Shane Jiraiya Cummings
Australian author and editor
Shane Jiraiya Cummings (born 24 April 1974) is an Australian horror and fantasy author and editor . He lives in Sydney . Cummings is best known as a short story writer. He has had more than 100 short stories published in Australia, New Zealand, North America, Europe, and Asia .[3] As of 2015, he has written 12 books and edited 10 genre fiction magazines and anthologies, including the bestselling Rage Against the Night .[4] [5]
Early life
Born in Sydney , Australia as Shane Cummings, he has used "Jiraiya " as his part of his legal name since his Iga-ryu Ninjutsu and Sports Chanbara sensei Kazuo "Crando" Saito bestowed the name to him in the early 1990s when he attained his black belt in Ninjutsu.[6] [7]
He lived for many years in Perth, Western Australia and Wellington, New Zealand , before returning to Sydney in 2015.[8]
Education
Cummings graduated from Whitireia New Zealand 's Creative Writing programme with a Bachelor of Applied Arts (Creative Writing) in 2014.[8]
Writing and publishing
In 2004, Cummings co-founded Australian independent publisher Brimstone Press and Shadowed Realms online magazine.[9] In 2005, Cummings founded HorrorScope: The Australian Dark Fiction Blog , a news and review blog. He has edited the fiction anthologies Rage Against the Night , Shadow Box , Black Box , Robots and Time , and Australian Dark Fantasy & Horror 2006 edition ,[9] [10] and the co-edited the magazines Shadowed Realms , Midnight Echo (issue 2) and Black: Australian Dark Culture .[11]
Cummings is a member of the Australian Horror Writers Association , the Horror Writers Association (US), and a graduate of the Clarion South writers workshop (2005).[12] [13] [14]
Cummings has won two Ditmar Awards (for HorrorScope in 2005 and 2006),[15] and in 2015, he won the Australian Shadows Award - Paul Haines Award for Long Fiction - for his novella Dreams of Destruction .[16] [17] He has been nominated for more than twenty other genre awards for his writing and editing, including Spain's Premio Ignotus .[18] [19] [20] [21] [22]
In 2007, Cummings was the Convenor of the Horror judging panel in the Aurealis Awards .[23] He was a judge for the Australian Shadows Awards in 2007 and 2008. Cummings continued on with the Australian Shadows Award as Director in 2009 and 2010.[24]
Shane Jiraiya Cummings served as Vice President of the Australian Horror Writers Association from 2008 to 2010 .[25]
Cummings self-published seven e-books simultaneously in January 2011.[26]
Bibliography
Dreams of Destruction , 2014.
The Mist Ninja , 2011.
Requiem for the Burning God , 2011.
The Smoke Dragon , 2011.
Apocrypha Sequence: Deviance , 2011.
Apocrypha Sequence: Divinity , 2011.
Apocrypha Sequence: Inferno , 2011.
Apocrypha Sequence: Insanity , 2011.
Shards (e-book edition) , 2011.
Phoenix and the Darkness of Wolves , Damnation Books , 2009. ISBN 978-1-61572-055-2
Shards: Damned and Burning (illustrated by Andrew J McKiernan ), Brimstone Press , 2009
Shards (illustrated by Andrew J McKiernan), Brimstone Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-9805677-2-4
Publications Edited[11]
Rage Against the Night , Brimstone Press 2012
HorrorScope , Brimstone Press, 2005 to 2011
Medical Forum (Managing Editor), Health Publications, 2006 to 2009[27]
Midnight Echo Issue #2 (with Angela Challis), Australian Horror Writers Association , 2009
Black: Australian Dark Culture Magazine (Managing Editor), Brimstone Press, 2008
Black Box , Brimstone Press, 2008
Australian Dark Fantasy & Horror 2006 edition (with Angela Challis), Brimstone Press 2006. ISBN 978-0-9802817-0-5
Shadow Box , (with Angela Challis), Brimstone Press, Nov 2005.
Robots & Time (with Robert N. Stephenson), Altair Australia Books, 2004. ISBN 0-9577238-4-9
Awards
Nominations[22]
2012 Australian Shadows Award, Best Collection: Apocrypha Sequence (all four volumes: Deviance, Divinity, Inferno, Insanity )
2010 Tin Duck Award, Best Professional Production: Shards (Brimstone Press )
2009 Premios Ignotus , Best Foreign Short Story, "The Autopsy Room" (Paura 4 )
2009 William Atheling Jr Award : "Dark Suspense: The End of the Line" in Black: Australian Dark Culture Magazine #3
2009 Ditmar Award, Fanzine: HorrorScope (ed. Shane Jiraiya Cummings et al.)
2008 Ditmar Award, Novella/novelette: "Yamabushi Kaidan and the Smoke Dragon"
2008 Ditmar Award, Fan Writer
2008 Ditmar Award, Fanzine: HorrorScope (ed. Shane Jiraiya Cummings et al.)
2008 William Atheling Jr Award: Review of David Conyers ' & John Sunseri's The Spiraling Worm on HorrorScope
2008 Aurealis Award , Young Adult short story: "Yamabushi Kaidan and the Smoke Dragon"
2007 Ditmar Award, Best New Talent
2007 Ditmar Award, Fan Writer
2007 Tin Duck Award, Professional Short Fiction: "Colossus of Roads" (Ticonderoga Online #9)
2007 Tin Duck Award, Professional Short Fiction: "Prescience" (Borderlands #8)
2006 Ditmar Award, Fanzine: HorrorScope (ed. Shane Jiraiya Cummings et al.)
2006 Ditmar Award, Fan Writer
2006 Australian Shadows Award : Shadow Box (with Angela Challis )
2006 Tin Duck Award, Professional Short Fiction: "Ian " (Ticonderoga Online #5)
2006 Tin Duck Award, Professional Short Fiction: "Hear No Evil" (Borderlands #4)
2006 Tin Duck Award, Professional Production: Shadow Box (with Angela Challis)
2006 Tin Duck Award, Fan Production: HorrorScope (edited by Shane Jiraiya Cummings et al.)
2005 Tin Duck Award, Professional Fiction: "Sobek's Tears" (Aurealis #33-35)
Honourable mentions
2006 Aurealis Award , Horror short story: "Revision is Murder" (Simulacrum #11)
Reviews
References
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