Contributors

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Team Zombie
Libba Bray has dated only zombies since high school.
Cassandra Clare was a non-practising zombie until anthology stress made her fall off the brains wagon.
Alaya Johnson has been a zombie lover ever since a pack of them took out all her high school enemies.
Maureen Johnson (also known as Subject M) can be subdued by being given her computer, whereupon she will spend hours typing out “brains brains brains brains” on twitter.
Carrie Ryan is the founder of the Southern Zombie Refuge and is still in possession of almost all her limbs.
Scott Westerfeld holds numerous patents in flamethrower technology and is the inventor of the zombie-proof cravat.
Team Unicorn
Meg Cabot has ridden in the unicorn rodeo since she was knee high to a grasshopper.
Kathleen Duey was brought up on a unicorn farm, but her lease currently allows her only one small housetrained unicorn.
Margo Lanagan likes unicorns even more than she likes bears, elephants, langur monkeys and naked mole rats.
Garth Nix distils frightful eau-de-vie from the tears of scorned unicorns.
Naomi Novik’s unprecendented career as a land pirate could not have been achieved without her unicorn-drawn pirate ship.
Diana Peterfreund has a doctorate in Unicorn Studies from Yale.
- Team Human
- Zombies vs. Unicorns
- Liar
- How to Ditch Your Fairy
- Magic or Madness Trilogy
- Daughters of Earth
- The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction
- Cassandra Clare on the Myth that Authors Automatically Condone What We Depict
Cassandra Clare has written an important piece called Rape Myths, Rape Culture and the Damage Done. If you haven’t read it already you really should. Be warned: she discusses much which is deeply upsetting.
What I want to briefly comment on here is the notion that to write about rape or war or any other …
- You don’t have to read my books
- Team Human Fanart
- A Story What I Wrote in My Late Teens! Avert Thine Eyes! Run for the Hills!
- I’ll Know I’ve Made it as a Writer When . . .
Blog
Appearances
Sunday, 20 May 2012, 11:30AM – 12:30PM
A Neverending Story: Fantasy Worlds
Isobelle Carmody, Justine Larbalestier, Scott Westerfeld, Joy Lawn (moderator)
Sydney Writers Festival
Sydney Dance 4, Pier 4/5, Hickson Road, Walsh Bay
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Bio
I writes novels, am obsessed with cricket, and travel way too much.
For more info about me there’s a whole bunch of interviews here plus my FAQ.
