Author: Zena Shapter

Zena Shapter writes from a castle in a flying city hidden by a thunder-cloud. She”s the winner of a dozen national writing competitions including a Ditmar Award, the Glen Miles Short Story Prize and the Australian Horror Writers” Association Award for Short Fiction. Her stories have appeared in collections such as the Hugo-nominated “Sci Phi Journal”, “Midnight Echo” (as well as their “best of” anthology), “Award-Winning Australian Writing” (twice), and “Antipodean SF”. Reviewer for Tangent Online Lillian Csernica has referred to her as a writer who “deserves your attention”. In 2016 her co-authored science fiction novel “Into Tordon” for 8-14 year olds was published by MidnightSun Publishing and distributed into school libraries by Scholastic under the pseudonym Z.F. Kingbolt. She”s also the founder and leader of Sydney”s award-winning Northern Beaches Writers” Group, with whom she”s written several speculative adventure books for young readers to raise money for The Kids” Cancer Project. When not writing, Zena is a writing mentor, editor, tutor, competition judge, book creator, and workshop presenter. She enjoys travelling, wine, movies, chocolate, frogs and connecting with fellow story nerds online.