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]
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