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The Ditmar Award (formally the Australian SF ("Ditmar") Award, and previously the "Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award") has been awarded annually since 1969 at the Australian National Science Fiction Convention (the "Natcon") to recognise achievement in Australian science fiction (including fantasy and horror) and science fiction fandom. The award is similar to the Hugo Award but on a national rather than international scale

Eligibility to nominate

Nominations will be accepted from natural persons active in fandom, or from full or supporting members of the national convention of the year of the award. If you may not be known to the Ditmar subcommittee, please provide a brief explanation of why you are eligible (eg "Full member of Dudcon III"), or the name of someone known to the subcommittee who can vouch for your eligibility to nominate.

The 2010 awards cover the year 2009. I have published the following new stories by Australians in 2009:
Sincerely, Petrified by Anna Tambour (Lovecraft Unbound)novelette
The Tell by Kaaron Warren (Poe)short story

If anyone eligible to nominate would like to read either of these stories, please let me know and I'll email you copies.

http://ditmars.sf.org.au/2010/nominations.html

I'm thrilled to have Lovecraft Unbound nominated for Best Anthology, and to be nominated for Best Editor --here's the whole list of Locus Award finalists

The Montauk Club: Lovecraft Unbound, January 15, 2010

The Montauk Club is pleased to announce an evening celebrating H. P. Lovecraft, with readings from Lovecraft Unbound, edited by Ellen Datlow and published by Dark Horse. The reading will take place at 8 PM, January 15, 2010, in the historic 120 year-old Ballroom at the Montauk Club, 25 Eighth Avenue, Park Slope, Brooklyn (adjacent to Grand Army Plaza).

The ticket price is free to club members and $5 for non-members; drink tickets for cocktails, wine, beer and non-alcoholic drinks can be purchased. There will be a social hour for attendees and participating authors after the reading. Seating is limited: please RSVP by January 14, 2010 to manager@montaukclub.com.

Anthology editor Ellen Datlow will introduce each of the four contributors from Lovecraft Unbound who will be reading from their stories, which are inspired by Lovecraft’s fiction. A pioneer of weird literature in the early 1900s, Lovecraft is best known for his development of the Cthulhu Mythos, a mixture of mythology and science-fiction tropes that explore other dimensions and the place of man in a hostile universe.

Ellen Datlow has been editing short science fiction, fantasy, and horror for over twenty-five years. She is editor or co-editor of a large number of award-winning original anthologies; most recently The Best Horror of the Year Volume One,The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Inferno, The Coyote Road, and Troll’s Eye View (the latter two with Terri Windling).

She has won multiple awards for her editing, including the World Fantasy, Locus, Hugo, International Horror Guild, Shirley Jackson, and Stoker Awards. She was named recipient of the 2007 Karl Edward Wagner Award for "outstanding contribution to the genre."

Brian Evenson is the author of ten books of fiction, most recently the story collection ugue State and the novel Last Days. His novel The Open Curtain was a finalist for an Edgar Award and an International Horror Guild Award and was among Time Out New York's top books of 2006. Other books include The Wavering Knife (winner of the IHG Award for best story collection) and the tie-in novel Aliens: No Exit. He has received an O. Henry Prize as well as an NEA fellowship. He lives and works in Providence, Rhode Island, where he directs Brown University's Creative Writing Program.

Michael Cisco is the author of four published novels: The Divinity Student, The Tyrant, The San Veneficio Canon, and The Traitor, as well as a collection of stories entitled Secret Hours. His short fiction has appeared in The Book of Eibon, The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric and Discredited Diseases, Leviathan III, Leviathan IV, Album Zutique, Phantom, and Dark Wings. He is the recipient of the International Horror Writers Guild award for best first novel of 1999. Michael Cisco currently lives and teaches in New York. His website is: www.prostheticlibido.org.

Richard Bowes has written five novels, the most recent of which is the Nebula Award nominated From the Files of the Time Rangers. His most recent short fiction collection is Streetcar Dreams And Other Midnight Fancies from PS Publications. He has won the World Fantasy, Lambda, International Horror Guild, and Million Writers Awards.

Caitlín R. Kiernan is the author of eight novels, including the award-winning Silk and Threshold, along with Low Red Moon, Daughter of Hounds, and, most recently, The Red Tree. Her short fiction has been collected in Tales of Pain and Wonder; From Weird and Distant Shores; To Charles Fort, With Love; Alabaster; and A is for Alien. Two volumes of her erotica have been released -- Frog Toes and Tentacles and Tales from the Woeful Platypus -- with a third volume, Confessions of a Five-Chambered Heart, due out in 2010.

The Montauk Club is a historic landmark in Park Slope, Brooklyn, designed by architect Francis H. Kimball in a unique combination of Venetian Gothic and Native American motifs. Its splendid interiors are host to a diverse number of cultural programs, including readings, art shows, lectures and symposiums. We are glad to host this evening of some of America’s finest fantasy authors in homage to an unclassifiable master of the weird, H. P. Lovecraft. We hope you can join us!

..but a mention of the typeface on the cover... I love this commentary by On the Shelves

and likes it. See it here Lovecraft Unbound

-> The New York Review of Science Fiction Readings
and
The SoHo Gallery for Digital Art <--
present

Elizabeth Bear, Richard Bowes, Michael Cisco, Caitlín R. Kiernan
reading from
Lovecraft Unbound
edited by Ellen Datlow

Jim Freund. Producer & Executive Curator
John Ordover, Proprietor

Tuesday, October 27th -- Doors open 6:30 PM
$5 suggested donation
The SoHo Gallery for Digital Art
(address and links below)

To celebrate Samhain (or Hallowe'en if you prefer) we will feature an extracurricular event to celebrate the publication of Ellen Datlow's latest anthology, LOVECRAFT UNBOUND. Making the occasion even more special, our venue will be the Soho Gallery for Digital Art, opening this very same night. We'll be meeting in the gallery itself, but please note they have an Underground which may best be described as... eldritch.

Howard Phillips Lovecraft may have been a writer for only a short time, but the creations he left behind after his death in 1937 have shaped modern horror more than any other author in the last two centuries: the shambling god Cthulhu, and the other deities of the Elder Things, the Outer Gods, and the Great Old Ones, and Herbert West, Reanimator, a doctor who unlocked the secrets of life and death at a terrible cost. In this, Ellen Datlow's latest anthology, more than twenty of today's most prominent writers of literature and dark fantasy tell stories set in or inspired by the works of H. P. Lovecraft. Four of them will read for this special event.

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Richard Bowes has written seven books and has won the World Fantasy, Lambda, International Horror Guild, and Million Writers Awards. Recent and forthcoming stories appear in the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and Electric Velocipede magazines, and in the DIGITAL DOMAINS, BEASTLY BRIDE, HAUNTED LEGENDS, and NAKED CITY anthologies. His story "If Angels Fight" was selected for five of the year's best anthologies and is currently nominated for a World Fantasy Award. Most of these stories are chapters in his novel in progress, DUST DEVIL: MY LIFE IN SPECULATIVE FICTION.

Elizabeth Bear is the multiple-Hugo-award-winning author of over a dozen novels and fifty short stories, including BY THE MOUNTAIN BOUND, CHILL, and THE WHITE CITY. Her attraction to Lovecraft began with his short story "Cool Air." She lives in Connecticut with a presumptuous cat and a giant ridiculous dog.

Caitlín R. Kiernan is the author of several novels, including LOW RED MOON, DAUGHTER OF HOUNDS, and, most recently, THE RED TREE. Her short fiction has been collected in Tales of Pain and Wonder; Wrong Things; From Weird and Distant Shores; To Charles Fort, With Love; Alabaster; A is for Alien; and, forthcoming from Subterranean Press in 2010, The Ammonite Violin & Others. Her "weird erotica" has been collected in FROG TOES AND TENTACLES and TALES FROM THE WOEFUL PLATYPUS; a third volume, CONFESSIONS OF A FIVE-CHAMBERED HEART, will be released next year. Born in Ireland and raised in the Deep South, she now lives in Providence, Rhode Island. I'm afraid Caitlin had to cancel.

Michael Cisco is the author of the novels THE DIVINITY STUDENT, THE TYRANT, THE SAN VENEFICIO CANON, and THE TRAITOR, as well as a collection of stories entitled SECRET HOURS. His short fiction has appeared in The Book of Eibon, The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric and Discredited Diseases, Leviathan III and IV, Album Zutique, Phantom, and Dark Wings. He is the recipient of the International Horror Writers Guild award for best first novel of 1999. Michael currently lives and teaches in New York.

Ellen Datlow has been editing short science fiction, fantasy, and horror for over twenty-five years. She is editor of THE BEST HORROR OF THE YEAR and has edited or co-edited a large number of award-winning original anthologies; most recently THE DEL REY BOOK OF SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY, POE: NEW TALES INSPIRED BY EDGAR ALLAN POE, as well as THE COYOTE ROAD and TROLL'S EYE VIEW (with Terri Windling). She has won multiple awards for her editing, including the World Fantasy, Locus, Hugo, International Horror Guild, Shirley Jackson, and Stoker Awards. She was named recipient of the 2007 Karl Edward Wagner Award for "outstanding contribution to the genre."

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The New York Review of Science Fiction Reading Series is celebrating its 20th season of providing performances from some of the best writers in science fiction, fantasy, speculative fiction, etc. The series continues to evolve, but is always providing readings in the writers voice from some of the great luminaries in literature, genre favorites, and rising stars.

Jim Freund is Producer and Executive Curator of The New York Review of Science Fiction Readings. He has been involved in producing radio programs of and about literary sf/f since 1967 when he began working at New York City’s WBAI, 99.5 FM at age 13. His long-running live radio program, “Hour of the Wolf,” continues to be broadcast every Saturday morning from 5:00 to 7:00, and is streamed live on the web. Archives of past shows are available "'on-demand" for about 8 months after broadcast. (Check http://hourwolf.com for details.)

The SoHo Gallery for Digital Art is a new Soho art gallery dedicated to re-establishing SoHo as the center of new artistic forms, concepts and ideas. Opening this same night, the SGDA will be presenting art from around the country and around the world using a screens-instead-of-canvases approach to bring attention to digital art and photography to the New York public that would otherwise receive little or no attention, as well as throwing numerous evening events devoted to the digital, visual, and literary arts and staging various cultural events. Under the name SULLIVAN HOUSE, the gallery will be available as a uniquely versatile space for parties and events.

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WHEN:
Tuesday, 10/27/9
Doors open at 6:30 -- event begins at 7
Admission is by a $5 donation. If circumstances make this a hardship, let us know and we will accommodate you.

WHERE:
The SoHo Gallery for Digital Art
138 Sullivan Street
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=138+Sullivan+St.+New+York+NY+10012

HOW:
By Subway
6, C, E to Spring St.; A, B D or F to West 4th; 1 train to Houston St; or R, W to Prince St.

LINKS:
http://hourwolf.com/nyrsf
http://sohodigart.com/
http://nyrsf.com
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The New York Review of Science Fiction magazine is celebrating its 20th year!
Subscribe or submit articles to the magazine!
New York Review of Science Fiction
PO. Box 78, Pleasantville, NY, 10570
NYRSF Magazine: http://nyrsf.com

It doesn't seem to be available yet on bn.com or borders but you can get your hot copies At amazon NOW...

Mostly about my forthcoming anthology: Lovecraft Unbound
Editor Unbound

I've finally been granted permission by my publisher to post the cover of Lovecraft Unbound, which should be out in October from M Press. So here we go!!!



Introduction by Ellen Datlow

The Crevasse by Dale Bailey and Nathan Ballingrud

The Office of Doom by Richard Bowes

Sincerely, Petrified by Anna Tambour

The Din of Celestial Birds by Brian Evenson

The Tenderness of Jackals by Amanda Downum

Sight Unseen by Joel Lane

Cold Water Survival by Holly Phillips

Come Lurk with Me and Be My Love by William Browning Spencer

Houses Under the Sea by Caitlín R. Kiernan

Machines of Concrete Light and Dark by Michael Cisco

Leng by Marc Laidlaw

In the Black Mill by Michael Chabon

One Day, Soon by Lavie Tidhar

Commencement by Joyce Carol Oates

Vernon, Driving by Simon Kurt Unsworth

The Recruiter by Michael Shea

Marya Nox by Gemma Files

Mongoose by Sarah Monette & Elizabeth Bear

Catch Hell by Laird Barron

That of Which We Speak When We Speak of the Unspeakable by Nick Mamatas



A thank you to Nick for creating url of the cover.