That’s Life Mega Monthly, launched by Australia’s Pacific Publications, includes a regular short story (maximum 1,500 words). The fiction editor is Judie Durrant. Details: email: fastfiction@pacificmags.com. au; website: www.thatslife.com.au
Lego have launched five new sets inspired by the Harry Potter novels and films. They feature the Knight Bus, the Dementors in the Forbidden Forest, the Triwizard Tournament, Hogwarts Clock Tower and finally, Hagrid’s Hut.
The winners of the British Science Fiction Association are: Best Novel, Embers of War, Gareth L Powell; Shorter Fiction, Time Was, Ian McDonald; Best Non-Fiction, On motherhood and erasure: peopleshaped holes, hollow characters and the illusion of impossible adventures, Aliette de Bodard, Intellectus Speculativus blog.