Christine Purcell is a writer, editor, steampunk enthusiast, and Scrabble demon. Her works have appeared in White Cat Magazine, the Fem-Fangs Anthology (Pill Hill Press), House of Horror, Orbis Quarterly International Literary Journal, Metro Baby, ESC! Magazine, The Copperfield Review, The Loch Raven Review, Third Reader, and other venues.

Cat Sparks is fiction editor of Cosmos Magazine. She managed Agog! Press, an Australian independent press that produced ten anthologies of new speculative fiction from 2002-2008. She’s known for her award-winning editing, writing, graphic design and photography.

Cat was born in Sydney and has traveled through Europe, the Middle East, Indonesia, the South Pacific, Mexico and North America. Her adventures so far have included winning a trip to Paris in a Bulletin Magazine photography competition; being appointed official photographer for two NSW Premiers and working as dig photographer on three archaeological expeditions to Jordan.

A graduate of the inaugural Clarion South Writers’ Workshop, she was a Writers of the Future prize winner in 2004. She has edited five anthologies of speculative fiction and almost sixty of her short stories have been published since the turn of the millennium.

Cat has received a total of seventeen Aurealis and Ditmar awards for writing, editing and art including the Peter McNamara Conveners Award 2004, for services to Australia’s speculative fiction industry. She was the convenor of the Aurealis Awards horror division in 2006 and a judge in the anthologies and collected work category in 2009.

An active member of Science Fiction Writers of America, her fiction is represented by Jill Grinberg Literary Management, New York.

She is currently working on a biopunk trilogy and a suite of post-apocalypse tales set on the New South Wales south coast.

Her story ‘All the Love in the World’ was reprinted in Hartwell and Kramer’s Years Best Science Fiction, Volume 16.

In January 2012 she was one of 12 students chosen to participate in Margaret Atwood’s The Time Machine Doorway workshop as part of the Key West Literary Seminar Yet Another World: literature of the future. Her participation was funded by an Australia Council emerging writers grant.

In 2012 she became a provisional candidate for a Doctorate of Philosophy – Media, Culture and Creative Arts through Curtin University.

Simon Brown has written eight novels: Privateer, Winter, the three books of the Keys of Power trilogy — Inheritance, Fire and Sword and Sovereign — and Born of Empire, Rival’s Son, and By Sea Divided, the Chronicles of Kydan. A collection of his short stories, Cannibals of the fine light, was published by Ticonderoga Publications in 1998. Simon has won three Aurealis Awards for his short fiction. Simon lives with his wife Alison and two children, Edlyn and Fynn.

Justina Robson has published nine novels, including the five-book Quantum Gravity series. The fifth book, Down to the Bone, was published in early 2011. She has been nominated for the Arthur C Clarke Award twice, the Philip K Dick Award three times, the British SF Association Award twice and the John W Campbell Award. Her first novel, Silver Screen, was published in 1999.

Heliotrope is her first collection.

Ticonderoga Publications publishes an annual anthology series, The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror.

The series is edited by Liz Grzyb and Talie Helene.

Liz Grzyb is the editor of the acclaimed Scary Kisses, Australia’s first paranormal romance anthology, and is Reviews Editor at Ticon4.

Talie Helene was News Editor for the Australian Horror Writers’ Association for four years, for which she was nominated for a Ditmar Award; she is also a musician and freelance journalist.

“There are some fantastic stories being published by Australians right now, and we’re looking forward to collecting the best of these in one volume,” says Liz Grzyb.

“There’s an amazing depth of talent in Australian horror fiction, and I can’t wait to showcase the best to a broader audience,” enthuses Talie Helene.

Ticonderoga’s editor, Russell B. Farr is excited by this project.

“While Australian publishers have had success in the past with Year’s Bests, consistency and longevity have been somewhat elusive. We’re hopeful that this series will be sustainable, and that sharing the workload will make this happen,” says Russell.

We're pleased to announce the following publications forthcoming in 2013.

February

Invisible Kingdoms (Silurian Tales Volume 2), Steven Utley

April

Dreaming of Djinn, edited by Liz Grzyb

Prickle Moon, Juliet Marillier

The Bride Price, Cat Sparks

May

The Year of Ancient Ghosts, Kim Wilkins

Havenstar, Glenda Larke

June

The Year's Best Australian Fantasy & Horror 2012, edited by Liz Grzyb and Talie Helene

August

Ambassador, Patty Jansen

October

Everything is a Graveyard, Jason Fischer

Bloodstones #2, edited by Amanda Pillar