Paul Haines (fiction writer)

This article is about the New Zealand-born Australian fiction writer. For the Canadian poet and jazz lyricist see Paul Haines (poet).

Paul Haines
Occupation	Writer IT consultant[1]
Nationality	New Zealand
Period	1999 to present[1]
Genres	Horror fiction Speculative fiction
Influences Iain Banks Clive Barker, James Herbert, Stephen King, George RR Martin, Robert Silverberg, Peter Straub, Irvine Welsh[1][2]
www.paulhaines.com

Paul Haines is an award-winning New Zealand-born horror and speculative fiction writer. He lives in Melbourne, Australia with this wife and daughter.

Raised in Auckland, New Zealand, Haines moved to Australia in the 1990s after completing a university degree in Otago. He attended the inaugural Clarion South writers workshop in 2004 and is a member of the SuperNOVA writers group. Haines has had more than thirty short stories published in Australia, North America, and Greece. In 2007, he volunteered as a mentor for the Australian Horror Writers Association.^[3]

Haines has won the Australian Ditmar Award three times (Best New Talent in 2005, and Best novella/novelette for "The Last Days of Kali Yuga" (2005) and "The Devil in Mr Pussy (Or How I Found God Inside My Wife)" (2007)).^[4][5][6] He won the 2004 Aurealis Award (horror short story) for "The Last Days of Kali Yuga" and was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2003 and 2004.^[7] Several of his short stories have received Honourable Mentions in the annual Year's Best Fantasy and Horror anthologies, ed. Ellen Datlow, Gavin Grant, and Kelly Link (St. Martins).

Haines' first short story collection Doorways For The Dispossessed was published by Prime Books in 2006. It won the New Zealand 2008 Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best Collection and was nominated for the 2007 Australian Ditmar for Best Collection.

Bibliography

Collections

• The Last Days Of Kali Yuga (Brimstone Press, 2011)
• Slice Of Life (The Mayne Press, 2009)
• Doorways For The Dispossessed (Prime Books, 2006)

Short stories

• "The Garden Of Jahal'Adin", Orb #2 (2001)
• "Yum Cha", Antipodean SF #48 (2002)

  FlashSpec #1 (2006)

• "The Sky Is Turning Black", Heist! (2002)

  Tabloid Purposes II (2005)

• "The Skin Polis", Fables & Reflections #3 (2002)
• "Doorways For The Dispossessed", Agog! Fantastic Fiction (2002)
• "Slice Of Life", Dark Animus #2 (2002)
• "Shot In Loralai", NFG 1 (2003)
• "www.rebirth.!@$", Ideomancer (2003)
• "The Feastive Season", NFG #2 (2003)
• "Cooking For The Heart", Lullaby Hearse #4 (2003)
• "The Last Days Of Kali Yuga", NFG #4 (2004)
• "Jealousy", NFG #4 (2004)
• "The Gift Of Hindsight", Aurealis #32 (2004)
• "The Punjab's Gift", StoryHouse (2004)
• "Hamlyn", Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #11, (2004)
• "This Is The End, Harry, Goodnight!", NFG #5 (2004)
• "They Say It's Other People", Agog! Smashing Stories (2004)
• "Warchalking" (with Claire McKenna), Agog! Smashing Stories (2004)
• "The War Against Ignorance", Right Hand Pointing Left #1, 2004)
• "Doof Doof Doof", Dark Animus #7 (2005)

  Teddy Bear Cannibal Massacre (2005)

• "The Light In Autumn's Leaves", Borderlands #5 (2005)
• "Malik Rising", Shadowed Realms (2005)

  Australian Dark Fantasy & Horror 2006 edition (2006)

• "The Devil In Mr Pussy (Or How I Found God Inside My Wife)", c0ck (2006)
• "Father Father", c0ck (2006)

  Australian Dark Fantasy & Horror 2007 edition (2006)

• "Lifelike and Josephine", Agog! Ripping Reads (2006)
• "Going Down With Jennifer Aniston's Breasts", Ripples #5 (2006)
• "Mnemophonic", Doorways For The Dispossessed (2006)
• "Burning from the Inside", Doorways For The Dispossessed (2006)
• "Where Is Brisbane And How Do I Get There?", Fantastical Journeys to Brisbane (2007)
• "Inducing", Orb #7 (2007)
• "Necromancing The Bones", Dark Animus #10/11 (2007)
• "The Festival Of Colour", GUD #2 (2008)

  Aurealis #40 (2008)

• "Her Collection Of Intimacy", Black: Australian Dark Culture Magazine #2 (2008)
• "Wives", X6 (Coeur De Lion, 2009)
• "Slice Of Life - A Spot Of Liver", Slice Of Life, (2009)
• "High Tide at Hot Water Beach", Hope Anthology (Kayelle Press, 2011)

Awards

Wins

• 2010 Ditmar, Best Novella: "Wives"
• 2010 Sir Julius Vogel Award, Best Novella: "Wives"
• 2010 Ditmar, Best Collection: Slice Of Life
• 2010 Chronos Award, Best Collection: Slice Of Life
• 2009 Aurealis Award, Best Horror Short Story TIE: "Wives"
• 2009 Aurealis Award, Best Horror Short Story TIE: "Slice of Life - A Spot of Liver"
• 2008 Sir Julius Vogel Award, Collection: Doorways For The Dispossessed
• 2007 Ditmar Award, Novella/novelette: "The Devil In Mr Pussy (Or How I Found God Inside My Wife)"
• 2005 Ditmar Award, Novella/novelette: "The Last Days of Kali Yuga"
• 2005 Ditmar Award, Best New Talent
• 2004 Aurealis Award, Horror short story: "The Last Days of Kali Yuga"

Nominations

• 2009 James Tiptree Jr Honours List: Wives
• 2009 Aurealis Award, Best Collection: Slice Of Life
• 2008 Chronos Award, Short story: "Her Collection of Intimacy"
• 2008 Chronos Award, Short story: "Failed Experiments From The Frontier: The Pumpkin"
• 2009 Sir Julius Vogel Award,Novella/novelette: "A Tale of The Interferers: Necromancing The Bones"
• 2009 Ditmar Award, Short story: "Her Collection of Intimacy"
• 2009 Australian Shadows Award: "Her Collection of Intimacy"
• 2008 Ditmar Award, Novella/novelette: "Where Is Brisbane And How Many Times Do I Get There?"
• 2007 Ditmar Award, Collection: Doorways For The Dispossessed
• 2007 Ditmar Award, Short story: "Burning From The Inside"
• 2007 Sir Julius Vogel Award, Short story: "Burning From The Inside"
• 2007 Sir Julius Vogel Award, Short story: "Mnemophonic"
• 2005 Aurealis Award, Horror short story: "Doof Doof Doof"
• 2004 Aurealis Award, Fantasy short story: "The Gift Of Hindsight"

Highly Commended

• 2005 Aurealis Award, Horror short story: "The Light In Autumn's Leaves"
• 2004 Aurealis Award, Horror short story: "They Say It's Other People"

Reviews

• Review of Slice Of Life on The Specusphere
• Review of Slice Of Life on Scary Minds
• Review of Slice Of Life on HorrorScope
• Review of Doorways for the Dispossessed on HorrorScope
• Review of Doorways for the Dispossessed on Strange Horizons
• Review of Doorways for the Dispossessed in Ticonderoga Online issue #10
• Reviews of Haines' work on ASif!

Notes

1. ^ ^{a b c} Smith-Briggs, Mark (January 2006). "Interview: Paul Haines". HorrorScope.
2. ^ Farr, Russell B (December 2006). "Blurring into the unreal: Interview with Paul Haines". Ticonderoga Online #10.
3. ^ Australian Horror Writers Association mentor program. Retrieved 16-9-2007.
4. ^ Convergence 2 official 2007 Ditmar winners announcement (June 2007). Retrieved 16-9-2007.
5. ^ Inkspillers Ditmar Awards archive. Retrieved 16-9-2007.
6. ^ Locus magazine index to Ditmar Awards. Retrieved 16-9-2007.
7. ^ Aurealis Awards winners archive Retrieved 16-9-2007.

References

• Cummings, Shane Jiraiya (February 2009). "News: Australian Shadows finalists". HorrorScope Retrieved 14-1-2009.
• Aurealis Awards winners archive Retrieved 16-9-2007.
• Australian Horror Writers Association mentor program. Retrieved 16-9-2007.
• Convergence 2 official 2007 Ditmar winners announcement (June 2007). Retrieved 16-9-2007.
• Farr, Russell B (December 2006). "Blurring into the unreal: Interview with Paul Haines". Ticonderoga Online #10.
• Inkspillers Ditmar Awards archive. Retrieved 16-9-2007.
• Locus magazine index to Ditmar Awards. Retrieved 16-9-2007.
• Payne, Ben (August 2007). "2007 Snapshot Interview: Paul Haines". Australian SpecFic in Focus!.
• Science Fiction and Fantasy Association of New Zealand, Sir Julius Vogel Awards website Retrieved 17-2-2008.
• Smith-Briggs, Mark (January 2006). "Interview: Paul Haines". HorrorScope.

External links

• Official website
• Paul's Livejournal
• The Mayne Press website
• Prime Books author page
• Teddy Bear Cannibal Massacre

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