financial Corporation (NYSE stock abbreviation) * Northeast Wrestling, a professional wrestling promotion in the northeastern United States Transport * New Orleans Lakefront ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Living People Related categories * :Year of birth missing (living people) / :Year of birth unknown * :Date of birth missing (living people) / :Date of birth unknown * :Place of birth missing (living people) / :Place of birth unknown * :Year of death missing / :Year of death unknown * :Date of death missing / :Date of death unknown * :Place of death missing / :Place of death unknown * :Missing middle or first names See also * :Dead people * :Template:L, which generates this category or death years, and birth year and sort keys. : {{DEFAULTSORT:Living people 21st-century people People by status ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	2018 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2018. Events July – Stormzy's publisher imprint Merky Books is launched in London. August 11 – Writer V. S. Naipaul, on his deathbed in London, has Tennyson's poem " Crossing the Bar" read to him by the newspaper editor Geordie Greig. September 16 – Lady Mary Wroth's pastoral closet drama ''Love's Victory'' receives its first fully professional, publicly staged (filmed) performance, at Penshurst Place in England, where it was probably written about 1618. It is the first known original pastoral drama and thought to be the first original dramatic comedy to be written by a woman. October 19 – The exhibition ''Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Art, Word, War'', opening at the British Library, includes the earliest surviving will of an Englishwoman. Written on "a small, stained sheet of parchment", the detailed testament of Wynflæd is thought to date from the mid- to late 10th century. October 26 – Under ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	2017 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2017. Events March – Emulating Kerouac's '' On the Road'', Ross Goodwin drives from New York to New Orleans with an artificial intelligence device in a laptop hooked up to various sensors, whose output it turns into words printed on rolls of thermal paper; the result is published unedited as '' 1 the Road'' in 2018. August – The Chinese crime novelist Liu Yongbiao is arrested and eventually sentenced to death for four murders committed 22 years before. * August 30 – A hard disk drive containing unfinished work by the English comic fantasy novelist Sir Terry Pratchett (died 2015) is crushed by a steamroller on his instructions. October 5 - The Swedish Academy announce that the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to Kazuo Ishiguro. October – Tianjin Binhai Library opens in China. December – Kristen Roupenian's short story " Cat Person" is published in ''The New Yorker'' and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	2016 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2016. Events May 20 – Writers who sign a letter calling for the United Kingdom to remain in the European Union include Hilary Mantel, John le Carré, Philip Pullman and Tom Stoppard; nevertheless, the June 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum endorses Brexit. May 24 – Hundreds of US writers, including Stephen King, Robert Polito and Nicole Krauss, sign an "open letter to the American people" urging them not to support Donald Trump as a presidential candidate in the November 2016 United States presidential election. * November 26 – UK Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy receives the Wilfred Owen Poetry Award. Anniversaries January 10 – Fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Truman Capote's ''In Cold Blood'' February 1 – 20th anniversary of the publication of David Foster Wallace's ''Infinite Jest''. February 22 – 40th anniversary of the publication of Raymond Car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Aurealis Award The Aurealis Award for Excellence in Speculative Fiction is an annual literary award for Australian science fiction, fantasy and horror fiction. Only Australians are eligible for the award. History The Aurealis Award was established in 1995 by ''Chimaera Publications'', the publishers of '' Aurealis Magazine''. Unlike the other major Australian speculative fiction award, the Ditmar Award, it divides work into subgenre and age categories, and is judged as such. The award was originally given out in the following divisions: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, and Young Adult. Two separate awards are given in each of those divisions, one for novels and one for short stories. A fifth division for Children's books was added in 2001 for fiction for 8-12 year olds, with separate awards for "Short Fiction" and "Long Fiction". With the 2008 Awards the "Short Fiction" children's fiction category became a category for "Illustrated Work/Picture Book". For the 2010 Awards, the two categ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	2014 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2014. Events January – Parts of two previously unknown poems by the female Greek poet Sappho are discovered on ancient papyrus. This is reported by several news sources by the end of the month. January 18 – The first books are transferred from the old to the new National Library of Latvia in Riga. * March 6 – Joseph Boyden's novel ''The Orenda'' wins the 2014 edition of '' Canada Reads''. April 24 – Writers including Mark Haddon and Mary Beard join a campaign against a ban on sending books to U.K. prison inmates. May 22 – J. R. R. Tolkien's 1926 translation of ''Beowulf'' is first published. (His essay " On Translating Beowulf" had appeared in 1940). * June 10 – As part of a Northern Iraq offensive, ISIL and aligned Salafi jihadist forces take Mosul, leading to extensive book burning at its libraries, as part of the destruction of cultural heritage by ISIL. * November 25 – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	2013 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2013. Events * 21 January – An annual Orwell Day is instituted. 26 January – Fleeing Islamist insurgents set fire to library buildings in Timbuktu containing manuscripts, mostly in Arabic, dating back to 1204. 7 March – World Book Day becomes a UNESCO-designated event marked in more than 100 countries. April – J. K. Rowling publishes a detective novel, '' The Cuckoo's Calling'', under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, with the U.K. publisher Sphere Books. The author's identity is revealed by the media in July. 23 April – World Book Night. * 28 April – '' The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time'', Simon Stephens' stage adaptation of a novel by Mark Haddon, wins a record seven awards at the 2013 Laurence Olivier Awards in London. 1 July – Publisher Penguin Random House is created by a merger. 3 September – The new Library of Birmingham, the largest public library in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]