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Craig Cormick Craig Cormick i(A19294 works by)
Born: Established: 1961 Wollongong, Wollongong area, Illawarra, South Coast, New South Wales, ;
Gender: Male
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BiographyHistory

Craig Cormick spent his early years in Wollongong before moving with his family to Queensland, the Blue Mountains in New South Wales and Canberra in the Australian Capital Territory.

Cormick has been Chair of the ACT Writers Centre (2003-2008), editor of Blast magazine and Series Editor for Ginninderra Press' short fiction imprint Mockingbird Press. In addition to hundreds of short stories, he has written on Finnish folklore and edited a book on Grace Melbourne Baragwanath (1991). In 2007 he was awarded his PhD from Deakin University.

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2022 shortlisted Alan Marshall Short Story Award Open Section for 'Legend of Billy the Kid'.
2021 recipient Order of Australia Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) For service to science, and to the community.
2020 winner ESU Roly Sussex Short Story Prize for 'The Lost Journal of Edmund Kennedy'.

Awards for Works

Like Soft Dark Wings single work short story
2020 highly commended The Stringybark Short Story Award Times Past Award
y separately published work icon A Darker Shade of Moonlite Melbourne : Interventions Incorporated , 2023 27630039 2023 single work biography

'How do you best tell the story of Australia's most enigmatic bushranger - Captain Moonlite? The stories he told of his life conflict with the stories told by others, which conflict with the records. A well-educated man, in and out of asylums and prison, who finally found his purpose and his love leading a small gang of young men. Until they followed him into violent chaos.

'This book is a creative retelling of history, using many perspectives of fact and time - both yesteryear and today - to try and capture something of Moonlite the man, and the society that made him.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2023 commended Victorian Community History Award History: Small Publication
y separately published work icon The Cruise to the End of the World Holt : Merino Press , 2021 24314537 2021 single work novella science fiction

'Antarctica is promoted as the last unspoiled continent on earth – attracting thousands of tourists on cruise ships each you. But at what point is it apparent that the continent is no longer unspoiled? And what happens on such a cruise ship when the outside world drops out of contact, after news of a devastating virus rampaging around the globe was received? And when you discover many of the passengers are determined not to ever go back home? A story of strange world of cruise ships and the stranger world of the near future.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2021 finalist Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction Science Fiction Division Novella
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