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Kirstyn McDermott Kirstyn McDermott i(A67399 works by)
Born: Established: 1973 Newcastle, Newcastle - Hunter Valley area, New South Wales, ;
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

In 1995, after completing a Bachelor of Arts at Newcastle University, Kirstyn McDermott moved to Melbourne. She served on the committee of the Australian Horror Writers Association (AHWA) for a number of years and co-edited the inaugural issue of Midnight Echo with Ian Mond in 2008. She has published short fiction in a wide variety of magazines and anthologies.

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2018 shortlisted Ditmar Awards Best Fan Production in Any Medium for 'The Writer and the Critic'.
2016 shortlisted Ditmar Awards Best Fan Production in Any Medium for 'The Writer and the Critic'.
2015 winner Ditmar Awards Best Fan Production in Any Medium for 'The Writer and the Critic'.

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Winterbloom Upper Mount Gravatt : Brain Jar Press , 2022 25323055 2022 single work novella fantasy

'Several years into their marriage, Beauty and her once beastly husband are at a crossroads. Though they still love each other, they have not been able to have children nor talk about the problems that have beset them since the fairy curse was lifted. Instead, she devotes herself to the roses in their garden while he composes music to charm the most discerning Parisian audiences.

'But Beauty secretly longs for the Beast with whom she fell in love, and her husband fears he’s no longer the creature she most desires. When Peregrine, Beauty’s enigmatic fey sister-in-law, comes to visit, she sparks off a chain of events that will either heal the marriage or leave it in irretrievable tatters.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2022 winner Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction Fantasy Division Novella
y separately published work icon Hard Places San Francisco : Trepidatio Publishing , 2022 24893727 2022 selected work short story

'Hard Places collects the very best of Kirstyn McDermott's short fiction written over the past twenty years along with a previously unpublished novella. From unsettling obsessions and brutal body horror to unexpected monsters and ghosts drifting through suburbia, these stories run the gamut of horror and the contemporary gothic. By turns harrowing, provocative and poignant, this collection will haunt you long after the last page is turned.'  (Publication summary)

2022 winner Australian Shadows Award Collection
2022 shortlisted Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction Best Collection
y separately published work icon The New Wife Brisbane : Brain Jar Press , 2022 23793732 2022 single work novella fantasy

'Bluebeard’s seventh wife is the first to survive his wrath, courtesy of ghostly warnings and the timely intervention of her brothers. The village burns her murderous husband, his crimes laid bare and his wealth passed on to her… but even after his death, Bluebeard’s house won’t allow anyone to leave. All wives—living and dead—remain trapped in their husband’s manor, even as the man who terrorised them proves to be less dead than they had hoped.

'Haunted by his vengeful ghost, can the wives find a way to break the curse that would bind them in darkness and torment forever?'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2022 shortlisted Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction Horror Division Novella
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