Week of Awards

IFWG aims to publish, above all other traits, quality books. While we don’t obsessively seek awards and shortlisting in awards, garnering them is a type of validation that we are heading in the right direction. We attended GeyserCon (Rotorua NZ) last week (31 May to 2 June 2019) and just flitted through Continuum 15 (Melbourne,…

News: The Grief Hole Wins Australia’s Premier Horror Literature Award

It is with pride and joy that we can announce that Kaaron Warren‘s The Grief Hole has won the Best Novel category of the 2016 Australian Shadows Awards – Australia’s (and beyond) most reliable awards for quality horror and dark fiction. The Grief Hole was a special project for the IFWG team, and a great deal…

News: Peripheral Visions wins Shadows Award

It is with great pride that we can announce that Robert Hood’s seminal ghost story collection, Peripheral Visions, is the recipient of the Australian Shadows Award’s Best Collection of 2015 Award. Well done to Rob! The Awards stated: “Peripheral Visions is an ambitious project, a veritable door-stopper of a hardback comprising nearly 800 pages and…

News: Star Quake 1 shortlisted for Australian Shadows Award

We are ecstatic to announce that Star Quake 1, the first ‘best of’ anthology of SQ Mag, has been short listed for the edited work category in the Australian Shadows Awards. This is a great achievement for our inaugural year, and especially for editor, Sophie Yorkston.