Terry Dowling

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“Toother” in three Year’s Bests!

Terry’s story “Toother” has been picked for three Year’s Best collections: by Stefan R. Dziemianowicz for Horror: The Best of the Year 2008, by Bill Congreve and Michelle Marquardt for Year’s Best Australian Science Fiction & Fantasy 4, and by Ellen Datlow for the 2008 edition of The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror 20. It is Terry’s tenth appearance in the important YBFH annual anthology series. Previous selections have been: “The Daemon Street Ghost-Trap,” “Scaring the Train,” “Beckoning Nightframe,” “Jenny Come to Play,” “Basic Black,” “The Saltimbanques,” “Stitch,” “Clownette” and “La Profonde.”

“Toother” Wins 2007 Australian Shadows Award

Terry’s 2007 story “Toother” from Eclipse One: New Fantasy and Science Fiction, edited by Jonathan Strahan, won the Australian Shadows Award for Best Short Story in April 2008. In the words of Guest Judge Richard Harland: “Terry Dowling’s story is a conscious extension of Poe’s ‘Berenice’…whilst also drawing on some fascinating research into a very murky corner of history. The psychic angle of the investigation is far more real and plausible than the standard psychic investigations of TV series…This is a story that does everything right.”

“Truth Window” for Eclipse 2

Jonathan Strahan has taken “Truth Window: A Tale of the Bedlam Rose” for his second Eclipse anthology due from Night Shade Books in late 2008. This is Terry’s first Wormwood story in 17 years.

“The Fooly” in Dreaming Again

Terry’s ghost story “The Fooly” has appeared in Jack Dann’s anthology Dreaming Again. The US magazine Locus for July 2008 calls it “a brilliant ghost story…The concept is superb, the punchline delivered immaculately.”

Terry a Judge for the inaugural John Hinde Prize

In July 2008 Terry completed his duties for the Australian Writers’ Guild as one of three judges for the inaugural John Hinde Award for produced science fiction film and television scripts. The $15,000 annual prize is the bequest of the late Aussie film and TV critic John Hinde, who had a lifelong love of science fiction films and
television.

Ten Years at June Dally-Watkins Business Finishing College

Terry celebrates ten very happy years at the June Dally-Watkins Business Finishing College at 210 Clarence Street, Sydney (02 9267 3255 / www.jdw.com.au) teaching both Business Communication and English.

Terry co-edits Wild Thyme, Green Magic

As a follow-up to their 2008 Jack Vance Reader and the internationally acclaimed Jack Vance Treasury in 2007, both from Subterranean Press, Jonathan Strahan and Terry recently turned in Wild Thyme, Green Magic: Selected Stories of Jack Vance. This third volume in the Jack Vance series for Subterranean will appear in early 2009 and will, once again, feature a cover by Tom Kidd. It can be pre-ordered at http://www.subterraneanpress.com/

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