Are You Brave Enough?
When the sun goes down, strange things come out to play. This special GenreCon crossover event at QPoetry! 2024 showcases writing that delights in the macabre, the mythic, and the weird.
Geneve Flynn is a speculative fiction author, editor, and poet. Winner of two Bram Stoker Awards, a Shirley Jackson Award, an Aurealis Award, a Brave New Weird Award and recipient of the 2022 Queensland Writers Fellowship. Her work has been nominated and short/longlisted for the British Fantasy, Locus, Ditmar, Australian Shadows, Elgin, and Rhysling Awards, and the Pushcart Prize.
Pierce Wilcox writes weird fiction, tiny role-playing games, and opera libretti. His work has been published in Cordite Poetry Review, Overland and Jacaranda, and his writing for the stage has been performed at the Biennale of Sydney, the Melbourne Festival, and the National Gallery of Australia. He is an associate researcher with the WhatIF Lab at the University of Queensland, where he also teaches.
Dr Helen Marshall is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Queensland. She has won the World Fantasy Award, the British Fantasy Award and the Shirley Jackson Award for her three collections of short stories. Her debut novel The Migration was one of The Guardian’s top science fiction books of the year.
Pamela Jeffs is an Australian speculative fiction author of six short story collections including the Aurealis Award noted works The Terralight Collection and Five Dragons. She was the recipient of the 2021 QWC Flinthart Writing Residency and has work featured in publications including Midnight Echo by the Australian Horror Writers Association and the SNAFU military horror series by Cohesion Press. Pamela’s story ‘Death Interrupted’ won the 2023 Aurealis Award for Best Horror Short Story. Her other works have shortlisted for awards including an additional eleven Aurealis Awards, three Ditmar Awards and two Australian Shadow Awards.