Deadset Press

Today is launch day for A NIGHT SO DARK AND FULL OF STARS by @nikkylee.bsky.social
This spellbinding short story collection celebrates and explores the mythology and imagery of the zodiac signs through different speculation fiction genres, and is a wonderful read!

NIKKY LEE – Author Interview We are a couple of weeks away from publishing ‘A NIGHT SO DARK AND FULL OF STARS’ – A short story collection by the one and only Nikky Lee, so it is a good time to have a chat abo…

A NIGHT SO DARK AND FULL OF STARS launches this month!
Read this interview with the wonderful
@NikkyMLee
about this rather special short story collection, and find out more about one of Australia's most exciting speculative fiction authors!
deadsetpress.com/nikky-lee-au...

Wait wait wait...
The one wonderful thing that's unique to Bluesky is that there are no videos.

We already have social media sites we can go to if we want videos. Can we keep this place a safe space with just text and photos only?

SHORT STORY ANTHOLOGIES REBELS & rAINBOWS We are excited to announce a new anthology, REBELS & RAINBOWS: An Australasian Queer Speculative Anthology. The anthology is to celebrate Pride and will be open to all Aus…

Just a reminder we are open for short story submissions for two exciting anthologies
EMBRACE THE SILENCE - a sci-fi anthology celebrating Neurodiversity.
REBELS & RAINBOWS - a spec fic anthology celebrating the LGBTIQ+ community in Australia and NZ

deadsetpress.com/submissions/

Super thrilled to share the cover of A NIGHT SO DARK AND FULL OF STARS by the extraordinary @nikkylee.bsky.social, which we will be publishing soon!

SHORT STORY ANTHOLOGIES REVOLUTIONS & rAINBOWS We are excited to announce a new anthology, REVOLUTIONS & RAINBOWS: An Australasian Queer Speculative Anthology. The anthology is to celebrate Pride and will be open …

Just a reminder that we're accepting stories for two anthologies!
- EMBRACE THE SILENCE - an anthology celebrating ND characters in speculative spaces!
- REBELS AND RAINBOWS - a spec fic anthology focusing on LGBTIQA+ characters and their struggles and triumphs.
deadsetpress.com/submissions/

Please note the email address for ARC enquiries has been updated - it is arc@deadsetpress.com

ARC PROGRAM Deadset Press is always looking out for readers and book reviewers who would like to read and review advance copies of our anthologies and novellas. We are seeking readers of speculative fiction wh…

If you want to be a Deadset Press ARC reader and be the first to get your hands on some exciting aussie & kiwi speculative fiction, we have spots available on our ARC team right now!
deadsetpress.com/arc-program/

Neen Cohen – Author interview To wrap up Pride Month, here is an author interview with the one and only Neen Cohen! To begin, tell us a bit about yourself – who you are, where you live, a hobby / passion you have outside writin…

Here's a special #PrideMonth author interview with the one and only Neen Cohen!
deadsetpress.com/author-inter...

Super excited by this review of RADCLIFFE by @madeleinedeste.bsky.social!
Reviews mean so much for both indie authors and indie publishers, so this has made our day!

Here's the cover for TALON MARKED, an upcoming fantasy novella from Sue-Ellen Pashley! deadsetpress.com/2024/06/22/t...

SHORT STORY ANTHOLOGIES REVOLUTIONS & rAINBOWS We are excited to announce a new anthology, REVOLUTIONS & RAINBOWS: An Australasian Queer Speculative Anthology. The anthology is to celebrate Pride and will be open …

A reminder of our open submission calls:
REBELS & RAINBOWS - An Australasian Queer Speculative Anthology
EMBRACE THE SIILENCE - A Neurodivergent Scifi Anthology
We would love to read your stories, so get writing!
www.deadsetpress.com/submissions

Uhh which one's the cat?

Still over the moon that J. Palmer's Follow the Water won the 'Best Young Adult Short Story' Aurealis award!
Such a wonderful achievement for this new Aussie writer!

It's a wonderful event, and we just think being a finalist and having a story rated as one of the best in it's genre for the year is already such a huge accomplishment!

AUREALIS AWARDS EXCITEMENT It’s award season, and we are thrilled to share that three pieces that Deadset Press published in 2023 are finalists in the Aurealis Awards!

The #AurealisAwards are this weekend, and we are super excited to have three excellent stories shortlisted!
Congratulations to @madeleinedeste.bsky.social, Mikhaeyla Kopievsky, and J. Palmer!
deadsetpress.com/2024/05/16/a...

Celebrating the nomination of FOLLOW THE WATER by J. Palmer as a finalist for the 'Best YA Short Story' in this year's Aurealis awards.
Follow the Water is an engrossing tale of two teens risking their lives in search for safety in a post-apocalyptic Western Australia.

Celebrating Mikhaeyla Kopievsky's SEA MIST SHORE WITCH on its nomination as a finalist for the 'Best Fantasy Short Story' in this year's Aurealis awards.
Sea Mist Shore Witch is a delicate, poignant and thunderous story of a girl who petitions the Shore Witch for the return of her sister.

Celebrating the Aurealis nomination of RADCLIFFE by @madeleinedeste.bsky.social - a gothic tale set in an urban Melbourne heatwave - and a beautifully woven story that really gets under your skin!