GenreCon 2017 is pleased to announce three new additions to the 2017 Guest list. Angela Slatter, Amy Andrews, and Emma Viskic will be joining Nalini Singh and Delilah S. Dawson at this year’s conference. [vc_column width=”1/3″] [vc_column_text el_position=”first last”] ANGELA SLATTER Angela Slatter has won a World Fantasy Award, five Aurealis Awards, and was the … Continue reading »
GenreCon Welcomes Nalini Signh & Delilah S. Dawson
The biennial AWM GenreCon will run November 10 – 12 in 2017. Registrations open on February 20, and we are very pleased to welcome our international guests attending this year’s conference – Nalini Singh and Delilah S. Dawson. NALINI SINGH Nalini Singh is the New York Times, USA Today, and internationally bestselling author of the … Continue reading »
TAKING FIVE WITH VISUAL VERSE
Visual Verse is an online anthology of art, poetry, short fiction, and non-fiction. Each month, the team at Visual Verse post an image online and invite writers to compose a piece of 50 to 500 words, inspired by the image. The catch is that the text must be written in one hour. AWM recently spoke … Continue reading »
TAKING FIVE WITH CARVE
Carve is a quarterly short fiction magazine, based in Dallas, Texas. Carve is interested in publishing and promoting outstanding literature and aims to help new, emerging and established writers reach a wider audience. This month, AWM spoke to Anna Zumbahlen, Managing Editor, and Matthew Limpede, Executive Editor, about Carve’s beginnings, its content, and storytelling. AWM … Continue reading »
TAKING FIVE WITH FIONA MCFARLANE
Fiona McFarlane, author of The Night Guest and The High Places, spoke to AWM this month. She has previously completed a PhD on nostalgia in American fiction at Cambridge University and spent three years at writing residencies in the US. Fiona also studied for a Masters of Fine Arts in Fiction at the Michener Center … Continue reading »
TAKING FIVE WITH THE CANARY PRESS
The Canary Press is an Australian quarterly magazine of short stories founded by Robert Skinner and Andy Josselyn. Based in Melbourne, it publishes new and local writers as well as more well-known Australian and international writers. The magazine also showcases beautiful cover designs and illustrations in each issue. AWM interviewed The Canary Press in … Continue reading »
TAKING FIVE WITH KATHERINE HOWELL
Katherine Howell writes crime fiction of the police procedural variety with a paramedic twist. Her first novel, Frantic, won the 2008 Davitt Award for best adult crime novel. It is the first in a series of eight crime novels about Detective Ella Marconi. AWM recently spoke to Katherine about the series, the choice of protagonist, … Continue reading »
Calling for Program Volunteers
Get Involved in This Year’s Conference We need your involvement. While GenreCon bring in a bunch of awesome guests, the conference is only possible thanks to the team of attending writers, editors, and agents who volunteer their expertise over the course of the weekend, delivering workshops and discussion panels on a range of writing and publishing topics. … Continue reading »
Write With a Pro: Sean Williams is this week’s Writing Race Guest
Want to get inside the head of a truly prolific Australian author? This week we’re giving you the opportunity to pick the brain of Sean Williams, the author of more than 40 novels and 12o short stories, when he joins us as the special guest race captain at this week’s AWM Writing Race on Facebook. … Continue reading »