#ditmar

It feels completely unreal to be posting this, but I have been nominated for a Ditmar for Best New Talent!

I think if you had told me that this would happen one day, I would have assumed you were making fun of me. When I started writing I never assumed I would be eligible for anything, and it feels like a strange dream to be here. The start of this year has been a complete whirlwind, with the Aurealis shortlisting and so many of the stories from Never Say Die being celebrated with award nominations. It feels so exciting and humbling to have so many people so supportive of my weird little stories.

Thank you to everyone who nominated me. I genuinely wouldn’t be here without the community around me.

If you are attending this year’s Swancon, or have attended a Natcon, Conflux, Continuum, or Swancon since 2022, then you are eligible to vote in the Ditmars! You can vote, and see the rules, at this link here: https://form.jotform.com/261022117635851

Over the moon to be included on the Ditmar nominations list alongside these excellent names! I’m up for cover art for Rebels & Rainbows for Best Artwork and “A Shortcut via the New Tunnel, M-ate” in Never Say Die for Best Short Story. Congratulations all, stellar list! 🤩 📚 🎨

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Voting & info:

‘Bottom Feeders’ was published in Issue 02 of Lost Souls Magazine, and was shortlisted for the Aurealis Award for Best Short Horror Fiction! I am also eligible for Best New Talent if anyone felt like casting a vote in my direction!

I also have to shout out the CSFG anthology ‘Never Say Die’ which I helped bring together and features a whole cast of amazing writers! Not to mention the amazing cover illustration by Maddison Lee which is eligible for Best Professional Artwork!

You can vote for the awards using this form: https://form.jotform.com/260567334914865

If you’re not sure if you’re eligible to vote, TR Napper has done a great blog post about it here: https://nappertime.com/ditmar-voting-is-open-and-you-can-nominate/

Happy voting everyone!

DL1961 Men's Russell Slim Straight Jean In Ditmar

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Ditmar Cine Camera, Made In Occupied Austria

This is a tough one to find information about, because there's little writing on the camera itself. All it says on it is "Ditmar, Made In Germany / Fabrique En Allemagne". So I started by looking that up. And what I found out was interesting. Ditmar was famous mostly for its excellent projectors. But they were Austrian. They got their start in Vienna making oil lamp wicks and burners in the 1840s. They'd been making cameras for at least two decades, and had become popular, by the late 30s. And then suddenly Germany "reunited" with Austria, in the run-up to WWII, and without having moved, suddenly Vienna was a German city, and all of Ditmar's products were now German.