I’ve just been alerted to the fact that my story, “Painlessness”, has gained yet another accolade. It’s received an Honourable Mention in The Year’s best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2009 Edition, edited by Rich Horton and published by Prime Books. Looking through the list of the other HM authors published on Fantasy Magazine’s blog, it’s [...]
Toil and Travel
Did I say I would keep this blog updated regularly? And you believed me?
Some lovely news today: my story “Painlessness”, which won the Aurealis Award, the Ditmar Award, and the Chronos Award this past year, has now received an Honorable Mention in Ellen Datlow’s Year’s Best Horror (for 2008) to be published by Nightshade Press. [...]
Keeping Secrets
I’m pretty good at keeping secrets if they belong to other people. But if they’re mine, somehow there’s always a leak or two. I just can’t help it, no matter how many times I tell myself, "Kirstyn, just keep your mouth shut." So, for a handful of people out there, this is not going to [...]
Happy Happy Joy Joy
Attended the Aurealis Awards in Brisbane over the weekend and had a truly amazing time. Caught up with lots of lovely old friends, made some lovely new friends, drank way too much, slept way too little, partied way too hard, stumbled across something delightful and unexpected, and … oh yes … won a little award. [...]
Kirstyn McDermott is an Australian writer living in Melbourne. Mostly. 
Where do I begin?
Honestly. I was going to happily post about having a story shortlisted for an Aurealis Award (which is very shiny!) and then I hear about a news story telling me that a NSW Supreme Court judge has ruled an internet cartoon in which lookalike child characters from The Simpsons engage in sexual acts is child [...]
9 December 2008
Categories: (Anti)Social Commentary, Writing & Publishing . Tags: censorship, short stories, social hysteria . Author: kirstynmcdermott . Comments: 5 Comments