''Shadowed Realms'' was a dark flash fiction online magazine produced by Australian

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Brimstone Press Brimstone Press was an Australian independent publisher of dark fiction ( horror and dark fantasy). Brimstone Press was established in 2004 by Angela Challis and Shane Jiraiya Cummings and was based in Western Australia. The first publication from ...

and edited by Angela Challis. A number of stories published in ''Shadowed Realms'' won, or were nominated for, several

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.Inkspillers Ditmar Awards archive
Retrieved 9 September 2007.

Publication history

The first issue was published in September 2004. Issue #11 was published in October 2006 and was the last issue released prior to editor Angela Challis' announcement that the webzine was to close. ''Shadowed Realms'' is currently on hiatus until the final two issues are published. The online magazine released two special issues during its run: Issue #6 - the Continuum 3 convention/ Australian Horror Writers Association launch issue (featuring Continuum 3 guests Poppy Z Brite and Richard Harland, plus Robert Hood, Terry Dowling, and the winners of the inaugural AHWA flash fiction competition); and Issue #9 - the "Redback" themed issue (featuring nine prominent female horror/speculative fiction writers, including K J Bishop, Kaaron Warren, Deborah Biancotti, and Kirstyn McDermott.) All ''Shadowed Realms'' issues have been electronically archived as part of the

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's Pandora project. The magazine ceased publication some time in 2007.

Published authors

''Shadowed Realms'' published many prominent Australian

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such as Stephen Dedman,

Lee Battersby Lee Battersby is an Australian author of science fiction, fantasy, and horror fiction. His story "Carrying The God" made him the first Western Australian winner in the Writers of the Future Competition in 2002, and was awarded the 2003 Ditmar Aw ...

, Martin Livings, and Paul Haines, and a number of US and UK horror authors including Kurt Newton, Greg Beatty, Alistair Rennie and Eric Marin.

Milestones

''Shadowed Realms'' was the first Australian

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webzine to be recognised by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) as a professional short fiction publication.SFWA qualifying professional short fiction markets
Retrieved 9 September 2007. ''Shadowed Realms'' was also the first electronic magazine to be nominated for the Best Collected Work. Ditmar Award

Awards

Wins

*2006 Aurealis Award, Horror short story:
Pater Familias
by

(Shadowed Realms #3)

Nominations

*2007 Ditmar Award, Short Story:
Surrender 1: Rope Artist
by Deborah Biancotti (Shadowed Realms #9) *2007 Ditmar Award, Short Story:
Cold
by Kirstyn McDermott (Shadowed Realms #9) *2007 Ditmar Award, Short Story:
The Bat's Boudoir
by Kyla Ward (Shadowed Realms #9) *2006 Ditmar Award, Collected work: Shadowed Realms (ed. Angela Challis) *2006 Australian Shadows Award: "Pater Familias" by Lee Battersby (Shadowed Realms #3) *2005 Tin Duck Award, Professional fiction:
A Life in Art
by Adam Wieland (Shadowed Realms #1)

''Honourable Mentions''

*2007 Australian Shadows Award:

by K J Bishop (Shadowed Realms #9) *2006 Aurealis Award, Horror short story:
In Nomine Patris
by Martin Livings (Shadowed Realms #5)

Notes

References

Aurealis Awards winners archive
Retrieved 11 September 2007.

Retrieved 11 September 2007.

Retrieved 11 September 2007.

Retrieved 11 September 2007.
National Archives of Australia Pandora project
Retrieved 11 September 2007.

External links

National Archives of Australia Pandora project: ''Shadowed Realms'' page
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