Jason Nahrung Explained

Jason Nahrung (born 1968) is an Australian horror author and journalist who lives in Melbourne with his partner Kirstyn McDermott. Nahrung has previously written for The Courier-Mail in Queensland, with a special interest in speculative fiction and horror-related topics.^[1] He was co-winner the 2005 William Atheling Jr. Award for Criticism or Review.^[2] His first novel, The Darkness Within (based on an unpublished novella co-written with Mil Clayton), was published in June 2007 by Hachette Livre in Australia.^[3] Nahrung has also published some horror and speculative fiction short stories.

Awards

Wins

• 2012 Chronos Award: Best Novel for Salvage (Twelfth Planet Press).
• 2012 Chronos Award: Best Short Story for "The Mornington Ride", Epilogue (FableCroft Publishing).
• 2005 William Atheling Jr. Award: "Why are publishers afraid of horror?" (The Courier-Mail)

Nominations

• 2012 WSFA Small Press Award: "The Mornington Ride", Epilogue (FableCroft Publishing).
• 2012 Aurealis Award for Best Horror Novel: Blood and Dust (Xoum Publishing).
• 2012 Aurealis Award for Best Horror Novel: Salvage (Twelfth Planet Press).
• 2012 Australian Shadows Award: Blood and Dust (Xoum Publishing).
• 2012 Ditmar Award, Novel: Salvage (Twelfth Planet Press).
• 2008 Ditmar Award, Novel: The Darkness Within
• 2008 Ditmar Award, New Talent
• 2004 William Atheling Jr. Award

Honourable mentions

• 2008 Aurealis Award, Horror novel: The Darkness Within

Bibliography

Novels

• The Darkness Within – with Mil Clayton, (Hachette Livre)
• Salvage, 2012, (Twelfth Planet Press)
• Blood and Dust, 2012, (Xoum Publishing)

Short stories

• "Watermarks", (2014), Cosmos magazine.
• "The Preservation Society", (2014), Dimension6, Coeur de Lion.
• "The Mornington Ride", (2012), Epilogue, Tehani Wessely (FableCroft Publishing).
  • reprinted in Focus 2012: highlights of Australian short fiction, (2013), FableCroft Publishing.
• "Hello Kitty", (2012), Midnight Echo No. 8.
• "The Last Boat to Eden", (2012), Surviving the End, Dark Prints Press.
  • reprinted in Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2012, (2013), Ticonderoga Publications.
• "The Kiss", (2012), Tales from the Bell Club.
• "Breaking the Wire", (2012), Aurealis No. 47.
• "An Incident at Portsea, 1967", (2011), After the World: Corpus Christi, Issue 4.
• "Messiah on the Rock", (2011), Anywhere but Earth, Coeur de Lion.
• "Children of the Cane", (2011), Dead Red Heart, Ticonderoga Publications.
• "Wraiths", (2011), Winds of Change, CSFG.
  • reprinted in Year’s Best Australian Dark Fantasy and Horror 2011, (2012), Ticonderoga Publications.
• "Resurrection in Red", (2011), More Scary Kisses, Ticonderoga Publications.
• "Wet Work", (2011), After the Rain, ed. Tehani Wessely (FableCroft Publishing).
• "Smoking, Waiting for the Dawn", (2008), Dreaming Again, HarperVoyager.
• "The Refugee", (2007), Fantastical Journeys to Brisbane.
• "Kadimakara and Curlew", (2007), Daikaiju 2, Agog! Press.
  • reprinted in Australian Dark Fantasy and Horror Vol.3.
• "Pain Threshold", (2006), Agog! Ripping Reads, Agog! Press.
  • reprinted in Australian Dark Fantasy & Horror 2007 (Brimstone Press)
• "Time to Write", (2005) The Devil in Brisbane.
• "Triage", (2005), Sf-envision.
• "Night Watch", (2005), Elsewhere, CSFG Publishing.
• "Spare Parts", (2003), Glimpses.
  • reprinted in Devil Dolls and Duplicates in Australian Horror (2011).
• "Prime Cuts", (2002), Antipodean SF.
• "Summer Haze", (2001), Visions.

Reviews

• Review of The Darkness Within in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine by Tehani Wessley (August 2007)
• Review of The Darkness Within in HorrorScope by Mark Smith-Briggs (23 Aug 2007).
• Reviews of Nahrung's work on ASif!

References

• Aurealis Awards winners archive Retrieved 17 February 2008.
• The Courier-Mail newspaper list of articles by Jason Nahrung.
• Helene, Talie (June 2007). "Interview: The New Romantics". HorrorScope.
• Inkspillers Ditmar Awards archive. Retrieved 17 February 2008.
• Kemble, Gary (16 April 2006). "Jason Nahrung: the ups and downs of horror". ABC online news (Articulate).
• Kemble, Gary (9 June 2007). "Jason Nahrung and Mil Clayton: Looking on the dark side". ABC online news (Articulate).
• Locus magazine index to Ditmar Awards. Retrieved 17 February 2008.

External links

• Jason Nahrung website
• Jason Nahrung MySpace page
• Hachette Livre author page: Jason Nahrung
  • Twelfth Planet Press, Salvage
• Goodreads, Blood and Dust

Notes and References

1. • The Courier-Mail newspaper list of articles by Jason Nahrung.
2. • Inkspillers Ditmar Awards archive. Retrieved 13 September 2007.
3. • Kemble, Gary (9 June 2007). "Jason Nahrung and Mil Clayton: Looking on the dark side". ABC online news (Articulate).