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Deadset Press
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Indie publisher of eclectic Australian speculative fiction.
Today is launch day for A NIGHT SO DARK AND FULL OF STARS by @nikkylee.bsky.social
This spellbinding short story collection celebrates and explores the mythology and imagery of the zodiac signs through different speculation fiction genres, and is a wonderful read!
September 28, 2024 at 5:05 AM
A NIGHT SO DARK AND FULL OF STARS launches this month!
Read this interview with the wonderful
@NikkyMLee
about this rather special short story collection, and find out more about one of Australia's most exciting speculative fiction authors!
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NIKKY LEE – Author Interview
We are a couple of weeks away from publishing ‘A NIGHT SO DARK AND FULL OF STARS’ – A short story collection by the one and only Nikky Lee, so it is a good time to have a chat abo…
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September 13, 2024 at 1:08 AM
Just a reminder we are open for short story submissions for two exciting anthologies
EMBRACE THE SILENCE - a sci-fi anthology celebrating Neurodiversity.
REBELS & RAINBOWS - a spec fic anthology celebrating the LGBTIQ+ community in Australia and NZ

deadsetpress.com/submissions/
SHORT STORY ANTHOLOGIES
REBELS & rAINBOWS We are excited to announce a new anthology, REBELS & RAINBOWS: An Australasian Queer Speculative Anthology. The anthology is to celebrate Pride and will be open to all Aus…
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September 4, 2024 at 4:01 AM
Super thrilled to share the cover of A NIGHT SO DARK AND FULL OF STARS by the extraordinary @nikkylee.bsky.social, which we will be publishing soon!
August 17, 2024 at 1:59 AM
Just a reminder that we're accepting stories for two anthologies!
- EMBRACE THE SILENCE - an anthology celebrating ND characters in speculative spaces!
- REBELS AND RAINBOWS - a spec fic anthology focusing on LGBTIQA+ characters and their struggles and triumphs.
deadsetpress.com/submissions/
SHORT STORY ANTHOLOGIES
REVOLUTIONS & rAINBOWS We are excited to announce a new anthology, REVOLUTIONS & RAINBOWS: An Australasian Queer Speculative Anthology. The anthology is to celebrate Pride and will be open …
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July 13, 2024 at 4:35 AM
If you want to be a Deadset Press ARC reader and be the first to get your hands on some exciting aussie & kiwi speculative fiction, we have spots available on our ARC team right now!
deadsetpress.com/arc-program/
ARC PROGRAM
Deadset Press is always looking out for readers and book reviewers who would like to read and review advance copies of our anthologies and novellas. We are seeking readers of speculative fiction wh…
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July 1, 2024 at 4:14 AM
Super excited by this review of RADCLIFFE by @madeleinedeste.bsky.social!
Reviews mean so much for both indie authors and indie publishers, so this has made our day!
June 27, 2024 at 1:38 AM
Here's the cover for TALON MARKED, an upcoming fantasy novella from Sue-Ellen Pashley! deadsetpress.com/2024/06/22/t...
June 22, 2024 at 2:35 AM
A reminder of our open submission calls:
REBELS & RAINBOWS - An Australasian Queer Speculative Anthology
EMBRACE THE SIILENCE - A Neurodivergent Scifi Anthology
We would love to read your stories, so get writing!
www.deadsetpress.com/submissions
SHORT STORY ANTHOLOGIES
REVOLUTIONS & rAINBOWS We are excited to announce a new anthology, REVOLUTIONS & RAINBOWS: An Australasian Queer Speculative Anthology. The anthology is to celebrate Pride and will be open …
www.deadsetpress.com
June 21, 2024 at 5:01 AM
Still over the moon that J. Palmer's Follow the Water won the 'Best Young Adult Short Story' Aurealis award!
Such a wonderful achievement for this new Aussie writer!
May 24, 2024 at 2:20 AM
The #AurealisAwards are this weekend, and we are super excited to have three excellent stories shortlisted!
Congratulations to @madeleinedeste.bsky.social, Mikhaeyla Kopievsky, and J. Palmer!
deadsetpress.com/2024/05/16/a...
AUREALIS AWARDS EXCITEMENT
It’s award season, and we are thrilled to share that three pieces that Deadset Press published in 2023 are finalists in the Aurealis Awards!
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May 16, 2024 at 12:39 AM
Celebrating the nomination of FOLLOW THE WATER by J. Palmer as a finalist for the 'Best YA Short Story' in this year's Aurealis awards.
Follow the Water is an engrossing tale of two teens risking their lives in search for safety in a post-apocalyptic Western Australia.
May 13, 2024 at 1:45 AM
Celebrating Mikhaeyla Kopievsky's SEA MIST SHORE WITCH on its nomination as a finalist for the 'Best Fantasy Short Story' in this year's Aurealis awards.
Sea Mist Shore Witch is a delicate, poignant and thunderous story of a girl who petitions the Shore Witch for the return of her sister.
May 12, 2024 at 4:26 AM
Celebrating the Aurealis nomination of RADCLIFFE by @madeleinedeste.bsky.social - a gothic tale set in an urban Melbourne heatwave - and a beautifully woven story that really gets under your skin!
May 11, 2024 at 3:57 AM