by Tsana | Jan 3, 2018 | Round-ups, Yearly wrap-up
2017 has been a year of ups and downs for many of us. But happily, it was a good year for speculative fiction reading in the Australian Women Writers Challenge. We had 233 reviews submitted to the Challenge, for 147 books by 115 authors. This is a nice increase from...
by ladyredjess | May 18, 2017 | Article, Guest Posts
Over May we’re hosting a focus on lesbian/queer women writers, and we’re very happy that Eden S. French has penned some excellent words for us. Eden is an award-winning novelist and graduate researcher. She is presently signed to Queer Pack, a new...
by Tsana | May 3, 2017 | Round-ups
Although Australia hasn’t been the most fertile ground for science fiction — for whatever reason, the planets didn’t quite align for it the way they did for fantasy — there is still enough variety to divide it up into subgenres. This month I want to focus...
by Tsana | Mar 1, 2017 | Article
This month, instead of moving straight onto another subgenre of speculative fiction I thought I’d shine a light on the most prestigious spec fic awards in Australia: the Aurealis Awards. The awards were first established in 1995 and, although the categories have...
by Tsana | Jan 4, 2017 | Round-ups, Yearly wrap-up
Welcome readers to 2017 and to an overview of all the speculative fiction that was reviewed as part of the Australian Women Writers Challenge in 2016. We received 202Â reviews of 134 books by 97 authors throughout the year. Good job, everyone! You can see the full list...
