SuperNOVA Writers

Aurealis Awards 2009 Finalists

2009-12-07T21:36:37Z

The following SuperNOVArians have made the shorlists for this year's Aurealis Awards.

Paul Haines has been nominated for:

Best Collection - Slice of Life (The Mayne Press)
Best Horror Short Story - "Slice Of Life - A Spot of Liver" (Slice Of Life, The Mayne Press)
Best Horror Short Story - "Wives" (X6, Coeur De Lion)

Keith Stevenson has been nominated for:

Best Anthology - Keith Stevenson (Editor), X6, Coeur De Lion

Full Awards Shortlist Here.

Australian Dark Fantasy & Horror 4

2009-11-20T05:16:13Z

Brimstone Press have announced the contents of the latest Year's Best.

The following were good enough to secure a berth:

"Her Collection of Intimacy" by Paul Haines
"Painlessness" by Kirstyn McDermott
"The Casting Out" by Miranda Siemienowicz

See HorrorScope for all the details.

Supernovans in Short Story Podcast

2009-10-20T22:21:11Z

Keith Stevenson's slick short fiction podcast, Terra Incognita Speculative Fiction, has featured two more Supernova writers. The September episode included Brendan Duffy reading "Louder Echo" and the current episode has Miranda Siemienowicz reading "Aleph Mem Tav". Search through the archived episodes to find stories by Adam Browne and Paul Haines. The podcast is also available free through iTunes.

News: Paul Haines' Halloween Signing

2009-10-19T07:24:03Z

Award-winning genre author Paul Haines will be appearing at Dymocks Southland this Halloween, signing copies of his new collection, Slice of Life.

100% of all money raised from sales of the collection during the event - that's the full $19.95 rrp per book - will go directly to the Paul Haines cancer fund, which assists Paul and his family in alleviating the financial burden of Paul's ongoing fight against cancer.

Venue: Dymocks Southland, Shop 3067, Westfield Shopping Centre, 1239 Nepean Hwy, Cheltenham, Vic.
Date: Saturday 31st October
Time: 11am -12 noon.
Free event (but do please buy a copy of Paul's book!); no registration necessary.
Tel: 03-9584-1245 for enquiries (ask for Chuck)

So, if you don't already own a copy of Slice of Life - or even if you do - please do come along on the day and show your support for one of our own.

Miranda Wrote the Best Horror in 2009!

2009-10-06T02:55:09Z

Congratulations to Miranda Siemienowicz for getting her short story "Dress Circle" into Ellen Datlow's anthology Best Horror of the Year - 2009.

Best Horror of the Year 1
edited by Ellen Datlow
978-1-59780-161-4
October 2009
TP - 350 pages - $15.95

Table of Contents:
Cargo -- E. Michael Lewis
If Angels Fight -- Richard Bowes
The Clay Party -- Steve Duffy
Penguins of the Apocalypse -- William Browning Spencer
Esmeralda -- Glen Hirshberg
The Hodag -- Trent Hergenrader
Very Low-Flying Aircraft -- Nicholas Royle
When the Gentlemen Go -- Margaret Ronald
The Lagerstatte -- Laird Barron
Harry and the Monkey -- Euan Harvey
Dress Circle -- Miranda Siemienowicz
The Rising River -- Daniel Kaysen
Sweeney Among the Straight Razors -- JoSelle Vanderhooft
Loup-garou -- R.B. Russell
Girl in Pieces -- Graham Edwards
It Washed Up -- Joe R. Lansdale
The Thirteenth Hell -- Mike Allen
The Goosle -- Margo Lanagan
Beach Head -- Daniel LeMoal
The Man From the Peak -- Adam Golaski
The Narrows -- Simon Bestwick

Honorable Mentions for Best Horror

2009-10-05T09:31:34Z

Four SuperNOVArians have made Ellen Datlow's Honorable Mention List for Best Horror of 2009:

Adam Browne, “The Final Writings of Baron Sir Heinrich Proteus von Z…”Aurealis 40

Paul Haines, “Taniwha, Swim with Me,” Midnight Echo 1 AND “The Festival of Colour,” GUD 2 (well done Paul for the double!)

Kirstyn McDermott, “Painlessness,” GUD 2

Bren MacDibble, “Being Bella Wang,” Shiny 4

Novel News

2009-05-27T02:33:21Z

Kirstyn McDermott has just been signed by Pan Macmillan to publish her first two novels under the Picador imprint, with the first to be released in early 2010 and the second approximately 12 months later. The unrelated novels are both dark fantasy tales with contemporary urban Australian settings. More information soon!

Overland #195

2009-05-26T11:07:45Z

Rjurik Davidson has recently been named the Associate Editor of the literary journal Overland, moving up from his earlier role as Reviews Editor. The latest issue of the magazine contains an essay by Andrew Macrae ("Alternative Worlds") and the short story "Penthouse" by Miranda Siemienowicz, the full text of which has been archived online.

Australian Dark Fantasy and Horror Vol 3. Released

2009-05-26T10:59:33Z

The third volume of the Year's Best series from Brimstone Press, Australian Dark Fantasy and Horror, has been released. Included in the selection of top dark fiction from 2008 are the stories "Between the Memories" (Matthew Chrulew) and "Lion's Breath" (Miranda Siemienowicz).

Aurealis Magazine #41

2009-04-18T00:18:21Z

Issue 41 of Aurealis has just been released, featuring Miranda Siemienowicz's story "Aleph Mem Tav". The magazine also features Keith Stevenson's regular science fiction and horror reviews.

Aurealis Awards 2009

2009-02-02T12:53:09Z

SuperNOVA Writers congratulate Kirstyn McDermott for taking out the Best Horror Short Story at the recent Aurealis Awards with her story Painlessness.

HOT STUFF, KIRSTYN!

Shiny and New

2008-11-03T01:50:07Z

Bren MacDibble's short YA SF story "Being Bella Wang" is out in SHiNY - Issue 4 now.

Get your copy HERE or HERE

Midnight Echo

2008-11-01T21:34:04Z

The AHWA is extremely proud to present the inaugural issue of Midnight Echo: The Magazine of the Australian Horror Writers Association. You can get it here.

It includes a good number of SuperNOVArians: Matthew Chrulew, Brendan Duffy, Paul Haines, Andrew Macrae and Natalie Potts.

Black: Australian Dark Culture

2008-10-11T08:11:26Z

The new mass-market dark culture magazine from Brimstone Press has been released. Issue 2 of Black: Australian Dark Culture includes non-fiction from Kirstyn McDermott and Chuck McKenzie, an interview with Paul Haines, one of Paul's stories and fiction from Miranda Siemienowicz. Black is available from major newsagents and all Borders stores.

New Release

2008-10-11T08:03:24Z

The short story "Dress Circle", by Miranda Siemienowicz, was published in the most recent issue of Queensland literary journal Hecate (Vol. 34, Nr. 1).

New Short Story Collections

2008-09-10T04:24:40Z

After the ashes of the Prime Books Australia debacle, the phoenix has risen in the shape of two new collections from Paul Haines.

Slice of Life will be released in late October, early November 2008 and focuses on the more humourous side of Paul's writing. It will be also be part of a fundraising drive for Paul's battle with cancer, with most of the proceeds from the sales going directly to Paul and his family. It will primarily be available through the usual speculative fiction channels (conventions, websites and specialists).

The Last Days of Kali Yuga will be released in December 2008 by Brimstone Press and available in bookshops throughout Australia. It focuses on the darker, nastier side of Paul's body of work. It is available for pre-order at www.brimstonepress.com.au.

More details to come.

July News

2008-07-24T12:21:37Z

If you'd like to assist Paul Haines' battle to afford Avastin** so he can continue to battle cancer (something we clearly can't help him with though we'd like to) you can donate to a fund friends have set up for him READ ABOUT IT HERE. You'll not only be helping someone who describes himself as both talented and handsome, you'll also be helping the rest of us here at SuperNOVA, because, let's face it, we need all the critiquers we can get.

Miranda Siemienowicz's Through a Black Breeze, appeared in Wet Ink Magazine.

**(a monoclonal antibody that is not part of Medicare or the private health system's funding and costs $20,000)

June News

2008-07-14T11:50:39Z

You can now read Keith Stevenson's SF and Horror Review Column for Aurealis Magazine online. Reviews for Issue #40

Brendan Duffy sold Muleskinner Blues to Aurealis for issue 42. Perhaps that is the meaning of life issue, as Brendan also completed one of the greater works of his life with the arrival of baby Reuben. Congratulations to the Duffy family!

Twilight in Caeli-Amur by Rjurik Davidson and Neverland Blues by Adam Browne (with an e) are both in Dreaming Again edited by Jack Dann and published by Harper Collins.

See also Rjurik's review of Paranoid Park in Screen Education #50 and a review of the books Southern Theory and Edward Said: Legacy of a Public Intellectual in Overland #191.

Adam Browne's story 'An Account of an Experiment...' will be reprinted in Year's Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2008

The Old News:

2008-07-14T08:45:38Z

Mar 2008 - "Doorways for the Dispossessed" by Paul Haines Wins a Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best Anthology in 2007.

Jan 2008 - "Doorways for the Dispossessed" by Paul Haines is a finalist for a Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best Anthology. “Collecting Whispers” by Bren MacDibble, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine issue 30, is a finalist for a Sir Julius Vogel award for Best Short Story.

Jan 2008 - Terry Dowling's, "Rynemonn", Coeur de Lion Publications edited by Keith Stevenson and Andrew Macrae picks up the Peter McNamara Convenors' Award for Excellence at the 2007 Aurealis Awards.

Jan 2008 - Tracey Rolfe, "Cast Off", Fantastic Wonder Stories, Ticonderoga Publications is a finalist in the Aurealis Awards for Best Young Adult Short Story. Adam Browne "An Account of an Experiment", Orb Speculative Fiction #7, is a finalist in the Aurealis Awards for Best Science Fiction Short Story. Two stories from Sarah Endacott's Orb Speculative Fiction #7 are finalists in the 2007 Aurealis Awards.

Jan 2008 - Paul Haines' "Father Father" is accepted for The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror.

Jan 2008 - Chuck McKenzie is publishing "One Day at a Time", Life, the Zombie Apocalypse, and All That, an online horror survival novel in blog form (one day at a time) - CHECK IT OUT it starts on Jan 1st 2008.

Jan 2008 - Rjurik Davidson is having an amazing year with essays on sf and fantasy:
"To Love More: Review of Clubland and Interview with Cherie Nowlan" Metro Magazine #153
"This Boys Life: Romulus My Father" Metro Magazine #153

"Your Typical Mini-Series: Bastard Boys" Metro Magazine #153

"Lost Boys: Burke and Wills" Metro Magazine #154

"Vagaries and Violence in V for Vendetta" Screen Education #46

"Postcards from the Edge: John Pilger's The War on Democracy" Screen Education #47

"Hope in Children of Men" Screen Education #47

"Telling Tales: The Fantasy in Stardust" Screen Education #48

News from 2007:

Dec 2007 - Bren MacDibble's "Blurred Horizons" appeared in Shiny - Issue 2

Nov 2007 - Bren MacDibble's "For the Love of Mike" appeared in Antipodean SF - Issue 114

Oct 2007 - Brendan Duffy's "The Green Man" is due to appear in Postscripts Issue 16 - UK Autumn 2008

Oct 2007 - Adam Browne sold his story "Abandon" to a US anthology called Holy Horrors

Oct 2007 - Kirstyn McDermott's story "Painlessness" has been accepted by GUD Magazine in the US.

Oct 2007 - The Australian Film Commission has agreed to fund the production of a 15 minute animated film by Adam Duncan based on Adam Browne's "Space Operetta"

Oct 2007 - Natalie J Potts had a short story in this month's issue of US Mag Kaleidotrope.

Oct 2007 - Rjurik Davidson's short story "Twilight in Caeli-Amur" will appear in Dreaming Again edited by Jack Dann.

Oct 2007 - Tracey Rolfe has had a poem accepted by Divan, an online poetry journal and also an article in Lizard a Vic Uni mag.

Oct 2007 - SA lit journal Wet Ink has accepted Miranda Siemienowicz's story "Through a Black Breeze" for publication. Due out in December.

Aug 2007 - Bren MacDibble's short story "Collecting Whispers" appeared in Issue 30 of Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine.

Jul 2007 - Natalie Pott's "Silent Line", Bren MacDibble's "The Tartan Tie", and Kirstyn McDermott's "Shadow Puppet" appeared in Flashspec 2

Jun 2007 - Orb #7 was launched at Convergence 2 in Melbourne. Edited by Sarah Endacott and containing "Inducing" by Paul Haines, "A Complete Refabrication" by Bren MacDibble, "An Account of an Experiment" by Adam Browne, Artwork by Andrew Macrae, and a non-fiction piece, "The Liminal Project" by Claire McKenna.

Jun 2007 - Claire McKenna launched her science fiction movie "The Liminal" at Convergence 2 in Melbourne. Starring, among others, SuperNOVA members: Stephen Gleeson, Miranda Siemienowicz, Sarah Endacott, Keith Stevenson, Tracey Rolfe, and Adam Browne.

Jun 2007 - Ditmar Winners!
Paul Haines won best Novella/Novelette for "The Devil in Mr Pussy (or how I found God inside my wife)" - published in C0ck, by Couer de Lion Publishing (and edited by Keith & Andrew).

Rjurick Davidson won best Short Story for "The Fear of White" - published in Borderlands #7.

Andrew Macrae won best Artwork for his cover of 26Lies/1Truth, published by Wheatland Press.

May 2007 - Miranda Siemienowicz's short story "Lion's Breath" which appeared in a recent publication of Island, has been honourably mentioned for the 2007 Years Best Fantasy and Horror by Ellen Datlow.

Apr 2007 - Kirstyn McDermott's short story "Golden" was accepted for publication in Island this September.

Apr 2007 - Adam Browne's story "Neverland" was accepted into the new You're Dreaming anthology Edited by Jack Dann and published by Harper collins.

Apr 2007 - Miranda Siemienowicz's literary/surreal story "Lion's Breath" was published in Island (Issue 108)

Apr 2007 - SuperNOVA members received 10 nominations in the Ditmar Awards!

Novella/Novelette: "The Devil in Mr Pussy (Or how I found God inside my wife)" Paul Haines, C0ck, Couer de Lion Publishing, and "WorldsWhackiest Upper Atmosphere Re-Entry Disasters Dating Game" Brendan Duffy, Agog! Ripping Reads, Agog! Press

Short Story: "Burningfrom the Inside" Paul Haines, Doorways for the Dispossessed, Prime Books, "Cold" Kirstyn McDermott, Shadowed Realms #9, "Honeymoon" Adam Browne and John Dixon, C0ck, Couer de Lion Publishing, "The Fear of White" Rjurik Davidson, Borderlands #7

Collected Work: "C0ck" edited by Keith Stevenson & Andrew Macrae, Couer de Lion Publishing, "Doorways to the Dispossessed" edited by Paul Haines and Geoffrey
Maloney, Prime Books

Artwork: "26Lies/1Truth",cover art by Andrew MacRae, Wheatland Press

Fan Writer: Miranda Siemienowicz

The William Atheling Jr Award: Miranda Siemienowicz for her review of "Paraspheres" appearing in Horrorscope

Mar 2007 - Bren MacDibble's children's sf books "Take me to your Leader", "Red Hot Pet" and "Beast of Moogill" have sold licences to be printed and sold in the US via Rigby Harcourt Achieve (still available locally via Blake Ed)

Mar 2007 - Tracey Rolfe's "Cast Off" was accepted for Fantastic Wonder Stories

Mar 2007 - Natalie JE Potts' "Clubbing" was accepted for the Black Box Anthology

Mar 2007 - Paul Haines' "Hamlyn" was accepted for Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine's Best of Horror, and "Long Term Planner" for the Black Box Anthology

Feb 2007 - Rjurik Davidson has taken over as Reviews Editor at Overland Magazine

Jan 2007 - Matthew Chrulew's "Rapturama" (With Roland Boer) was accepted by Workers Paradise, and "Shubert by Candlelight" accepted by Macabre: The New Era in Australian Horror

Jan 2007 - Keith Stevenson's and Andrew Macrae's imprint: couer de lion, will be publishing "Rynemonn" the final serries of "Tom Rynosseros" stories by Terry Dowling.

Jan 2007 - Rjurik Davidson's "The Interminable Suffering of Mysterious Mr Wu" was reprinted for Years Best Australian Dark Fantasy and Horror, and "Night with Stars Askew" was accepted for Workers Paradise Anthology

Jan 2007 - Adam Browne's "Heart of Saturday Night" received an honorable mention in Years Best Fantasy and Horror

Jan 2007 - Bren MacDibble's "Delicacy" appeared at Sputnik 57

Jan 2007 - Andrew Macrae was awarded a Victoria Uni scholarship for three years to write 75,000 words of creative writing, and 25,000 words of academic work.

News from 2006:

Dec 2006 - Kirstyn McDermott's "Monsters Among Us" was accepted for the Macabre anthology

Dec 2006 - Matthew Chrulew had his story "Head" accepted by Potato Monkey, and "How I Learned to Keep Tidy" accepted by Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine

Nov 2006 - Natalie JE Potts' story "The Best Laid Plans" was published in Aphelion.

Nov 2006 - Brendan Duffy's "The Green Man" is accepted by Postscripts Magazine, Issue 16

Aug 2006 - Paul Haines' "Where Is Brisbane, and How Many Times Do I Get There?" and Andrew Macrae's "Northward" have been selected for the upcoming Brisbane Anthology

Aug 2006 - Adam Browne's "Obituary Boy" will appear in issue 27 of Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, cowritten with John Dixon

Aug 2006 - Adam Browne's "Blood Drunk" will appear in an anthology from Cardigan Press called ALLNIGHTER due to be launched very soon

Jul 2006 - Tracey Rolfe's article, "Pirates, ponies and poetry" was published in Magpies magazine

Jul 2006 - Andrew Macrae and Keith Stevenson, editors, launched their anthology "C0ck" published by couer de lion and featuring two stories from Paul Haines, "Father Father" and "The Devil in Mr Pussy (or How I Found God Inside my Wife)" and one story from Adam Browne in collaboration with John Dixon, "Honeymoon". Please buy it here:

Jul 2006 - Paul Haines' short story collection "Doorways for the Dispossed" published by Prime, went on sale at Continuum 4. Please buy it at Amazon:

Jul 2006 - Bren MacDibble's "Shadow" (reprint) and Paul Haines' "Yum Cha" were published in the first issue of Flashspec Anthology by Equilibrium Books please buy it here: Flashspec 1

Jul 2006 - Editor Ellen Datlow has named Rjurik Davidson as Highly Commended in her "Years Best Horror and Dark Fantasy" volume for 2005 for his story, "The Interminable Suffering of Mysterious Mr Wu" from Aurealis 33/34/35 which was edited by Keith Stevenson.

Jun 2006 - Rjurik Davidson's "We All Love An Action Hero," appeared in Fables and Reflections #8

Jun 2006 - Adam Browne's "Bladderwrack", Andrew Macrae's "Truckdreamin", Brendan Duffy's "World's Wackiest Upper Atmosphere Re-entry Disasters Dating Game", and Paul Haines' "Lifelike and Josephine" appeared in Agog Ripping Reads anthology.

Jun 2006 - Paul Haines's "Going Down With Jennifer Aniston's Breasts" published in Ripples #5

May 2006 - Elizabeth Markham's "The Last Bridge" appeared in Issue 95 of Antipodean SF.

Apr 2006 - Rjurik Davidson's "The Passing of the Minotaurs" was selected for Mirrordanse Australian Year's best SF & Fantasy 2005

Mar 2006 - Natalie JE Potts' story "An Open Letter to the WWWorld" appeared in Issue 93 of Antipodean SF

Feb 2006 - Adam Browne's "The Sun King" appeared in Issue 22 of Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine

Jan 2006 - Brendan Duffy's "The Gift" is published by Potato Monkey.

News from 2005:

Dec 2005 - Bren MacDibble's "Top Job Guide - Become a Children's Writer" was published by Australian Associated Publishing House please buy it here:

Nov 2005 - Brendan Duffy's "Get Pookie" appeared in Issue 21 of Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine

Nov 2005 - Andrew Macrae's "Derek Godley's Penultimate World" appeared in Aurealis 36

Oct 2005 - Paul Haines's "Malik Rising" was selected for Australian Dark Fantasy & Horror: The Best of 2005.

Jul 2005 - Natalie JE Potts' "The Candidate" appeared in Issue 86 of Antipodean SF

Jun 2005 - Rjurik Davidson's "Bones" was selected for Mirrordanse Australian Year's best SF & Fantasy 2004

Jun 2005 - Brendan Duffy's 'The Tale of Enis Cash, Smallgoods Smokehand' was selected for the
Mirrordanse Australian Year's best SF & Fantasy 2004.

Jun 2005 - Paul Haines wins a Ditmar for 2005 Best Novella ("Last Days Of Kali Yuga") and another Ditmar for 2005 Best New Talent

May 2005 - Rjurik Davidson's "The Fear of White," appeared in "Borderlands #7.

Mar 2005 - Paul Haines has sold to Sean Wallace at Prime Books his first full-length collection, "Doorways for the Dispossessed", with hardcover and paperback releases scheduled for late 2005/early 2006.

Mar 2005 - Claire McKenna's script has made the top 100 for Project Greenlight Australia out of 1200 scripts entered.

Feb 2005 - Andrew Macrae makes the finals in the Writers of the Future competition final round for 2004

Feb 2005 - Stephen Gleeson snares lead role in the musical "Man of La Mancha"

Jan 2005 - Tracey Rolfe makes the shortlist for Varuna

Jan 2005 - Paul Haines wins Aurealis Award, best short horror, for his short story The Last Days of Kali Yuga (NFG issue 4)

Jan 2005 - Brendan Duffy wins an Aurealis Award, best short science fiction, for his story Come to Daddy (AGOG! Smashing Stories). Brendan's back-to-back win in the same category is unprecedented in the history of the awards.

Dec 2004 - Tom Coverdale had a story accepted for Mirrordanse's Best Of 2004 anthology, but as Southerly, who have first printing rights didn't publish it before the year ended it has become ineligible for the Best of 2004 anthology. Best of 2005?

Dec 2004 - Natalie JE Pott's story "Welcome to Midnight", Rjurik Davidson's "The Interminable Suffering of Mysterious Mr Wu", and Adam Browne's "Ring Cycle" (in collaboration with John Dixon) were published in the #33,34,35 edition of Aurealis edited by Keith Stevenson.