The next General Meeting, on 18 March, will be a Special General Meeting. At the AGM in October 2014, the Committee asked the membership to vote on a proposal to amend the rules to allow the CSFG to be able confer life memberships. The membership voted to approve the proposal [...]
President Leife Shallcross kicks off the 2015 discussions with some musing on some CSFG'ers recent encounter with a literary hero and how reading is a vital ingredient of writing. This essay is crossposted from Leife's website. I’ve had quite a literary week. On Monday I went to see the entertaining [...]
Did you guys even realise it was 2015 already? FEBRUARY 2015. That’s only 320 days away from 2016. AND WHAT HAVE YOU DONE SO FAR?!?! If the answer is ‘Not as much as I’d like’, then our February meeting is for you. (If the answer isn’t that, you should still [...]
The table of contents for CSFG's massive 2015 anthology The Never Never Land has been announced by the triple-threat editorial team of Ian McHugh, Phill Berrie and Mitchell Akhurst. Congratulations to the successful authors! The Never Never Land: Table of Contents Consumed - Elizabeth Jakimow Memory Lane - Suzanne J. [...]
It's the end of the year, and CSFG is on hiatus until early February, but that doesn't mean our members aren't busy beavering away at their craft. Several CSFG members have reported exciting publication news: Novels Justin Woolley's first novel A Town Called Dust is out now from Momentum. Zena [...]
Aurealis Awards Nominations for the annual Aurealis Awards for Australian speculative fiction are open. Any work of speculative fiction written by an Australian citizen or permanent resident and published for the first time between 1 January 2014 and 31 December 2014 is eligible to be entered. The conditions of entry are here. [...]
It’s been quite a while since we’ve updated our member news. Here’s a probably-incomplete roundup of the action since July: Novels Donna Maree Hanson’s Dragon Wine duology has launched from Momentum books: Shatterwing and Skywatcher Alan Baxter’s Alex Caine series is now out from Harper Collins in Australian and New [...]