Jason Nahrung

{{Short description|Australian writer}}

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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.*[http://searchresults.news.com.au/Search.action?site=ninews&masthead=couriermail&queryterm=%22Jason+Nahrung%22&searchoption=yes The Courier-Mail newspaper list of articles by Jason Nahrung.]{{Dead link|date=February 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} He was co-winner the 2005 William Atheling Jr. Award for Criticism or Review.*[http://splints.customer.netspace.net.au/ditmar1024res/calldit1024.html Inkspillers Ditmar Awards archive.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070829110705/http://splints.customer.netspace.net.au/ditmar1024res/calldit1024.html |date=29 August 2007 }} Retrieved 13 September 2007. His first novel, The Darkness Within (based on an unpublished novella co-written with Mil Clayton), was published in June 2007 by Hachette Livre in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.*[http://www.abc.net.au/news/arts/articulate/200706/s1945042.htm Kemble, Gary (9 June 2007). "Jason Nahrung and Mil Clayton: Looking on the dark side". ABC online news (Articulate).] Nahrung has also published some horror and speculative fiction short stories.

Awards

=Wins=

=Nominations=

=Honourable mentions=

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

  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20070821123401/http://www.andromedaspaceways.com/book_0003.htm Review of The Darkness Within in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine by Tehani Wessley (August 2007)]
  • [http://ozhorrorscope.blogspot.com/2007/08/review-darkness-within.html Review of The Darkness Within in HorrorScope by Mark Smith-Briggs (23 Aug 2007).]
  • [http://www.asif.dreamhosters.com/doku.php?id=author:nahrung_jason Reviews of Nahrung's work on ASif!]

Notes

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References

  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20090131011141/http://www.aurealisawards.com/Winners.htm Aurealis Awards winners archive] Retrieved 17 February 2008.
  • [http://searchresults.news.com.au/Search.action?site=ninews&masthead=couriermail&queryterm=%22Jason+Nahrung%22&searchoption=yes The Courier-Mail newspaper list of articles by Jason Nahrung.]{{Dead link|date=February 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
  • [http://ozhorrorscope.blogspot.com/2007/06/interview-new-romantics.html Helene, Talie (June 2007). "Interview: The New Romantics". HorrorScope.]
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20070829110705/http://splints.customer.netspace.net.au/ditmar1024res/calldit1024.html Inkspillers Ditmar Awards archive.] Retrieved 17 February 2008.
  • [http://www.abc.net.au/news/arts/articulate/200604/s1616997.htm Kemble, Gary (16 April 2006). "Jason Nahrung: the ups and downs of horror". ABC online news (Articulate).]
  • [http://www.abc.net.au/news/arts/articulate/200706/s1945042.htm Kemble, Gary (9 June 2007). "Jason Nahrung and Mil Clayton: Looking on the dark side". ABC online news (Articulate).]
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20100809025345/http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Ditmar.html Locus magazine index to Ditmar Awards.] Retrieved 17 February 2008.