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April 3, 2013
Free Nightmares
Today you can read “The Coffin-Maker’s Daughter” for free over at Nightmare Magazine, and the interview with me about the story. Y’know, if you’re bored.
Go here.
Maltese Folktales

The Green Woman by Ellen Pace
Thanks to Teodor Reljic, I now know about this.
The artwork is by Ellen Pace and is utterly glorious!
And my mind is a little bit blown as I’ve been thinking with the back-brain about a story called “The Green Woman”
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April 2, 2013
Jo Anderton on Angst
Alan Baxter’s series continues today with Jo Anderton talking about the stuff that makes her angsty and how she beats it up and kicks it to the kerb.
Go here.
2013 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize
Short story writers, please consider entering the 2013 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize.
The entry fee is $20.00 but the prize money is very, very good.
Go here for details.
April 1, 2013
QWC – Hachette Australia Manuscript Development Program
It’s on again, the sixth national manuscript development program for fiction and non-fiction writers.
This is a unique opportunity, so put your best manuscript forward.
Follow the guidelines, do not argue with the guidelines, and don’t be rude to the staff at QWC.
Go here for details.
Over at Alan Baxter’s place …
Ongoing Angst! Of Successful Writers!
Yes, the successful people get it too – sorry if you thought there was a point where the writerly angst went away!
Alan is running a series with writers answering questions about angst and how they (or don’t) cope. Standby for Kaaron Warren, Jo Anderton, Lisa L
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Nightmare Magazine, Issue 7

Rackham”s Bertilda
Issue 7 of Nightmare Magazine is available this week. The schedule is below – including “The Coffin-Maker’s Daughter”:
This Week’s Story
More Fiction
The Coffin-Maker’s Daughter by Angela Slatter (available on 4/3)
Bonfires by Marc Laidlaw (available on 4/10)
The Bacchae by Elizabeth Hand (available on 4/17)
Gravitas by Weston Ochese (available on 4/24)
Nonfiction
Editorial, April
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March 29, 2013
Yeah, I should be writing …
… but http://www.jointherealm.com/ gave me the chance to waste time doing this.
And now I shall go back to writing.
March 25, 2013
Black Apples

Black Apples by Julia Chiang
Black Apples from Belladonna Publishing has a Table of Contents to look forward to, not least because it includes Angie Rega and Alison Littlewood:
A Winter Evening - Sarah L Byrne And Gold in Her Eyes - Maigen Turner Bluebeard’s Child -
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March 24, 2013
In the mail – The Night Land
And in today’s mail: my author copy of The Night Land, issue #5, which contains my story “The Coffin-Maker’s Daughter” in Japanese translation.