Paul Haines
Encyclopedia
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
.
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)). 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. 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.
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
-born horror
Horror fiction
Horror fiction also Horror fantasy is a philosophy of literature, which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten its readers, inducing feelings of horror and terror. It creates an eerie atmosphere. Horror can be either supernatural or non-supernatural...
and speculative fiction
Speculative fiction
Speculative fiction is an umbrella term encompassing the more fantastical fiction genres, specifically science fiction, fantasy, horror, supernatural fiction, superhero fiction, utopian and dystopian fiction, apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, and alternate history in literature as well as...
writer. He lives in Melbourne
Melbourne
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
with this wife and daughter.
Raised in Auckland
Auckland
The Auckland metropolitan area , in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban area in the country with residents, percent of the country's population. Auckland also has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world...
, New Zealand, Haines moved to Australia in the 1990s after completing a university degree in Otago
Otago
Otago is a region of New Zealand in the south of the South Island. The region covers an area of approximately making it the country's second largest region. The population of Otago is...
. 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
North America
North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...
, and Greece. In 2007, he volunteered as a mentor
Mentor
In Greek mythology, Mentor was the son of Alcimus or Anchialus. In his old age Mentor was a friend of Odysseus who placed Mentor and Odysseus' foster-brother Eumaeus in charge of his son Telemachus, and of Odysseus' palace, when Odysseus left for the Trojan War.When Athena visited Telemachus she...
for the Australian Horror Writers Association
Australian Horror Writers Association
The Australian Horror Writers Association is a non-profit organisation that commenced in 2003 with the goal of providing a unified voice and sense of community for Australian writers of dark fiction and to further the development of dark fiction in Australia.-History:The AHWA built to some extent...
.
Haines has won the Australian Ditmar Award
Ditmar Award
The Ditmar Award has been awarded annually since 1969 at the Australian National Science Fiction Convention to recognise achievement in Australian science fiction and science fiction fandom...
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)). He won the 2004 Aurealis Award
Aurealis Award
Aurealis Award for Excellence in Speculative Fiction is an annual literary award for Australian science fiction, fantasy and horror fiction. Only Australians are eligible for the award.-History:...
(horror short story) for "The Last Days of Kali Yuga" and was nominated for the Pushcart Prize
Pushcart Prize
The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize by Pushcart Press that honors the best "poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot" published in the small presses over the previous year. Magazine and small book press editors are invited to nominate up to 6 works they have featured....
in 2003 and 2004. Several of his short stories
Short Stories
Short Stories may refer to:*A plural for Short story*Short Stories , an American pulp magazine published from 1890-1959*Short Stories, a 1954 collection by O. E...
have received Honourable Mentions in the annual Year's Best Fantasy and Horror
Year's Best Fantasy and Horror
Year's Best Fantasy and Horror is a reprint anthology published annually by St. Martin's Press. In addition to the short stories, supplemented by a list of honorable mentions, each edition includes a number of retrospective essays by the editors and others....
anthologies, ed. Ellen Datlow
Ellen Datlow
Ellen Datlow is an American science fiction, fantasy, and horror editor and anthologist.-Biography:Datlow was the fiction editor of Omni magazine and Omni Online from 1981 through 1998, and edited the ten associated Omni anthologies...
, Gavin Grant
Gavin Grant
Gavin J. Grant is a science fiction editor and writer. He runs Small Beer Press along with his wife Kelly Link. In addition, he has been the editor of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet since 1996 and, from 2003 to 2008, was co-editor of the Year's Best Fantasy and Horror anthology series along with...
, and Kelly Link
Kelly Link
Kelly Link is an American editor and author of short stories. While some of her fiction falls more clearly within genre categories, many of her stories might be described as slipstream or magic realism: a combination of science fiction, fantasy, horror, mystery, and realism...
(St. Martins).
Haines' first short story collection Doorways For The Dispossessed was published by Prime Books
Prime Books
Edited by two-time Hugo-nominee and 2006 World Fantasy-winner Sean Wallace, Prime Books is an award-winning independent publishing house, specializing in a mix of literary/commercial anthologies, collections, novels, and two magazines: Fantasy Magazine and Lightspeed Magazine. Some of its...
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.
Collections
- The Last Days Of Kali Yuga (Brimstone PressBrimstone PressBrimstone Press was an Australian independent publisher of dark fiction . Brimstone Press was established in 2004 by Angela Challis and Shane Jiraiya Cummings and was based in Western Australia....
, 2011) - Slice Of LifeSlice of lifeSlice of life is a phrase describing the use of mundane realism depicting everyday experiences in art and entertainment.-Theater:The theatrical term refers to a naturalistic representation of real life, sometimes used as an adjective, as in "a play with 'slice of life' dialogue." The term...
(The Mayne Press, 2009) - Doorways For The Dispossessed (Prime BooksPrime BooksEdited by two-time Hugo-nominee and 2006 World Fantasy-winner Sean Wallace, Prime Books is an award-winning independent publishing house, specializing in a mix of literary/commercial anthologies, collections, novels, and two magazines: Fantasy Magazine and Lightspeed Magazine. Some of its...
, 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 FictionAgog! PressAgog! Press is an independent Australian book publisher, specializing in speculative fiction short story collections. It was founded in 2002 by Cat Sparks....
(2002) - "Slice Of Life", Dark Animus #2 (2002)
- "Shot In Loralai", NFG 1 (2003)
- "www.rebirth.!@$", IdeomancerIdeomancerIdeomancer is a Canadian online speculative fiction magazine whose contents include science fiction, fantasy, slipstream, horror, flash fiction and speculative poetry, along with reviews and interviews. The first issue debuted in 1999, and in 2002 the magazine was "rebooted" with new numbering...
(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", AurealisAurealisAurealis is a Australian speculative fiction magazine published by Chimaera Publications. The magazine was launched in September 1990 to provide a market for speculative fiction writers, with a particular emphasis on raising the profile of Australian authors.In 1995 the magazine instituted the...
#32 (2004) - "The Punjab's Gift", StoryHouse (2004)
- "Hamlyn", Andromeda Spaceways Inflight MagazineAndromeda Spaceways Inflight MagazineAndromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine or ASIM is a fantasy and science fiction magazine and webzine published out of Glenn Innes, New South Wales, Australia. The publishers of ASIM describe it as "Australia's Pulpiest SF Magazine". The magazine is currently edited by Robbie Matthews and is...
#11, (2004) - "This Is The End, Harry, Goodnight!", NFG #5 (2004)
- "They Say It's Other People", Agog! Smashing StoriesAgog! Smashing StoriesAgog! Smashing Stories is a 2004 speculative fiction anthology edited by Cat Sparks.-Background:Agog! Smashing Stories was first published in Australia in 2004 by Agog! Press in trade paperback format. It was a short-list nominee for best collected work at the 2005 Ditmar Awards but lost to Black...
(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 RealmsShadowed RealmsShadowed Realms was a dark flash fiction online magazine produced by Australian independent publisher Brimstone Press and edited by Angela Challis. A number of stories published in Shadowed Realms have won, or been nominated for, several speculative fiction awards. -Publication history:The first...
(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 PressKayelle PressKayelle Press, founded in September 2010, is an independent publisher of speculative fiction for younger readers , young adults and adults....
, 2011)
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 AwardSir Julius Vogel AwardThe Sir Julius Vogel Awards are awarded each year at the New Zealand National Science Fiction Convention to recognise achievement in New Zealand science fiction, fantasy, horror, and science fiction fandom...
, Collection: Doorways For The Dispossessed - 2007 Ditmar AwardDitmar AwardThe Ditmar Award has been awarded annually since 1969 at the Australian National Science Fiction Convention to recognise achievement in Australian science fiction and science fiction fandom...
, 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 AwardAurealis AwardAurealis Award for Excellence in Speculative Fiction is an annual literary award for Australian science fiction, fantasy and horror fiction. Only Australians are eligible for the award.-History:...
, 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 AwardAustralian Shadows AwardThe Australian Shadows Award is an annual literary award established by the Australian Horror Writers Association in 2005 to honour the best published work of horror fiction written or edited by an Australian...
: "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!