Congreve, Bill
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author, Editor.
(1959- ) Australian writer, editor, critic, bookseller and publisher, married to Michelle Marquardt, who founded the Small Press MirrorDanse Books in 1994. Before this he had had several stories published, starting with "Collector" in Aphelion for Summer 1986/1987, and had edited various Anthologies, the first being Intimate Armageddons (anth 1992). Of particular note is the Year's Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy series which ran for four years between 2005 and 2008, with a fifth volume appearing in 2010. It won a Ditmar Award for the 2006 edition. Michelle Marquardt co-edited the first four volumes of the series, with Congreve alone credited as editor of the fifth. As a critic and reviewer Congreve shared the William Atheling Jr Award for the 1995 essay "The Hunt for Australian Horror Fiction" (The Scream Factory #16) with co-authors Sean McMullen and Steve Paulsen; as a reviewer, publisher and bookseller he won an Aurealis award in 2006, and as a publisher won a further Ditmar Award in 2007 for his efforts to highlight Australian writers through MirrorDanse. [RR]
William David Congreve
born Nairobi, Kenya: 30 April 1959
works
collections and stories
- The Mullet that Screwed John West (Paramatta, New South Wales: Neanderthal Man Publishing, 1997) [novella: chap: pb/Bill Congreve and Robert Hood]
- Until Sunrise (Paramatta, New South Wales: Neanderthal Man Publishing, 1997) [story: chap: pb/photograph by Bill Congreve]
- Epiphanies of Blood: Tales of Desperation and Thirst (Paramatta, New South Wales: MirrorDanse Editions, 1998) [coll: pb/Kyla Ward]
- Souls Along the Meridian (Jamberoo, New South Wales: Blade Red Press, 2010) [coll: pb/Halinka Orszulok]
works as editor
series
Year's Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy
- The Year's Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy (Volume 1) (Paramatta, New South Wales: MirrorDanse Books, 2005) with Michelle Marquardt [anth: Year's Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy: pb/Ian Field-Richards]
- The Year's Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy: 2005 Edition (Germantown, Maryland: Prime Books, 2005) with Michelle Marquardt [anth: vt with one story cut of the above: Year's Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy: hb/Ian Field-Richards]
- The Year's Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy (Volume Two) (Paramatta, New South Wales: MirrorDanse Books, 2006) with Michelle Marquardt [anth: Year's Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy: pb/Shaun Tan]
- The Year's Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy (Third Annual Volume) (Paramatta, New South Wales: MirrorDanse Books, 2007) with Michelle Marquardt [anth: Year's Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy: pb/Tomislav Tikulin]
- The Year's Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy (Fourth Annual Volume) (Paramatta, New South Wales: MirrorDanse Books, 2008) with Michelle Marquardt [anth: Year's Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy: pb/Trudi Canavan]
- The Year's Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy (Fifth Annual Volume) (Paramatta, New South Wales: MirrorDanse Books, 2010) [anth: Year's Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy: pb/Tomislav Tikulin]
individual titles as editor
- Intimate Armageddons (Woollongong, New South Wales: Five Islands Press, 2005) [anth: pb/Robert Hood]
- Bonescribes: Year's Best Australian Horror: 1995 (Paramatta, New South Wales: MirrorDanse Books, 1996) with Robert Hood [anth: pb/Shaun Tan]
- Passing Strange: A New Anthology of Australian Speculative Fiction (Paramatta, New South Wales: Sandglass Press, 1996) [anth: pb/Cat Sparks]
- Southern Blood: New Australian Tales of the Supernatural (Sydney, New South Wales: Sandglass Enterprises, 2003) [anth: pb/Nick Stathopoulos]
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