Angela Slatter's Blog, page 125
April 2, 2013
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.
March 22, 2013
March 21, 2013
Bitterwood Bible: St Dymphna’s School for Poison Girls
John Singer Sargent, The Misses Vickers
And so, after finishing the paper-based edits of Hallowmass on Monday, I’ve given my brain a break and gone back to working on The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings.
Below is a first draft of the
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March 20, 2013
Aurealis Awards Shortlists
And so the AA shortlists are out and I’m very happy to see 
Midnight and Moonshine is a finalist for Best Collection.
And the company it’s keeping is impressive and humbling:
That Book Your Mad Ancestor Wrote
by K. J. Bishop (self-published)
Metro Winds
by Isobelle Carmody
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