The Jack L. Chalker Young Writers’ Contest is open to original science fiction and fantasy submissions by Maryland students “no younger than 14 and no older than 18 years of age.” First, second, and third prizes are $150, $100, and $50, respectively, and the deadline for submissions is March 31st, 2021.
The contest is run by the Baltimore Science Fiction Society (BSFS) and “Judges shall be drawn from the membership of BSFS, Inc.” For more information, including complete submission guidelines, see the official contest page.
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The Baltimore Science Fiction Society has announced (via
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The award was first established by the BSFS in 1983, and is handed out during the society’s annual convention, Balticon, the Maryland Regional Science Fiction Convention. The award was established to honor fantasy author Stephen Tall, who wrote under the name Compton Crook.
Here are this year’s finalists:
Architects of Memory by Karen Osbourne
Axiom’s End by Lindsay Ellis
Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart
Docile by K.M Szpara
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INSIDE STORY. In “Why I Write”: Samuel R. Delany scrolls through the reasons. This conversation appears in the Winter 2020 print issue of
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… I remember sitting on the steps of the embalming room at the back of the chapel in my father’s Harlem funeral parlor, watching Freddy, my father’s embalmer, working on the corpse of a tan woman with reddish hair stretched on her back on the white enamel surgical table with its drain and clamps…
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INSIDE STORY. In “Why I Write”: Samuel R. Delany scrolls through the reasons. This conversation appears in the Winter 2020 print issue of
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… I remember sitting on the steps of the embalming room at the back of the chapel in my father’s Harlem funeral parlor, watching Freddy, my father’s embalmer, working on the corpse of a tan woman with reddish hair stretched on her back on the white enamel surgical table with its drain and clamps…
“How old is she?” I asked.
“Twenty-five,” Freddy told me, at work in his rubber gloves with the bottles of pink embalming fluid.