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On Saturday, 29th June, the NSW Writer's Centre is staging its biannual Speculative Fiction Festival. Panels such as "World Building 101" (with Keith Stevenson and Catherine McKinnon) and "Science Fiction Now" (with Cat Sparks and Shankari Chandran) will dip into fantasy and science fiction, while "The Creeping Dread, the Frightful Scare" will, you guessed it. I will will of course be participating in the latter, alongside Kaaron Warren, Robert Hood and Aaron Dries.

"Our panel of seasoned horror writers eviscerate the craft of writing true horror. What keeps them from sleep or wakes them in the middle of the night, how do they translate their worst fears onto the written page and what techniques do they use to truly frighten their readers?"

Excerpts shall be read. Anecdotes shall be shared, along with truly terrible jokes. To purchase ticket (valid for the whole event), go here. The NSW Writer's Centre, for those who have not had the pleasure, is housed in a beautifully preserved Georgian manor house built in 1840 for the chief doctor of the lunatic asylum whose exquisite sandstone buildings are now a campus of the Sydney college of the arts. 

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After a lengthy hiatus, the magazine of the Australian Horror Writers Association returns for its 12th issue. As well as fiction from the likes of Angela J Maher and Matthew R Davis, it features my new essay, "A Shared Ambition - Horror Writers in Horror Fiction".





"On 15 September, 2016, Little, Brown & Company announced a new book by James Patterson and Derek Nikitas, entitled The Murder of Stephen King. On 22 September, 2016, it was announced that this work would be withdrawn, because the authors "didn't want to cause Stephen King or his family any trouble." (www.thewrap.com)."

I had already been thinking about the ways in which the figure of the horror writer was used in works of horror fiction, from S.K.s various avatars to depictions of Mary Shelley. The saga of this aborted book crystalised these thoughts into another wildly ambitious research project, that led to me finally watching a whole episode of Quantum Leap. Trust me: real horror writers wear muslin.

Electronic copies of Midnight Echo #12 may be acquired here or even here.
 


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