Tag: speculative fiction

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.

January 16, 2023

News / Speculative Fiction Festival 2023: Call for Submissions

Writing NSW is pleased to announce that our Speculative Fiction Festival will return on Saturday 24 June, directed by multi award-winning author Alan Baxter.

August 23, 2021

Writers On Writing / The short story as a pouch-sized epic, with Eugen Bacon

“I adore that the short story allows an incompleteness that is self-sufficient, a lightness that carries heft, an accessibility that is complex yet eloquent.” We spoke to award-winning author Eugen Bacon on the short story form.

October 16, 2020

Writers On Writing / Eugen Bacon on how speculative fiction is a reflection of diversity

We chatted to award-winning writer and author Eugen Bacon, ahead of her online course, Writing Speculative Fiction, about the infinite boundaries of the all-encompassing genre, writing hopefully and cynically, and challenging genre, identity and gender stereotypes while you’re at it.

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.

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.

October 29, 2018

News / Call for applications for the Speculative Fiction Festival 2019!

Our Speculative Fiction Festival will be back in 2019! Send us your panel ideas and apply to be a speaker before midnight on Sunday 9 December.

September 18, 2017

Event Recap / Review: Speculative Fiction Festival 2017

Back in July NSW Writers’ Centre was delighted to have 14-year-old high school student Grace Othman attend the Speculative Fiction Festival. We asked Grace to write about her experience of the day. NSW Writers’ Centre Speculative Fiction Festival was held on the 22nd of July. This day had many talks and panels relating to the […]

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