TISF 008 featuring 'Smoking, Waiting for The Dawn' written and read by Jason Nahrung

(15 June 2009)

Author Information

Jason Nahrung grew up on a Queensland cattle property and works as a newspaper journalist in
Brisbane. He has travelled widely, both within Australia and internationally, and is a regular
attendee at Australian writers conventions.

He has been a director and judge for Australia's premier speculative fiction awards, the Aurealis
Awards. His writing has won the William Atheling Jnr award for Criticism or Review, been highly
commended in the Aurealis Awards and been shortlisted in the Ditmars and the Australian
Shadows.

His debut novel, The Darkness Within (Hachette Australia), based on a novella written with his then
girlfriend Mil Clayton, was published in 2007. A German edition came out in 2008 and he is writing
further tales set in the same universe. Further details of his writing can be found at
www.jasonnahrung.com