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Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine
Needs: Print, bimonthly. Lighthearted fantasy/SF is their favourite
thing. They want more stories by women in third person, among other
things. Tips
Pays: Short Fiction: A1.25c/w with a $20 minimum. Poetry and Flash
Fiction: A$10 per piece. Contributor copy.
A
4000 word story would earn you: A$50.
Contact: email
with attached RTF.
Web site. Editor: Robbie Matthews
Antipodean SF
Needs: Print, monthly, flash stories only (<500 words). SF/Fantasy.
Online only with archive. Guidelines
Payment:
No payment. Warm glow in the heart and archiving at National Library.
Contact:
email Ion Newcombe.
Web site.
Aurealis
Needs:
Print, publishes- once, twice, three times a year... depending. SF and
fantasy magazine, the grand old dame of Australian SF. Science fiction,
fantasy or horror short stories of 2000 to 8000 words.
Guidelines
Pays:
Minimum $20 a story, sometimes more. Contributor copy.
A
4000 word story would earn you: A$20
Deadlines:
Now accepts email subs. Accepting stories for 2005 issue now.
Subs:
Chimaera
Publications
PO Box 2164, Mt Waverley
Victoria 3149, Australia.
Editors:
Robert Hoge, Ben Payne
Web site
Australoz
Needs:
up to 1000 words. Mythology, SF, horror. "Speculation as to Australia's
future in space travel, for instance, or it could be operatic. A planet
of intelligent possums would do nicely. OK, so they are already intelligent,
but you ever seen one navigating its way through the solar system? I
think not. Tales from urban poverty, gothic horror or beaurocratic nightmare
are welcome, though gratuitous sex, overt profanity, excessive gore
and the like is not."
Deadline:
the web
site says it's accepting subs for Issue 2 due out "sometime
in 2004".
Payment:
none that I can make out.
Contact:
email subs only.
Editor: Michael Connolly.
Australian
Science Fiction Forum
Needs:
up to 3000 words. Speculative
fiction in the broadest sense. The quirkier the better. Stories can
be serious or completely silly. Experimental styles are okay as long
as the thing is intelligible. Guidelines
They also
require short non-fiction articles on "any topic vaguely related
to speculative fiction, or which might be of broad interest to readers
of speculative fiction. This includes discussion of what is happening
in the speculative fiction world, or information pieces on science or
other areas of interest."
This site
also has a forum intended for discussion of novels and short stories
published in Australia.
Payment:
none.
Contact:
email subs only. Editor:
Greg Guerin Web
site
Borderlands
Needs: Bimonthly. Science fiction, fantasy or horror or related
genres, Australian author or setting. 500 to 10,000 words for fiction
or articles. Prefer works between 1000 to 6000.
Guidelines
Pays: $25 for stories or articles, $50 for works over 7,000
words, contributor copy.
A
4000 word story would earn you: A$20
Contact:
email
P O Box 276, Bayswater WA 6933
Web site. Editor: Stephen
Dedman
Dark
Animus
Needs: print, bimonthly, dark fantasy and horror. Dark, gritty
pulp fiction (science fiction, horror, fantasy, weird – other). Up to
8,000 words (2000-4000 words is ideal)
Guidelines.
Payment: No payment. Contributor copy.
Contact: Submissions closed
until 1 October 2004 unless you're a subscriber. RTF
file to editor James Cain.
Web site
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Fables and reflections
Needs: quarterly-ish print magazine. Speculative Fiction,
Science Fiction, Fantasy and Magic Realism. Between 1000 and 4000 words,
but longer considered. Australian residents only.
Guidelines
Payment: $10 a story.
A
4000 word story would earn you: A$10
Contact:
MS
Word, RTF or ASCII Text file to editor Lily
Chrywenstrom, or mailed as a hardcopy manuscript to PO Box 979 Woden
Post Office Woden ACT 2606
Web site
Ideomancer
Needs:
Online with occasional print version, now quarterly. SF, fantasy, slipstream,
horror. We are open to any story with a speculative element-the supernatural,
the unexplained, or the undiscovered. Flash up to 500 words, others
up to 7000.
Payment:
US 3c a word, up to US$30
A
4000 word story would earn you: US$30 (depending on exchange
rate)
Contact:
no snail mail subs. RTF file to the right editor - you must decide which
genre your story fits into. See their web
site for details. All queries must be sent to the query mailbox:
query@ideomancer.com. Any queries sent to the submissions box will be
deleted unread.
Submissions:
Reading periods are the months of December-January, March-April, June-July,
September-October beginning December 1, 2004. Any stories submitted
during the months of November, February, May, and August after that
date will be deleted unread.
Submissions
go to fiction@ideomancer.com
with subject lines:
Submission-Science
Fiction : Your Story Title
Submission-Horror : Your Story Title
Submission-Fantasy : Your Story Title
Submission-Slipstream : Your Story Title
Submission-Flash : Your Story Title
 OzWitch
Needs:
articles, poetry, reports on events, or anything which may be related
to paganism
and witchcraft.
Payment:
none. Editors say the mag will have wide exposure.
Guidelines:
submission
guidelines
Feature
articles 500 words to 2500.
Film and book reviews: 600 to 1000 words.
Poetry: No limit.
Events: Max 1500 words.
Interviews: 800 - 1200 words.
Enquiries
& submissions: Shayne
Hall
Ripples
Needs:
Fiction, poetry, artwork. Original fiction works up to 3000 words or
poetry with no more than 30 lines. We favour the strange and unusual,
the 'ooh' over 'doh!' and the emancipated imagination over timid line-toeing.
We publish whenever something brilliant arrives and are always looking
for something new. A5 black and white print magazine.
Payment:
none. Free copy of the magazine.
Submissions:
Snail mail: PO Box 9264 Traralgon VICTORIA 3844. Email.
Right now we're looking for submissions for our premiere issue which
is due out in July 2005.
We hope to hear from you soon.
View
submission guidelines.
SF Crows Nest
Needs:
articles, commentary, short fiction, etc. SF and fantasy. Fun, approachable,
sassy, strong on Brit humour, easy to read, high on attitude, low on
pretension & dogma. They have a long list of likes and dislikes, read
their guidelines first. Eg they do like hard SF, sword & sorcery, steampunk
fantasy, alternative reality. No "dry hard SF", vampire stories,
gothic rippers, dark fantasy or slipstream.
Payment:
No pay but exposure on Europe's biggest SF site (30,000 users a month).
A
4000 word story would earn you: A$0
Deadline:
January 2004
Guidelines
Shadowed Realms
Needs:
launching September 2004.
Flash fiction
up to 1000 words is the focus and some longer stories 1,000 to 5,000
words (up to 10,000 words will be considered - query first).
Dark, psychological
speculative fiction, action, crime and erotica, as long as it contains
a speculative element and captures the essence of psychological darkness.
Reprints over 6 months old. Explicit sex, violence, blasphemy and profanity
OK if necessary aspects of your story and not overused. No gore. No
retreads of TV, vampires, fan fiction, high fantasy. Guidelines
Payment:
A$0.04 per word - to a maximum of A$20. Featured flash stories and short
stories are A$25.
A 1000
word story would earn you: A$20
Submissions:
1 February to 30 November only. Snail mail subs only. Angela Challis
Editor, Shadowed Realms magazine PO Box 4 Woodvale WA 6026 (Australia)
Ticonderoga
Online
Needs:
1,500 to 5,000 words, written by Australian residents. We want bizarre,
gonzo stories; SF in the tradition of Howard Waldrop, Jack Womack, Tom
Reamy, and Alfred Bester.
We
want stories that make us as excited as the first time we read "San
Diego Lightfoot Sue" or "Night Of The Cooters". Send us the stuff that
even you think "What the hell kind of monster have I created here?".
No
poetry, non-fiction or standard fantasy ("Take your elves and shove
'em where the sun don't shine").
It
will publish two Australian stories six times a year, and is edited
by Lee Battersby, Russell B. Farr, Liz Grzyb and Lyn Triffitt.
Payment:
$25 for first electronic rights.
A
4000-word story would earn you: $25
Submissions:
No reprints, multiple submissions, simultaneous submissions. Email
Guidelines
Contact:
For more information contact Russell
B. Farr.
Visions
Needs:
bi-monthly
online magazine - articles and reviews on anything of interest to the
speculative imagination. Guidelines
Payment: up to A 2c a word to a maximum of $30 for major articles,
at the discretion of the editor. All payments will be made in Australian
dollars.
Articles
at about 2000 words, fiction under 1000 words, the shorter the better.
More interested in non-fiction than fiction.
A
1000 word story would earn you: A$30
Contact:
email Stephen Thompson and
attached a Word document or include text in the body of the email. No
snail mail subs.
Web
site
Anthologies & competitions
These are mostly Australian ones, arranged in order of deadline.
For more anthologies, see Market lists below.
Agog
Closed
until 2005.
Oceans of the Mind
Needs:
pdf by email publication.
Guidelines
Payment:
From US$0.06/wd.
A
4000 word story would earn you: A$340 (depending on exchange
rate)
Submissions:
Email with
Word or PDF attachment. Snail mail subs accepted.
Web
site
An
Alternate Time
Needs:
Edited by Robert N Stephenson. Original alternate history/time or time
travel stories. The main premise of the story will need to be time based
in some way; not a simple time jump and a general story; the time element
must be integral to the work. Story length, a minimum of 3500 words
and a maximum of 8000 words
Payment:
still being set, but it will be a minimum of $70 per story at this stage.
Deadline:
date extended to Feb 2 2005. Anthology
length will be 80 000 words - strict. All work needs to be previously
unpublished.
Contact:
Robert
Stephenson
Superluminal
anthology
Closed
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The Time of Robots
Needs:
Robot or robot related stories; clever and new twists required. Can
be dark or light focussed. Open to new styles and Avant Garde accepted.
3500-7500 words. "It's about time for Aussie Robots to make stand."
Pays:
$50 a story plus a copy of the book.
A
4000 word story would earn you: A$50
Deadline:
Februrary 2 2004. The book will
be published by Altair/Magellan Books in 2005.
Contact:
Robert
Stephenson
Submissions:
snail mail only
In
The Time of Robots
PO Box 475
Blackwood SA 5051
Australia
Daikaiju
Closed.
Charm,
Beauty, Strangeness
Needs:
At the heart of every good story is a relationship. Charm, Beauty, Strangeness
is an anthology of speculative relationships to be published late 2005,
edited by Zara Baxter.
Both the
speculative element and the relationship/love element are central -
submissions without both elements, or where the story would be substantially
the same with the elements removed, will not be considered. Submissions
for which the relationship/love element is the speculative fiction element
definitely qualify.
Length
up to 12000 words.
The definition
of love and relationship are flexible. Polyamory, LGBT (Lesbian/Gay/
Bisexual/Transgender) and platonic relationships are as welcome as boy-meets-girl,
good-old-fashioned-romance-regency-style, AI-meets-compatible-programming-concept
or budding-mycobeing-ingests-suitable-genetic-material. Stories that
stretch the definitions and boundaries of relationships and love are
particularly welcome.
For the
"speculative" element, any type of speculative fiction will
be considered, whether it be fantasy, horror, slipstream, science fiction,
alternate history or "weird shit".
If your
story contains explicit sex or controversial/taboo subjects (eg sexual
relationships involving minors, necrophilia, non-consensuality) please
query first with an synopsis of the submission. I'm flexible, but I
like to be prepared.
Submissions:
No more than one submission to CBS per author, please. Make it a good
one. Simultaneous submissions are fine. No poetry. Reprints will be
considered, but please query first with details of prior publication
history for the piece you intend to submit. RTF attachments in standard
manuscript format (12 point Courier, double spaced, 1 inch margins,
italics underlined) to Zara
Baxter, before June 1 2005. Please put "CBS:" and your
story title in the subject line. ie "CBS: My Story".
Queries
to Zara Baxter, with
the subject line "CBS: query".
Payment:
A$0.5c per word for first anthology rights, on acceptance, for stories
up to 5000 words. Stories 5000 words or more will receive a flat $250.
A 4000-word
story would earn you: $200
Deadline:
June 1 2005. No final
acceptances will be sent out prior to June 15th 2005, although short-listing
will be done prior to that date.
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Potato
Monkey
Needs:
Yearly-ish print magazine. Science fiction, fantasy and horror, or any
blendings of them. Stories must be original (no TV tie-ins etc.), preferably
character driven.
Pays:
A$20 per story, or $5 for poetry and short short works.
A
4000 word story would earn you: A$20
Contact:
email or snail mail
P.O. Box 84
Darling
Heights
Queensland
Australia 4350.
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Orb
Needs:
yearly, SF and fantasy with a literary bent. No submission guidelines
page.
Web site
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Year's
Best Australian SF
Needs:First
of a projected series, it will reprint a selection of the best stories
from Aust writers and residents published anywhere in 2004. This
anthology will go out mass market.
Pays:
Fee not yet specified, could be around 1c a word. Non-exclusive world
anthology reprint rights only. Authors approached by other editors should
be aware of those words: 'non-exclusive world anthology reprint'. That
means Year's Best can also buy your story, if you've sold it
to another reprint market.
Submissions:
Bill Congreve (who's publishing the series) has read the following publications
(all issues to date):
Agog
Andromeda Spaceways Inflight
Magazine
Antipodean SF
Aurealis
Australian Science Fiction Forum
Borderlands
Conqueror Fantastic
Dark Animus
Encounters
Fables and Reflections
Infinitas Bookshop Newsletter
Oceans
of the Mind
Orb
Shadowed Realms
Ticonderoga
Online
Visions
Could writers
who have published anything anywhere else, please email
a query and send a hardcopy of their work, with a business size SASE,
to: MirrorDanse Books, PO Box 3542, Parramatta NSW 2124, Australia.
Market
lists
 Engen's
Science Fiction & Fantasy Market Engine - you can do a nicely targetted
search here across heaps of SF and fantasy titles, as well as other
publications
Fiction
Factor - you can join their mailing list, or just keep an eye on
their site, which has a limited listing but some interesting entries.
The
Market List - US based, but nicely done
Project
pulp - this is where you can buy all those hard to get small press
publications
Quintamid
Market Database - nice compact format with all the entries on one
page, with supporting detail behind each entry.
Ralan
anthologies -
a page chock full of anthologies
Ralan
markets - loads of markets, searchable
Spicy
Green Iguana - over 500 speculative markets you can browse, online
forum. The search is limited to title; for my money Engen's is the easiest
to use.
The
Write Market - market listings (US) writing news and services for
writers like free web hosting, software, forums, terms, quotes.
Clarion
Clarion
South
Clarion
south photos
"I'm
going to Clarion Woo-hoo dance" (click on "new school")
Zara's
blog, Vile Temptress
Writing
Aphorisms
for writing science fiction from the SSWA. Great list of things
that seem obvious and simple, but aren't.
Critiquing
terms - a list of shorthand ways to refer to common problems from
the SFWA.
Critters
workshop -
online critiquing workshop
Evil
overlord list - common SF clichés, focussing on mistakes
your antagonist might make: "...every Evil Overlord...gets overthrown...
but they always seem to make the same basic mistakes every single time.
With that in mind, allow me to present... The Top 100 Things I'd Do
If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord"
If
I ever go on a hopeless quest against an evil overlord - this is
on Adrian Bedford's blog. If the link I've added here doesn't work,
choose November 2003 from the archive and scroll down to November 13.
Hardcore
critiquing guidelines
Hatrack
River Writers Group - Orson Scott Card runs this and the articles
are very interesting. Also has online critiquing.
Horror
story plots not to use
SF/Fantasy
plots not to use
Story
structure
The
grand list of overused SF cliches
Turkey
city lexicon - primer of writing habits to avoid, esp in SF and
fantasy but also some general ones.
Writerisms
- by CJ Cherryh. How to punch up your writing and make it more vivid.
Writing
tips links from SFWA
Reference
Bartletts
- reference material fully searchable, includes dictionaries, all of
Shakespeare, quotations, Bullfinch's mythology, Brewer's phrase and
fable, etc
Infoplease
- almanac site with lots of basic facts (but not a lot of depth). They
are reputed to pride themselves on accuracy.
Household
cyclopedia - a household handbook printed in 1881. How to do stuff
without modern technology (a lot may be considered wrong these days)
Literally
Links - an eclectic list of research resources with some great stuff
Research
resources - research links from the Writers Guild of America
Survivor
reactions - how people react in extreme crisis.
Virtual
library - academically oriented reference directory
News
Bullsheet
- news and gossip about the Australian SF scene
Internet
Review of Science Fiction - reviews and articles
Locus
- THE speculative fiction magazine, reviews, articles, market listings,
gossip, who's written what...mostly US based.
Savage
Beast - fantastic review site of SF and fantasy books
Scifi.com
- this site has stories and lots of new too. The top paying market short
story SF market I know of (and thus not for me, not yet anyway).
Scificrow
- news from Dark Animus on horror, SF and speculative fiction generally
SF
Crows' Nest - general SF news site
Speculations
- magazine (subscription only), free "Rumor Mill" with news.
Tabula Rasa
- Australian horror news
Procrastination tools
Anzac
bridge traffic - so I can see if it's safe to go out yet.
Boxes
and Arrows - my favourite professional site about information architecture
and interaction design.
Duck
- cool blog.
Isketch
- play pictionary online (warning, it plays music). Free.
Playsite
- scrabble, checkers, cards, play online with others.
Save
the spaceship - very cool once-off game. Takes a few minutes and
can't be saved.
Weebl
& Bob - seriously strange. It never fails to make me giggle
(warning, it plays music and silly voices).
Weird,
Bizarre, Funny & Engrossing - warning, a lot of very tasteless
content here.
ZeFrank
- a lot of stuff here, and nearly all of it hilarious, pointless, silly,
or all three.
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Awards
 Aurealis awards
Awards:
There are six divisions and twelve additional awards. To be eligible,
works must have been written in English by an Australian citizen or
permanent resident and first published in the calendar year under consideration.
Works published after the closing date for the previous year may be
considered.
Timetable
for the 2004 Aurealis Awards
15 November
2004 -- deadline for receiving works entered for consideration
1 December 2004 -- list of finalists works submitted to Awards’
Director, Fantastic Queensland
15 December 2004 -- Winners and reports submitted to Awards’ Director,
Fantastic Queensland
20 January 2005 -- Winners of Best of Best book/short story submitted
to Awards’ Director
Entry:
Only those books/short stories entered under cover of a completed official
entry form will be considered.
Entry forms
are available from the web site or by contacting the
Awards Director, Jason Nahrung.
Aurealis
awards web site
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Writers
Chris
Barnes
Zara
Baxter (writing)
Zara
Baxter (journal)
Russell
Blackford
James
Cain
Trudi Canavan
Paul Collins
Cory
Daniels
Louise Cusack
Jack
Dann
Stephen
Dedman
Terry
Dowling
Sarah
Endacott
Graeme Hague
Richard Harland
Traci
Harding
Robert Hood
Nalo
Hopkinson
Sophie
Masson
Maxine McArthur
Bren
McDibble
Claire
McKenna
Chuck
McKenzie
Sean
McMullen
Caiseal
Mor
Josephine
Pennicott
Michael Pryor
Cameron Rogers
Cat Sparks
Alinta
Thornton
Kim Wilkins
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