We're please to have picked up a few nominations in the 2017 Aurealis Awards list just announced!

Each of our 2017 titles picked up at least one nomination. A very huge congratulations to

The Silver Well, by Kate Forsyth and Kim Wilkins

• Best collection
• Best fantasy novella, "The Cunning Woman's Daughter"

Ecopunk! edited by Liz Grzyb and Cat Sparks

• Best science fiction novella, "The Wandering Library", D.K. Mok
• Best science fiction novella, "Island Green", Shauna O'Meara

The Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2015, edited by Liz Grzyb and Talie Helene

• Best anthology

In addition, a number of writers we've previously published are nominated, including Lisa L. Hannett, Angela Slatter, Kaaron Warren, Alan Baxter, and Cat Sparks, and huge congratulations to them! We'd like to congratulate all of the nominees of this year's awards, the full list is at https://aurealisawards.org/2018/02/15/2017-aurealis-awards-shortlist-announcement/. The winners will be announced in April.

And if you're looking to buy our award-nominated books, you can find them at:

• The Silver Well http://bookshop.ticonderogapublications.com/product/the-silver-well/
• Ecopunk! http://bookshop.ticonderogapublications.com/product/ecopunk/
• The Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2015 http://bookshop.ticonderogapublications.com/product/the-years-best-australian-fantasy-and-horror-2015-volume-6/

We've set up a kickstarter project. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/499651181/the-years-best-australian-fantasy-and-horror-6

We need your help to become the first Australian-focussed year's best speculative fiction anthology series to publish 6 consecutive volumes.

The Project

The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror is over 150,000 words of the best fantasy and horror fiction written by Australians (and New Zealanders) and published all over the world in 2015. We've already done this five times for the years 2010-2014, and we'd like to do it again.

In addition to the reprinted fiction, The Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horror series features an extensive introductory essay on the annual state of the genre, obituaries, a recommended reading list, and a list of Australian and New Zealand award recipients.

It is the only volume of its kind being published in Australia at present.

How you help

Putting together a volume of this size, usually featuring the work of more than 30 contributors, is a big task for two editors and a small press.

The Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horrorseries is an important work, but it is also a considerable up-front cost: several thousand dollars of outgoings before a single cent comes back.

We're doing this because we love Australian speculative fiction, we love books, and we want to keep doing this as long as we can. We're in this for the long term, but could use some help to keep this title going.

Please consider backing us!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/499651181/the-years-best-australian-fantasy-and-horror-6

A huge thank you to everyone who helped us reach our goal! We're over the moon to have got there, and are now looking at some stretch targets to pay writers and artists more.

We're also a SFWA Star Project!

Please consider backing us! THere's less than 2 weeks to go!

Here's where you can find our kickstarter project. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/499651181/the-years-best-australian-fantasy-and-horror-6

The Project

The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror is over 150,000 words of the best fantasy and horror fiction written by Australians (and New Zealanders) and published all over the world in 2015. We've already done this five times for the years 2010-2014, and we'd like to do it again.

In addition to the reprinted fiction, The Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horror series features an extensive introductory essay on the annual state of the genre, obituaries, a recommended reading list, and a list of Australian and New Zealand award recipients.

It is the only volume of its kind being published in Australia at present.

How you help

Putting together a volume of this size, usually featuring the work of more than 30 contributors, is a big task for two editors and a small press.

The Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horrorseries is an important work, but it is also a considerable up-front cost: several thousand dollars of outgoings before a single cent comes back.

We're doing this because we love Australian speculative fiction, we love books, and we want to keep doing this as long as we can. We're in this for the long term, but could use some help to keep this title going.

Please consider backing us!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/499651181/the-years-best-australian-fantasy-and-horror-6

The latest volume in our award-winning Year's Best series, The Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2015 is weeks away. Editors Liz Grzyb and Talie Helene have selected 31 incredible stories, over 150,000 words, from Australia and New Zealand published in 2015.

In addition, the volume features an indepth review of the genre in 2015 and a recommended reading list.

The stories are

• Joanne Anderton, “2B”
• Alan Baxter, “The Chart of the Vagrant Mariner”
• Deborah Biancotti, “Look How Cold My Hands Are”
• Stephen Dedman, “Oh, Have You Seen The Devil”
• Erol Engin, “The Events at Callan Park”
• Jason Fischer, “The Dog Pit”
• Dirk Flinthart, “In the Blood”
• Kimberley Gaal, “In Sheep's Clothing”
• Stephanie Gunn, “The Flowers That Bloom Where Blood Touches Earth”
• Lisa Hannett, “Consorting With Filth”
• Robert Hood, “Double Speak”
• Kathleen Jennings, “A Hedge of Yellow Roses”
• Maree Kimberley, “Ninehearts”
• Jay Kristoff, “Sleepless”
• Martin Livings, “El Caballo Muerte”
• Danny Lovecraft, “Reminiscences of Herbert West”
• Kirstyn McDermott, “Self, Contained”
• Sally McLennan, “ Mr Schmidt's Dead Pet Emporium”
• DK Mok, “Almost Days”
• Faith Mudge, “Blueblood”
• Samantha Murray, “Half Past”
• Jason Nahrung, “Night Blooming”
• Garth Nix, “The Company of Women”
• Anthony Panegyres, “Lady Killer”
• Rivqa Rafael, “Beyond the Factory Wall”
• Deborah Sheldon, “Perfect Little Stitches”
• Angela Slatter, “Bluebeard's Daughter”
• Cat Sparks, “Dragon Girl”
• Lucy Sussex, “Angelito”
• Anna Tambour, “Tap”
• Kaaron Warren, “Mine Intercom”

This volume was successfully funded through a crowd-sourcing campaign, and will be the first time an Australian Year's Best genre series has run to 6 consecutive single-year volumes. The Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2015 will be available in hardcover, paperback, and ebook, in February/March 2017.

The hardcover and paperback are available to pre-order at indiebooksonline.

The editors will begin reading for the 2016 volume in due course. Please keep an eye on our website.

Edited by Liz Grzyb & Talie Helene

The sixth volume of the award-winning annual series collecting the best fantasy and horror stories from the Antipodes.

The deadline for submissions is 1 January 2016.

Eligibility Guidelines

• Stories should have a listed author who is a citizen, resident or otherwise be recognised as having significant ties to Australia and/or New Zealand.
• Stories must have been published between 1 January and 31 December 2015.
• Stories must be received by the editors by the deadline.
• Stories should be no longer than 8,500 words in length.
• The editors will accept hard copies and electronic copies of eligible stories. If you have any queries please contact the relevant editor via the email address provided.
• Stories should be available in electronic format to be selected for inclusion.
• Decisions made by editors are final and no correspondence shall be entered into.

Please note that while the editors do read widely, they are relying on writers to assist them by sending copies of their stories. This is the best way to ensure that stories do not get overlooked.

Expected Publication Date August 2016

FANTASY SUBMISSIONS

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Year's Best Fantasy and Horror
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Year's Best Fantasy and Horror
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Edited by Liz Grzyb & Talie Helene

The seventh volume of the award-winning annual series collecting the best fantasy and horror stories from the Antipodes.

The deadline for submissions is 1 July 2017.

Eligibility Guidelines

• Stories should have a listed author who is a citizen, resident or otherwise be recognised as having significant ties to Australia and/or New Zealand.
• Stories must have been published between 1 January and 31 December 2016.
• Stories must be received by the editors by the deadline.
• Stories should be no longer than 8,500 words in length.
• The editors will accept hard copies and electronic copies of eligible stories. If you have any queries please contact the relevant editor via the email address provided.
• Stories should be available in electronic format to be selected for inclusion.
• Decisions made by editors are final and no correspondence shall be entered into.

Please note that while the editors do read widely, they are relying on writers to assist them by sending copies of their stories. This is the best way to ensure that stories do not get overlooked.

Expected Publication Date October/November 2017

FANTASY SUBMISSIONS

Liz Grzyb

Year's Best Fantasy and Horror
PO Box 29
Greenwood WA 6924
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HORROR SUBMISSIONS

Talie Helene

Year's Best Fantasy and Horror
PO Box 475
Heidelberg Vic 3084
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We're really happy to be able to announce the final line-up and cover of the fifth volume of The Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horror.

Liz Grzyb and Talie Helene have compiled an impressive list of fantastic stories first published in 2014, from New Zealand's and Australia's finest writers.

The 28 stories selected are

• Alan Baxter, “Shadows of the Lonely Dead” [Suspended in Dusk]
• James Bradley, “The Changeling” [Fearsome Magics]
• Imogen Cassidy, “Soul Partner” [Aurealis 74]
• David Conyers & David Kernot, “The Bullet & The Flesh” [World War Cthulhu]
• Terry Dowling, “The Corpse Rose” [Nightmare Carnival]
• Thoraiya Dyer, “The Oud” [Long Hidden Anthology]
• Jason Franks, “Metempsychosis” [SQ Mag]
• Michelle Goldsmith, “Of Gold and Dust” [Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine 60]
• Michael Grey, “1884” [Cthulhu Lives: An Eldrich Tribute to H.P.Lovecraft]
• Stephanie Gunn, “Escapement” [Kisses by Clockwork]
• Lisa L. Hannett & Angela Slatter, “Vox” [The Female Factory]
• Gerry Huntman, “Of The Colour Tumeric, Climbing on Fingertips” [Night Terrors III]
• Rick Kennett, “Dolls for Another Day” [The Ghosts & Scholars Book of Shadows: Vol 2]
• Charlotte Kieft, “Chiaroscuro” [Disquiet]
• SG Larner, “Kneaded” [Phantazein]
• Claire McKenna, “Yard” [Use Only As Directed]
• Andrew J. McKiernan, “A Prayer for Lazarus” [Last Year, When We Were Young]
• Faith Mudge, “Signature” [Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Science Fi]
• Jason Nahrung, “The Preservation Society” [Dimension6]
• Emma Osborne, “The Box Wife” [Shock Totem: Curious Tales of the Macabre & Twisted #9]
• Angela Rega, “Shedding Skin” [Crossed Genres]
• Tansy Rayner Roberts, “The Love Letters of Swans” [Phantazein]
• Angela Slatter, “The Badger Bride” [Strange Tales IV]
• Cat Sparks, “New Chronicles of Andras Thorn” [Dimension6 Annual Collection 2014]
• Anna Tambour, “The Walking-stick Forest” [Tor.com]
• Kyla Ward, “Necromancy” [Spectral Realms #1]
• Kaaron Warren, “Bridge of Sighs” [Fearful Symmetries: An Anthology of Horror]
• Janeen Webb, “Lady of the Swamp” [Death at the Blue Elephant]

In addition to the above incredible tales, the volume will include a review of 2014 and a list of highly recommended stories.

The editors will shortly begin reading for the sixth volume of The Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horror.

The Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2014 is scheduled for publication in late-October 2015 and can be pre-ordered at indiebooksonline.com. The anthology will be available in hardcover, ebook and trade editions.