Tag: dan rabarts

2017 Sir Julius Vogel Award – Best New Talent

I was absolutely thrilled – and more than a little speechless – to receive a 2017 Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best New Talent at Lexicon, the New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy National convention. The full 2017 SJV awards list is here. With the deep blue backdrop of Lake Taupo, and snow-tipped ranges across…
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SJV Awards Shortlist

Thank you – SJV shortlist I am thrilled to be on the 2017 Sir Julius Vogel Award shortlist in two categories. Thank you to all my readers who nominated me for Best New Talent, and also to those who nominated my short story Call of the Sea, which was published last year in the At…
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Call of the Sea

Call of the Sea – Living Through Loss Thirteen years ago today, my son died. He was half of fraternal twins – the healthy half. His twin sister had been chronically ill for two years, and I had been housebound caring for her. Tough times for an extrovert. After her recovery, we had a normal…
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At The Edge

Story accepted for At the Edge I’m absolutely thrilled to announce that I’ve had a story accepted for At The Edge, a dark speculative fiction anthology being released in the middle of 2016. My story Call of the Sea explores some dark themes, indeed – abandonment, rejection, grief and insanity, but  be warned, I like…
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