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Toother
"Toother" is a 2007 horror fiction, horror short story by Terry Dowling. Background "Toother" was first published in the United States in 2007 in the science fiction and fantasy anthology ''Eclipse One'', edited by Jonathan Strahan and published by Night Shade Books. In 2008 "Toother" was republished in ''The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2008: Twenty-First Annual Collection'' edited by Kelly Link, Gavin J. Grant, Ellen Datlow. "Toother" won the 2007 Australian Shadows Award beating works by Matthew Chrulew, David Conyers, Rick Kennett, Martin Livings, and Jason Nahrung. "Toother" was also a short-list nominee for the 2007 Aurealis Award for best horror short story but lost to Anna Tambour's "The Jeweller of Second-Hand Roe". References External links''Eclipse One'' at Night Shade Books 2007 short stories Australian short stories Horror short stories {{2000s-horror-story-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terry Dowling
Terence William (Terry) Dowling (born 21 March 1947), is an Australian writer and journalist. He writes primarily speculative fiction though he considers himself an "imagier" – one who imagines, a term which liberates his writing from the constraints of specific genres. He has been called "among the best-loved local writers and most-awarded in and out of Australia, a writer who stubbornly hews his own path (one mapped ahead, it is true, by Cordwainer Smith, J. G. Ballard and Jack Vance)." He has been Guest of Honour at several Australian science fiction conventions (including Syncon 87 and Swancon 15) and regularly tutors workshops on fantasy writing at venues including the New South Wales Writers' Centre, University of Sydney's Centre for Continuing Education, the Powerhouse Museum, the University of Canberra's Centre for Creative Writing, the Perth Writer's Festival and the University of Western Australia Perth International Arts Festiva (for example, "Marvellous Journeys: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Shadows Award
The Australian Shadows Awards are annual literary awards established by the Australian Horror Writers Association (AHWA) in 2005 to honour the best published works of horror fiction written or edited by an Australian/New Zealand/Oceania resident in the previous calendar year. Awards criteria and history Works are judged on their overall effect within the horror genre based on the author's skill, delivery, and the work's lasting resonance. Each year, a director is appointed by the AHWA to administer the award. Shortlists for each category are determined by a panel of judges, and the shortlisted nominees are announced in March/April every year. From 2005 to 2008, the Australian Shadows Award evaluated novels, anthologies, and short stories against each other in a single category. In 2009, the award was expanded into three categories: Short Fiction, Long Fiction, and Edited Publication. From 2011, the award was restructured to consist of five categories: Novel; Long Fiction (nov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WikiProject Novels
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2007 Short Stories
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Locus Online
''Locus: The Magazine of The Science Fiction & Fantasy Field'', founded in 1968, is an American magazine published monthly in Oakland, California. It is the news organ and trade journal for the English-language science fiction and fantasy fields. It also publishes comprehensive listings of all new books published in the genres (excluding self-published). The magazine also presents the annual Locus Awards. ''Locus Online'' was launched in April 1997, as a semi-autonomous web version of ''Locus Magazine''. History Charles N. Brown, Ed Meskys, and Dave Vanderwerf founded ''Locus'' in 1968 as a news fanzine to promote the (ultimately successful) bid to host the 1971 World Science Fiction Convention in Boston, Massachusetts. Originally intended to run only until the site-selection vote was taken at St. Louiscon, the 1969 Worldcon in St. Louis, Missouri, Brown decided to continue publishing ''Locus'' as a mimeographed general science fiction and fantasy newszine. ''Locus'' succeede ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Tambour
Anna Tambour is an author of satire, fable and other strange and hard-to-categorize fiction and poetry. Her novel ''Crandolin'' was shortlisted for the 2013 World Fantasy Award. Tambour's collection ''Monterra's Deliciosa & Other Tales &'' was published in 2003, and ''Spotted Lily'', a novel, in 2005. Ebook editions of both of these were published by infinity plus in 2011. Reviews Locus (magazine), ''Locus'' listed both Tambour's collections and both novels in their Recommended Reading lists. Her 2015 collection ''The Finest Ass in the Universe'' was shortlisted for an Aurealis Award for Best Collection. ''Spotted Lily'' was shortlisted in 2006 for the Crawford Award, William L. Crawford Fantasy Award, and was recommended for a British Fantasy Society, British Fantasy Society Award (Best Novel). In 2008, ''The Jeweller of Second-hand Roe'' won the Aurealis Award for best horror short story. Tambour lives in the Australian bush, but has lived all over the world and is, in Tambour's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Horror Writers Association
The Australian Horror Writers Association (AHWA) is a non-profit organisation that commenced in 2003 with the goal of providing a unified voice and sense of community for Australian writers of dark fiction ( horror and dark fantasy) and to further the development of dark fiction in Australia. History The AHWA built to some extent on the work of previous horror writers' associations in Australia such as the Sydney-based Gargoyle Club (1987–92)(see Leigh Blackmore) and the Melbourne-based Australian Horror Writers (1994-1998) (see Bryce J. Stevens), which grew out of Bloodsongs magazine (its president being Bryce J. Stevens, and its newsletter/journal ''Severed Head'' having been edited first by Stevens, then Aaron Sterns). However, the AHWA was a far more ambitious effort, conceived by its founding committee as drawing together horror writers and fans nationwide in Australia. The AHWA was officially launched during the Continuum 3 science fiction convention in Melbourne on 17 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason Nahrung
Jason Nahrung (born 1968) is an Australian horror author and journalist who lives in Melbourne with his partner Kirstyn McDermott. Nahrung has previously written for ''The Courier-Mail'' newspaper in Queensland, with a special interest in speculative fiction and horror-related topics. He was co-winner the 2005 William Atheling Jnr award for Criticism or Review. His first novel, '' The Darkness Within'' (based on an unpublished novella co-written with Mil Clayton), was published in June 2007 by Hachette Livre in Australia. Nahrung has also published some horror and speculative fiction short stories. Bibliography Novels * '' The Darkness Within'' – with Mil Clayton, (Hachette Livre) *''Salvage'', 2012, (Twelfth Planet Press) *''Blood and Dust'', 2012, (Xoum Publishing) Short stories *"Watermarks", (2014), ''Cosmos'' magazine. *"The Preservation Society", (2014), ''Dimension6'', Coeur de Lion. *"The Mornington Ride", (2012), ''Epilogue'', Tehani Wessely ( FableCroft Publishin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Livings
Martin Livings (born 1970) is an Australian author of horror, fantasy and science fiction. He has been writing short stories since 1990 and has been nominated for both the Ditmar Award and Aurealis Award. Livings resides in Perth, Western Australia. Livings' short fiction has appeared in the award-winning anthology ''Daikaiju!'' ( Agog! Press), as well as in ''Borderlands'', ''Agog! Terrific Tales'' (Agog! Press) and ''Eidolon'', among many others. His work has been listed in the ''Year's Best Horror and Fantasy'' Recommended Reading, and reprinted in ''Year's Best Australian SF and Fantasy Volume 2'' ( MirrorDanse Books, 2006), ''Australian Dark Fantasy and Horror, 2006 Edition'' ( Brimstone Press, 2006), and ''The Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horror'' in 2010, 2012, 2013 and 2015 ( Ticonderoga Publications). His first novel, ''Carnies'', was published by Lothian Books in Australia in June 2006. ''Carnies'' was nominated for an Aurealis Award The Aurealis Award fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rick Kennett
Rick Kennett'(born 1956) is an Australian writer of science fiction, horror and ghost stories. He is the most prolific and widely published genre author in Australia after Paul Collins (fantasy writer), Paul Collins, Terry Dowling and Greg Egan, with stories in a wide variety of magazines and anthologies in Australia, the US and the UK. His first published short story was "Troublesome Green" (1979). A number of his stories have been printed multiple times due to his habit of resubmission - for instance, "Isle of the Dancing Dead" and "The Battle of Leila the Dog". A number of his ghost stories feature the recurring character Ernie Pine, known as "the reluctant ghost-hunter". An excerpt of an intended novel featuring Pine, ''Abracadabra'', appeared in ''Bloodsongs'' 2 (1994). Retitled ''The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea'', the novel was published by Cooperative Press in 2013. Another continuing character in his work is the Lesbian "trained killer for the state" Cy De Gerch, the her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Conyers
David Conyers (born 30 May 1971) is an Australian author. Conyers writes predominantly science fiction and Lovecraftian horror. Biography Convers was born in Sydney. Most of his childhood was spent in the Adelaide Hills, before moving to Melbourne. There he achieved a bachelor's degree in civil engineering at the University of Melbourne in 1993. After several years working on remote outback construction sites in Western Australia, and extensive travel in Africa and Europe in 1995, he settled back in Melbourne, taking up a career in marketing and corporate communications. He moved to Adelaide in 2005. Writing career Convers published his first story ''Vanishing Curves'' in the ''Book of Dark Wisdom'' in 2004 and his first novel, ''The Spiraling Worm'' co-authored with United States horror writer John Sunseri, was published by Chaosium in 2007. The novel went on to receive an Honourable Mention for Best Australian Horror Novel in the 12th Annual Aurealis Award and the 2007 Au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
