David Conyers
Science Fiction Author
DAVID CONYERS Science Fiction Author
David Conyers is an Australian author of science fiction and dark fiction, residing in Adelaide. His publications are found in the numerous anthologies, speculative fiction magazines and journals. Between 2004 and 2006 he was the Associate Editor for Book of Dark Wisdom. David has been short-listed for the Aeon Award in Ireland and the Ditmar, Australian Shadows and Aurealis Award in Australia, and won the Australian Horror Writers Association Flash Fiction Award. His first novel The Spiraling Worm co-authored with John Sunseri, was published in 2007 and his first edited anthology Cthulhu's Dark Cults will be released in 2009.
News
October 30, 2008: David's short story "Subtle Invsion" appears in this year's Halloween Gast Fest presented by the Writing Show. Introduced by Stephen Studach, the reading of the story is followed by an interview with David by the host Paula Berinstein. Further information and a Podcast of the show can be found here.
October 30, 2008: David's Aeon Award nominated short story "Black Water" will see print in British science fiction magazine Jupiter #24.
October 6, 2008: The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2008 edited by Kelly Link, Gavin Grant and Ellen Datlow gives three honourable mentions to David Conyers for his short stories "From the Sick Tree" in Cthulhu Australis Part 1, and "Weapon Grade" and "The Spiraling Wom" in The Spiraling Worm. Daltow said of The Spiraling Worm that it is "a good collection of mostly new Lovecraftian adventures featuring secret service ops from the U.S., the U.K., and Australia. The original novella is impressive." "From the Sick Trees" and "Weapon Grade" also make the Recommended Reading List in Year's Best Australian Science Fiction & Fantasy - Fourth Annual Volume edited by Bill Congreve and Michelle Marquardt.
September 24, 2008: David appears in Studies in Australian Weird Fiction 2 in the symposium "Cthulhu Cultus Australis: The Australian Perspective on H. P. Lovecraft" discussed by Leigh Blackmore, David Conyers and Chuck McKenzie. The journal is edited by Benjamin Szumskyj and it can be purchased at Equilibrium Books.
September 17, 2008: Appearing in his first 'best of' collection, David's dark science fiction tale "Subtle Invasion" will appear in Australian Dark Fantasy & Horror Vol 3 edited by Angela Challis. Published by Brimstone Press in December, David shares space with notable Australian speculative fiction authors including Sean Williams and Garth Nix.
September 1, 2008: David takes up the role of Board Member with the SA Writers' Centre where he has been a member for three years, presented writing workshops, and has been the editor of their member magazine Southern Write. David offers his skills in corporate marketing and his knowledge of the speculative fiction genre to the Board.
August 1, 2008: David receives a commendation in the 2008 Australian Horror Writers Associations Short Fiction Award for his story "The Lord of the Law".
July 17, 2008: David is running a workshop on science fiction and fantasy world building at the SA Wrtiers Centre on August 30. Details can be found here.
June 28, 2008: Two of David's dark fiction short stories will appear in two new releases. The first is "Cactus" scheduled for the first issue of the Australian Horror Writers Association's magazine Midnight Echo. The second is a reprint of "Subtle Invasion" in the first volume of Best New Tales of the Apocalypse released by Permuted Press.
May 30, 2008: David's short story "Homo Canis" will appear in 2008 Award Winning Australian Writing published by Melbourne Books, a collection of short stories and bush poetry. Each work has been selected from writing that has won an Australian writing competition over the last year. The story won the Australian Horror Writers Association's 2007 Flash Fiction Award and will also appear in the final issue of Shadowed Realms, published by Brimstone Press.
May 26, 2008: Following on from last year's Halloween Ghast Fest, David Conyers returns again to The Writing Shows' popular podcasting website. David's will read his Australian Shadow's nominated short story "Subtle Invasion" and will be interviewed by the Show's host Paula Berinstein. This year's theme is ghosts, monsters and the supernatural, and is supported by the Australian Horror Writers Association. "Subtle Invasion" first appeared in the anthology The Black Book of Horror, edited by Charles Black.
May 22, 2008: David’s space opera short story “Terraformer” will appear in Issue 37 of Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, edited by Tehani Wessely.
May 1, 2008: The Spiraling Worm is reviewed on YouTube.com by Game Geek Kurt Wiegel. Watch the review here.
April 23, 2008: David Conyers will appear in his first Morrigan Books anthology Scenes from the Second Story, and in another first, will write the opening story “Dream Machine”. This dark speculative fiction anthology pays homage to the album of the same name released by The God Machine in 1993, and will come in two editions, one featuring Australian authors and one featuring authors from other countries. Both anthologies will be edited by Mark Deniz.
March 4, 2008: With the announcement of the Australian Shadows Award for 2008, David is short listed for his short story “Subtle Invasion” which appeared in the Anthology The Black Book of Horror edited by Charles Black. David’s co-authored novel with
David Conyers brings us one of the few stories in the collection not set in Australia. Here, he takes a very dark, very gritty, very gruesome look at the final days of nonrenewable resources. We don't really think we'll all play nice and just use up what we have and let other countries use up their own resources, do we? When the writing's on the wall, the greedy and powerful will get underhanded. Conyers brings us a futuristic twist on the quick and the dead in "Soft Viscosity" and its true depth of horror will creep up on you with its own soft viscosity. February 25, 2008: For the second consecutive year David Conyers is nominated for Best New Talent in the Ditmar Awards, the Australian speculative fiction achievement awards.
February 28, 2008: Read an extract from David's tale "Soft Viscosity" appearing in the Twelfth Planet Press anthology 2012. This is what the editor Alisa Krasnostein said about the story:
February 24, 2008: The latest issue of Albedo One, Ireland's magazine of science fiction, fantasy and horror publishes two of David's reviews, the first of Brimstone Press' Australian Dark Fantasy & Horror 2006, and Sean William's Geodescia Accent and Geodescia Decent.
February 18, 2008: "Redemption Slot Machine", a short science fiction story by David Conyers is published on Antipodean SF . Read it here.
February 12, 2008: Twelfth Planet Press' first anthology 2012 featuring David's science fiction short story "Soft Viscosity" is now available for pre-order here. The anthology will be officially released at Swancon 2008 on Marth 20 to 24 in Perth, Western Australia.
Feburary 7, 2008: David Conyers and Brian M. Sammons team up for a second time with their science fiction tale of giant creatures, "Six-Legged Shadows". This story will appear in Monstrous published by Permuted Press later this year.
January 26, 2008: The Spiraling Worm wins an Honourable Mention in Australia's 2008 Aurealis Awards. The Judges' Report had this to say about the book:
Its use of action and speculative fiction tropes to develop complex and original themes within the Lovecraftian Mythos was hard to ignore ... over the course of The Spiraling Worm the characters develop as multi-layered and convincing ... an entertaining mix of action and horror.
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