ALEXANDRIA (ALLY) BURNHAM is an AWGIE award-winning screenwriter and novelist. A NIDA graduate (2016, Masters, Writing for Performance), she is also the Creative Producer at Westwords - Western Sydney's literary development organisation.
She is best known for her feature film Unsound (2020), which was nominated for best original feature at the 2020 AWGIE Awards. The film won best Australian feature at the 2020 Melbourne Queer Film Festival and best fiction feature film at the 2020 ATOM Awards.
Ally is the lead writer of Metropius, a multi-media franchise. Her screenplay for the animation won Most Outstanding Animation at the 2022 AWGIE Awards, and first issue of her comic book, Forgotten Rose (2022) is out now.
Ally also writes as a novelist. She is a contributing author and editor to the fantasy, sci-fi & horror short story collection The New Mythic, which was nominated for two 2023 Aurealis Awards. She also drops fortnightly podcast episodes called Prose & Cons; a podcast by emerging writers, for emerging writers. She also teaches at NIDA Open, training school-aged and adult students in screenwriting for film and television.
Her historical fiction novel, The Swallow, is coming soon.
ISBN: 978-0645661408
Book Dimensions: 15.24 x 1.17 x 22.86 cm
Number of Pages: 184
Genre': Speculative Fiction
SYNOPSIS
Six writers - six worlds - six incredible stories.
Including beautiful, full-page illustrations. Available in paperback, ebook and audiobook.
The New Mythic: the new voice of 21st century speculative fiction. An all-new anthology of chilling horror, apocalyptic science fiction and awe-inspiring fantasy, by an award-winning ensemble of international writers.
- Cooling Engines: A pathfinder navigatse his way through intrigue and deceit in the crumbled remains of civilization.
- Glyphlight: A bloodcurdling whisper follows two young siblings looking for their lost father in the bowels of a dark mine.
- The Traitor: A warrior clan tracks a ship full of riches. But when the blood starts spilling, old debts arise and loyalties are tested.
- Enter Elias Schmidt: A man before his time alters history irreversibly with his human-like machine.
- Town Hall Steps: Four mates unwittingly party through the evacuation of Sydney, and must now survive the zombie horde.
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The Stolen Sword: A young war orphan in possession of a priceless artefact barters with the emperor to secure his future.
Authored by: James Healy, Matan Elul, Paddy Boylan, Phoenix Raig, A.R. Eldridge and Alexandria Burnham.
REVIEWS
An outstanding collection of stories from a variety of sub genres. I usually don’t like fantasy and I really don’t like zombie stories, but the examples in this collection were so well-written that I couldn’t not read them. As for the other stories? Each was a page-turner. Good thing you can read each story in an evening without missing sleep! - Jay
'I bought the anthology because I wanted to read 'Cooling Engines' by James Healy, which is a kind of 'Mad Max: Logistics Road' tale, knowing nothing about the rest of the stories. I love a post apocalyptic tale so that was enough to lure me in. The whole collection turned out to be delightfully entertaining and well written which was a treat. The stories are unrelated so if you wanted something bite-size to dip into occasionally they are perfect for that. I'll definitely keep my eye out for the next one.' - Blaise Harvey
'It's been some time since I've read anything by new and up-and-coming authors, and searching about for new science fiction to read one day I discover this. By far the best story collection I've read in some time. Collections can be lacklustre, this one was not. Fantasy and sci fi, leans towards the dark. A great little read. I was pleasantly surprised.' - David Smith
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