Chuck McKenzie


Chuck McKenzie is an Australian writer of speculative fiction.

Biography

McKenzie was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1970. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Professional Writing & Literature from Deakin University. McKenzie's varied work history includes stints as a telemarketer, a restaurant manager, a retail lighting salesman, Club DJ, television actor, and bookseller. From 2012 to 2014 McKenzie owned and operated Notions Unlimited Bookshop, which specialized in science fiction, fantasy, horror, and related genres. He has also sat on the judging panels for both the Aurealis and Australian Shadows awards on several occasions. Between 1990 and 1998, McKenzie enjoyed some success as a playwright and feature writer for mainstream publications, with his first work of fiction - the novel Worlds Apart - published in 1999. He received his first award nomination in 2002 for the anthology AustrAlien Absurdities which he co-edited with Tansy Rayner Roberts. It was nominated for the 2003 Ditmar Award for best Australian collected work but lost to Cat Sparks' anthology Agog! Fantastic Fiction.
McKenzie has been nominated on seven other occasions for his work in short fiction and as a fan writer.

Awards and nominations

Novels

  • Worlds Apart, Hybrid Publishers

Anthologies

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Collections

Short fiction

  • "" in Antipodean SF
  • "!" in Antipodean SF
  • "Tools of the Trade" in AustrAlien Absurdities
  • "Confessions of a Pod Person" in Passing Strange
  • "" in Aurealis No. 29,
  • "Incident at Five Mile Creek" in Agog! Fantastic Fiction
  • "Boarding Pass" in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine No. 1,
  • "" in Antipodean SF
  • "Alien Space Nazis Must Die!" in Elsewhere
  • "The Mark of His Hands" in Orb Speculative Fiction No. 5
  • "" in Borderlands
  • "" in Antipodean SF
  • "Customer Service" in Planet Relish
  • "" in Orb Speculative Fiction No. 6
  • "" in Aurealis
  • "Daily Grind" in Infinitas Bookshop Newsletter
  • "Literality" in AurealisXpress
  • "" in Antipodean SF
  • "" in Antipodean SF
  • "Like a Bug Underfoot" in Daikaiju! Giant Monster Tales
  • "The Shadow Over Bexley" in Simulacrum Issue 6
  • "All I Want For Christmas" in Confessions of a Pod Person
  • "Howler" in Confessions of a Pod Person
  • "" in Antipodean SF
  • "" in Infinitas Bookshop Newsletter
  • "" in Antipodean SF
  • "" in Antipodean SF
  • "The Second-Hand Bookshop of Al Hazred" in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine No. 24,
  • "" in Antipodean SF
  • "Bad Meat" in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine No. 44,

Essays

  • "Laugh, You Alien Scum!" in Altair No. 4
  • "The Dead Walk!... Into a Bookstore Near You" in ''Eye of Fire No.1''

Other

  • Introduction to Johnny Phillips, Werewolf Detective: The Complete Case Files by Robbie Matthews
  • "Cthulhu Cultus Australis: The Australian Perspective on H. P. Lovecraft", symposium in Studies in Australian Weird Fiction Issue 2
  • "Horrors in Store" column in, Issues 1-3
  • Staff Reviewer for HorrorScope, 2008-2011
  • Editor-in-Chief of, 2010-2012