Midnight Echo: The Magazine of the AHWA
The AHWA is extremely proud to present Midnight Echo: The Magazine of the Australian Horror Writers Association.
Issue 3 on sale NOVEMBER 18 - click on the cover image below for ordering details!
Midnight Echo Issue 1 (October 2008) Edited by Kirstyn McDermott & Ian Mond |
Midnight Echo Issue 2 (June 2009) Edited by Angela Challis & Shane Jiraiya Cummings |
Midnight Echo is available directly from the AHWA.
For members:
AU$10 + postage ($2.75 anywhere in Australia)
For non-members:
AU$14 + postage ($2.75 anywhere in Australia)
Please contact us on midnightecho@australianhorror.com for more information.
The reading period for Midnight Echo Issue 4, edited by Lee Battersby, is 1 September 2009 to 31 January, 2010. Full details and Submission Guidelines can be found here.
Each issue of Midnight Echo will have a different editor(s). If you are interested in taking the reigns for an issue, please contact us at ahwa@australianhorror.com.
Issue 3, due for publication in October/November 2009, is edited by Stephen Studach, who was there at the start of Horror publishing in this country, and is still standing firmly in the swamp. He is a writer of short shorts, short stories, novelettes, novels and screenplays. A published poet, editor and reviewer. Christopher Lee once fled from him in fear outside the Mitchell Library in Sydney in the 80's. Mr. Lee stumbled but recovered quickly to run on into the Botanical Gardens. Studach insists that all he did was point and smile at the great man. A former student of the martial arts, he enjoys weapons, films, reading and training dogs. Robert M. Price has called his writing ‘irresistible'. Stephen Jones and David Sutton have branded his work as ‘gratuitously horrific' and as having ‘tremendous power'. Stephen just likes to be left alone to do his stuff.
Issue 4 has Lee Battersby at its helm. Lee Battersby fancies he knows a thing or two about the horror short story, having won 2 Australian shadows Awards and the Aurealis Award for Best Horror short. An inhabitant of Mandurah, Western Australia, he suffers endless days of sunshine, relaxation and beautiful surroundings with only the aid of his wiofe Lyn, three bizarre children, and a habit of writing nasty things in story form to help him through. A collection, entitled "Through Soft Air" has seen light via the gold-paved road to Hell provided by Prime Books, and he gives regular vent to his spleen at The Battersblog, his blog (http://battersblog.blogspot.com/). As for his designs regarding issue 4, he says "The days of creeping tentacles of doom is over. Leave your Cthulhuian wannabes under the bed where they belong, and horrify me with the only thing that is truly terrifying-- human nature. If you must force a monster upon me, let me recognise something in its eyes."
Midnight Echo will be published in both print and electronic format (PDF).