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Albedo One invites entries for the fifth Aeon Award short fiction contest

Posted by Frank Ludlow
March 10, 2010
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© Herman Brinkman

Albedo One, Ireland’s magazine of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror, is proud to announce the fifth International Aeon Award short fiction contest.

The grand prize is €1,000 and publication in Albedo One. Second and third place stories win €200 and €100 respectively, alongside publication in Albedo One magazine.

This year we have an added bonus prize for the winning story courtesy of the highly respected Authorlink.com. The winning story will have the option of a free one-year publication in their Storywire section where authors earn royalties from online readers of their work.

Authorlink.com is a news, information and marketing site for editors, agents, writers, and readers with more than 50,000 unique visitors a month and a social network of 6,000+ friends.

The creative writing contest is open to stories of up to 8,000 words in any speculative genre, including science fiction, fantasy, horror, or anything in between or unclassifiable.

The judges have a very broad definition of what constitutes a genre story. The contest is also open to writers of all nationalities. The winning stories will be chosen by highly respected genre author Ian Watson, who will again act as Grand Judge for this year’s creative writing contest. Long-serving grand judge Ian Watson will be joined by Anne McCaffrey, Mike Resnick and Sam Millar.

The contest is open until November 30th 2010, and runs in four rounds, at the end of which the judges will announce on the Albedo One website, www.albedo1.com, a shortlist of those entries they feel worthy of further consideration. The first round ends on March 31st 2010, the second round on June 30th 2010, the third round on September 30th 2010 and the final round on November 30th 2010.

The aim of the short fiction contest is to promote new writers and writing in the speculative fiction genres, and previous writing contests have certainly shown us that speculative fiction at the shorter lengths is alive and well, despite its many detractors and those who would pronounce the decline of SF, horror, fantasy and so on. or the death of the short story.

Previous winners have been announced at the World Science Fiction Convention and European SF Convention, they have been reprinted or received Honourable Mentions in the prestigious Year’s Best Science Fiction and Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror volumes, and have been translated into other European languages and published in their national magazines (e.g. Galaxies SF, in France).

So entering the Award will certainly get some attention for the respective authors and their work, never mind the prize money and publication in Albedo One.

An entry fee of €7 applies to all entries, and can be paid easily and securely via PayPal at the Albedo One website. Entries may be submitted to me, Frank Ludlow, at fraslaw@yahoo.co.uk

Full details may be found at www.albedo1.com/html/aeon_award.html


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