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Shane Jiraiya Cummings (born 24 April 1974) is an Australian horror and fantasy author and editor. He lives in Sydney with his partner Angela Challis. Cummings is best known as a short story writer. He has had more than 100 short stories published in Australia, New Zealand, North America, Europe, and Asia.[3] As of 2015, he has written 12 books and edited 10 genre fiction magazines and anthologies, including the bestselling Rage Against the Night.[4][5]

Shane Jiraiya Cummings
Cummings in 2014
Born (1974-04-24) 24 April 1974 (age 48)
Sydney, Australia
OccupationWriter
editor
Period2003 to present
GenreHorror fiction
Fantasy
Speculative fiction
Literary movementDark fiction[1][2]
Website
jiraiya.com.au

Early life


Born in Sydney, Australia as Shane Cummings, he has used "Jiraiya" as his part of his legal name since his Iga-ryu Ninjutsu and Sports Chanbara sensei Kazuo "Crando" Saito bestowed the name to him in the early 1990s when he attained his black belt in Ninjutsu.[6][7]

He lived for many years in Perth, Western Australia and Wellington, New Zealand, before returning to Sydney in 2015.[8]


Education


Cummings graduated from Whitireia New Zealand's Creative Writing programme with a Bachelor of Applied Arts (Creative Writing) in 2014.[8]


Writing and publishing


In 2004, Cummings co-founded Australian independent publisher Brimstone Press and Shadowed Realms online magazine with partner Angela Challis.[9] In 2005, Cummings founded HorrorScope: The Australian Dark Fiction Blog, a news and review blog. He has edited the fiction anthologies Rage Against the Night, Shadow Box, Black Box, Robots and Time, and Australian Dark Fantasy & Horror 2006 edition,[9][10] and the co-edited the magazines Shadowed Realms, Midnight Echo (issue 2) and Black: Australian Dark Culture.[11]

Cummings is a member of the Australian Horror Writers Association, the Horror Writers Association (US), and a graduate of the Clarion South writers workshop (2005).[12][13][14]

Cummings has won two Ditmar Awards (for HorrorScope in 2005 and 2006),[15] and in 2015, he won the Australian Shadows Award - Paul Haines Award for Long Fiction - for his novella Dreams of Destruction.[16][17] He has been nominated for more than twenty other genre awards for his writing and editing, including Spain's Premio Ignotus.[18][19][20][21][22]

In 2007, Cummings was the Convenor of the Horror judging panel in the Aurealis Awards.[23] He was a judge for the Australian Shadows Awards in 2007 and 2008. Cummings continued on with the Australian Shadows Award as Director in 2009 and 2010.[24]

Shane Jiraiya Cummings served as Vice President of the Australian Horror Writers Association from 2008 to 2010 .[25]

Cummings self-published seven e-books simultaneously in January 2011.[26]


Bibliography



Books[4]



Publications Edited[11]



Awards



Wins[22]



Nominations[22]



Honourable mentions



Reviews



References


  1. Kemble, Gary (April 2006). "Horror: give it a name". ABC online news (Articulate). Retrieved 16-9-2007.
  2. Clarke, Rosie (August 2007). "2007 Snapshot interview". Australian SpecFic In Focus. Archived 21 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 16-9-2007.
  3. Shane Jiraiya Cummings Short Stories. Retrieved 02-05-2015.
  4. Shane Jiraiya Cummings Books. Retrieved 02-05-2015.
  5. http://jiraiya.com.au/?page_id=676 Shane Jiraiya Cummings Edited Publications>
  6. Cummings, Shane Jiraiya (June 2007). "The Last of My Kind" , Smoke and Mirrors blog.
  7. Cummings, Shane Jiraiya. "Biography" Retrieved 05-05-2013.
  8. Shane Jiraiya Cummings biography Retrieved 02-05-2015.
  9. Kemble, Gary (December 2006). "A new age for Australian horror". ABC Online news (Articulate). Retrieved 16-9-2007.
  10. Murphy, John (16 January 2007). "Brimstone fires taste for horror". Wanneroo Times newspaper.
  11. Shane Jiraiya Cummings Edited Publications. Retrieved 06-02-2011.
  12. Australian Horror Writers Association member page: Shane Jiraiya Cummings Retrieved 16-9-2007.
  13. "Graduates 2005". Clarion South. Retrieved 2 December 2012.
  14. Hanson, Donna Maree (2005: 198). Australian Speculative Fiction: A Genre Overview. Murrumbateman: Australian Speculative Fiction.
  15. Locus magazine index to Ditmar Awards. Archived 9 August 2010 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 16-9-2007.
  16. Australian Horror Writers Association "Australian Shadows Awards" (Retrieved 2 May 2015).
  17. Australian Horror Writers Association Facebook page (Retrieved 2 May 2015).
  18. Aurealis Awards winners archive Archived 31 January 2009 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 16-9-2007.
  19. Convergence 2 official 2007 Ditmar winners announcement (June 2007). Retrieved 16-9-2007.
  20. Inkspillers Ditmar Awards archive. Archived 29 August 2007 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 16-9-2007.
  21. 2009 Ditmar Awards, Conjecture Archived 12 January 2012 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 11-9-2009.
  22. Shane Jiraiya Cummings Awards. Retrieved 02-05-2015.
  23. Aurealis Award 2007 Judges
  24. Australian Shadows Award Judges. AHWA website.
  25. Australian Horror Writers Association AGM minutes. Retrieved 21-03-2009
  26. Shane Jiraiya Cummings: "Let the Grand Experiment begin!" Retrieved 06-02-2011
  27. Medical Hub Retrieved 16-05-10




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