A Hand of Knaves - Author List Released

Leife and I have worked for several months to cull the list of fantastic submissions down to nineteen of our favourites for A Hand of Knaves. There are some really fantastic stories in our bucket and it was great to finally put the author's names to their writing (as the reading for CSFG anthologies is done blind).

I've been abroad of late and while I was away the CSFG released the list of stories and authors so I'd like to belatedly congratulate the successful writers, and let those who didn't make the cut know that we had a wealth of excellent stories to choose from so don't be too disappointed.

Our list of authors/stories is as follows:

Eugen Bacon, Ace Zone

Amy Brown, A Tale Of The Marriage Of Gawain

David Coleman, Immortal, Coiled

Tom Dullemond, The Killblaine Legacy

Maureen Flynn, Gardening Through the Danse Macabre

Rebecca Fraser, The Pedlar

Isobel Johnstone, The Apothecary’s Apprentice

Grace Maslin, A Question Of Identity

Chris McGrane, Trojan Thoughts

Claire McKenna, The One Who Walks The Permanent Way

Cassandra Page, The Best Heist Yet

CH Pearce, The Last Magicians of Sad Hill

Simon Petrie & Edwina Harvey, On the Consequences of Clinically-Inhibited Maturation in the Common Sydney Octopus

Louise Pieper, A Widow’s Worth

Robert Porteous, A Fair Wind Off Baracoa

Charlotte Sophia, Stardust

HK Stubbs, Lost Property

David Versace, A Moment’s Peace

Angus Yeates, Anchor Point

While I was away I was editing on the road and with Leife pushing me (in the nicest way) from Australia we have completed first round edits. I'm clearly biased but I also feel completely confident in saying that A Hand of Knaves will be an excellent anthology and I'm pretty sure I speak for both of us when I say we can't wait to share these tales of space piracy, magical slight of hand, necromancy, dangerous school girls, Ned Kelly-esque legends, assassins-in-training, vengeful hackers and so much more...

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