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		<title>The Aurealis Awards</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 07:21:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[get your tickets here.]]></description>
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		<title>Making the impossible real</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 07:43:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing Speculative Fiction Tutor: Robert Hood When: Sunday 4 March-10am-4pm Whether dealing with angels or demons, past or future, aliens, post-humans or artificial intelligences, stories of alternate realities, imagined futures and fantastical impossibilities have been a never-ending source of fascination for writers and readers for as long as humanity has told stories. But once you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ticonderoga to publish Cat Sparks</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:40:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ticonderoga Publications is delighted to announce the forthcoming publication of a short story collection by the multi award-winning writer Cat Sparks. The collection, tentatively titled The Bride Price, is scheduled for publication and launch at Conflux &#8211; the Australian National Science Fiction Convention in April 2013. “Cat Sparks has produced a large number of critically [...]]]></description>
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		<title>bookshelf snapshot</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 02:51:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The plastic doll is a Solar Queen &#8211; when light strikes the cell on her handbag, she waves. The card at her feet says STOP TALKING, a souvenir from Margaret Atwood&#8217;s class. Anyone who doesn&#8217;t know a Moomin when they see one shouldn&#8217;t be reading this blog.]]></description>
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		<title>NYC</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:39:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is my third trip to NYC and I’ve decided I don’t like it very much. There’s a dark and gritty texture to this city, a thick seam of poverty and desperation layered beneath its skin. So many people working shitty service jobs. Not teenagers out to gain experience like you’d find back home. Older [...]]]></description>
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		<title>retroactive</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:20:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In all the excitement of cracking my head open, I neglected to write a post thanking the Vandermeers who made me a welcome guest in their Tallahassee home for three days. Aside from being constantly amused by their four hilarious cats, we packed a bunch of stuff into the brief time: a Mayan apocalypse party [...]]]></description>
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		<title>London: in summary so far</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 21:17:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I decided to take my week in London easy on account of the whole head injury thing. Every morning I set out on a Tube expedition from Wood Green &#38; so far every evening I’ve returned to my sister’s place without incident (touch wood). Not only have I not been lost once, I haven’t been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Incident at 37,000 feet or how I ended up getting my head glued in a UK emergency room</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 23:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s a quarter way through the 8-hour crossing from Dallas Forth Worth to Heathrow. I’ve eaten my dinner, snubbed my nose at the meagre cinematic offerings and settled into a light doze when something suddenly wakes me. My own body heat. I’m burning up and I feel terrible so I get up and fumble my way to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Closing the time machine doorway</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 20:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[They say you should never meet your heroes. This time they were wrong. I was frightened of this workshop. Scared that Margaret Atwood would be a monster and I’d be the worst incarnation of my oftentimes overbearing self. Worried that the group would not cement. That we might not have much to offer each other. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>KWLS – day 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:39:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Germans in the B&#38;B have gone, replaced by Japanese. Across the road a hen and her brood of chickens wanders down the sidewalk. Apparently free roaming chickens are protected here. The rooster who’s been crowing since day one is still hard at it. The Key West Literary Seminar is held annually at the San [...]]]></description>
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