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Amanda Bridgeman

She/Her

Author
Participates in 3 items

Amanda is an award-winning versatile writer who enjoys working across different genres and creative formats, be it novels, screenplays or short stories, and loves creating both original work and tie-in work for other IPs.

Born in the seaside/country town of Geraldton (Western Australia), she moved to Perth (Western Australia) to study Film & Television/Creative Writing at Murdoch University, earning her a BA in Communication Studies. Perth has been her home ever since, aside from a nineteen-month stint in London (England) where she dabbled in Film & TV 'Extra' work.

Original Novels and Short Stories:

Amanda is a two-time Tin Duck Award winner, an Aurealis and Ditmar finalist, and author of several 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 crime thriller 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). Screenwriter Becca Johnstone is attached, and the project recently received development funding from Screen Australia.

The Subjugate is also currently being studied at two German universities (Düsseldorf and Cologne) as part of a program on Australian speculative fiction, in conjunction with the Centre for Australian Studies.

Tie-in Novels and Short Stories:

Amanda wrote the Scribe Award winning procedural thriller, Pandemic: Patient Zero, which was the first novel set in the award-winning Pandemic tabletop board game universe and released worldwide through Aconyte Books (UK).

Her latest novel, Sound of Light, set in the Marvel X-Men universe and featuring the mutant Dazzler, was released worldwide through Aconyte Books (UK) and has been embraced by Dazzler fans around the globe.

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 short story Reconsecration set in the Warhammer 40K universe was released in the anthology Inferno! Presents: The Emperor's Finest through Black Library (UK).

Sessions in which Amanda Bridgeman participates

Saturday 5 June, 2021

Time Zone: (GMT+08:00) Perth
1:00 PM
1:00 PM
A writer's view of the pandemic
1 hour, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1

Samantha Murray (Panelist)

Andrew Harvey, Hague Publishing / Science Fiction Author (Panelist)

Amanda Bridgeman (Panelist)

How will the COVID-19 affect you, the writer? Have to throw away a script that was "Too soon"? More familiar with the effects of isolation? Did the...
5:00 PM
5:00 PM
Keeping the love alive
1 hour, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1

Panel

Glenda Larke (Panelist)

Amanda Bridgeman (Panelist)

How to keep the spark alive in the long term relationship between you and your book series. Authors talk about how they have sustained narratives o...

Sunday 6 June, 2021

Time Zone: (GMT+08:00) Perth
3:00 PM
3:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1

Amanda Bridgeman (Panelist)

Russell B. Farr (Panelist)

Andrew Harvey, Hague Publishing / Science Fiction Author (Panelist)

Glenda Larke (Panelist)

Are YOU a new writer, or want to become a writer? Are YOU looking for guidance and/or information about where to go with your "Work in Progress"...

Sessions in which Amanda Bridgeman attends

Not scheduled

Time Zone: (GMT+08:00) Perth
WA Awards (Tin Duck) ceremony
1 hour 30 minutes, 1 hour 30 minutes

Keynote

Western Australia’s own SF/F/etc. Awards since 1982, the Tin Ducks are awarded each year at Swancon. (The name is a play on another WA award, the S...

Saturday 5 June, 2021

Time Zone: (GMT+08:00) Perth
1:00 PM
1:00 PM
A writer's view of the pandemic
1 hour, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1

Samantha Murray (Panelist)

Andrew Harvey, Hague Publishing / Science Fiction Author (Panelist)

Amanda Bridgeman (Panelist)

How will the COVID-19 affect you, the writer? Have to throw away a script that was "Too soon"? More familiar with the effects of isolation? Did the...
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
The New MCU
1 hour, 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2

Ian Nichols, Miskatonic University (Panelist)

WandaVision, Black Widow, Falcon and the Winter Soldier and maybe something that begins with an "X"?What does 2021 hold for a new Phase o...
5:00 PM
5:00 PM
Keeping the love alive
1 hour, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1

Panel

Glenda Larke (Panelist)

Amanda Bridgeman (Panelist)

How to keep the spark alive in the long term relationship between you and your book series. Authors talk about how they have sustained narratives o...

Sunday 6 June, 2021

Time Zone: (GMT+08:00) Perth
5:00 PM
5:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1

cheshirenoir@gmail.com (Panelist)

David Horton (Panelist)

While the technology has moved on, the laws of physics have not. A look at the various problems confronted in building a space plane and how they m...
7:30 PM
7:30 PM
Tin Ducks Awards
30 minutes, 7:30 PM - 8:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1

Panel

The Tenth Circle: Newer maps of Hell
1 hour, 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3

Stephen Dedman (Panelist)

David Cake (Panelist)