Aurealis magazine has been successful in its grant application from the Australia Council Literature Board for 2008. This will mean increased pay rates for Australian authors appearing in issues #41 and #42 to be published in 2008. Now is the time to send us your best story for consideration. See our guidelines. Now is also the time to take out a subscription to Aurealis as our policy has always been to fast-track the reading and evaluation of submissions from subscribers.