Trent Jamieson

Honeyeater by Kathleen Jennings launches at Avid Reader, Brisbane on 17 September 2025 O Instore ticket: $15 Ticket & book deal: $45 See details and book at Avid Reader avidreader.com.au/pages/12111-KathleenJennings-Honeyeater

In-person HONEYEATER book launch details, for those in Brisbane!

On watching SF shows and realising they don't have (m)any mothers or babies... while you yourself are a new mother...

Lisa L Hannett's essay is brilliant. You can read it and 12 other essays in ebook for AUD10!

Omar Sakr AWARD-WINNING POET | EDITOR | NOVELIST 2019 EDWARD STANLEY AWARD FOR POETRY 2021 WOOLLAHRA LITERARY PRIZE FOR POETRY 2023 BESS HOKIN PRIZE FOR POETRY 2024 COPYRIGHT AGENCY NON-FICTION FELLOWSHIP MANUSCRIPT ASSESSMENTS OPEN omar.j.sakr@gmail

I'm leaving my day job and while I find what's next for me, I'm offering my expertise to help you get your manuscript publication-ready.

I’m an award-winning poet and novelist with books out in Australia, UK, and the US.

I'm also open to workshops and commissions. Get in touch if interested!

Courage, imagination, understanding: Creative Australia in 2025 Perhaps the existential risk Creative Australia faces is its own pusillanimous lack of faith.

Me in @meanjin.bsky.social on the debacle that is Creative Australia. “If it can’t fight for all the meanings and freedoms of art, if it can’t defend what is precious in our cultural heritage and future, what is it for?” meanjin.com.au/essays/coura...

The Red Labyrinth by Ben Peek

THE RED LABYRINTH’s low page count belies the breadth and depth of Ben Peek’s vision. The setting is richly imagined and the characters are vivid and complex. It’s an outstanding work of dark fantasy.

One day to launch! Tomorrow, The Lady, The Tiger, and the Girl Who Loved Death arrives in the world. Thank you to everyone who has supported this journey - here we go!
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Support @doctorswithoutborders.org with The Amazing and Impossible Animals Bundle, curated by @nmamatas.bsky.social @rickklaw.bsky.social @spalwick.bsky.social Peter Beagle Patricia McKillip James Morrow

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Coming soon.
The Adumbrals.
First story, the very gorgeous We Crossed the Bright Blue Water by Trent Jamieson - story artwork by Simon Cottee.
Slipcase artwork by Terry Whidborne.

Time-lapse video of the sketch

Australians:

Metal from Heaven is one of the strangest and wildest books I've read in the last couple of years.

The Lenticular Space Opera Series - Two outcasts. One goal. Stop Earth.

Award winning independent Australian press coeur de lion publishing presents twenty-nine all new science fiction stories of humanity's adventures out there, anywhere but Earth, featuring original works by Margo Lanagan, Sean McMullen, Richard Harland, and Kim Westwood among a galaxy of new and established Australian and overseas speculative fiction authors.

Pyrotechnicon: Being a TRUE ACCOUNT of Cyrano de Bergerac's FURTHER ADVENTURES among the STATES and EMPIRES of the STARS - Cyrano de Bergerac: lover, poet, inventor, swordsman - man of ferocious blade and pretty talent. Now it can be told: his final, most daring adventure - a fight to the death against the dread Master of Secrets, with the life of his beloved Roxane in the balance. 'A rich dessert of a novel, filled with finely crafted wit and adventure - Adam Browne has resurrected Cyrano in fine form. Delightful!' Greg Bear - Hugo and Nebula award-winning science fiction author 'The title does not mislead. PYROTECHNICON is a literary cabinet of curiosities filled with lush imagery and exotic notions. A delicious concoction of swashbucklery and delight. Highly recommended.' Jeff Vandermeer - World Fantasy award-winning author of Finch.

X6 a novellanthology - Featuring Margo Lanagan's World Fantasy Award winning 'Sea-Hearts', the multi-award winning 'Wives' by Paul Haines and original works by Terry Dowling, Trent Jamieson, Cat Sparks and Louise Katz, journey beyond the borders of the real with six novellas from the most exciting speculative fiction authors working in Australia today.

We make fine Australian speculative fiction. Buy our books from your favourite online store of direct from our shop.
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Congratulations to the winners of the 2024 Aurealis Awards, presented at an online ceremony this afternoon!

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The covers of the three books mentioned.

Aussie readers! A huge special offer to help me celebrate my birthday. RECALL, BLOOD COVENANT and SALLOW BEND paperbacks, signed and shipped, AU$69.95 all in! Jump in while stocks last. 🖤
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Thank you @kristimdemeester 💜

A gorgeous and unsettling entry into the horror genre. Slatter melds grief and folk horror with a master's touch. There's a tender brutality in her turns of phrase and a humanity in her characters that will move even the hardest soul...

Kristi DeMeester, Dark Sisters

Australian readers. The Kindle version of my novel, 36 Streets (Winner of the Aurealis Award for Best SF Novel), is half price at the moment. It's still finding readers, 3 years later. So if you haven't, here's your chance: shorturl.at/DpG1s @titanbooks.bsky.social

Radical Then, Radical Now Join us for a 60-minute panel conversation exploring the kind of theatre that shakes us awake and the stories from our own backyard that refuse to fade.

If you're not doing anything tomorrow afternoon, why not hop along to the MTC, where I'll be chatting with some excellent minds about independent theatre and related things? www.mtc.com.au/plays-and-ti...

"The illusory truth effect" - ouch, don't say that out loud, Mr Dutton

The many deaths of Stenant Billionaire

New story up in the Saturday Paper

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The book the Walrus and the Warwolf with a dragon having a nice sit down on a galleon, hope it brought some pillows.

And Hugh Cook’s Chronicles of an Age of Darkness while they’re at it. Great books that have interesting conversations with Jack Vance’s Dying Earth books.

Photo of Michael Shea’s novel Nifft the Lean, dude on a dragon waving his spear with a pyramid in a river in the background.

Just putting it out there that someone needs to publish a new edition of Nifft the Lean by Michael Shea.

Put some seats in the crater and you’re done!

Asteroid’s chances of hitting Earth in 2032 just got higher – but don’t panic Space rock now has 2.3% risk of collision – up from 1.3% in December – but danger is likely to fall with more data

World annihilation or an opportunity to make the Brisbane Olympics opening ceremony pop #weneedsomething
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I’ve never collaborated with anyone as closely before but the making of this book was wonderful.

Brent Wilson’s illustrations are incredible and I think we’ve made a great thing together.

There’s a delivery truck called Excalivan, a shark tooth paperweight and a very high proportion of lightning.

It feels kinda timely, which is ridiculous.

Book One is about what happens when they take on a job from Count Evil Von Evil a wealthy villain intent on disrupting the local government.

The cover of Frog, Log, and Dave Almost Save the Day. There is a frog a log and a Dave (That one is Brent’s idea and I loved it). Also Frog is lifting a box on one finger and there is lots of lightning.

I have a new book coming out. It’s a graphic novel about a Frog, A Log, and a Dave. They’re musicians who become delivery drivers after a freak storm destroys their instruments.