Dec 9, 2022 | News
My first sourdough starter predated lockdown by about a month. It was right around the time I started grabbing a few extra non-perishables at the store, laughing at myself when I mentioned it to my friends—just humoring my nerves. Because as the news stories piled up...
Oct 22, 2022 | News
My grandmother’s baby brothers, dead in infancy during the Depression, are buried, unmarked, in Blackheath cemetery, at the foot of a wealthier neighbour’s site. There was no money for headstones of their own. Those were hard years. Cold years. If the boys...
Aug 26, 2022 | News
I was done with most post-apocalyptic fiction well before 2020. Not that there aren’t complex, thoughtful works out there–The Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Elison comes to mind, as does the film-in-two-parts A Quiet Place–but, for the most part, the genre seems...
Aug 4, 2020 | News
The post-apocalyptic rebuilding of society, and adaptation of people, is the felicitous subject of a new anthology of science fiction short stories from Australian boutique publisher Twelfth Planet Press, currently seeking pledges to its crowdfunding appeal.
Dec 23, 2019 | News
Did you miss our Kickstarter for Winter’s Tale by Nike Sulway and Shauna O’Meara? Never fear! The paperback edition of Winter’s Tale is now available here, and in all your favourite stores (just request it if it’s not on the shelves).
