
Amanda is a two-time Tin Duck Award winner, an Aurealis and Ditmar Awards finalist and author of several science fiction and thriller novels. Her works include the best-selling military SF/space opera Aurora series (previously published by Momentum Books/Pan Macmillan Australia), alien contact drama The Time Of The Stripes, and sci-fi noir Salvation series, consisting of The Subjugate and The Sensation (published by Angry Robot Books, UK).
The Subjugate is being developed for TV by Anonymous Content (True Detective, Mr Robot, The Alienist) and Aquarius Films (Lion, Berlin Syndrome, Dirt Music).
Amanda wrote the procedural thriller, Pandemic: Patient Zero – the first novel set in the award-winning Pandemic tabletop board game universe, released worldwide through Aconyte Books (UK).
Her X-Men short story, Eye Of The Storm, part of the Marvel: School of X anthology was released worldwide through Aconyte Books (UK).
Her new novel Sound of Light, part of the Marvel: School of X line, will be released worldwide in November 2022 through Aconyte Books (UK).
Amanda was recently shortlisted for the Western Australian Writer’s Fellowship as part of the 2020 Premier’s Book Awards. She is also a proud Ambassador for Australia Reads.
Sessions in which Amanda Bridgeman participates
- Engaging Your Readers Meeting Room 5
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | 1 hour
- Panel
- From an image to an ending- writing workshop for all writers Meeting Room 5
- 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour
- Workshop
- Book Launch: The Time of the Stripes, Amanda Bridgeman Meeting Room 5
- 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM | 1 hour
- Book Signings
- Book Covers: Art or Money? Meeting Room 5
- 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour
- Panel
- Fan Fund Auction Mount Newman
- 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour
- Panel
Sessions in which Amanda Bridgeman attends
- Reliving Our Childhoods- The influence of the 70s and 80s on SF Mount Newman
- 8:30 PM - 9:30 PM | 1 hour
- Panel
- Nuke's SF Trivia Quiz - “Klaatu barada nikto!” Mount Newman
- 9:30 PM - 10:30 PM | 1 hour
- Collaborative
- Foz Meadows' Reading, and Q and A session East Grand River
- 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Keynote
- Lunch
- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | 1 hour
- Closed
- SF movies that engage the brain West Grand River
- 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour
- Panel
- Australian TV: Early days to Cleverman East Grand River
- 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour
- Panel
- Australian Landscapes as Characters East Grand River
- 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM | 1 hour
- Panel
- Authorial Voice and Writing the Other Mount Newman
- 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM | 1 hour
- Panel
- Paranormal Romance vs Urban Fantasy Meeting Room 5
- 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | 1 hour
- Panel
- Ryan J Griffen Guest of Honour event West Grand River
- 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Keynote
- Contemporary SF illustration and storyboarding East Grand River
- 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour
- Panel
- Swancon 2019 Launch West Grand River
- 4:30 PM - 5:00 PM | 30 minutes
- Keynote
- Lunch
- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | 1 hour
- Closed
- Book Covers: Art or Money? Meeting Room 5
- 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour
- Panel
- Cross-fertilising, from genre to aesthetic East Grand River
- 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM | 1 hour
- Panel
- WA Awards Ceremony (Tin Ducks) East Grand River
- 8:00 PM - 8:30 PM | 30 minutes
- Keynote
- National Awards Ceremony (Ditmars) East Grand River
- 8:30 PM - 9:00 PM | 30 minutes
- Keynote
- Apocalyptic outback Australia West Grand River
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | 1 hour
- Panel