Martin Livings

Martin Livings (born 1970) is an Australian author of horror, fantasy and science fiction. He has been writing short stories since 1990 and has been nominated for both the Ditmar Award and Aurealis Award. Livings resides in Perth, Western Australia.

Livings' short fiction has appeared in the award-winning anthology Daikaiju! (Agog! Press), as well as in Borderlands, Agog! Terrific Tales (Agog! Press) and Eidolon, among many others. His work has been listed in the Year's Best Horror and Fantasy Recommended Reading, and reprinted in Year's Best Australian SF and Fantasy Volume 2 (MirrorDanse Books, 2006), Australian Dark Fantasy and Horror, 2006 Edition (Brimstone Press, 2006), and The Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horror in 2010, 2012, 2013 and 2015 (Ticonderoga Publications).

His first novel, Carnies, was published by Lothian Books in Australia in June 2006. Carnies was nominated for an Aurealis Award and won the 2007 Tin Duck Award for Best Novel by a Western Australian.His collection of short stories, Living With the Dead, was released in 2012 by Dark Prints Press, and an original story from the collection, "Birthday Suit", won the Australian Shadows award for Best Short Fiction that year.

• Honorable Mention, Ellen Datlow’s Year’s Best Horror, 2012, “Birthday Suit”, Living With the Dead, 2013
• Australian Shadows winner for Best Short Fiction, 2012, “Birthday Suit”, Living With the Dead, 2013
• Australian Shadows finalist for Best Collection, 2012, N/A, Living With the Dead, 2013
• Aurealis Award nomination for Best Collection, 2012, N/A, Living With the Dead, 2013
• Tin Duck nomination for Best WA Professional Short Written Work, 2012, “Birthday Suit”, Living With the Dead, 2013
• Tin Duck winner for Best WA Professional Short Written Work, 2011, “The Last Gig of Jimmy Rucker” (co-written with Talie Helene), More Scary Kisses, 2012
• Honorable Mention, Best Horror of the Year Volume One, 2008, “Piggies”, Midnight Echo Issue 1, 2008
• Listed in Recommended Reading List, Horrorscope Editorial: Dark Fiction in 2008, “Skinsongs”, 2012, 2008
• Listed in Recommended Reading List, Years Best Fantasy and Horror volume 21, 2008, “There Was Darkness”, Fantastic Wonder Stories, 2007
• Nominated for Tin Duck, Best Short Work, 2008, “There Was Darkness”, Fantastic Wonder Stories, 2007
• Nominated for Australian Shadows Award, 2008, “There Was Darkness”, Fantastic Wonder Stories, 2007
• Listed in Recommended Reading List, Years Best Fantasy and Horror volume 20, 2007, “Mine”, The Outcast, 2006
• Nominated for Ditmar award, Best Novel, Carnies, Lothian Books, 2006
• Tin Duck award, Best WA Professional Long Work 2007, Carnies, Lothian Books, 2006
• Runner-Up for Tin Duck award, Best WA Professional Short Work 2007, “Dwar7es”, Ticonderoga Online, 38961
• Shortlisted for Aurealis Awards, Best Horror Novel, Carnies, Lothian Books, 2006
• Nominated for the AntiSF Awards 2004, “Know-It-All”, Antipodean SF Issue 67, 2004
• The Year’s Best Australian SF & Fantasy One, Recommended Reading List, “Wood Whispers”, Fables and Reflections 6, 2004
• The Year’s Best Australian SF & Fantasy One, Recommended Reading List, “The Art of Suffering”, Ticonderoga Online, 38047
• The Year’s Best Australian SF & Fantasy One, Recommended Reading List, “Armageddon For Dummies”, Antipodean SF Issue 75, 38200
• Highly Commended Notice in KSP SF Awards, “Deadline”, N/A, 2005
• Listed in Recommended Reading List, Years Best Fantasy and Horror volume 18, 2005, “Maelstrom”, Agog! Smashing Stories, 2004
• Chronopolis Short Story competition 2003, “Killing Time”, N/A, 2003
• Shortlisted for Aurealis Awards, Best SF Short Story, “Sigmund Freud and the Feral Freeway”, Agog! Terrific Tales, 2003
• Shortlisted for Ditmar Awards, Best Novella, “Sigmund Freud and the Feral Freeway”, Agog! Terrific Tales, 2003
• Shortlisted for Tin Duck Awards, Best Short Story, “Sigmund Freud and the Feral Freeway”, Agog! Terrific Tales, 2003
• Borderlands: That Which Scares Us short story competition winner, “Into the Valley”, Borderlands: That Which Scares Us convention book, 2002
• Winner, Tin Duck Award, Best Short Story, “Living with the Dead”, Eidolon issue 16, 1995
• Listed in Recommended Reading List, Years Best Fantasy and Horror 1993, “Ghost Card”, Eidolon issue 10, 1992