Aurealis #51, the June issue, is now available. It's edited by Michael Pryor and is chock full of Spec Fic goodness. Highlights? What about Richard Harland in fine spooky form? What about Daniel Baker's unsettling otherworldly debut? What about an incisive interview with Garth Nix? Then there's reviews and the best of the web, Aurealis-wise. Unmissable!

All current subscribers will receive an email from us telling them how they can get their copy of Aurealis #50 for free. (Subscribers please check your spam filters before you query us if you haven't received your email by mid-month.) To download your copy go to the Smashwords site or use this link https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/167413

Aurealis #50, the May issue of Aurealis, has now been published.  Edited by Michael Pryor,  features Patty Jansen’s cracking hard SF ‘Abode’ and a quintessentially piece of Australian SF with Jonathan Robb’s ‘Remembering the Mimi’. On top of this it’s the usual Aurealis interviews, links and reviews. Aurealis #50 is a goldmine

All current subscribers will receive an email from us telling them how they can get their copy of Aurealis #50 for free. (Subscribers please check your spam filters before you query us if you haven't received your email by mid-month.) To download your copy go to the Smashwords site or use this link https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/158317

Aurealis #49, the April issue of Aurealis, has now been published.  Edited by Michael Pryor, it features Sean McMullen, a doyen of Australian SF, and his hard-hitting ‘The First Boat’. Rising star Jason Fischer makes a splash with his slashingly good ‘Rolling for Fetch’.  Add to this Crisetta MacLeod probing the world of epublishing in an interview with Greig Beck, Book Reviews, Rob Parnell and Robert Jenkins on Media and Carissa Thorp’s web watch and we have a bumper issue. It’s compulsory reading! 

All current subscribers will receive an email from us telling them how they can get their copy of Aurealis #49 for free. (Subscribers please check your spam filters before you query us if you haven't received your email by mid-month.) To download your copy go to the Smashwords site or use this link https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/148123. It will take a bit longer for Aurealis #49 to appear on Amazon and other online bookstores.

Aurealis #48, the March issue of Aurealis, has now been published.  All current subscribers will receive an email from us telling them how they can get their copy of Aurealis #48 for free. (Subscribers please check your spam filters before you query us if you haven't received your email by the end of the month.) To download your copy go to the Smashwords site or use this link http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/139242. It will take a bit longer for Aurealis #48 to appear on Amazon and other online bookstores.

Aurealis #47, the February issue of Aurealis, has now been published.  You’ll notice Aurealis issues are no longer free.  The price per issue is $2.99, although you can currently still sample 50% of each issue for free.  All current subscribers will receive an email from us telling them how they can get their full copy of Aurealis #47 for free.  (Subscribers please check your spam filters before you query us if you haven't received your email by the end of the month.)  To download your copy go to the Smashwords site or use this link http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/133349.   It will take a bit longer for Aurealis #47 to appear on Amazon and other online bookstores.

Aurealis is back open for submissions.  Crisetta MacLeod has been appointed our new Submissions Manager and she has assembled a large team of Readers who are aiming to ensure fast turnaround times for story submissions.  With the change in format and schedule, Aurealis will be requiring twice as many high quality stories than we have in the past.  Note that submissions to Aurealis are read blind, so all stories are read on merit, not on the author's reputation.  This makes us a market open to new and inexperienced authors, as well as to established authors.  Please, however, read through our guidelines very carefully before you submit.  Stories that don't follow them will be rejected unread.

Aurealis #46 is now available for FREE, but hurry because it won't remain free indefinitely.  Downloads are available in all e-reading formats: iPads, iPhones, Android tablets and phones, Kindles, Kobo readers, pdfs for PCs etc from Smashwords:

http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/100597

It is currently also available in various ebookstores such as the Amazon, the Apple iBookstore, and Barnes and Noble.

This second electronic edition includes an absolute ripper of a hard science fiction story by Greg Mellor and a zombie tale with a difference by Andrew J McKiernan, as well as an interview with Felicity Pulman, news, reviews and more.

The next issue, Aurealis #47, will be available in February 2012.  There will be 10 monthly issues in 2012 (every month except January and December).  Aurealis subscribers will receive email information in February on how to continue to receive issues of Aurealis for free.

Chimaera Publications has decided that a publication devoted to fantasy and science fiction should be at the forefront of change and that digital publication is the future.  We believe that Aurealis will gain a much wider readership and will ultimately be able to pay contributors more with the launch of the new Aurealis.  So, from October 2011 we will exploring some new worlds:

1. Aurealis will become a monthly epublication with downloads available in all e-reading formats: iPads, iPhones, Android tablets and phones, Kindles, Kobo readers, pdfs for PCs etc.  It will appear every month except December and January, which means 10 issues a year.

2. This Aurealis epublication will effectively be a merger between Aurealis print magazine and AurealisXpress.  Each monthly issue will consist of 2 stories, (+ possibly 1 article), plus reviews and news as per AurealisXpress.  In the short term AurealisXpress will continue to run in parallel with Aurealis epublication.

3. In addition to this we will also publish a series of Aurealis print anthologies which will feature the best of the Aurealis epublication stories.

4. Current Aurealis subscribers will receive at least the number of stories owed to them, and long term subscribers will also receive copies of the anthologies.

5. Our aim is for Aurealis to gain professional status with the SFWA within two years (which means payment rates of at least 5 cents a word).

Download Aurealis #45 for free from from http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/91794 (or go to www.smashwords.com and search for "Aurealis").  Aurealis will also be available from other online retailers such the iBooks store shortly. Aurealis #46 will be available in November 2011.  Aurealis #47 in February 2012 and Aurealis #48 in March 2012.

Aurealis has been publishing continuously since 1990, but this issue is its first e-publication. Now, and into the future, Aurealis will become a monthly epublication with downloads available in all e-reading formats: iPads, iPhones, Android tablets and phones, Kindles, Kobo readers, pdfs for PCs etc.

Aurealis #45 features the return of the legendary bunyipslayer in a brilliant story by Lachlan Huddy, a harrowing fairy tale from Aimee Smith, and an interview with Glenda Larke, as well as reviews, news and more.

You can download the issue FREE from Smashwords in a variety of formats:

http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/91794

Patrick West and Om Dwivedi seek previously unpublished short stories for an international collection about 'the world to come'… whatever it might be… wherever it might be… and whoever will be there, or not, to call our present past. 3000 to 5000 words. Please email contributions as a Word document attachment to om_dwivedi2003@yahoo.com and patrick.west@deakin.edu.au.

Full details are here.

Closing date: 29 February 2012