Aurealis is looking to expand its team of Readers. If you love science fiction, fantasy and/or horror, feel you have a discerning eye for a good story, and would like to read and assess short story submissions to Aurealis, please contact our Submissions Manager at submissions@aurealis.com.au with your expression of interest by 30 November 2012. Please include the titles of the three novels you last read, plus the titles of your favourite novel and your favourite short story and why they are your favourites in 50-100 words.
First Ever Aurealis Award Winners Issue
We have just published our first ever Aurealis Award Winners issue. It features two of the winning stories from this year's Aurealis Awards. 'Rains of la Strange' by Robert N Stephenson, an action-packed story set in a richly-realised milieu, won Best Science Fiction Short Story. The story was published in a brilliant anthology Anywhere but Earth (Couer de Lion), edited by former Aurealis editor, Keith Stevenson. The second story in this issue is 'The Short Go: a Future in Eight Seconds' by Lisa L Hannett which was a joint winner in the Horror Short Story Category. It appeared in her collection, Bluegrass Symphony (Ticonderoga Publications), which has been short-listed for the 2012 World Fantasy Awards. To download your copy of Aurealis #55 Award Winners go to the Smashwords site or use this link http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/241771.
Aurealis Appoints New Submissions Manager
Aurealis is pleased to announce that Sari Webb has been appointed the magazine's new Submissions Manager. There is a small backlog that has accumulated over the last few weeks which will now be cleared. It shouldn't be too long before we return to the fast turn-around times that we've had over the last year or so.
Aurealis #53
The hits just keep on coming! Aurealis #53 is now out. Another monthly dose of of new fiction, reviews, articles and news. Edited by Scott Vandervalk and Stephen Higgins with an absolutely brilliant cover by Mike Worral, this is a winner. (Sorry, a bit of Olympic enthusiasm there). Buy it.
Aurealis #52 Now Available!
Aurealis #52, the July issue, is now available. It's edited by Scott Vandervalk and Stephen Higgins and has a great mix of fiction, news and reviews. Keep up to date with all the latest in the publishing world and be entertained at the same time! (Presuming you can multi task in that way.) Unmissable!
All current subscribers will receive an email from us telling them how they can get their copy of Aurealis 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/204338
Aurealis #51 now available – the goodness keeps on coming
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 now available
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 is now available
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 is published
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 is published
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.