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Williams, Sean 1967-
PERSONAL:
Born 1967, in Whyalla, South Australia, Australia; married Amanda Nettelbeck (a professor). Education: Adelaide University, M.F.A., 2005.
ADDRESSES:
Home—Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. E-mail—[email protected].
CAREER:
Writer, 1990—. Served as peer assessor for Literature Board of the Australia Council and Arts SA and as judge for Aurealis Awards and Writers of the Future contest. Has worked variously as a distributor of musical instruments, a sound engineer, a petrol station attendant, a pizza delivery driver, an usher, and a retail clerk.
MEMBER:
Australian Society of Authors, South Australian Writers' Centre (chairperson, 2001-03, 2006-07), Science Fiction Writers of America, International Golden Key Honour Society (honorary member).
AWARDS, HONORS:
Aurealis Award for best horror short story, 1996, for "Passing the Bone" and best science fiction novel, 1996, for Metal Fatigue; Ditmar Award for best long fiction, 1998, for The Resurrected Man; Aurealis Award for best horror short story, 1999, for "Atrax"; South Aust
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Sean Williams teaches writing, ethnomusicology, and cultural studies at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. She received the Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from the University of Washington (1990), with an emphasis in the musics of Indonesia and Ireland. She has a social media alter ego named "Captain Grammar Pants" on Facebook, which led to the creation of English Grammar: 100 Tragically Common Mistakes (and How to Correct Them) (Zephyros Press, 2019). Her books in ethnomusicology include The Sound of the Ancestral Ship: Highland Music of West Java (Oxford, 2001), The Ethnomusicologists’ Cookbook, v.1 and 2 (Routledge, 2006 and 2014), Irish Traditional Music, 1st and 2nd editions (Routledge, 2010 and 2020), Bright Star of the West: Joe Heaney, Irish Song-Man (Oxford, 2011), and Musics of the World (2022). She has had articles published in The New Hibernia Review, Béaloideas, Asian Music, The Companion to Irish Traditional Music, Current Musicology, The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Yearbook for Traditional Music, The Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland, a
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Dr. Sean Williams
Australian Sean Williams is another Contest winner turned successful author and now WotF judge. He is the author of over one hundred published short stories and fifty novels, and has been called many things in his time, including “the premier Australian speculative fiction writer of the age” (Aurealis), the “Emperor of Sci-Fi” (Adelaide Advertiser), the “Lord of the Genre” (Perth Writers’ Festival), and the “King of Chameleons” (Australian Book Review) for the diversity of his published output. He is a multiple recipient of the Aurealis and Ditmar Awards and has been nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award, the Seiun Award, and the William Atheling Jr. Award for criticism. He also received the “SA Great” Literature Award in 2000 and the Peter McNamara Award for contributions to Australian speculative fiction in 2008.
Williams has been published around the world in numerous languages, online and in spoken word editions. After winning the Writers of the Future Contest in 1992, he has never looked back. He is currently the bestselling science fiction writer i
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