Tag: Fantasy

Eugen Bacon joined First Friday to share her insights about mentorships, her career as an author and editor, and her advice for emerging writers.

July 3, 2023

Event Recap / Speculative Fiction Festival

Curated by festival director Alan Baxter, the 2023 Speculative Fiction Festival program boasted some of Australia’s best fantasy, sci-fi and horror authors, discussing everything from craft and inspiration to publishing and industry.

June 19, 2023

What We're Reading / June 2023

Have a look at what the Writing NSW team has been reading recently: stories of Country, queerness, grief, coming of age, and speculative fiction.

September 27, 2019

Writers On Writing / Speculative fiction makes us value the everyday things we take for granted, with Terry Dowling

By Claire Thompson

Terry Dowling is one of Australia’s most awarded and internationally acclaimed writers of speculative fiction and will be teaching World Building: Writing Speculative Fiction on Sunday 20 October at Writing NSW. Ahead of his workshop, we spoke to Terry about the importance of speculative fiction, how the genre has developed over time, and how to successfully build a world.

August 27, 2019

Podcast / #SpecFic 19: Speculative Fiction Festival

In June we explored the surreal worlds of science fiction, fantasy and horror at Writing NSW’s Speculative Fiction Festival.

April 15, 2019

Writers On Writing / From solicitor to sci-fi world-builder with James Bradley

We interviewed award-winning science fiction writer and critic James Bradley ahead of his one-day course at Writing NSW, After the End: Writing Speculative Futures.

March 20, 2014

Book Review / The Blood of Wolves by S.D. Gentill

Journey thousands of years into the past with Hero and her brothers Cadmus, Lycon and Machaon in the third instalment of the Hero Trilogy, to a time when man and gods walked the earth together. Hero, after experiencing a vision, is the driving force behind the treacherous expedition to save the refugees of Troy. The […]