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Shane Jiraiya Cummings
Shane Jiraiya Cummings, 2007.
Shane Jiraiya Cummings, 2007.
Pen nameShane Cummings
OccupationWriter
Editor
NationalityAustralian
Period2003 to present
GenreHorror fiction
Fantasy
Speculative fiction
Literary movementDark fiction[1] [2]
Website
http://www.jiraiya.com.au/

Shane Jiraiya Cummings (born April 24, 1974, Sydney, Australia) is an Australian horror short story writer and editor. He lives in Perth, Western Australia with his partner Angela Challis. Born 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.[3]

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).[4] [5] [6] In 2007, he was the Convenor of the Horror judging panel in the Aurealis Awards. [7] He was a judge for the Australian Shadows Award in 2007 and 2008.[8]

In 2004, Cummings co-founded Australian independent publisher Brimstone Press and Shadowed Realms online magazine with partner Angela Challis.[9] In 2005, Cummings founded HorrorScope: The Australian Dark Fiction Web Log, a news and review zine. He has co-edited a number of fiction anthologies including Shadow Box and Australian Dark Fantasy & Horror 2006 edition.[10] [9] Cummings has won two Ditmar Awards and has been nominated for several other genre awards for his writing and editing.[11] [12] [13] [14] [15]

Shane Jiraiya Cummings was elected Vice President of the Australian Horror Writers Association at the organisation's AGM in September 2008. Cummings was also named as the Director of the 2009 Australian Shadows Award.[16]

Cummings is the managing editor of doctors' magazine Medical Forum. He publishes articles in the magazine under the name 'Shane Cummings'.[17] [18]

Bibliography

Books[19]

  • Phoenix and the Darkness of Wolves, Damnation Books, 2010
  • Shards: Damned and Burning (illustrated by Andrew J McKiernan), Brimstone Press, August 2009.
  • Shards (illustrated by Andrew J McKiernan), Brimstone Press, July 2009. ISBN: 978-0-9805677-2-4

Publications Edited[20]

  • Medical Forum, Health Publications, 2006 to present[21]
  • HorrorScope, Brimstone Press, 2005 to present
  • Midnight Echo Issue #2 (with Angela Challis), Australian Horror Writers Association, 2009
  • Black: Australian Dark Culture Magazine, 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

Short Stories (selected)[22]

  • "Requiem for the Burning God" - Cthulhu's Dark Cults, ed. David Conyers, Chaosium, 2009
  • "Virgin in the Mist" - Shards, Brimstone Press, July 2009
  • "Wrack" - Shards, Brimstone Press, July 2009
  • "Chasing Jormingand" - Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #38, Feb 2009
  • "A Picture of Death" - Voices, ed. Mark S. Deniz & Amanda Pillar, Morrigan Books, Oct 2008
  • "The Cutting Room" - Gratia Placenti, ed. Jason Sizemore, Apex Book Company, Dec 2007
  • "Memoirs of a Teenage Antichrist" - Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #31, Oct 2007
  • "Beneath Southern Waves" - Daikaiju! 2, ed. Robert Hood, Agog! Press, June 2007
  • "Yamabushi Kaidan & the Smoke Dragon" - Fantastic Wonder Stories, ed. Russell B Farr, Ticonderoga Publications, Apr 2007
  • "Itch" - Horror Literature Quarterly #1, Apr 2007
  • "Genesis Six" - Apex Digest #8, 2007
    • Best of Apex 2006, ed. Jason Sizemore, Apex Book Company, 2007
  • "Stealing Fire" - Book of Shadows Volume One, ed. Angela Challis, Brimstone Press, December 2006
  • "Prescience" - Borderlands #8, Oct 2006
  • "Spin the Witch Bottle" - Shadowed Realms #11, Oct 2006
  • "The Garden Shed Pact" - Borderlands #7, Jun 2006
    • Apex Online, May 2007
    • Australian Dark Fantasy & Horror 2007 edition, ed. Angela Challis, Brimstone Press, Dec 2007
  • "Love in the Land of the Dead" - Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #22, Feb 2006
  • "Ian" - Ticonderoga Online #5, 2006.
  • "Revision is Murder" - Simulacrum #11, July 2005
  • "Hear No Evil" - Borderlands #4, Feb 2005
  • "Sobek's Tears" - Aurealis #33-35, Dec 2004
    • Nowa Fantastyka #279 (Polish), Dec 2005
  • "On Dark Clouds Borne" - Antipodean SF #72, May 2004

Awards

Wins

Nominations

  • 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

  1. ^ Kemble, Gary (April 2006). "Horror: give it a name". ABC online news (Articulate). Retrieved 16-9-2007.
  2. ^ Clarke, Rosie (August 2007). "2007 Snapshot interview". Australian SpecFic In Focus. Retrieved 16-9-2007.
  3. ^ Cummings, Shane Jiraiya (June 2007). "The Last of My Kind" , Smoke and Mirrors blog.
  4. ^ Australian Horror Writers Association member page: Shane Jiraiya Cummings Retrieved 16-9-2007.
  5. ^ Clarion South past students
  6. ^ Hanson, Donna Maree (2005: 198). Australian Speculative Fiction: A Genre Overview. Murrumbateman: Australian Speculative Fiction.
  7. ^ Aurealis Award 2007 Judges
  8. ^ Australian Shadows Award Judges. AHWA website.
  9. ^ a b Kemble, Gary (December 2006). "A new age for Australian horror". ABC Online news (Articulate). Retrieved 16-9-2007.
  10. ^ Murphy, John (16 Jan 2007). "Brimstone fires taste for horror". Wanneroo Times newspaper.
  11. ^ Aurealis Awards winners archive Retrieved 16-9-2007.
  12. ^ Convergence 2 official 2007 Ditmar winners announcement (June 2007). Retrieved 16-9-2007.
  13. ^ Inkspillers Ditmar Awards archive. Retrieved 16-9-2007.
  14. ^ Locus magazine index to Ditmar Awards. Retrieved 16-9-2007.
  15. ^ 2009 Ditmar Awards, ConjectureRetrieved 11-9-2009.
  16. ^ Australian Horror Writers Association AGM minutes. Retrieved 21-3-2009
  17. ^ Cummings, Shane. Articles on Medical Forum.
  18. ^ Cummings, Shane (Feb 2006 to Sep 2007). Medical Forum (various editions). Perth: Health Publications.
  19. ^ Shane Jiraiya Cummings bibliography. Retrieved 12-09-2009.
  20. ^ Shane Jiraiya Cummings bibliography. Retrieved 11-09-2009.
  21. ^ Medical Hub Retrieved 11-09-09
  22. ^ Shane Jiraiya Cummings bibliography. Retrieved 14-02-2009.
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