{"id":1026,"date":"2012-05-08T08:08:24","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T22:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/?p=1026"},"modified":"2012-05-08T08:08:24","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T22:08:24","slug":"looking-for-aboriginal-or-torres-strait-islander-speculative-fiction-to-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/?p=1026","title":{"rendered":"Looking for Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Speculative Fiction to Read"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There has been a lot of discussion about gender balance in Australian authors\/award nominations etc over the last few years (most recently represented by some interesting posts by Ian Mond crunching statistics from the Ditmar awards<\/a> – plus a follow up<\/a> – and a guest post by Tansy Rayner Roberts entitled Is Australian Fantasy Dominated by Women<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>on Cheryl Morgan’s website). I’ve found all these discussions very interesting and they have had an impact on my reading and writing.<\/p>\n

As previous posts on this blog have shown (e.g. my reading comfort zone<\/a>), I’ve been trying to expand my reading of late, in particular attempting to read more broadly across Australian speculative fiction and participating in the Australian Women Writers’ 2012 Reading Challenge<\/a>. While obviously the pursuit of gender equity in my reading will never be complete, I am interested in exploring other aspects of diversity in the Australian speculative fiction community. To that end, I’m attempting to seek out Australian Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander speculative fiction authors.<\/p>\n

My search isn’t going too well so I suspect I’m not looking in the right places. So let me set a challenge for readers of this blog – any suggestions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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<\/p>Hi,\n

Welcome to Mark Webb’s author website. At this point the site is rather sparse – I’ve only recently started writing and there isn’t a lot to show for it right now. You can check out\u00a0my biography<\/a>, see …<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[54,19,53,15],"class_list":["post-1026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings","tag-diversity","tag-gender","tag-reading-process","tag-specfic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1026"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1030,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions\/1030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}