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Alison Venugoban

During the last four years, I have been lucky enough to have a number of short stories, plus two novels, published, and had one of my short stories appear in an anthology.  I've also won two writing awards, and was recently shortlisted in the 1999 Aurealis Awards, Division C Horror, for a short story published by Harbinger magazine.  

My hope is to keep finding markets for my stories, and I harbour a burning ambition to one day persuade Altair magazine to publish one of my stories. So far they have turned down everything I send them, all of which have been subsequently published elsewhere, and one of which went on to become an award winner. 

I live in one of the more far-flung suburbs of the Australian Capital Territory with my husband, daughter, and our benevolent dictator Karla the Kat.  Being a Leo with a Cancer rising sign I am a shy extrovert.  I enjoy illustrating and having long conversations with the cat, who is a fellow Leo.

I would one day love to be as famous as Geoffrey Maloney and Maxine MacArthur, both of whom are in the Speculative Fiction Writing group to which I also belong, and both of whom I am totally in awe of, to the extent that I become totally tongue-tied whenever either of them speak to me. 

Publication History

Short stories:
• "Working Parents", humorous article, National Library of Australia Bulletin magazine issue #9 1996

• "Feral Child", SF/F story + artwork, Issue #3 Under Magellanic Clouds magazine, 1998

• "Universal Bacteria", artwork, Issue #4 Under Magellanic Clouds magazine, 1998

• "Commodities Market", SF/F story + artwork, Issue #4 Under Magellanic Clouds magazine, 1998

• "The Getting of Empathy", SF/F story + artwork, Issue #5 Under Magellanic Clouds magazine, 1998

• "Letter to Proxima", SF/F story + artwork, accepted for Issue #6 Under Magellanic Clouds magazine.

• "Funeral Rights", Horror story + artwork, Issue #3 Harbinger magazine, 1999

• "Something to Last", fiction, Vol. 85 no.1 Touchdown magazine, 2000.

• "The Great Soap Battle", fiction + artwork, accepted for forthcoming issue of NSW Dept. of Education School Magazine.

• "Here There Be Dragons", accepted for future issue of Reader's World

  Novels:

• Winter Fireside Tales, short story anthology, Indian Ocean Press, West Australia 1999

• Koorainghat Sands 1997

• Duality 1996

  Awards:

• Shortlisted Short Horror Story Division C for 1999, Aurealis Awards

• Third Place Highly Commended, Katherine Susannah Prichard Foundation Inc. Inaugural Science Fiction Fantasy Award, 1998

• ACP Publishing Pty Ltd Waterman Award 1996

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