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Friday Links is an Imperfect Feminist (but tries hard)
Kirstyn McDermott confesses to being a bad feminist… which brings home how very hard women can be on themselves! Sometimes allowing yourself to be imperfect is in itself a feminist achievement. On the...
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I see that Sean the Blogonaut scooped me on this one by dint of being awake past midnight on a school night. That’s dedication for you! But now I’m up stupidly early (by accident) and most of the...
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Norma Shortlist!
Very excited to announce that this year’s Norma K Hemming Award for race, gender, sexuality, class and disability in Australian speculative fiction (or as we refer to it on Galactic Suburbia, the...
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Galactic Suburbia 59 Show Notes
In which the boob window is explained. Don’t say we’re not educational! You can download the new episode through iTunes or here on our website. News Drink Tank loves us! Download their Hugo shortlist...
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Aurealised
Stephanie Smith, Kim Westwood & TansyRRIt was a lovely weekend, involving much catching with distant friends in person, a rare treat for me. It did mean that I fell down somewhat on my social media...
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Galactic Suburbia 60: In Which, Cake
The new episode is up! Grab it from our site, or download it from iTunes! In which we celebrate our 60th episode and Peter McNamara Award for Excellence win with cake, yarn and superheroes. For best...
View ArticleWSFA Small Press Award Shortlist!
This was a lovely surprise today! The WSFA Small Press Award Committee Announces Finalists for 2012 Award for stories published in 2011. Finalists for the 2012 WSFA Small Press Award for Short Fiction:...
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More WSFA
There’s a trophy! A trophy! I knew this, actually, as I already have one (matching set!) but it’s still exciting to see it. The rundown of the award presentation, including nominee list and a link to...
View ArticleAward-winning Australian Women (SF, Horror and Fantasy Books) 2012
I can’t believe it’s more than a year since I wrote this post as a resource for the Australian Women Writers Challenge – award-winning books by Australian Women writers, editors etc. for people...
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The Galactic Suburbia Award 2012
One of my favourite things about the Galactic Suburbia Award is the morning after the podcast has been published, when I get to wake up and see people squeeing on Twitter, especially those who...
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Tiptree Time!
It’s that time of year again, when the Tiptree winners (and Honor List) are released. The award is designed to reward (and call attention to) works that explore or challenge the portrayal of gender, as...
View ArticleDitmars and Geek Chic
The Ditmar ballot is out! I am delighted to be nominated as Best Fan Writer, as well as for various group projects: Galactic Suburbia, Galactic Chat and the Snapshot. I also have two works up for the...
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Ditmar Pretties 2013
Conflux crept up on me, as conventions you’re not planning to go to tend to. And so it was that I sat down with my computer yesterday after a long day to find a Twitter party going on – and lo, I won...
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Postcards from a Saturday Morning
The Shirley Jackson Award shortlist is up! This is especially exciting this year because it features two Australians (a pretty rare event, I think?). Even better, they’re not competing with each other!...
View Article2012 Aurealis Awards (and having “too many” wins)
For the last couple of years I have attended the Sydney-hosted Aurealis Awards weekend, which is always a blast. Sadly I was reining back on travel this year and couldn’t make it – but it sounds like...
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Shiny Silver Rocket
pic by Kevin StandleeSo, I won a Hugo today, for Best Fan Writer. That was… a bit of a shock, really. Thanks everyone for your congratulations via Twitter, Facebook and email. There were so many of...
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Things I Did/Had Published in 2016
An award eligibility post. Wow, my writing resolution to work more at the novelette length has totally paid off! Personally I think of anything at 15K or higher as a novella, but most awards...
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Award Eligibility Post
It’s a thing. Let’s skip past the apologies for allowing the post to exist. 2018 was a big year for me! In fact I have already been nominated for some awards (woo, the Aurealis Awards are more...
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