Appeared in Anywhere But Earth (coeur de lion publishing) Originally from Canada, Wendy has made a home in Australia and her speculative fiction has appeared in Interzone and Tesseracts. She was an alumnus of the 2004 Clarion South workshop. Also in this episode: Keith Stevenson reviews Greig Beck’s This Green Hell (Pan Macmillan Australia)

Appeared in Daikaiju! Giant Monster Tales (Agog! Press) Chuck McKenzie was born in 1970, and still spends much of his time there. He currently fills multiple roles as a bookseller, reviewer, and zombie obsessive, only one of which pays the bills – although sometimes he also writes short fiction and gets paid for it, which…

Appeared in Shelf Life: Fantastic Stories Celebrating Bookstores (DreamHaven Books) Lucy Sussex was born in New Zealand in 1957. She has degrees in English and Librarianship from Monash University, and is a freelance researcher, editor and writer. She has published widely, writing anything from literary criticism to horror and detective stories. In addition she is a…

This story was inspired by my first visit to Queensland .  As I listened to the fruit bats fighting in the outside in the warm thick Townsville night, I thought about how perfect this sound was for Australian Gothic and wondered how a vampire story would work in this setting. – Jane Routley Also in this…

Lee Battersby is the multi-award winning author of over seventy stories in Australia, the US and Europe, as well as numerous poems, reviews, and ephemera, including a stream of minicomics and comic strips spread out over the years like illegitimate children. Jason Fischer is based in Adelaide, South Australia. He attended Clarion South in 2007,…

Appeared in Rare Unsigned Copy (Peggy Bright Books) Simon Petrie is a NZ-born research scientist now living in Canberra. His short fiction has appeared in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Aurealis, Kaleidotrope, Murky Depths, Sybil’s Garage, and arguably in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.His debut collection Rare Unsigned Copy: Tales of Rocketry, Ineptitude,…

Appeared in Aurealis Magazine Issue #36 (Chimaera Publications) Lee Battersby is the multi-award winning author of over seventy stories in Australia, the US and Europe, as well as numerous poems, reviews, and ephemera, including a stream of minicomics and comic strips spread out over the years like illegitimate children. He blogs irregularly at The Battersblog.…

Appeared in The Workers’ Paradise (Ticonderoga Press) Nathan Burrage is a Sydney-based writer and author of Fivefold, a mystic thriller drawing on the rich tradition of the Kabbalah. Nathan has published short fiction in a number of Australian speculative fiction magazines and anthologies. Also in this episode: Keith Stevenson reviews Death Most Definite by Trent…

Appeared in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine Issue 7 Rjurik Davidson has written short stories, essays, screenplays and reviews. He has been short-listed for the Ditmar Award for Best Short Story three times, the Aurealis Award once and won the Ditmar award for Best New Talent in 2005 and been published in Years Best Australian Science Fiction…

Appeared in 2012 (Twelfth Planet Press) Tansy Rayner Roberts is a Tasmanian writer of speculative fiction.  Her Creature Court Trilogy is published by HarperVoyager featuring shapechangers and flappers. Tansy is also one of the three voices of the Galactic Suburbia podcast. Also in this episode: Keith Stevenson reviews The Life Lottery by Ian Irvine.

Appeared in Interfictions II (Interstitial Arts Foundation/ Small Beer Press) Peter M Ball is a Brisbane-based writer whose short fiction has appeared in Fantasy Magazine, Strange Horizons, Apex Magazine and the Interfictions II anthology. He attended Clarion South in 2007 and published a unicorn-noir novella, Horn, with Twelfth Planet Press in 2009. Also in this episode:…

The story is unpublished, but is set in the same world as ‘Sea-Hearts’ novella in X6: a novellanthology  (coeur de lion publishing) and Sea Hearts (Allen and Unwin). Sydney-based writer Margo Langan was predominantly known for writing YA short fiction which was collected in her very successful books White Time, Black Juice and Red Spike.…

Appeared in Aurealis Magazine Issue #42 (Chimaera Publications) Jason Fischer is based in Adelaide, South Australia. He attended Clarion South in 2007, was shortlisted in the 2009 Ditmar Awards for Best New Talent, and is a recent Winner of the Writers of the Future contest. He has stories in Dreaming Again, Apex, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight…

Appeared in Fantasy Magazine Issue #4 (Prime Books) Ben Peek is the author of Twenty-Six Lies/One Truth and Black Sheep. His short fiction has been reprinted in numerous Year’s Best volumes, and have appeared in Overland, Polyphony, Leviathan, Fantasy Magazine, Aurealis, and more. In addition to this, he has written reviews, an online comic, and a…

Appeared in Antennae Issue 9 “Mechanical Animals” Matthew Chrulew’s fiction has been published in Canterbury 2100, Australian Dark Fantasy & Horror, The Worker’s Paradise, ASIF and Aurealis. He is currently writing a cultural and natural history of the mammoth for Reaktion Books. Also in this episode: Keith Stevenson reviews The Terminator Gene by Ian Irvine.

Appeared in Shelf Life: Fantastic Stories Celebrating Bookstores (DreamHaven Books) Marianne lives in Queensland and is the author of the best-selling Parrish Plessis and Sentients of Orion series. She also writes humorous crime novels under the pseudonym, Marianne Delacourt. Also in this episode: Keith Stevenson reviews Beneath The Dark Ice by Greig Beck.

The 2009 Christmas Special ‘Always’ is previously unpublished. ‘… They First Make Mad’ appeared in Agog! Fantastic Fiction (Agog! Press) ‘Come to Daddy’ appeared in Agog! Smashing Stories (Agog! Press) Trent Jamieson – Brisbane SF writer – has sold over sixty short stories and won the 2005 Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Short Story…

Appeared in A Book of Endings (Twelfth Planet Press) Deborah Biancotti’s debut short story collection, A Book of Endings was described as a ‘superb collection of short stories’ by Graham Joyce, with stories The Age calls ‘succinct and powerful’, and is available from Twelfth Planet Press. Also in this episode: Keith Stevenson reviews Slights by…

Appeared in Aurealis #41 (Chimeara Publications) Miranda Siemienowicz is a Melbourne writer of dark literary surrealism. She has had stories and essays published in venues including Overland, Quadrant, Hecate and Island. Her work has been reprinted in The Best Horror of the Year Vol. 1 (Ellen Datlow, Night Shade Books) and Australian Dark Fantasy and…

Appeared in Agog! Terrific Tales (Agog! Press) Brendan Duffy is the Aurealis Awards winner for science fiction short stories in 2003 and 2004, with ‘Louder Echo’ and ‘Come to Daddy’. ‘Louder Echo’ was also selected for Hartwell & Cramer’s Year’s Best Fantasy 4, and ‘The Tale of Enis Cash, Smallgoods Smokehand’ was selected for Congreve…