Deborah Sheldon

Deborah Sheldon 2020

Roles in IFWG: Author and Senior Anthology Editor

DEBORAH SHELDON is a multi-award-winning author and anthology editor from Melbourne, Australia, who writes across the darker spectrum of horror, crime and noir. Her latest titles include the novel Nightmare Reef, and the poetry collection The Broonie and Other Dark Poems. 

Her award-winning titles include the novella Redhead Town, and the collection Perfect Little Stitches and Other Stories. Deb’s short fiction has been published widely, translated, shortlisted for numerous Aurealis and Australasian Shadows awards, and included in various ‘best of’ anthologies. Her award-nominated titles include the novels Bodily HarmCretaceous CanyonBody Farm ZContrition, and Devil Dragon; the novella Thylacines; and the collections Figments and Fragments: Dark Stories, and Liminal Spaces: Horror Stories.

She has won the Australasian Shadows ‘Best Edited Work’ Award three times: for Midnight Echo 14, and for her anthologies Spawn: Weird Tales About Pregnancy, Birth and Babies, and Killer Creatures Down Under: Horror Stories with Bite. Deb’s other credits include TV scripts such as NEIGHBOURS, feature articles, non-fiction books (Reed Books, Random House), stage plays, award-nominated poetry, and award-winning medical writing.

Website: http://deborahsheldon.wordpress.com 

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Contrition
(Horror Novel)

Short Fiction Collections

Perfect Little Stitches and Other Stories
(Horror short fiction collection)

Figments and Fragments:
Dark Stories

(Horror short fiction collection)

Liminal Spaces:
Horror Stories

(Horror short fiction collection)

Edited Anthologies