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 has attained a Masters 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.

His saucy high fantasy novel Nights under the Sun has successfully completed a kickstarter campaign and is due to be published later this year.

Yes, he is Chris the writer from Farmer Wants a Wife in Farmer Paige’s group, but alas he married no farmer.

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Online Short Stories

Chris Winspear 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 was 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 first appeared as an honorable mention in the program 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 her sister’s death through street art.

And many more…

These stories are all available for free online

Blog

Presenting at Worldcon: Future design/manufacturing.

Articles 10 Aug 20

My lost letter to J.J. Abrams about Rise of Skywalker

Articles 25 Jul 20

Aladdin is good storytelling

Articles 26 Mar 20

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