More Clarion South Achievements.

Editormum has posted a list of the Australians mentioned in The Year's Best Science Fiction Twenty Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois.

Among them I noticed Western Australians Lyn Battersby, Lee Battersby, Stephen Dedman, Alisa Krasnostein and Jonathan Strahan.

Clarion South 2007 did well too with Peter M. Ball, Jason Fisher, Ben Francisco and Chris Lynch as well as Lyn Battersby. Tutors Lee Battersby, Margo Lanagan and Simon Brown figure too. No wonder it was such an amazing time.

To see the complete list go here

More Clarion Good News

During Clarion South we were warned that an incoming tutor did not like stories about unicorns or other fantasy creatures so, of course, several Clarionites saw this as a challenge. Peter Ball then proceeded to subvert all the tropes and place his unicorns in a world so far distant from knights and fair maidens that it took your breath away. He's been working on it since and it has now grown into a novella which has been picked up by Twelfth Planet Press to be published as part of their novella series.

This is no surprise to anyone who has read his work. Peter is one of those writers whose stories get under your skin. Since Clarion South he has been published in Dreaming Again and other places and I can't wait to read the expanded version of his unicorn tale.