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Shortlisted to British Fantasy Awards

[image error]I have great news! Pacific Monsters is shortlisted to British Fantasy Awards as Best Anthology, competing with four other strong anthologies! I am such a happy editor!

This is the third year in a row one of the annual monster books I edit is shortlisted to this award. I’m very humble and grateful.

Thanks to everyone who voted and the jury, and congrats to all the lovely authors and artists who made Pacific Monsters possible, and Adele Wearing at Fox Spirit Books.

There are so many great names...

Brave New Words Award

[image error]I am over the moon to tell you that I reveived Starburst Magazine’s Brave New Words Award last night, for my editor work on Pacific Monsters.

I am so happy and chuffed to receive this award and get a recognition for the work I do as anthology editor with the book series Fox Spirit Books of Monsters. Thank you so much, Starburst Magazine, the judges, Ed Fortune, Adele Wearing and Fox Spirit Books, and all the wonderful monster writers and artists. Pacific Monsters was a fun book to work on and...

Indigenous speculative fiction

[image error]I am very proud to have so many different author voices in the monster books. Not only do I wish to scare people with monsters they probably have never heard about. I also want the books to give the readers an realistic insight into the continents we cover—it is a journey after all.

So, one of the things I also do, is to actively seek out authors with an indigenous and First Nations background to contribute to the books. I think it’s important because I think their folklore and history is oft...

Sir Julius Vogel Awards shortlisting

[image error]Wow, what a great month this is for Pacific Monsters. Third shortlisting to an award in a very short time.

I am thrilled to tell you that AJ Fitzwater is shortlisted to New Zealand’s Sir Julius Vogel Awards 2018 in the category Best Short Story for her story «From the Womb of the Land, Our Bones Entwined» in Pacific Monsters, a very special story about the battle with earthquakes.

AJ builds her story on the New Zealand Maori myth of Papatūānuku, the earth mother, and her son Rūamoko. Rūamoko...

Shortlisting Aurealis Awards

[image error]Just a quick and happy note to tell you the good news that Michael Grey’ story in Pacific Monsters  is shortlisted to the 2017 Aurealis Awards, in the category Best Horror Novella!

Michael’s story «Grind» is a grim and dark tale about the struggles of a whaling boat crew when their boat is stuck in the ice in Antartica.

Congratulations, Michael! I am a very proud editor.

The award is organized by The Western Australian Science Fiction Foundation (WASFF), and is Australia’s premier speculative...

Classical monsters & Making Monsters

[image error]Futurefire.net Publishing and the Institute of Classical Studies are currently working on a mixed fiction and nonfiction anthology titled Making Monsters, with a focus on classical monsters in fantasy, horror or science fiction. They have a call for fiction submissions out now with deadline February 28th.

The book will be published in the middle of 2018, and edited by Emma Bridges and Djibril al-Ayad. To celebrate the monsters I have interviewed Djibril al-Ayad about the background for the Ma...

Women in Horror & Making Monsters

Check out my interview over at Fox Spirit Books with Emma Bridges, one of the editors behind forthcoming anthology Making Monsters, where I will have an essay about the world’s monsters.

Futurefire.net Publishing and the Institute of Classical Studies are currently working on a mixed fiction and nonfiction anthology titled Making Monsters, with a focus on classical monsters in fantasy, horror or science fiction short stories. They currently have…

Source: Women in Horror & Making Monsters

The Future Fire interviews Iona Winter

This week it was awesome to be interviewed by The Future Fire, where we discussed the stunning Pacific Monsters book, my childhood fear of the dark, and a new doorway into the world of PhD’s in Creative Writing. http://press.futurefire.net/2018/02/i...

via The Future Fire — Iona Winter

Shortlisted to Brave New Words Award

[image error]I am so thrilled to tell you that I am shortlisted to Starburst Magazine’s Brave New Words Award.

Starburst’s literary editor, Ed Fortune, writes in their call for entries in December that the award is for someone who produces break-out literature that is new and bold. The award goes to an individual, not a specific work, and is across genres and formats.

I am shortlisted for my editor-work on Pacific Monsters from Fox Spirit Books. And wow!, it is a great honour. Thank you so very much!

The...

Making Monsters

[image error]Happy to announce that I will have an essay about the monsters of the world in the forthcoming book Making Monsters  from The Future Fire and Institute of Classical Studies, the University of London’s School of Advanced Study.

The book will combine a series of articles written by scholars with an anthology of new short stories and poems inspired by ancient monsters. See the open call for contributions from writers of fiction and poetry here. Deadline is February 28th.

I am very happy to be a p...