This year's Reading Matters Conference is sold out but places are still available (as of 28th April) for So You Want to be a YA Writer? featuring Alison Goodman.

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Richard Morgan will be at the following Melbourne events in May.

Friday 7th:

12pm Minotaur, 121 Elizabeth St, Melbourne. Meet & Greet. Signing Store Stock. Contact: Paul Duncanson (03) 9670 5414.

1.10pm Dymocks Southland, Nepean Hwy, Cheltenham. Meet & Greet. Signing Store Stock. Contact: Chuck McKenzie

9pm Melbourne Science Fiction Club, St Davids West Brunswick Uniting Church, 74 Melville Rd, West Brunswick.  Guest Speaker, Slowglass to sell books at the event. Contact: Murray MacLachlan.

Saturday 8th:

12pm Nova Mob, Community Room, Northcote Library, 32-38 Separation St, Northcote. Guest Speaker, Slowglass to sell books at the event. Contact: Lucy Sussex, Julian Warner, Justin Ackroyd (03) 9489 0893.

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Mark Turner, a slush reader for Aurealis, has launched Rivergum Press, "a live, on-line Community for Writers and Writing-related Professionals and Amateurs alike", with forums, user-submitted resources, news and events, and a blog and online magazine, open for submissions. Check it out.

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On VoyagerOnline Kim Westwood shares how her Aurealis Award short-listed story Nightship came to be. The latest Terra Incognita SF Podcast has Kim reading the story.

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Nominations for the 2009 Ditmar Awards are due to close on the 4th of May.

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From ABC RN's Ockham's Razor: "Janice McAdam from Sydney has degrees in physics and children's literature and calls herself a 'lapsed physicist'. Today she talks about the genre of science fiction as a prediction into the future."

Audio available to stream or download for a limited time. A transcript is also available.

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Folklorist Jack Zipes talks to The Book Show about Angela Carter and "her Gothic twist on tales like Cinderella and Puss in Boots."

Audio available streaming or for download for a limited time.

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The Aurealis Awards have posted a Flickr photoset of images from this year's Aurealis Awards Ceremony by Elleni Toumpas, including a picture of our own Aurealis Magazine Editor, Stuart Mayne.

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Catch some recent interviews with Australian authors, including Karen Miller at Blogging the Muse, Steven Amsterdam at LiteraryMinded, Jenny Blackford at The Specusphere, Alison Goodman at Nethspace, and Kim Falconer via Voyager Online.

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Richard Harland has secured a US deal for his steampunk/Victoriana novel Worldshaker. As well, Richard's short story A Guided Tour in the Kingdom of the Dead has been selected for Tor's Year's Best Fantasy 2009 anthology, along with Kim Wilkins' The Forest.

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