Shane Jiraiya Cummings Explained

Shane Jiraiya Cummings
Birth Date:1974 4, df=yes
Birth Place:Sydney, Australia
Period:2003 to present
Movement:Dark fiction[1] [2]

Shane Jiraiya Cummings (born 24 April 1974) is an Australian horror and fantasy author and editor. He lives in Sydney. Cummings is best known as a short story writer. He has had more than 100 short stories published in Australia, New Zealand, North America, Europe, and Asia.[3] As of 2015, he has written 12 books and edited 10 genre fiction magazines and anthologies, including the bestselling Rage Against the Night.[4] [5]

Early life

Born in Sydney, Australia as Shane Cummings, he has used "Jiraiya" as his part of his legal name since his Iga-ryu Ninjutsu and Sports Chanbara sensei Kazuo "Crando" Saito bestowed the name to him in the early 1990s when he attained his black belt in Ninjutsu.[6] [7]

He lived for many years in Perth, Western Australia and Wellington, New Zealand, before returning to Sydney in 2015.[8]

Education

Cummings graduated from Whitireia New Zealand's Creative Writing programme with a Bachelor of Applied Arts (Creative Writing) in 2014.[8]

Writing and publishing

In 2004, Cummings co-founded Australian independent publisher Brimstone Press and Shadowed Realms online magazine.[9] In 2005, Cummings founded HorrorScope: The Australian Dark Fiction Blog, a news and review blog. He has edited the fiction anthologies Rage Against the Night, Shadow Box, Black Box, Robots and Time, and Australian Dark Fantasy & Horror 2006 edition,[9] [10] and the co-edited the magazines Shadowed Realms, Midnight Echo (issue 2) and Black: Australian Dark Culture.[11]

Cummings is a member of the Australian Horror Writers Association, the Horror Writers Association (US), and a graduate of the Clarion South writers workshop (2005).[12] [13] [14]

Cummings has won two Ditmar Awards (for HorrorScope in 2005 and 2006),[15] and in 2015, he won the Australian Shadows Award - Paul Haines Award for Long Fiction - for his novella Dreams of Destruction.[16] [17] He has been nominated for more than twenty other genre awards for his writing and editing, including Spain's Premio Ignotus.[18] [19] [20] [21] [22]

In 2007, Cummings was the Convenor of the Horror judging panel in the Aurealis Awards.[23] He was a judge for the Australian Shadows Awards in 2007 and 2008. Cummings continued on with the Australian Shadows Award as Director in 2009 and 2010.[24]

Shane Jiraiya Cummings served as Vice President of the Australian Horror Writers Association from 2008 to 2010 .[25]

Cummings self-published seven e-books simultaneously in January 2011.[26]

Bibliography

Books[4]

Publications Edited[11]

Awards

Wins[22]

Nominations[22]

Honourable mentions

Reviews

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://www.abc.net.au/news/arts/articulate/200604/s1617026.htm Kemble, Gary (April 2006). "Horror: give it a name". ABC online news (Articulate).
  2. http://www.asif.dreamhosters.com/doku.php?id=shane_jiraiya_cummings_snapshot_2007 Clarke, Rosie (August 2007). "2007 Snapshot interview". Australian SpecFic In Focus.
  3. http://jiraiya.com.au/?page_id=681 Shane Jiraiya Cummings Short Stories.
  4. http://jiraiya.com.au/?page_id=674 Shane Jiraiya Cummings Books.
  5. http://jiraiya.com.au/?page_id=676 Shane Jiraiya Cummings Edited Publications>
  6. http://jiraiyanews.blogspot.com/2007/06/last-of-my-kind.html Cummings, Shane Jiraiya (June 2007). "The Last of My Kind", Smoke and Mirrors blog.
  7. http://jiraiya.com.au/?page_id=2 Cummings, Shane Jiraiya. "Biography"
  8. http://jiraiya.com.au/?page_id=2 Shane Jiraiya Cummings biography
  9. http://www.abc.net.au/news/arts/articulate/200612/s1804935.htm Kemble, Gary (December 2006). "A new age for Australian horror". ABC Online news (Articulate).
  10. Murphy, John (16 January 2007). "Brimstone fires taste for horror". Wanneroo Times newspaper.
  11. http://jiraiya.com.au/?page_id=676 Shane Jiraiya Cummings Edited Publications.
  12. http://www.australianhorror.com/member_pages.php?page=6 Australian Horror Writers Association member page: Shane Jiraiya Cummings
  13. Web site: Graduates 2005 . Clarion South . 2 December 2012.
  14. Hanson, Donna Maree (2005: 198). Australian Speculative Fiction: A Genre Overview. Murrumbateman: Australian Speculative Fiction.
  15. http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Ditmar.html Locus magazine index to Ditmar Awards.
  16. http://australianhorror.com/index.php?view=39 Australian Horror Writers Association "Australian Shadows Awards"
  17. https://www.facebook.com/AustHorror/posts/10153289918766388 Australian Horror Writers Association Facebook page
  18. http://www.aurealisawards.com/Winners.htm Aurealis Awards winners archive
  19. http://www.natcon.org.au/2007/Noimination_shortlist_2007.html Convergence 2 official 2007 Ditmar winners announcement (June 2007).
  20. http://splints.customer.netspace.net.au/ditmar1024res/calldit1024.html Inkspillers Ditmar Awards archive.
  21. http://conjecture2009.org/ditmar-awards/ 2009 Ditmar Awards, Conjecture
  22. http://jiraiya.com.au/?page_id=694 Shane Jiraiya Cummings Awards.
  23. http://www.aurealisawards.com/Judges.htm#HSJC Aurealis Award 2007 Judges
  24. http://www.australianhorror.com/index.php?view=44 Australian Shadows Award Judges. AHWA website.
  25. http://australianhorror.com/member_home.php?view=138 Australian Horror Writers Association AGM minutes. Retrieved 21-03-2009
  26. http://jiraiya.com.au/?p=1219 Shane Jiraiya Cummings: "Let the Grand Experiment begin!"
  27. http://www.mforum.com.au/ Medical Hub

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