DJ Daniels

Tag: AWW Challenge

  • Black Juice

    This is my second review for the Australian Women Writers Challenge: Margo Lanagan’s short story collection, Black Juice. Lanagan’s worlds are not necessarily places you would want to visit. They are strange and often monstrous. Horrifying angels – noisy, smelly, unknowable – inhabit once place. Terrifying creatures erupt from the ground in another. Alien creatures…

  • Women’s Work

    This is the first of my reviews for the Australian Women Writer’s Challenge: Overland’s ebook Women’s Work. I will confess to a Thurber moment when first looking at this publication – the small cover graphic seemed to be a robot. Immersed as I usually am in the world of speculative fiction, I did not wonder…

  • Australian Women Writers

    I decided many a long month ago to take up the Australian Women Writers 2012 Reading and Review challenge. I’ve been truly ashamed to learn how many AWWs there are, thriving and prospering, all without my knowledge and even just within the narrow confines of my first love, spec fiction. My reading list is growing but, right now…