''Shadowed Realms'' was a dark

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produced by

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independent publisher Brimstone Press and edited by Angela Challis. A number of stories published in ''Shadowed Realms'' won, or were nominated for, several speculative fiction awards.Inkspillers Ditmar Awards archive
Retrieved 9 September 2007.

Publication history

The first issue was published in September 2004. Issue #11 was published in October 2006 and was the last issue released prior to editor Angela Challis' announcement that the webzine was to close. ''Shadowed Realms'' is currently on hiatus until the final two issues are published. The online magazine released two special issues during its run: Issue #6 - the Continuum 3 convention/

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launch issue (featuring Continuum 3 guests Poppy Z Brite and Richard Harland, plus

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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 cons ...

, and the winners of the inaugural AHWA flash fiction competition); and Issue #9 - the "Redback" themed issue (featuring nine prominent female horror/speculative fiction writers, including K J Bishop,

Kaaron Warren Kaaron Warren is an Australian author of horror, science fiction, and fantasy short stories and novels. She is the author of the short story collections ''Through Splintered Walls'', ''The Grinding House'', and ''Dead Sea Fruit''. Her short st ...

Deborah Biancotti Deborah Biancotti is an Australian writer of speculative fiction. Biography Biancotti was born in 1971 in Cairns, Queensland, Australia. Her first work was published in 2000 with her short story "The First and Final Game" which was featured in ...

, and

Kirstyn McDermott Kirstyn McDermott is an Australian writer of speculative fiction. Biography McDermott was born in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia on 31 October. She grew up in Woodberry, New South Wales and attended the University of Newcastle where sh ...

.) All ''Shadowed Realms'' issues have been electronically archived as part of the National Archives of Australia's Pandora project. The magazine ceased publication some time in 2007.

Published authors

''Shadowed Realms'' published many prominent Australian horror writers such as

Stephen Dedman Stephen Dedman (born 1959) is an Australian author of dark fantasy and science fiction stories and novels. Biography Dedman's short stories have appeared in ''Year's Best Fantasy and Horror'', '' Year's Best SF'', and ''The Best Australian Sc ...

, Lee Battersby, Martin Livings, and Paul Haines, and a number of US and UK horror authors including Kurt Newton, Greg Beatty, Alistair Rennie and Eric Marin.

Milestones

''Shadowed Realms'' was the first Australian horror

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to be recognised by the

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(SFWA) as a professional short fiction publication.SFWA qualifying professional short fiction markets
Retrieved 9 September 2007. ''Shadowed Realms'' was also the first electronic magazine to be nominated for the Best Collected Work.

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Awards

Wins

*2006

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, Horror short story:
Pater Familias
by Lee Battersby (Shadowed Realms #3)

Nominations

*2007

, Short Story:
Surrender 1: Rope Artist
by

(Shadowed Realms #9) *2007 Ditmar Award, Short Story:
Cold
by

(Shadowed Realms #9) *2007 Ditmar Award, Short Story:
The Bat's Boudoir
by

Kyla Ward Kyla (Lee) Ward is an Australian writer of speculative fiction, poet and actor. Her work has been nominated multiple times for the Ditmar Award, the Aurealis Award , the Australian Shadows Award , the Bram Stoker Award and the Rhysling Award. Sh ...

(Shadowed Realms #9) *2006 Ditmar Award, Collected work: Shadowed Realms (ed. Angela Challis) *2006

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 residen ...

: "Pater Familias" by Lee Battersby (Shadowed Realms #3) *2005 Tin Duck Award, Professional fiction:
A Life in Art
by Adam Wieland (Shadowed Realms #1)

''Honourable Mentions''

*2007 Australian Shadows Award:

by K J Bishop (Shadowed Realms #9) *2006 Aurealis Award, Horror short story:
In Nomine Patris
by Martin Livings (Shadowed Realms #5)

Notes

References

Aurealis Awards winners archive
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National Archives of Australia Pandora project
Retrieved 11 September 2007.

External links

National Archives of Australia Pandora project: ''Shadowed Realms'' page
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