KRIS ASHTON

Several years ago I went on a road trip and began to reflect on the crosses that dotted the highway, marking the precise spot where...

This morning I woke to the news my short story ‘Highway Memorials’ had taken out third place in The Fiction Desk’s annual Ghost Story...

In October 2017, I had a story published in Tripping the Tale Fantastic: Weird Fiction by Deaf and Hard of Hearing Writers. As the title...

Floating around in cyberspace is a 2006 blog post that refers to Aurealis as ‘The Grand Old Harlot’ and ‘The Lumbering Old Dinosaur’, two...

The anthology Tripping the Tale Fantastic: Weird Fiction by Deaf and Hard of Hearing Writers is now available to pre-order. From the...

It’s been very much a case of ‘life, interrupted’ these past few months. Day job turmoil and the arrival of my second child (among other...

Right now I’m working on a story about a teacher whose life is upended by World War Two. It was going well until I came to the part where...

Trawl through my blog posts and you’ll see I’m very much in favour of editors and the criticism they offer. Because my life is almost...

It is rare indeed that a novel, particularly one of dystopian fiction, becomes more relevant with time. But I would argue that with This...

Although a change in publisher led to a painful and delayed birth, Dark Moon Digest #20, containing my story 'Unreal Estate', is now...

Yesterday I finished rewriting a short story I first ‘completed’ more than seven years ago. The initial idea, which I won’t relate here,...

How conscious are you of a novel’s setting? Have you ever thought about what goes into creating it and how it is used? Good use of...

An interesting link popped up on my Facebook feed the other day. It was titled ‘10 Things to Keep In Mind When Loving a Highly Creative...

This morning I received confirmation that my horror story 'Unreal Estate' will appear in Dark Moon Digest #20, scheduled for July 1,...

You know that saying, “There’s nothing new under the sun”? It’s true. Painfully, heartbreakingly true. I completed my first full-length...

Getting fiction published is hard enough. Don’t disqualify yourself before the editor even starts reading your story. Novice authors...

The most painful rejection found on the rejection spectrum is the shortlist rejection. This is where a story is ‘recommended for a second...

While nosing around for short fiction markets recently, I came across an Australian literary journal called The Canary Press. I liked the...

As of January 10, it had been nearly two months since I wrote any fiction. Part of the problem was that a change in my job and my new...

As more than one writer of horror fiction has noted, there are a finite number of tropes in the genre which authors have been milling...