Chris Winspear
Fantasy unearthing tales from an impertinent past.
Sci-fi critiquing the possibilities of the future.
Chris Winspear
Chris Winspear is the Grand Prize winner of the Writers of the Future Contest 2020.
He currently works as a Narrative Designer at 11-bit Studios, Warsaw, creating the narrative for Frostpunk 2.
Before turning his hand to science fiction, Chris wrote literary short fiction and poetry for the local market in Australia under the name Christopher D. McDonald. He also founded and ran a 3D printing and design workshop, Manifester 3D.
He holds a Master of Creative Writing from UTS, Sydney. His short stories The Market and No More Piano Lessons have earned literary prizes from the PCWC and the Rhonda Jankovic Literary Awards, and his fortune-telling adventure The Lightreaders (think Indiana Jones with Tarot cards) won the under-30s Varuna Fellowship from Writing NSW.
Yes, he is Chris the writer from Farmer Wants a Wife in Farmer Paige’s group, but alas he married no farmer.
Online short stories
Chris has written several award-winning short stories. Here's a sample of his work.
- Selfless, published by Teleport Magazine. A woman must reform her identity after someone hacks into her augmented mind.
- The End, the closing story of Empty Sky: UTS Writers’ Anthology 2020. A man discovers a sense of purchase just as his reality begins to collapse.
- Complaint Against the Youth, an honourable mention in the programme of the Conflux convention 2019, held in Canberra. A governor of a star system blames the youth for his colony’s recent misfortune.
- CyperStyle reveals a post-scarcity world where a boy mourns his sister’s death through street art.
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Email Chris at author@cwinspear.com.
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