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Aurealis Awards Shortlists Announced

The shortlists for this year's Aurealis Awards have been announced! Twelfth Planet Press is delighted that Trucksong by Andrew Macrae and stories and short story collections Caution: Contains Small Parts by Kirstyn McDermott and Asymmetry by Thoraiya Dyer have been...

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Trucksong Reviewed on SF Signal

Trucksong Reviewed on SF Signal

An inventive, unique and fresh Australian post-apocalyptic novel. Paul Wiemer writes a very positive of Trucksong on SF Signal: "The world of Trucksong is amazingly inventive. The novel is written in a future Australian slang and dialect. The textual use of this...

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Kaleidoscope Now Open to General Submissions

The beautiful Kaleidoscope backers, have pushed us over the $7k mark, and we are now open to submissions! Please send us your stories, and/or tell your writer friends about us. We are interested in seeing stories from anyone at all, and we're especially looking...

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Kaleidoscope Pozible Update

Kaleidoscope Pozible Update

Yesterday our campaign to raise funds for our upcoming YA anthology Kaleidoscope surpassed the 50% funded mark. To celebrate the milestone, we made a few announcements: Kaleidoscope is now open to both Science Fiction and Fantasy! Yep, that's right! We decided we...

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Trucksong Reviewed on SF Signal

Trucksong Cover Reveal!

We are delighted to reveal the cover of Andrew Macrae's debut novel Trucksong scheduled for release mid-November! In a post-apocalyptic Australian landscape dominated by free-wheeling cyborgs, a young man goes in search of his lost lover who has been kidnapped by a...

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Kaleidoscope Pozible Update

Ken Lui in Kaleidoscope

Today on the Kaleidoscope blog, Ken Liu guest posts about his story, "Seventh Day of the Seventh Moon". We're very excited to share it with you! http://kaleidoscope.twelfthplanetpress.com/?p=21

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Kaleidoscope Pozible Update

Kaleidoscope Pozible Campaign

Our Pozible campaign has gone live for fundraising for upcoming anthology Kaleidoscope. The story of the project Kaleidoscope is an anthology of diverse contemporary YA fantasy stories, which will be edited by Julia Rios and Alisa Krasnostein, and published by Twelfth...

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Recent Reviews

Recent Reviews

Aurealis magazine has recently reviewed the two newest volumes of the Twelve Planets series. Of Asymmetry by Thoraiya Dyer, Deanne Sheldon-Collins writes in Aurealis Issue 63: Dyer writes with a direct, accessible voice. Yet, as you drift through Asymmetry's subtly...

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Twelfth Planet Press Writing Stream at CrimeScene WA 2013

Twelfth Planet Press Writing Stream at CrimeScene WA 2013

Twelfth Planet Press CrimeScene Writing Stream Saturday, 12 October, 2013 http://www.crimescenewa.org.au/   Pitch Twelfth Planet Press Take an opportunity to pitch your completed manuscript to editor and publisher Alisa Krasnostein in a one on one pitch appointment....

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Finally We Are Open to Novella Submissions Again!

Twelfth Planet Press is looking to expand our line of dynamic, original and diverse genre novellas. Twelfth Planet Press novellas push boundaries to question, inspire, engage and challenge. We are specifically looking to acquire material outside that which is...

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Twelve Planets Welcomes Lisa Hannett and Angela Slatter

It's with mixed emotions that we announce there will be a change in the Twelve Planets line up. Life happens and Cat Sparks has had to bow out of the project leaving a very large hole to fill. Luckily for Twelfth Planet Press we have a collection that we believe will...

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