Paul Haines (fiction writer)

This article is about the New Zealand-born Australian fiction writer. For the Canadian poet and jazz lyricist see Paul Haines (poet).
Paul Haines
Occupation Writer
IT consultant[1]
Nationality New Zealand
Period 1999 to present[1]
Genres Horror fiction
Speculative fiction
www.paulhaines.com

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.[3]

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)).[4][5][6] 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.[7] 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.

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  1. ^ a b c Smith-Briggs, Mark (January 2006). "Interview: Paul Haines". HorrorScope.
  2. ^ Farr, Russell B (December 2006). "Blurring into the unreal: Interview with Paul Haines". Ticonderoga Online #10.
  3. ^ Australian Horror Writers Association mentor program. Retrieved 16-9-2007.
  4. ^ Convergence 2 official 2007 Ditmar winners announcement (June 2007). Retrieved 16-9-2007.
  5. ^ Inkspillers Ditmar Awards archive. Retrieved 16-9-2007.
  6. ^ Locus magazine index to Ditmar Awards. Retrieved 16-9-2007.
  7. ^ Aurealis Awards winners archive Retrieved 16-9-2007.

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