Editing: The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy & Horror 2011

The Year's Best Australian Fantasy & Horror, edited by Talie Helene (horror) and Liz Grzyb (fantasy). Published by Ticonderoga Publications.

Title : The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy & Horror 2011

Format : Hardback Book (ISBN 978-1921857133) RRP AU $55.00

Format : Trade Paperback (ISBN 978-1921857140) RRP AU $35.00

  • WINNER – the Tin Duck Award for Best WA Professional Production
  • Finalist – the Aurealis Award for Best Anthology
  • Finalist – the Chronos Award for Best Long Fiction (including collections)
  • Finalist – the Ditmar Award for Best Collected Work
  • Finalist – the William Atheling Jr. Award for Criticism or Review for The Year In Review preface essay

 

Talie Helene is an experienced editor of fiction, as the Horror Editor for The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy & Horror series, published by Ticonderoga Publications, one of Australia’s most important independent presses. The fantasy portion of the books are edited by Liz Grzyb. This annual compilation of the best fantasy and horror, covering work produced by Australian and New Zealand writers, collects over 150,000 words of fiction from the genre’s best and most awarded writers. For her editing Talie has received numerous award nominations, and has won an Aurealis Award as editor in the category of Best Anthology.

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Edited by Liz Grzyb (fantasy) and Talie Helene (horror).

The second annual compilation of the best fantasy and horror, covering work produced by Australian and New Zealand writers in 2011. Over 150,000 words of fiction from some of the genre’s best and most awarded writers. Together with an annual genre overview and recommended reading list this is both a book to be read and a valuable reference work. This volume collects 32 stories and poems by Peter M. Ball, Lee Battersby, Deborah Biancotti, Jenny Blackford, Simon Brown, David Conyers, Stephen Dedman, Sara Douglass, Felicity Dowker, Terry Dowling, Jason Fischer, Christopher Green, Paul Haines, Lisa L. Hannett, Richard Harland, John Harwood, Pete Kempshall, David Kernot, Jo Langdon, Maxine McArthur, Ian McHugh, Andrew J. McKiernan, Kirstyn McDermott, Margaret Mahy, Anne Mok, Jason Nahrung, Anthony Panegyres, Tansy Rayner Roberts, Angela Rega, Angela Slatter, Lucy Sussex, Kyla Ward and Kaaron Warren.