Кейт Форсит - Relics, Wrecks and Ruins - Anthology of Speculative Fiction Short Works

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Dirk Flinthart – is an award-winning writer in Northern Tasmania and has a Masters in Creative Writing. He has a string of published speculative fiction short stories, as well as an SF/Horror novel ( Path of Night ) through Fablecroft. He has worked in feature journalism and non-fiction, including the best-selling HowTo Be A Man , co-written with John Birmingham. In the last few years, Flinthart has turned his attention to film, television and media and is currently working on several different projects.

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Jasper Fforde – is a British writer who lives in Wales and writes absurdist fiction. He has published seven books in the Thursday Next series, one of which won the Wodehouse Prize for comic fiction in 2004. There are also two novels in the Nursery Crime series, and several in the Dragonslayer YA series. A festival in Swindon is themed after him and his Thursday Next book series.

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Dr Kate Forsyth – wrote her first book aged 7 and has now sold more than a million books worldwide. She is a multi-award-winning author of fantasy, historical fantasy, fairy-tale re-imaginings and historical fiction. Her best-known works include Bitter Greens , which won the 2015 American Library Assoc award for Best Historical Fiction; The Silver Well , a set of interlinked stories co-written with Kim Wilkins; and Valisa the Wise & Other Tales of Brave Young Women . Named one of Australia’s Favourite 15 authors, Kate has a BA in Literature, and MA in Creative Writing, and a Doctorate of Creative Arts.

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Neil Gaiman – is an English author of numerous speculative fiction novels, graphic novels, screenplays for film and television, poetry and short stories. His works have won multiple awards, including the Newbery and Carnegie Medals; and the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Bram Stoker, Locus, British SF, and British Fantasy Awards, and many others. Some of his better-known works include American Gods, and Good Omens (co-authored with Sir Terry Pratchett).

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Alison Goodman – Alison’s latest novel is The Dark Days Deceit, the final book in the ‘Lady Helen’ trilogy, an award-winning mix of Regency adventure and dark fantasy. She is also the author of 6 other novels, including The Dark Days Club, The Dark Days Pact, and EON and EONA —a New York Times best-selling fantasy duology published in 20 countries. She is currently working a new historical series and has embarked on a PhD focusing on the Regency era.

Find her at: www.alisongoodman.com.au

Jan-Andrew (JA) Henderson – is the author of 30 books, mostly thrillers, paranormal thrillers, YA thrillers, and historical non-fiction about Scotland. He is the winner of the Royal Mail and Doncaster Prizes, and his novels have been shortlisted for thirteen literary awards. He has a MA in English Literature and Philosophy from the University of Edinburgh. He has written and directed several plays and worked as the writer/director at the Witherbee Children’s theatre in NY state.

Find him at: www.janandrewhenderson.com

Ian Irvine – is an Australian marine scientist and has 34 published novels. His Three Worlds epic fantasy series has been published and translated across numerous countries and has sold over a million copies. He has also written eco-thrillers set in a world undergoing catastrophic climate change, along with YA thrillers, and humorous fantasy for children.

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Pamela Jeffs – is an Australian author of weird speculative fiction, mostly short stories. Her best-known work is the Five Dragons short story collection, which was shortlisted for the Aurealis Awards in 2020. Her others stories have been shortlisted several times for the Aurealis Awards, and received Honorable Mention in the USA Writers of the Future competition. Her works are published in multiple e-magazines, and in anthologies all over the world.

Find her at: www.pamelajeffs.com

Mary Robinette Kowal – is the US author of Ghost Talkers , The Glamourist Histories series, and the Lady Astronaut series. She is the President of SFWA, part of the award-winning podcast Writing Excuses and a four-time Hugo Award winner. Her short fiction appears in Uncanny , Tor.com , and Asimov’s . Mary Robinette, a professional puppeteer, lives in Nashville.

Find her at: maryrobinettekowal.com

Mark Lawrence – was born in Illinois but moved to the UK aged one. He returned to the US in his 30s, after taking a PhD in Mathematics, and worked on a variety of projects before returning to the UK. He never had any ambition to be a writer, so was surprised when a half-hearted attempt to find an agent turned into a global publishing deal overnight. His trilogies include: The Broken Empire, The Red Queen’s War, The Book of the Ancestor, The Book of the Ice, and Impossible Times.

Find him at: http://www.marklawrence.buzz

Ken Liu – is a US author of speculative fiction. A winner of the Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy awards, he wrote The Dandelion Dynasty , a silkpunk epic fantasy series (starting with The Grace of Kings ), as well as The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories and The Hidden Girl and Other Stories . He also authored the Star Wars novel, The Legends of Luke Skywalker .

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Juliet Marillier – is the New Zealand born author of historical fantasy full of folklore, family, and drama. Her best-known series are Blackthorn & Grim, and Seven Waters, both set in medieval Ireland. Plus the Viking duology, Saga of the Light Isles, and the Bredei Chronicles, set in the kingdom of the Picts. And many more. She has won numerous awards, including five Aurealis and four Sir Julius Vogel Awards. When not writing, she is kept busy by her rescue dogs and her children and grandchildren.

Find her at: www.julietmarillier.com

Lee Murray – is a multi-award-winning author-editor from New Zealand. Her works include: the Taine McKenna Adventures (military thrillers), The Path of Ra (supernatural crime noir series with Dan Rabarts), Grotesque: Monster Stories (collection). Editor of award-winning titles: Hellhole, At the Edge, and Baby Teeth. Most recent anthologies: Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women (with Gene Flynn), and Midnight Echo #13. Co-founder of Young NZ Writers, and the Wright-Murray Residency for Speculative Fiction writers, Lee was HWA 2019 Mentor of the Year, NZSA Honorary Literary Fellow 2020, and 2021 Grimshaw-Sargeson Fellow.

Find her at: www.leemurray.info

Garth Nix – is a New York Times best-selling Australian author of The Left-Handed Booksellers of London, Angel Mage, Frogkisser! and the Old Kingdom series—beginning with Sabriel ; plus the Keys to the Kingdom series; and many others. He has won the Aurealis award multiple times, along with the Ditmar Award and the Mythopoeic Award. His work has also been shortlisted for the Locus and the Shirley Jackson Awards. More than 6 million copies of his books have been sold around the world, and his books have been translated into 42 languages.