Marianne de Pierres

My SF screenplay Stalking Daylight scored an honourable mention in the Truant Pictures screenplay competition. Looks like they picked a lot of horror, so am pleased to be one of the few SF scripts to be acknowleged.

Here’s the full list reproduced from the site:

SEMI-FINALISTS

• Vince Bailey, The Dobson Field Initiative – Thriller (Tasmania)
• Nick Barkla & Jason Patterson, Slay the Dragon – Thriller (Victoria)
• Renee Brack, Outback Killer Koalas – Comic Horror (NSW)
• Craig Delahoy, Congress – Horror/Thriller (NSW)
• Jonathon Green, Emma After – Thriller (NSW)
• Scott Hamilton, Red Rock – Sci-Fi (QLD)
• Nicolas Hinze, Moratjjan – Horror (QLD)
• Adriana Kenny, Clarity – Thriller/Horror (NSW)
• Adam Lemmey, Splatters – Horror (SA)
• Sean Loch, Rear View Mirror – Thriller/Horror (QLD)
• Aaron McCann & Dominic Pearce, Big Red – Sci-Fi (WA)
• DJ McPherson, His Name is Jeremiah – Thriller (Victoria)
• Mark Oxbrow, She Awakens – Horror (NSW)
• Jordan Prosser, Cherry – Thriller/Horror (NSW)
• David Willing, The Surrogate – Thriller (Victoria)

HONOURABLE MENTIONS

• Marianne de Pierres, Stalking Daylight – Sci-Fi (QLD)
• Kerinne Jenkins, Cattle – Thriller (NSW)
• Declan Shrubb, Imaginary Friend – Horror (ACT)
• Megan Williams, Two Hours From – Thriller (QLD)
• Les Zig, The Principle of the Thing – Thriller (VIC)

Marianne de Pierres

This weekend I will host a panel devoted to Ursula Le Guin at the Brisbane International Film Festival. I hope some of you might make it there. The panel will consist of Isobelle Carmody, Lian Hearn (Gillian Rubenstein), and artist, Emily Floyd, and celebrates the release of a new short film about Le Guin’s life. The film is wonderful, as will be the discussion, with each panelist having a unique take on Le Guin’s work.

Marianne de Pierres

It’s taken a few months to regroup after finishing my PhD. And I’ve decided to give myself until the end of the year to write some academic articles and finish my new dark fanasy novel, The Water Dragon Queen. I’m also rewriting my PhD novel, A Once and Future Past, and working on a Tara Sharp novella.

While that’s all bubbling along, I will be writing serialised romance for Radishfiction.com 

Part of this consolidation time has been spent looking at where I am at in the broad scheme of publishing, and I thought you might be interested to see the academic articles and thesis based on some of my fiction:

In 2011, Dr Roslyn Weaver from the University of Sydney devoted a chapter ‘The End of Human: apocalypse, cyberpunk and the Parrish Plessis novels’ to my Parrish Plessis trilogy in her scholarly work Apocalypse in Australian Film and Fiction: a critical study, published by McFarland Press.

In 2017, Dr Dorothea Boshoff from the University of South Africa completed a doctorate based on my four-book series, The Sentients of Orion. The thesis was entitled Crafting Positions: Representations of Intimacy and Gender in The Sentients of Orion. Dr Boshoff also published an article in the Mensageiros das Estrelas Journal, entitled ‘He Said, She Said: Fake News and #MeToo in Marianne de Pierres’ Sentients of Orion.’ Thea also tells me that she is wriing an article about themes of lonliness in my fiction, using an unpublished short story from the Sentients of Orion universe entitled The Echo of Love.

In 2018, Dr Gerry Turcotte, president of St Mary’s University in Calgary, Canada, published an article entitled ‘The Caribbean Gothic Down Under: Caribbean Influences in Marianne de Pierres’ Parrish Plessis Novels’ in Caietele Echinox, vol 35: Neo-Gothic – Hybridizations of the Imaginary.