Current Career
Blackmore currently resides in Wollongong, NSW where he has been a guest lecturer on science fiction, fantasy and horror for the University of Wollongong's Faculty of Creative Arts. He has guested as an expert on horror literature and film on TV programs in Australia including Ray Martin's Midday (television show), cable TV program The Graveyard Shift and Jennifer Byrne Presents and has been interviewed on Sydney's 2SER radio in the same capacity. He became the second President of the Australian Horror Writers Association, serving between September 2010 until September 2011.
Blackmore is editor of the Sword and Sorcery and Weird Fiction Terminus (SSFWT) amateur press association (founded by Benjamin Szumskyj) and edits its online blog. Blackmore also contributes a regular zine to S.T. Joshi's "Esoteric Order of Dagon" Amateur Press Association. He is also a member of the Australian Sherlock Holmes society the Sydney Passengers, and of the C.G. Jung Society of Sydney. He is a regular panellist at science fiction conventions such as the annual Conflux (convention) in Canberra, and with Margi Curtis often runs workshops on esotericism and magick at these conventions.
Blackmore has written columns on Magick and the occult (with poet, Reclaiming (Neopaganism) witch and activist Margi Curtis) - "Arts of the Craft" (2005) for Spellcraft magazine and "Black Cauldron" (2008–2009) for Black: Australia's Dark Culture magazine (Brimstone Press). He regularly lectures in the Illawarra NSW on Western esotericism, including (often with Curtis) running workshops and "Mystery Circle" discussion groups. He co-facilitated MoonsKin, an eclectic ritual working group influenced principally by Reclaiming (Neopaganism) 2006-2011. He has worked part-time as an I Ching reader and is currently working woith an Illawarra group exploring Enochian magic.
Blackmore is also a devotee of the Pre-Raphaelite painters. The creative component of his Honours thesis was a 35,000 word ficto-critical novella on the relationship between Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Elizabeth Siddall.
Blackmore operates his own business specialising in proofreading, copyediting and manuscript assessment. He is a member of the Society of Editors (NSW).
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