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boasts an impressive line-up of six of the best speculative fiction writers
working in Australia today...
working in Australia today...
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Trent Jamieson
Paul Haines
Louise Katz
Cat Sparks
Margo Lanagan
Margo was born in 1960, spent her childhood in a country town, Raymond Terrace, in New South Wales, her
teenage years in Melbourne, then travelled about a bit and has lived in Sydney since 1982.
She started writing poetry in her teens, broke herself in as a prose writer with a dozen or so teenage romance
novels in her late twenties, and since then has published three junior fiction fantasy titles, two young adult
novels, two contributions to shared-world fantasy series and three collections of speculative fiction short
stories.
She was educated in Catholic primary and secondary schools, and went to the universities of Western
Australia and Sydney, emerging with an honours degree in history. She has worked in kitchens and offices,
and from home as a freelance editor. She has been a contract technical writer since 2000.
Margo's short story collection, Black Juice, was widely acclaimed, won two World Fantasy Awards, a Victorian
Premier's Award, two Ditmars and two Aurealis Awards, was shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book
Prize and was an honour book in the American Library Association’s Michael L. Printz Award. The story
'Wooden Bride' was shortlisted for the James Tiptree Jr Award, and 'Singing My Sister Down' has been
nominated for many other awards, including a Nebula and a Hugo. Red Spikes was shortlisted for the
Commonwealth Writers Prize and longlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, and
was the Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year for Older Readers.
Margo’s novel, Tender Morsels, will be published in October 2008. Margo lives in Sydney with her partner and
their two sons. She maintains a weblog at www.amongamidwhile.blogspot.com.
teenage years in Melbourne, then travelled about a bit and has lived in Sydney since 1982.
She started writing poetry in her teens, broke herself in as a prose writer with a dozen or so teenage romance
novels in her late twenties, and since then has published three junior fiction fantasy titles, two young adult
novels, two contributions to shared-world fantasy series and three collections of speculative fiction short
stories.
She was educated in Catholic primary and secondary schools, and went to the universities of Western
Australia and Sydney, emerging with an honours degree in history. She has worked in kitchens and offices,
and from home as a freelance editor. She has been a contract technical writer since 2000.
Margo's short story collection, Black Juice, was widely acclaimed, won two World Fantasy Awards, a Victorian
Premier's Award, two Ditmars and two Aurealis Awards, was shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book
Prize and was an honour book in the American Library Association’s Michael L. Printz Award. The story
'Wooden Bride' was shortlisted for the James Tiptree Jr Award, and 'Singing My Sister Down' has been
nominated for many other awards, including a Nebula and a Hugo. Red Spikes was shortlisted for the
Commonwealth Writers Prize and longlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, and
was the Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year for Older Readers.
Margo’s novel, Tender Morsels, will be published in October 2008. Margo lives in Sydney with her partner and
their two sons. She maintains a weblog at www.amongamidwhile.blogspot.com.
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Trent Jamieson has had more than sixty short stories published over the last decade, and, in 2005, won an
Aurealis award for his story 'Slow and Ache'. His most recent stories have appeared in Cosmos Magazine,
Zahir, Murky Depths and Jack Dann's anthology Dreaming Again. His collection Reserved for Travelling Shows
was released in 2006. He is currently working on a children's novel series, The Players, aided by
an Arts Council grant, as well as a novel about death set in Brisbane.
Trent was fiction editor of Redsine Magazine, and worked for Prime Books on Kirsten Bishop's multi-award
winning novel The Etched City. He lives in Brisbane with his wife, Diana. Trent's blog is at
trentonomicon.blogspot.com
Aurealis award for his story 'Slow and Ache'. His most recent stories have appeared in Cosmos Magazine,
Zahir, Murky Depths and Jack Dann's anthology Dreaming Again. His collection Reserved for Travelling Shows
was released in 2006. He is currently working on a children's novel series, The Players, aided by
an Arts Council grant, as well as a novel about death set in Brisbane.
Trent was fiction editor of Redsine Magazine, and worked for Prime Books on Kirsten Bishop's multi-award
winning novel The Etched City. He lives in Brisbane with his wife, Diana. Trent's blog is at
trentonomicon.blogspot.com
Paul Haines was raised in the '70s, in the wrong part of Auckland, New Zealand. After completing a degree in
the frozen, drunken depths of Otago he wound up working in computers and was eventually lured by sex and
money to Australia in the '90s. Vowing to never call it home, he now lives in Melbourne with his wife and
daughter. He has won the Ditmar, Aurealis and Sir Julius Vogel SF awards for his writing, and attended the
inaugural Clarion South.
His award-winning short story collection Doorways For The Dispossessed was published in 2006. Paul's lo fi
website is at www.paulhaines.com and he blogs at paulhaines.livejournal.com.
the frozen, drunken depths of Otago he wound up working in computers and was eventually lured by sex and
money to Australia in the '90s. Vowing to never call it home, he now lives in Melbourne with his wife and
daughter. He has won the Ditmar, Aurealis and Sir Julius Vogel SF awards for his writing, and attended the
inaugural Clarion South.
His award-winning short story collection Doorways For The Dispossessed was published in 2006. Paul's lo fi
website is at www.paulhaines.com and he blogs at paulhaines.livejournal.com.
Born in Sydney in 1947, Terry is one of Australia’s most awarded, versatile and internationally acclaimed
writers of science fiction, fantasy, dark fantasy and horror. He is author of Rynosseros, Blue Tyson, Twilight Beach
and Rynemonn,(the multi-awards winning Tom Rynosseros saga, described by Brian Attebery as, 'not only
intricate and engaging, but important as well. Other novels and collections include Wormwood, The Man Who
Lost Red, An Intimate Knowledge of the Night, Antique Futures: The Best of Terry Dowling, Blackwater Days and Basic
Black: Tales of Appropriate Fear which won the 2007 International Horror Guild Award for Best Collection. He
is editor of the World Fantasy Award-winning The Essential Ellison, Mortal Fire: Best Australian SF and The Jack
Vance Treasury. Terry's website is at www.terrdowling.com.
writers of science fiction, fantasy, dark fantasy and horror. He is author of Rynosseros, Blue Tyson, Twilight Beach
and Rynemonn,(the multi-awards winning Tom Rynosseros saga, described by Brian Attebery as, 'not only
intricate and engaging, but important as well. Other novels and collections include Wormwood, The Man Who
Lost Red, An Intimate Knowledge of the Night, Antique Futures: The Best of Terry Dowling, Blackwater Days and Basic
Black: Tales of Appropriate Fear which won the 2007 International Horror Guild Award for Best Collection. He
is editor of the World Fantasy Award-winning The Essential Ellison, Mortal Fire: Best Australian SF and The Jack
Vance Treasury. Terry's website is at www.terrdowling.com.
Cat Sparks is the manager and editor of Agog! Press, which has produced seven anthologies of (mostly) new
Australian speculative fiction. She is also a writer, graphic designer, photographer and desktop publisher, with
stories and artwork appearing in a selection of magazines and anthologies. In 2004 she was a graduate of the
inaugural Clarion South Writers' Workshop in Queensland.
Cat has won seven Ditmar awards and the 2004 Peter MacNamara Conveners' Award for services to the
Australian SF publishing industry. In 2007, Cat's story 'Hollywood Roadkill' was awarded both the Aurealis
Award for best short science fiction story and the Golden Aurealis for best Australian speculative fiction
story of the year.
Cat lives with her partner, author Robert Hood, and their three cats, Smersh, Pazuzu and Nemo. Her website
is at www.catsparks.net and she blogs regularly at catsparx.livejournal.com.
Australian speculative fiction. She is also a writer, graphic designer, photographer and desktop publisher, with
stories and artwork appearing in a selection of magazines and anthologies. In 2004 she was a graduate of the
inaugural Clarion South Writers' Workshop in Queensland.
Cat has won seven Ditmar awards and the 2004 Peter MacNamara Conveners' Award for services to the
Australian SF publishing industry. In 2007, Cat's story 'Hollywood Roadkill' was awarded both the Aurealis
Award for best short science fiction story and the Golden Aurealis for best Australian speculative fiction
story of the year.
Cat lives with her partner, author Robert Hood, and their three cats, Smersh, Pazuzu and Nemo. Her website
is at www.catsparks.net and she blogs regularly at catsparx.livejournal.com.
Loiuse writes novels and short stories. 'Weavers of the Twilight' received an Aurealis short story award in
2004, and the YA novel, 'The Other Face of Janus', named a notable book by the Children's Book Council,
was awarded an Aurealis in 2001. Louise has also self published a hand-made 'ancient' vellum-bound book, an
artifact of an imagined race, now in Sydney Uni's rare books collection. At the moment Louise is writing a
fantasy novel (though of course everything that happens in it is TRUE) while working on her doctorate at
UTS and teaching English.
2004, and the YA novel, 'The Other Face of Janus', named a notable book by the Children's Book Council,
was awarded an Aurealis in 2001. Louise has also self published a hand-made 'ancient' vellum-bound book, an
artifact of an imagined race, now in Sydney Uni's rare books collection. At the moment Louise is writing a
fantasy novel (though of course everything that happens in it is TRUE) while working on her doctorate at
UTS and teaching English.