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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!
Margo Lanagan is up for Short Fiction with “Bajazzle” from her wonderful collection Cracklescape, and Kaaron Warren is up for Novella with the deeply troubling, upsetting and horrific “Sky” from her dark and creepy collection Through Splintered Walls. Both these collections are Twelve Planets!
Congratulations to everyone on the Shirley Jackson list – was pleased to see Robert Shearman there with his new book Remember Why You Fear Me, and Kelly Link with the wonderful story “Two Houses” which I heard her read at Continuum last year.
Speaking of Kaaron Warren’s Through Splintered Walls, if you’re anywhere near Rockingham WA today, go and check out the exhibition of paper art made from the ‘printer error’ batch of those books – Lee Battersby let a few sneak peeks out over Facebook and the work looks spectacular!
In other news, the new Board of Directors of the SFWA has been announced:
President: Steven Gould
Vice-President: Rachel Swirsky
Secretary: Susan Forest
Treasurer: Bud Sparhawk
South/Central Regional Director: Lee Martindale
Overseas Regional Director: Tansy Rayner Roberts
Thanks everyone for your congratulations. So that’s something I’ll be doing from 1 July 2013 onwards… I hope to work towards making the SFWA more relevant to and useful for overseas members, and will be happy to hear any feedback from my constituents (sweetie, darling) about how that could be achieved.
In other OTHER news, the new issue of the fanzine The Drink Tank is out now – it’s their annual Handicapping the Hugos issue which is worth reading for its analysis on the Hugo ballot, but also because I wrote a piece for them! Given free rein on the topic of the Hugo ballot I decided to use my time wisely in researching exactly who all those new people were on the Campbell ballot so I could express vaguely informed opinions about them. So I did that!
