Geneve Flynn

Geneve Flynn
OccupationsEditor, writer, poet
Writing career
GenresHorror
Speculative fiction
Poetry
Notable worksBlack Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women (2020)
Tortured Willows: Bent. Bowed. Unbroken. (2021)
Notable awardsBram Stoker Award (2020, 2021)
Shirley Jackson Award (2020)
Aurealis Award (2022)
Australasian Shadows Awards (2024

Geneve Flynn is an Australian speculative fiction editor, author and poet. She co-edited the anthology Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women (2020) with Lee Murray, which won the Bram Stoker Award and the Shirley Jackson Award, and contributed to the poetry collection Tortured Willows (2021), which won a second Bram Stoker Award.

Background

Flynn is of Chinese-Malaysian heritage and her family lived in several countries during her childhood.

Career

Editing

Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women, co-edited by Flynn and Murray, was published by Omnium Gatherum in 2020. It won the 2020 Bram Stoker Award for Best Anthology and the 2020 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Edited Anthology, and was a finalist for the British Fantasy Award and the Aurealis Award. Raw Dog Screaming Press announced a hardcover edition in 2022, with an afterword by Nancy Holder.

Flynn was assistant editor of Relics, Wrecks, and Ruins, an anthology created as the legacy of Australian fantasy author Aiki Flinthart in support of the Flinthart Writing Residency at the Queensland Writers Centre.

Poetry

Tortured Willows: Bent. Bowed. Unbroken., a collaboration with Murray, Christina Sng and Angela Yuriko Smith, was published by Yuriko Publishing in 2021 and extends the themes of Black Cranes. It won the 2021 Bram Stoker Award for Best Poetry Collection and placed second for the Elgin Award for full-length collections. Reviewing the collection for LitReactor, Sara Tantlinger described it as an exploration of Asian identity, resilience and power. In 20224 her work, You Swallowed Your Tongue won the Australasian Shadows Awards poetry prize.

Fiction

Flynn's short fiction has been published by Flame Tree Publishing, Crystal Lake Publishing, Black Spot Books and PseudoPod. Her story "They Call Me Mother", published in Classic Monsters Unleashed won the 2022 Aurealis Award for Best Horror Short Story; her story "Lidless Eyes that See" was a finalist in the same category.

Awards and honors

YearAwardWorkResult
2020Bram Stoker Award, AnthologyBlack Cranes (with Lee Murray)Won
2020Shirley Jackson Award, Edited AnthologyBlack Cranes (with Lee Murray)Won
2020British Fantasy Award, AnthologyBlack Cranes (with Lee Murray)Nominated
2020Aurealis Award, AnthologyBlack Cranes (with Lee Murray)Nominated
2020 Australasian Shadows Awards, Edited Work Black Cranes (with Lee Murray)

Trickster's Treats 4 – Coming, Buried or Not! (edited with Louise Zelda-Sampson)

 Nominated
2021Bram Stoker Award, Poetry CollectionTortured Willows (with Murray, Sng and Smith)Won
2021Elgin Award, Full-length collectionTortured Willows (with Murray, Sng and Smith)2nd place
2021 Australasian Shadows Awards, Poetry When The Girls Began To Fall

Guest of Honour

 Nominated
2022Aurealis Award, Horror Short Story"They Call Me Mother"Won
2022Aurealis Award, Horror Short Story"Lidless Eyes that See"Nominated
2022 Australasian Shadows Awards, Short Fiction They Call Me Mother Nominated
2024 Australasian Shadows Awards, Poetry You Swallowed Your Tongue (with Lee Murray) Won

In 2022 she was awarded a Queensland Writers Fellowship as part of the Queensland Literary Awards (with Melissa Ashley and Mary-Rose MacColl).

Bibliography

As editor

Poetry

Selected short fiction

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Asian Heritage in Horror: Interview with Geneve Flynn". Horror Writers Association. Retrieved 2026-10-20.
  2. ↑ "Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women". The BookFest. Retrieved 2026-10-21.
  3. ↑ "2020 Bram Stoker Awards Winners Announced". Horror Writers Association. May 2021. Retrieved 2026-10-20.
  4. ↑ "Shirley Jackson Awards Winners". Locus. August 2021. Retrieved 2026-10-20.
  5. 1 2 3 "Geneve Flynn". Science Fiction Awards Database. Locus Science Fiction Foundation. Retrieved 2026-10-20.
  6. ↑ "Book Deal: Black Cranes, Hardcover Edition". Raw Dog Screaming Press. Retrieved 2026-10-20.
  7. ↑ "2021 Stoker Awards Winners". Locus. May 2022. Retrieved 2026-10-20.
  8. ↑ Tantlinger, Sara (14 April 2022). "Doses of Darkness: Bram Stoker Nominated Horror Poetry". LitReactor. Retrieved 2026-10-20.
  9. ↑ "2024 Australasian Shadows Awards Winners". Locus. October 2025. Retrieved 2026-10-20.
  10. ↑ "Queensland Literary Awards winners for 2022". Ministerial Media Statements. Retrieved 2026-10-20.
  11. ↑ Burke, Kelly (2022-09-08). "Queensland Literary awards: winners list reflects 'a moment of change for the nation'". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2026-10-20.