Announcing our first Conflux 13 GOH: Angela Slatter

Posted on February 20, 2017 by Conflux Admin

We are thrilled to be able to reveal our first Guest of Honour to you: the supremely talented and intimidatingly brilliant Angela Slatter!

Angela Slatter is the author of the collections The Girl with No Hands and Other Tales, Sourdough and Other Stories, The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings, Black-Winged Angels, Winter Children and Other Chilling Tales and A Feast of Sorrows: Stories, as well as the novellas Ripper and Of Sorrow and Such. With co-conspirator Lisa L. Hannett she has written Midnight and Moonshine and The Female Factory. Angela has won a World Fantasy Award, a British Fantasy Award, one Ditmar Award, and five Aurealis Awards. She has an MA and a PhD in Creative Writing, is a graduate of Clarion South and the Tin House Summer Writers Workshop. She was an inaugural Queensland Writers Fellow in 2013, and the Established Writer-in-Residence at the Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers Centre in Perth in 2016. Her work has been adapted for the screen, and translated into Japanese, Russian, and Bulgarian. Angela’s debut novel, Vigil, was released by Jo Fletcher Books (Quercus/Hachette) in July 2016, and the sequels, Corpselight and Restoration will follow in 2017 and 2018 respectively.

And, as of today, she has received a further 5 Aurealis Award nominations for best horror story (“The Red Forest”, from Winter Children and Other Chilling Tales), best fantasy novella (Finnegan’s Field), best collection (for both Winter Children and Other Chilling Tales AND A Feast of Sorrows: Stories) and best novel (Vigil). Phew.

We are really looking forward to hanging out with Angela and hearing what she has to say on all the fascinating topics we’re going to throw at her over the first weekend in October. Hoping you can join us!

Conflux 12 – Closing Ceremony Photos

Posted on October 5, 2016 by Conflux Admin

Conflux is done for another year, the guests have all departed and the Red Fire Monkey has returned, hooting with mischievous joy, to its slightly singed forest home.

The convention did not have an official photographer, however Cat Sparks captured a few candid shots near the bar: you can access Cat’s flickr galley via her website.

(If anyone else has an online gallery of great photos they would like us to link to, leave the details in the comments and we’ll highlight them here).

Here are just a few photos from the closing ceremony:

MC Sean Williams with convention Co-Chair Leife Shallcross

Guest of Honour Alan Baxter with Leife

International Guest Dave Wolverton with Leife

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Musical Guest Meri Amber with Leife

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Guest of Honour shortlisted for Aurealis Awards

Posted on March 23, 2013 by admin

Conflux 9 Guest of Honour Kaaron Warren has been shortlisted for the Aurealis Awards with her science fiction short story “The Lighthouse Keepers’ Club” (Exotic Gothic 4, PS Publishing) and her horror short story “Sky” (Through Splintered Walls, Twelfth Planet Press). Through Splintered Walls was also shortlisted in the Collection category.

Congratulations to Kaaron and other Conflux 9 panellists and members shortlisted for the awards, which will be announced at a gala ceremony in Sydney on 18 May 2013. For more information about the Aurealis Awards and for a full list of finalists, visit www.aurealisawards.org

Conflux’s Kaaron Warren recommended by Locus

Posted on February 8, 2013 by admin

Locus Magazine has included Conflux 9 Special Guest Kaaron Warren in its 2012 Recommended Reading List.

Karen’s novella ‘Sky’ (which appeared in her four-story collection Through Splintered Walls) is featured in the list, which reads like a veritable ‘who’s who’ of speculative fiction.

You can find out more about Kaaron on the Guests page.

Locus recommends Conflux 9 international guest of honour

Posted on February 2, 2013 by admin

Locus Magazine has included Conflux 9 International Guest of Honour Nalo Hopkinson in its 2012 Recommended Reading List.

Nalo’s young adult novel The Chaos and her short story ‘The Easthound’ feature on the list alongside an absolute swag of the best speculative stories on the planet (and possibly off the planet too).

Don’t forget to pre-order Nalo’s books so you can collect them at Conflux.

Pre-orders open for Nalo Hopkinson books

Posted on January 28, 2013 by admin

The International Guest of Honour for Conflux 9/Natcon 2013 is Nalo Hopkinson.

As nearly all of Nalo Hopkinson’s titles have no distribution in Australia, Slow Glass Books is offering the below titles for pre-order. All orders will be available for pick up in the Dealers Room at Conflux 9. Orders may be arranged by emailing Justin at slowglass dot com dot au.

SISTER MINE – Hardcover – $34.95**

http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/nalo-hopkinson/sister-mine/9780446576925/

REPORT FROM PLANET MIDNIGHT – Trade Paperback – $19.95

http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/NaloHopkinson

THE CHAOS – Hardcover – $24.95 or Trade Paperback – $16.95

http://books.simonandschuster.com/Chaos/Nalo-Hopkinson/9781416954880

THE NEW MOON’S ARMS – Trade Paperback – $19.95

http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/nalo-hopkinson/the-new-moons-arms/9780446581974/

THE SALT ROADS – Trade Paperback/Print-on-Demand – $29.95

http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/nalo-hopkinson/the-salt-roads/9780446677134/

SKIN FOLK – Trade Paperback/Print-on-Demand – $29.95

http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/nalo-hopkinson/skin-folk/9780446678032/