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Craig Cormick is an Australian science communicator and author. He was born in Wollongong in 1961, and is known for his creative writing and social research into public attitudes towards new technologies. He has lived mainly in Canberra, but has also lived in Iceland (1980–81) and Finland (1984–85). He has published over 40 books of fiction and non-fiction, and numerous articles in refereed journals. He has been active in the Canberra writing community, teaching and editing, was Chair of the ACT Writers Centre from 2003 to 2008 and in 2006 was Writer in Residence at the Universiti Sains Malaysia in Penang, Malaysia. Cormick's creative writing has appeared in most of Australia's literary journals including Southerly, Westerly, Island Magazine, Meanjin, The Phoenix Review, Overland, Scarp, 4W, Redoubt, Block, as well as in overseas publications including Silverfish New Writing (Malaysia) and Foreign Literature No 6 (China). He has previously been an editor of the radical arts magazine Blast, and his writing awards include the ACT Book of the Year Award in 1999 a Queensland Premier's Literary Award in 2006, a Victorian Community History Award in 2015, the ACT Writing and Publishing Award in 2015 and the Tasmanian Writers' Prize in 2016. As a science communicator he has worked for the CSIRO, Questacon and the Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources, and has represented the Australian Government at many international science forums including APEC and OECD conferences, presenting on issues relating to public concerns about new technologies. In 2013 he was awarded the Unsung Hero of Science Communications by the Australian Science Communicators. Since 2019 he has been serving on the Advisory Board on Education and Outreach to the Nobel Prize Winning Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. Cormick was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in the 2021 Queen's Birthday Honours "service to science, and to the community". Literary career Craig Cormick went on to study journalism and creative writing at the University of Canberra – both areas which he continues to work in – with stints at the Canberra School of Art, the University of Iceland and Helsinki University. He returned to the University of Canberra to study languages, public relations and sociology, undertake a Masters in Communications and then completed a PhD in Creative Communications at Deakin University in 2007. His first books were self-published or picked up by small presses until Unwritten Histories was published by Aboriginal Studies Press in 1998. The book subsequently won the ACT Book of the Year Award and received praising reviews. His work has a strong sense of satire, across themes that include exploration, isolation, duality and Ned Kelly (who appears at least once in each of his eight short story collections). He has written and published, on average, one book a year since 1998, including collections of short fiction, novels and non-fiction. He has published scholarly articles on public attitudes to new technologies in publications including: NanoEthics, the International Journal of Biotechnology Agricultural Science, Historia Ciencias Saude (Brazil) and Choices (USA). He also authored the Australian Government reports, Cloning Goes to the Movies, and What you really need to know about what the public really thinks about GM foods. In 2008 he fulfilled "a life's dream" and travelled to Antarctica as an Antarctic Arts Fellow, visiting the three Australian stations on the continent, Casey, Davis and Mawson, publishing his experiences as In Bed with Douglas Mawson: Travels around Antarctica, in 2011, which merges his two interests of science and creative writing. In 2014 and 2015 he published the acclaimed the Shadow Master series with Angry Robot books, in the US and UK, as was a guest author at the Convergence fan convention in Minneapolis, and at WorldCon in Helsinki in 2018. In 2015 he also took part in the Yale Writers Conference. Writing awards 2022 Winner of the Special Book Award from 2020 as a part of the ACT Notable Awards 2022 for On A Barbarous Coast. 2022 – Shortlisted for an Aurealis Award for Science Fiction Novella, The Cruise to the End of the World 2020 – Winner of the Roly Sussex Short Story Prize for the Lost Journal of Edmund Kennedy. 2019 Winner of the ACT Writing and Publishing Awards - non-fiction, for Backseat Drivers, 2018. 2019 - Shortlisted for the ACT Writing and Publishing Awards - fiction for Years of the Wolf, 2018. 2019 Shortlisted for a Victorian Community History Award, for Backseat Drivers, 2018. 2019 - Shortlisted for an Aurealis Award for Best Horror Book for Years of the Wolf, 2018. 2016 - Winner of the Tasmanian Writers' Prize 2016. 2015 – Winner of a Victorian Community History Award, for Ned Kelly under the Microscope, 2015. 2015 – Winner of the ACT Writing and Publishing Award for Uncle Adolf, 2015. 2010 – Shortlisted for the ACT Writing and Publishing Awards for Futures Trading, 2010. 2006 – Winner of Queensland Premier’s Award for A Funny Thing Happened at 27,000 Feet (Steele Rudd Award for a collection of short fiction). 2004 – Short-listed for a Queensland Premier's Award for the Princess of Cups (Steele Rudd Award for a collection of short fiction). 2000 – Second Prize in the Age Short Story Contest. 2000 – Second Prize in the University of Canberra Short Story contest. 2000 – Nominated for ACT Artist of the Year. 1999 – ACT Book of the Year Award for Unwritten Histories, 1998. 1999 – Highly commended in the Victorian Fellowship of Australian Writers Jim Hamilton Award. 1998 – First Prize in the Max Harris Literary Awards. 1998 – First Prize in the Arts West Writing Competition. 1998 – Second Prize in the Not the Premier's Literary Award. 1998 – Second Prize in the R Carson Gold Short Story Competition. 1998 – Shortlisted for the ANU/Anutech short story award. 1997 – Canberra Critics Circle award for literature. 1995 – Shortlisted for the ANU/Anutech short story award. 1996 – Highly commended in the National Book Council Award. 1993 – Shortlisted for the Australian-Vogel Award for Of One Blood. Works Books published Archangel, Merino Press, ASIN B0BGS26T9D. The Twilight of the Time Vandals, Merino Press, ASIN B0763LFM5D. What If History of Australia: Gold Rush: Going Gold Crazy, Big Sky Publishing, ISBN 9781922615824. What If History of Australia: Colonial Settlement: France vs Britain, Big Sky Publishing, ISBN 9781922615763. The Cruise to the End of the World, Merino Press, ASIN B09GRCLLG5. On A Barbarous Coast(with Harold Ludwick), Allen and Unwin, 2020. ISBN 9781760877347. The Science of Communicating Science, CSIRO Publishing, 2019. ISBN 9781486309818. Years of the Wolf, IFWG Australia, 2018. ISBN 978-0-9945229-3-1. (Shortlisted for an Aurealis Award for Best Horror Book). Backseat Drivers, Ginninderra Press, 2018. ISBN 978 1 76041 505 1. (Shortlisted for a Victorian Community History Award). The Seven Voy.... Discover the Craig Cormick popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Craig Cormick books.