Jason Nahrung

Jason Nahrung (born 1968) is an Australian horror author and journalist who lives in Melbourne with his partner Kirstyn McDermott. Nahrung has previously written for The Courier-Mail newspaper in Queensland, with a special interest in speculative fiction and horror-related topics. He was co-winner the 2005 William Atheling Jnr award for Criticism or Review. His first novel, The Darkness Within (based on an unpublished novella co-written with Mil Clayton), was published in June 2007 by Hachette Livre in Australia. Nahrung has also published some horror and speculative fiction short stories.

Novels

 * The Darkness Within – with Mil Clayton, (Hachette Livre)
 * Salvage, 2012, (Twelfth Planet Press)
 * Blood and Dust, 2012, (Xoum Publishing)

Short stories

 * "Watermarks", (2014), Cosmos magazine.
 * "The Preservation Society", (2014), Dimension6, Coeur de Lion.
 * "The Mornington Ride", (2012), Epilogue, Tehani Wessely (FableCroft Publishing).
 * reprinted in Focus 2012: highlights of Australian short fiction, (2013), FableCroft Publishing.
 * "Hello Kitty", (2012), Midnight Echo No. 8.
 * "The Last Boat to Eden", (2012), Surviving the End, Dark Prints Press.
 * reprinted in Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2012, (2013), Ticonderoga Publications.
 * "The Kiss", (2012), Tales from the Bell Club.
 * "Breaking the Wire", (2012), Aurealis No. 47.
 * "An Incident at Portsea, 1967", (2011), After the World: Corpus Christi, Issue 4.
 * "Messiah on the Rock", (2011), Anywhere but Earth, Coeur de Lion.
 * "Children of the Cane", (2011), Dead Red Heart, Ticonderoga Publications.
 * "Wraiths", (2011), Winds of Change, CSFG.
 * reprinted in Year’s Best Australian Dark Fantasy and Horror 2011, (2012), Ticonderoga Publications.
 * "Resurrection in Red", (2011), More Scary Kisses, Ticonderoga Publications.
 * "Wet Work", (2011), After the Rain, ed. Tehani Wessely (FableCroft Publishing).
 * "Smoking, Waiting for the Dawn", (2008), Dreaming Again, HarperVoyager.
 * "The Refugee", (2007), Fantastical Journeys to Brisbane.
 * "Kadimakara and Curlew", (2007), Daikaiju 2, Agog! Press.
 * reprinted in Australian Dark Fantasy and Horror Vol.3.
 * "Pain Threshold", (2006), Agog! Ripping Reads, Agog! Press.
 * reprinted in Australian Dark Fantasy & Horror 2007 (Brimstone Press)
 * "Time to Write", (2005) The Devil in Brisbane.
 * "Triage", (2005), Sf-envision.
 * "Night Watch", (2005), Elsewhere, CSFG Publishing.
 * "Spare Parts", (2003), Glimpses.
 * reprinted in Devil Dolls and Duplicates in Australian Horror (2011).
 * "Prime Cuts", (2002), Antipodean SF.
 * "Summer Haze", (2001), Visions.

Wins

 * 2012 Chronos Award: Best Novel for Salvage (Twelfth Planet Press).
 * 2012 Chronos Award: Best Short Story for "The Mornington Ride", Epilogue (FableCroft Publishing).
 * 2005 William Atheling Jr Award: "Why are publishers afraid of horror?" (The Courier-Mail)

Nominations

 * 2012 WSFA Small Press Award: "The Mornington Ride", Epilogue (FableCroft Publishing).
 * 2012 Aurealis Award for best horror novel: Blood and Dust (Xoum Publishing).
 * 2012 Aurealis Award for best horror novel: Salvage (Twelfth Planet Press).
 * 2012 Australian Shadows Award: Blood and Dust (Xoum Publishing).
 * 2012 Ditmar Award, Novel: Salvage (Twelfth Planet Press).
 * 2008 Ditmar Award, Novel: The Darkness Within
 * 2008 Ditmar Award, New Talent
 * 2004 William Atheling Jr Award

Honourable mentions

 * 2008 Aurealis Award, Horror novel: The Darkness Within

Reviews

 * Review of The Darkness Within in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine by Tehani Wessley (August 2007)
 * Review of The Darkness Within in HorrorScope by Mark Smith-Briggs (23 Aug 2007).
 * Reviews of Nahrung's work on ASif!