ONE WEEK LEFT to enter the Science in My Fiction contest!
Jun 23rd, 2010 | By Bart Leib | Category: News & Announcements(Originally posted at Science in My Fiction.)
Wednesday, June 30 is the FINAL DAY to enter the Crossed Genres Science in My Fiction contest!
* 2,500-10,000 words
* SF/F inspired by a recent scientific discovery or innovation (Citation required)
* 1 entry per person
* Only unpublished work
10 finalists will be selected, and the finalists will be voted on by a panel of 6 judges:
• Athena Andreadis – Associate Professor of Cell Biology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School; author of To Seek Out New Life: The Biology of Star Trek.
• Nicola Griffith – Nebula, World Fantasy, Tiptree, and Lambda Literary Award-winning author
• Michael Kabongo – Agent; owner, The Onyxhawke Agency
• Randall Munroe – Creator of the webcomic xkcd; Programmer
• Cat Rambo – Author; Managing Editor of Fantasy Magazine.
• Brett Savory – Editor-in-Chief of Chizine: Treatments of Light and Shade in Words and co-Publisher of Chizine Publications.
The winner gets a $250 prize. 2nd Place gets $100, 3rd gets $50. The top 3 stories will be published on the Crossed Genres website, and in limited-run print and digital editions. There will also be 3 Honorable Mentions.
Just one week left! Read the detailed rules, and then get those entries in!
Winners will be announced on or before July 21. The top 3 stories will be published online at the time of official announcement.