David Conyers
Science Fiction Author
DAVID CONYERS Science Fiction Author
"The most prolific Australian dark fiction author"
Angela Challis, Australian Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 3
David Conyers is an Australian author of science fiction and dark fiction, residing in Adelaide. His publications are found in the numerous anthologies, speculative fiction magazines and journals. Between 2004 and 2006 he was the Associate Editor for Book of Dark Wisdom and today he is a columnist for Albedo One. David has been short-listed for the Aeon Award in Ireland and the Ditmar, Australian Shadows and Aurealis Award in Australia, and won the Australian Horror Writers Association Flash Fiction Award. His first novel The Spiraling Worm co-authored with John Sunseri, was published in 2007 and his first edited anthology Cthulhu's Dark Cults will be released in 2009.
News
May 24, 2009: The release of Midnight Echo #2 sees the re-release of David's award winning short story "Homo Canis". The second issue of the magazine of the Australian Horror Writers Association is edited by Shane Jiraiya Cummings and Angela Challis, and features a contribution by Felicity Dowker, amongst others.
May 9, 2009: David receives his fourth Ditmar Award nomination for his science fiction novella "Soft Viscosity" which appeared in the anthology 2012.
Apirl 14, 2009: David sells a new science fiction short story to Jupiter Magazine, "The Octagon", a space opera tale concerning a reality game show inside an alien artefact the size of a city. "The Octagon" set in the same future series as "Terraformer" and "The Entropy Collapse" will appear in issue 26 out later this year.
April 6, 2009: "Black Water", David's Aeon Award short-listed novella is in print in Jupiter #24: Locaste. The magazine published in the United Kingdom and edited by Ian Redman has been receiving critical reviews for many years.
April 1, 2009: "The Garden Fortress", a short fantasy story by David appears in Thrilling Tales #4 by Rainfall Books. David's chapbooks Cthulhu Australis Part 1 and Part 2 where previously published by the same publihser in 2007.
March 30, 2009: In his first appearance in a Year's Best collection, David's "Subtle Invasion" from The Black Book of Horror appears in in Australian Dark Fantasy & Horror 2007 from Brimstone Press. Edited by Angela Challis, the collection contains dark short stories from notable Australian authors Sean Williams, Shane Jiraiya Cummings, Marty Young and Gary Kemble, amongst others. The collection is available in Australia this week.
March 23, 2009: Chaosium announces Cthulhu's Dark Cults, released this July. Journey across the globe to witness the numerous and diverse cults that worship Cthulhu and the Great Old Ones. Lead by powerful sorcerers and fanatical necromancers, their followers are mad and deranged slaves. The ancient and alien gods whom they willingly devote themselves are truly terrifying. These cults control real power, for they are the real secret masters of our world. The anthology is edited by David Conyers with cover art by Steven Gilberts.
March 9, 2009: David's first Call of Cthulhu gaming scenario in two years "The Burning Stars" is released in May this year in the Chaosium collection Terrors from Beyond. Other authors in the collection include Gary Sumpter, Brian M. Sammons, Brian Courtemanche, Glyn White and John A. Almack. Illustrated by David Grilla and David Lee Ingersoll.
January 13, 2009: Monstrous: 20 Tales of Giant Creature Terror, a new anthology edited by Ryan C. Thomas and published by Permuted Press is released in the United States, and features David's second collaboration with US horror writer Brian M. Sammons, "Six-Legged Shadows". Read an extract from the story here.
January 1, 2009: David makes the OzHorrorScope 2008 Dark Short Fiction Recommended Reading List for his science fiction tale "Soft Viscosity" which was published in the anthology 2012. In related news David becomes a judge for the 2009 Australian Horror Writers Assoication's Flash and Short Story Fiction competition which opens today.
For earlier news, see the News Archive page.
