Tom Dullemond is an Australian science fiction, fantasy, and literary short-fiction writer based in Brisbane, with a double university degree in Medieval and Renaissance studies and Software Engineering. He works in IT as his day job and writes primarily across short fiction in speculative fiction, horror, literary fiction, and the occasional poem. He is co-Director of Literarium (literarium.net), an online platform tracking submission markets for working short-fiction writers.
He co-edited The Complete Guide to Writing Fantasy, Volume 1: Alchemy with Words (Dragon Moon Press) with Darin Park, the first in the long-running three-volume Dragon Moon writing-craft series that also includes Volume 2: The Opus Magus (co-edited by Tee Morris and Valerie Griswold-Ford) and Volume 3: The Author's Grimoire (Griswold-Ford and Lai Zhao). Alchemy with Words gathers chapters from working fantasy professionals on world-building, magic systems, character, plotting, and the working business of selling fantasy short fiction and novels.
His short fiction has sold to multiple anthologies including Suspended in Dusk (the Books of the Dead Press dark-fantasy and horror anthology edited by Simon Dewar, 2014), Andromeda Spaceways Magazine, and several other Australian and international markets. He co-wrote the middle-grade philosophical fantasy The Machine Who Was Also a Boy (the opening volume of a planned philosophical-fantasy series for middle-grade readers) and writes a regular flash-fiction column for CSIRO's Double Helix science magazine for young readers. He has been a guest at multiple Australian speculative-fiction conventions and is a working member of the Brisbane-area speculative-fiction community.
