{"id":1489,"date":"2014-08-08T12:31:49","date_gmt":"2014-08-08T02:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aaronsterns.com\/?p=1489"},"modified":"2014-10-01T00:22:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T14:22:00","slug":"guest-speaker-at-my-deakin-world-short-film-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/aaronsterns.com\/?p=1489","title":{"rendered":"Guest speaker at My Deakin World Short Film awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.deakin.edu.au\/mydeakinworld\/2014\/08\/04\/aaron-stern-announced-as-special-guest-for-my-deakin-world-short-film-festival\/\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<\/a>So this is cool. My university, Deakin Uni, has asked me back to speak at the awards for their &#8220;Deakin experience&#8221; short film competition. I&#8217;ll be talking building tension in story, as well as regaling the audience with tales of my time at Deakin (I&#8217;ll have to censor some of my residence days &#8211; O Week was wild at Deakin). Should be fun.<\/p>\n<p>________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.deakin.edu.au\/mydeakinworld\/2014\/08\/04\/aaron-stern-announced-as-special-guest-for-my-deakin-world-short-film-festival\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/blogs.deakin.edu.au\/mydeakinworld\/2014\/08\/04\/aaron-stern-announced-as-special-guest-for-my-deakin-world-short-film-festival\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.deakin.edu.au\/mydeakinworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2014\/08\/aaron-stern.jpg\" alt=\"aaron-stern\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Deakin alumni and award winning author <a href=\"http:\/\/aaronsterns.com\/\">Aaron Sterns<\/a> is announced at the special guest and speaker at the <strong>My Deakin World Short Film Festival<\/strong> \u2013 Deakin Edge, Federation Square, <strong>1 September, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Aaron is the co-writer of <em>Wolf Creek 2<\/em> (Best Screenplay Madrid International Fantastic Film Festival 2014), and author of the prequel novel <em>Wolf Creek: Origin<\/em> from Penguin Books.<\/p>\n<p>Author of various Aurealis Award-nominated and <em>Year\u2019s Best Fantasy &amp; Horror<\/em> recommended short stories, including \u2018The Third Rail\u2019 and the dark  werewolf-bouncer world of \u2018Watchmen\u2019 (the basis for his upcoming novel <em>Blood<\/em>), Sterns is a former lecturer in Gothic &amp; Subversive Fiction, editor of <em>The Journal of the Australian Horror Writers<\/em> and Ph.D. student in postmodern horror.<\/p>\n<p>Aaron is part of a panel on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mwf.com.au\/session\/australian-gothic-cinema\/\">Australian Gothic in Cinema<\/a>, at the Melbourne Writers Festival, Saturday 30 August. He is currently at work on his next novel and a raft of screenplays.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For more posts: <a href=\"http:\/\/aaronsterns.com\/?page_id=69\">THE LATEST<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So this is cool. My university, Deakin Uni, has asked me back to speak at the awards for their &#8220;Deakin experience&#8221; short film competition. I&#8217;ll be talking building tension in story, as well as regaling the audience with tales of my time at Deakin (I&#8217;ll have to censor some of my residence days &#8211; O [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appearances"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/aaronsterns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/aaronsterns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/aaronsterns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aaronsterns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aaronsterns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1489"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/aaronsterns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1494,"href":"http:\/\/aaronsterns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489\/revisions\/1494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/aaronsterns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aaronsterns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aaronsterns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}