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Award of the State

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Many congrats to this year’s winners of the Ditmar and Hugo Awards!  A great year for SF and Australian SF in particular, and it was great to see many folks I admire walking away with well-deserved trophies.  Congrats to everyone of course, but special kudos go out to Peter M Ball, Cat Sparks, Robert Hood and Paul Haines, you bunch of magnificent bastards.

http://www.locusmag.com/News/2010/09/2010-ditmar-awards/

And some great wins here, especially happy that Bridesicle got the gong for Best Short Story.  Magnificent stuff!

http://www.thehugoawards.org/2010/09/2010-hugo-award-winners/

A real shame I missed the party in Melbourne, looks like the Worldcon was great fun 🙁 sigh.  Apparently a bunch of mags and anthos got launched on the weekend, and I’m watching my mail-box with bated breath, especially for the Fisch-based zombie kangaroo that graces the cover of ASIM #46.

A retrospective account of Writers of the Future – Part 1

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So here I am, unpacked and somewhat caught up on sleep.  I have returned from my epic adventure to the USA and honestly?  My head is still spinning from the awesomeness of the week just gone.  I figure it’s best to just get everything down as I think of it; I know I’ve always enjoyed reading the accounts of previous WOTF winners, and found it inspiring.  I’d read these posts and put my head down, determined, sending these guys one solid story every quarter.  Perhaps someone will find this account helpful, somewhat amusing, or a cautionary tale.  I’ve littered this account with what photos I had the presence of mind to take. 

(I know it’s traditional for many folks to recount their WOTF experience day-by-day, but that’s not how I roll.  It’s all melded together at this stage anyways) 

 

Caught between a rock and a Hard Rock place…given the opportunity of a lifetime I still managed to squeeze in the odd tourist moment. 

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