<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[shattersnipe: malcontent &amp; rainbows]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://fozmeadows.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[fozmeadows]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://fozmeadows.wordpress.com/author/fozmeadows/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Midyear Writing News!]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>We appear to be halfway through 2017 already, which is surely some sort of cosmic accounting error. To compensate, here is some writing news.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m thrilled to have <a href="https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2017/06/13/91709/ditmar-awards-2017-winners-announced/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">won the 2017 Ditmar Award for Best Fan Writer</a> in my third year of nomination. I didn&#8217;t write as much last year as I would&#8217;ve liked, all things considered, but I was proud of what I did produce, and especially now that I&#8217;m back in Australia, I&#8217;m honoured to have something like this to show for it.</p>
<p>As of April this year, I&#8217;m now a semi-regular contributor to the awesome <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/am/podcast/geek-girl-riot/id1124211899" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Geek Girl Riot</a> podcast. My segment is called Foz Rants, which is fairly self-explanatory, and covers whatever I feel like yelling about at the time. The whole podcast is pretty spectacular, so give it a look!</p>
<p>I have a new essay out in <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B072QTTQ6D" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Book Smugglers&#8217; Quarterly Almanac: Volume 4</a>. It&#8217;s on slipfic and the definition of genre, and contains some thinky-thoughts I&#8217;ve been trying to pin down for a while.</p>
<p>Finally, I&#8217;m extremely excited to have <a href="http://thefantasistmag.com/three-short-stories/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">three short stories</a> in Issue 3 of The Fantastist Magazine &#8211; &#8216;Letters Sweet as Honey,&#8217; &#8216;Mnemosyne&#8217; and &#8216;The Song of Savi&#8217;. Though different in terms of style and genre, they&#8217;re loosely thematically linked, and I&#8217;m looking forward to seeing how they&#8217;re received both individually and as a sort of triptych.</p>
<p>And with that, back to the studio!</p>
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