Shane Jiraiya Cummings

Shane Jiraiya Cummings

Shane Jiraiya Cummings in 2014
Born (1974-04-24) 24 April 1974
Sydney, Australia
Occupation Writer
editor
Nationality Australian
Period 2003 to present
Genre Horror fiction
Fantasy
Speculative fiction
Literary movement Dark fiction[1][2]
Website
www.jiraiya.com.au

Shane Jiraiya Cummings (born 24 April 1974) is an award-winning Australian horror and fantasy author and editor. He lives in Sydney with his partner Angela Challis. Cummings is best known as a short story writer. He has had more than 100 short stories published in Australia, New Zealand, North America, Europe, and Asia.[3] As of 2015, he has written 12 books and edited 10 genre fiction magazines and anthologies, including the bestselling Rage Against the Night.[4][5]

Early life

Born in Sydney, Australia as 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 when he attained his black belt in Ninjutsu.[6][7]

He lived for many years in Perth, Western Australia and Wellington, New Zealand, before returning to Sydney in 2015.[8]

Education

Cummings graduated from Whitireia New Zealand's Creative Writing programme with a Bachelor of Applied Arts (Creative Writing) in 2014.[8]

Writing and publishing

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 Blog, a news and review blog. He has edited the fiction anthologies Rage Against the Night, Shadow Box, Black Box, Robots and Time, and Australian Dark Fantasy & Horror 2006 edition,[9][10] and the co-edited the magazines Shadowed Realms, Midnight Echo (issue 2) and Black: Australian Dark Culture.[11]

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).[12][13][14]

Cummings has won two Ditmar Awards (for HorrorScope in 2005 and 2006),[15] and in 2015, he won the Australian Shadows Award - Paul Haines Award for Long Fiction - for his novella Dreams of Destruction.[16][17] He has been nominated for more than twenty other genre awards for his writing and editing, including Spain's Premio Ignotus.[18][19][20][21][22]

In 2007, Cummings was the Convenor of the Horror judging panel in the Aurealis Awards.[23] He was a judge for the Australian Shadows Awards in 2007 and 2008. Cummings continued on with the Australian Shadows Award as Director in 2009 and 2010.[24]

Shane Jiraiya Cummings served as Vice President of the Australian Horror Writers Association from 2008 to 2010 .[25]

Cummings self-published seven e-books simultaneously in January 2011.[26]

Bibliography

Books[4]

Publications Edited[11]

Awards

Wins[22]

Nominations[22]

Honourable mentions

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. ↑ Shane Jiraiya Cummings Short Stories. Retrieved 02-05-2015.
  4. 1 2 Shane Jiraiya Cummings Books. Retrieved 02-05-2015.
  5. ↑ <http://jiraiya.com.au/?page_id=676 Shane Jiraiya Cummings Edited Publications>
  6. ↑ Cummings, Shane Jiraiya (June 2007). "The Last of My Kind" , Smoke and Mirrors blog.
  7. ↑ Cummings, Shane Jiraiya. "Biography" Retrieved 05-05-2013.
  8. 1 2 Shane Jiraiya Cummings biography Retrieved 02-05-2015.
  9. 1 2 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. 1 2 Shane Jiraiya Cummings Edited Publications. Retrieved 06-02-2011.
  12. ↑ Australian Horror Writers Association member page: Shane Jiraiya Cummings Retrieved 16-9-2007.
  13. ↑ "Graduates 2005". Clarion South. Retrieved 2 December 2012.
  14. ↑ Hanson, Donna Maree (2005: 198). Australian Speculative Fiction: A Genre Overview. Murrumbateman: Australian Speculative Fiction.
  15. ↑ Locus magazine index to Ditmar Awards. Retrieved 16-9-2007.
  16. ↑ Australian Horror Writers Association "Australian Shadows Awards" (Accessed 2 May 2015).
  17. ↑ Australian Horror Writers Association Facebook page (Accessed 2 May 2015).
  18. ↑ Aurealis Awards winners archive Retrieved 16-9-2007.
  19. ↑ Convergence 2 official 2007 Ditmar winners announcement (June 2007). Retrieved 16-9-2007.
  20. ↑ Inkspillers Ditmar Awards archive. Retrieved 16-9-2007.
  21. ↑ 2009 Ditmar Awards, Conjecture Retrieved 11-9-2009.
  22. 1 2 3 Shane Jiraiya Cummings Awards. Retrieved 02-05-2015.
  23. ↑ Aurealis Award 2007 Judges
  24. ↑ Australian Shadows Award Judges. AHWA website.
  25. ↑ Australian Horror Writers Association AGM minutes. Retrieved 21-03-2009
  26. ↑ Shane Jiraiya Cummings: "Let the Grand Experiment begin!" Retrieved 06-02-2011
  27. ↑ Medical Hub Retrieved 16-05-10
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