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C.H. Pearce

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Australia

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Speculative Fiction, New Weird, Horror

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C.H. Pearce is a writer of horror-tinged speculative fiction, and an illustrator. As a writer, she has won a Ditmar Award and been shortlisted in the Brave New Weird and Aurealis Awards, and her short fiction has been published in Never Say Die, Cosmic Horror Monthly, and The Off-Season: An Anthology of Coastal New Weird. As an illustrator, she has won a Ditmar Award for book cover art, and has artwork in Lost Souls, Midnight Echo, and Literature and Composition. She lives in Canberra, Australia with her family and three pet rats. Find her work and links to social media on chpearce.net

As a writer, she is represented by Carleen Geisler at Britt Siess Creative Management.

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Awards Eligibility and 2025 Round-Up

Hello friends! It’s that time of year again... I don’t blog often but when I do I blog about the entire year in review (this is why I cannot have a newsletter) including awards eligibility/all spec fic and horror writing or art I’ve published in 2025. Author A.C. Wise maintains a fantastic list of awards eligibility posts ( “What have you done, what have you loved 2025” ) if you want a refresher! Read more of this blog post »

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	Aurealis #105 by Stephen Higgins (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Emma Lomman, C.H. Pearce (Goodreads Author) 3.59 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 1990 — 53 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Off-Season: An Anthology of Coastal New Weird by Marissa Van Uden (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Mars Abian (Contributor), Alex Keikiakapueo Brewster (Contributor) 3.94 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2024 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Unnatural Order by Lyss Wickramasinghe (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Alis Franklin (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Alexander Hardison (Goodreads Author) 4.45 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Hand of Knaves by Leife Shallcross (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Chris Large (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Eugen Bacon (Goodreads Author) 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Body of Work by C.Z. Tacks (Editor), Freya Marske (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Kiera Lesley (Contributor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Award Winning Australian Writing 2016 by Chloe Brien, Ashley Goldberg (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Lynne Cook 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rebels & Rainbows: An Australasian Queer Speculative Anthology by Australian Specualtive Fiction, Eugen Bacon (Goodreads Author), Aaron Dries (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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