Welcome to Aurora Australis, a monthly round-up of publishing news and highlights from Australia and New Zealand!
Last month in Australia and New Zealand we saw a round of resignations and at least one cringe-worthy interview on the political front, but it’s not all bad because a scientist in Queensland used the bin chicken (properly known as a white ibis) and other birds to help understand the gait of the Tyrannosaurus Rex. In the literary world, though, it’s an awards bonanza!
Welcome to Aurora Australis, a monthly round-up of publishing news and highlights from Australia and New Zealand!
Australia has been baked (enduring some of the hottest temperatures on record), frozen (as snow piled up in some southern regions), and inundated with rain (in the form of cyclones and their remnants) this month. But no matter, we’ll weather it all for some sweet science fiction and fantasy news!
Welcome to Aurora Australis, a monthly round-up of publishing news and highlights from Australia and New Zealand!
Australians have been thrashing the English in cricket, while New Zealanders have been treating their guests from the West Indies likewise. Cricket’s a long-term game; even those of us who love it also have time for reading…
Welcome to Aurora Australis, a monthly round-up of publishing news and highlights from Australia and New Zealand! In Australia, there’s been controversy over which national politicians are actual dual citizens or not (thus invalidating their election as members of parliament), and we voted yes in the optional-postal-survey on marriage equality; we’re now waiting for our politicians to make it law. You would think that a poll about the Australian bird of the year would be less controversial, but that’s before you factor in an obsession with the bin chicken (aka Australian White Ibis) and how seriously some people take getting swooped by magpies.
Anyway, onto the publishing news!
Welcome to Aurora Australis, a monthly round-up of publishing news and highlights from Australia and New Zealand! This month, Alex is back writing after an extended holiday (long service leave is a wonderful thing).
In other news, one of Australia’s most endangered birds has the first confirmed chick in three decades, the Socceroos still have hopes of making it to the soccer World Cup, and New Zealand is about to get a new Prime Minister in Jacinda Ardern. Also, there’s new books—both published and announced—and a variety of other exciting things happening…
Welcome back to Aurora Australis, a monthly round-up of publishing news and highlights from Australia and New Zealand!
Australia and New Zealand have had their respective national science fiction conventions; the Cadbury chocolate factory in Tasmania got hit by a ransomware attack; and the Australian 2016 census data is being analysed, resulting in this video about Australia as 100 people. Oh, also we have new books—actual and promised—and more awards news.
Welcome back to Aurora Australis, a monthly round-up of publishing news and highlights from Australia and New Zealand!
Southern Australia has just taken a turn towards winter, it’s nearly time for the Australian National Science Fiction Convention (Continuum, in Melbourne), and—despite not being in Europe—Australia did okay in the annual Eurovision Song Contest. And we have books! And covers! And TV! And awards!
Welcome back to Aurora Australis, a monthly round-up of publishing news and highlights from Australia and New Zealand!
There’s been unexpected snow in some parts of the country while others are on track for their driest April ever; arguments over what “Australian values” are; and anticipation of the federal government’s budget (due in May). Meanwhile we’ve got new books, books turning into television and film, and awards galore…
Welcome back to Aurora Australis, a monthly round-up of publishing news and highlights from Australia and New Zealand!
There’s been a cyclone off the Queensland coast causing floods on the east coast. Daylight savings is about to end in the eastern states. To either joy or consternation, it’s nearly men’s Australian Rules football season again; we just had the inaugural women’s national season. And of course, there’s new books to talk in the speculative fiction scene…
Welcome back to Aurora Australis, a monthly round-up of publishing news and highlights from Australia and New Zealand!
Read on to find out about new art, new stories, new collections, and awards shortlists…
Welcome back to Aurora Australis, a monthly round-up of publishing news and highlights from Australia and New Zealand!
As the new year arrives with a thud, we’re serving up some new books filled with vampires and apocalypse and monsters—but there’s some hope and happiness in there too, honest. We’ve also got some new covers, and calls for submissions, and it’s time to start thinking about award nominations again…
Welcome back to Aurora Australis, a monthly round-up of publishing news and highlights from Australia and New Zealand!
Things have slowed down a bit for the holiday season, but there’s still a few interesting things to note: novels and anthologies and convention news…
Welcome back to Aurora Australis, a monthly round-up of publishing news and highlights from Australia and New Zealand!
Things are slowing down a bit in the Australian and New Zealand speculative fiction scene, as we wind down for the year (well, some of us anyway) and take a deep breath before plunging into 2017. But we’ve still got some news to share—some new novels, some awards news, those sorts of things. The usual. Not that any of the stories mentioned are usual, oh no… horrific fairy stories and musketeers on space stations and paranormal romance and…
Welcome back to Aurora Australis, a monthly round-up of publishing news and highlights from Australia and New Zealand! Stories are being sold, stories are being added to series(es), stories are turning into films, gender diverse pronouns are being used, funds are sought… publishing in Australia and New Zealand is always exciting.
Welcome back to Aurora Australis, a monthly round-up of publishing news and highlights from Australia and New Zealand! It’s officially spring in the temperate parts of the Southern Hemisphere, while in the tropical parts of Australia it’s that delightful period sometimes called the build-up where it’s getting hotter and more humid but there’s not much rain to relieve the tension.
In my old hometown of Darwin, October was the month for going troppo (ie mad)…
