Tansy Rayner Roberts

Tansy Rayner Roberts (May 22, 1978, Hobart, Tasmania) is an Australian fantasy writer. She holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons), and completed a PhD in Classics in 2007, both from the University of Tasmania. Roberts's short stories have been published in a variety of genre magazines, including "Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine" and "Aurealis". In 1998, Roberts won the inaugural George Turner Prize for "Splashdance Silver", awarded to an unpublished Australian science fiction/fantasy novel each year. Set in the comic fantasy world of 'Mocklore', "Splashdance Silver" was published by Bantam in 1998. A sequel, "Liquid Gold", and the chapbook novelette "Hobgoblin Boots" are also both set in 'Mocklore'. In 2007 her children's novel "Seacastle" was published by ABC Books. "Seacastle" is the first book in the seven-part children's book series "The Lost Shimmaron", sold to ABC Books by Australian writers group wRiters On the Rise (RoR).

Roberts was one of the founding members of "Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine" and edited issues 9 in 2003 and issue 23 in 2006. She also co-edited AustrAlien Absurdities (Agog! Press) with Chuck McKenzie, an anthology of humorous Australian speculative fiction in 2002. Tansy is currently involved with various publications at Twelfth Planet Press, including reviews website "Australian Specific in focus", the shared world webzine "New Ceres", and upcoming YA ezine "Shiny".

Published Fiction

Novels and Longer Works

*"Splashdance Silver", (1998), Bantam.
*"Liquid Gold", (1999), Bantam.
*"Hobgoblin Boots", (2004), Scrybe Press.
*"Seacastle", (2007), Book 1 of "The Lost Shimmaron" series, ABC Books.

hort Fiction

*"Lucky Tart", (2006), Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, #26.
*"Scandal at the Feast of Saturn", (2006), New Ceres, #1.
*"Rosebuds", (2006), In "Agog! Ripping Reads", ed. Cat Sparks, Agog! Press.
*"Fruit and Mirrors", (2006), Aurealis, #36, Chimaera Publications.
*"Holding out for a Hero", (2006), The Outcast, ed. Nicole R. Murphy, Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild.
*"Delta Void and the Stray God", (2005), Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, #16.
*"Garments of the Dead", (2004), Aurealis, #32.
*"Memo for Flight Attendants", (2003), Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, #7.
*"Fairy Tale Blues", (2002), Potato Monkey, #2.
*"Somewhere Over the Looking Glass", (2002), Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, #4.
*"Immortality Crack’d", (2002), Twilight Times, #18.
*"Swansong", (2002), Fiction Inferno, August.
*"Cendrillon and the Chromium Prince", (2002) In "", ed. Chris Andrews, Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild.
*"Delta Void and the Clockwork Man", (2002), In "Agog! Fantastic Fiction", ed. Cat Sparks, Agog! Press 2002)
*"Fairy Godmother Express", (2002), Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, #1.
*"Delta Void and the Unicorn Soup", (2002), In "AustrAlien Absurdities", eds. Chuck McKenzie and Tansy Rayner Roberts, Agog! Press.
*"Faces of the Elit", (2001), Twilight Times, #14.
*"Black Holes", (2001), Eotu Ezine, v2 #4.
*"Sold my soul to the devil, mum", (2001), Writer's Radio, July, 5UV Adelaide.
*"Tasting, the Alien", (2001), Writer's Radio, June, 5UV Adelaide.
*"Pygmalion's Flesh", (2001), Antipodean Sci-Fi, #35.
*"Romancing the WWW", (1999), Orb #0.
*"The Glamoured Girl", (1999), Harbinger #4.
*"Once Upon a Literal Legend", (1999), Harbinger #2.
*"Manipulation", (1998), Under Magellanic Clouds, #4.

External links

* [http://cassiphone.livejournal.com/ Tansy Rayner Roberts' livejournal]
* [http://www.tansyrr.com/ Tansy Rayner Roberts' home page]
* [http://www.abc.net.au/news/arts/articulate/200706/s1942354.htm/ABC Articulate Interview]
* [http://www.corydaniells.com/RCDShim.html/ The Lost Shimmaron]
* [http://www.andromedaspaceways.com/ Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine]