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View ArticleA quick and dirty breakdown of major sf awards by gender
I was doing some research on women writers of SF and needed some info on how many women had won Hugos and Nebulas. When i couldn't find anything recent, I pulled this together from Locus awards page:...
View ArticleOur Favourite Female SF/F authors
More number crunching - so I have done the list of all women who have won any pro fiction category in the Hugos andNebulas. Interesting comparison. Total women winners of Hugos: 21. Total women...
View ArticleUsing spec-fic in the classroom
On the weekend, I attended a wonderful conference put on by the English Teacher's Association of WA. They had kindly asked me to present a session on using SF/F in the classroom. The session was very...
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Aussie Spec Fic Snapshot 2012
The Aussie Spec Fic Snapshot has taken place three times over the past eight years. In 2005, Ben Peek spent a frantic week interviewing 43 people in the Australian spec fic scene, and since then, it's...
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Snapshot 2012: Damien Broderick
Damien Broderick is an award-winning Australian sf writer, editor and critical theorist, with a PhD from Deakin University. A senior fellow in the School of Culture and Communication at the University...
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Snapshot 2012: Lucy Sussex
Lucy Sussex lectures at La Trobe University. Her award-winning fiction includes books for younger readers and the novel, The Scarlet Rider (1996). She has published five short story collections, My...
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Snapshot 2012: Lara Morgan
Lara Morgan grew up in the hills of Perth, Western Australia. She has worked in the arts, at a newspaper and, once, a car wash but all pale in comparison to being a writer which allows her to work in...
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Snapshot 2012: Dirk Flinthart
Dirk Flinthart is an Australian writer who lives in Uttermost Taswegia, where he raises dangerous children. His short works have appeared in publications from ASIM, agog!, 12th Planet Press,...
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Snapshot 2012: Sue Isle
Sue Isle describes herself thus: " I was born in Fremantle, Western Australia in 1963 and currently live in Perth. Most of my family live in other places, but I'm sure these two facts are...
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Snapshot 2012: Kim Falconer
Kim Falconer is a HarperVoyager Aus author writing epic science fantasy novels set in the worlds of Earth and Gaela. Her latest series is Quantum Encryption. Her novel writing is done every morning...
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Snapshot 2012: Marianne de Pierres
Marianne de Pierres is the author of the Parrish Plessis and award-winning Sentients of Orion science fiction series. Her Night Creatures trilogy for teen readers has been a recommended read by the...
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Snapshot 2012: Tracey O'Hara
Tracey O'Hara grew up reading Stephen King, Raymond E. Feist, and J.R.R. Tolkien, where she developed her taste for adventure and the paranormal thriller. When she's not writing, reading, or listening...
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Snapshot 2012: Peter Ball
Peter M. Ball is a Brisbane-based writer whose work includes the faerie-noir novellas Horn and Bleed, and his short fiction has appeared in publications such as Daily SF, Apex Magazine, and Eclipse 4....
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Snapshot 2012: Angela Slatter
Angela Slatter is a Brisbane-based writer of speculative fiction. In 2010, she had two short story collections published, Sourdough & Other Stories with Tartarus Press (UK) (which was shortlisted...
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Snapshot 2012: Stephanie Smith
Stephanie Smith has been an editor and publisher for some 20 plus years, and for 17 of those years she worked on the Voyager science fiction and fantasy list for HarperCollins Publishers. She left...
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Snapshot 2012: Karen Healey
Karen Healey is an Aurealis-award winning author of young adult fiction who likes World of Warcraft, teen romantic comedies, and nail polish. She currently lives in her hometown, New Zealand's...
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Snapshot 2012: Wolfgang Bylsma
Wolfgang Bylsma serves as Editor-in-Chief for Australia’s leading independent graphic novel publishing house, Gestalt, which he co-founded in 2005. He has a passion for encouraging creative...
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Snapshot 2012: Kate Eltham
Kate Eltham is a writer and CEO of Queensland Writers Centre. In 2010 she founded if:book Australia, an institute exploring book futures and digital media. if:book Australia forms an international...
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Snapshot 2012: Peter Nicholls
Peter Nicholls is a Hugo-award winning SF critic and scholar, best known for his work in conceiving and editing the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. He has also been an academic, film-maker,...
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