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Contents
Between the Memories - Matthew Chrulew.
Aisle 17 - Darren Goosens.
Oomphalie's Songs - Tony Plank.
Primal - Dirk Strasses.
Champagne and Ice - Cat Sparks.
Reality is Stranger than Fiction - Candy Bloom.
The Scent of Milk - Tansy Rayner Roberts.
What Goes Around - Stephen Dedman.
Monochrome Red - Greg Geurin.
Razing - K.A.Mora.
The Time of the Anaxas Empire - Richard Harland.
Water Runs Uphill - Leight Blackmore.
Insecta in Camera - Geoff Maloney.
Dogs - Joanne Anderton.
Horse of Souls - Jarrah Moore.
Plus many Interviews, articles, and novel reviews.
Swancon 2008 has announced they're running an amateur short story competition, sponsored by Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine.
The competition theme is "State of the Art."
There are two categories -
Open, and Under 18s (entry restricted to entrants 17 years or under).
Prizes offered:
1st Prize Open Category: $130 cash, plus a $27 Andromeda Spaceways gift voucher, cooler, key ring and direct access to ASIM's editorial slushpile for potential publication in a future issue.
2nd Prize Open Category: $60 cash, plus a free copy of Andromeda Spaceways and a cooler.
1st Prize Under 18s: $60 cash, plus a free copy of Andromeda Spaceways and a key ring
Entries should be e-mailed to with the story attached as a standard MS Word document.
Include your name and contact details on a cover page, and do not include your name in the header or footer of the short story pages. CLOSING DATE: Friday 7 March 2008.
Winners will be announced at the Ditmar Awards ceremony during the convention. For full details see Swancon
The AHWA Flash & Short Story Competition is open to submissions from the 1st January until the 31st May, 2008.
What the AHWA is seeking: Horror stories, tales that frighten, yarns that unsettle us in our comfortable homes. All themes in this genre will be accepted, from the well-used (zombies, vampires, ghosts, etc) to the highly original, so long as the story is professional and well written. No previously published entries will be accepted – all tales must be an original work by the author. Stories can be as violent or as bloody as the storyline dictates, but those containing gratuitous sex or violence will not be considered.
There are two categories for submission:
FLASH FICTION
Stories up to 1000 words in length. The winning author will receive paid publication and an engraved plaque.
SHORT STORY
Stories with 1500 to 8000 words. The winning author will receive paid publication and an engraved plaque.
ENTRY DETAILS
Writers may submit to one or both categories, but entry is limited to 1 story per author per category. Any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us.
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Winners will receive paid publication; details of target publication will be announced by the AHWA later in 2008.
Entry Fee:
AHWA Members have free entry.
Non-AHWA Members: $5 for flash fiction, $10 for short story entries.
Secure payments can be made via Paypal using our Palpal id ahwa@australianhorror.com
Alternative payment options are available; please contact us at competitions@australianhorror.com and we will provide appropriate details.
Electronic submissions (attached in WORD or RTF format) should be emailed to competitions@australianhorror.com. Please put “Competition entry” in the subject line, and include author name, contact details and story word length in the body of the email.
Mail submissions will ONLY be accepted as a last resort (we would prefer email submissions to save the trees); please contact us before sending anything through.
Competition closes 31st May 2008. A shortlist of winners will be announced here in early August, with winners announced soon after.
Please edit your manuscripts before submitting!
Contact competitions@australianhorror.com if you have any further questions.
Albedo One (Ireland’s premiere magazine of speculative fiction) has now launched the International Aeon Award 2008 short fiction contest.
The Aeon Award is all about promoting new writers and writing in the speculative fields, which has long been the goal of Albedo One. The quality of stories and submissions to the first and second Award has served to affirm our faith in the value of the speculative genres, and in the direction they will be taking in the future. Last year’s winner was Nina Allan’s “Angelus”, which was announced at a ceremony during the 29th European Science Fiction Convention, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 2007. The story will be published in issue 34 of Albedo One, due out in February.
This year's contest is open to submissions of up to 8000 words (no minimum word limit) in any speculative fiction genre, from Fantasy and Science Fiction to Horror or anything in-between or unclassifiable. The judges have very broad tastes in this regard. The grand prize is 1000 euro and publication in Albedo One. Thanks to the success of last year’s Award, we’ve been able to add a second and third place cash prize of 200 and 100 euro respectively for this year. The second and third place stories will also be published in Albedo One.
The contest will run in four rounds from January 1st 2008 to November 30th 2008. Submissions can be made at any time between those two dates, and stories making the shortlist will be announced shortly after the end of each of the rounds, which end on March 31st, June 30th, September 30th and finally November 30th. After the last round, the top six stories from the shortlist will be chosen and passed on to respected science fiction, fantasy and horror author, Ian Watson (www.ianwatson.info), who will act as Grand Judge and pick the winner and second and third place stories.
The contest is open to writers from all nationalities, though the entries must be written in English. Indeed, we’re keen to have entries from as many nationalities as possible! And we know that Australia has a thriving SF community. Full details and guidelines for entering the Award can be found on the Albedo One website at the following link:
The entry fee for the Award is a paltry €7 (euro) and can be paid easily and securely on the Albedo One site. Email submissions may be made to Aeon Award2008
Eligibility & Nominations
Works of science fiction, fantasy and horror (SF/F/H) are only eligible for nomination if:
* they were first published or released anywhere in the world in 2007; and
* the nominee was an Australian citizen or permanent resident in 2007.
Nominations will be accepted only from natural persons active in fandom, or from full or supporting members of the national convention of the year of the award. Where a nominator may not be known to the Ditmar Awards Administrator, the nominator should provide the name of someone known to the Administrator (a referee) who can vouch for the nominator.
Nominators may nominate any number of works in any category. However, the nominator may nominate any given work only once in a category. All nominations must include the name of the nominator. Where a nominated work does not meet the criteria for its nominated category, the committee may move the nomination to the appropriate category; or where a work does not meet any criteria, refuse the nomination.
Nominations must reach the Ditmar Awards Administrator by close of business on Friday the 8th February 2008.
COMPETITIONS
AHWA Flash & Short Story Competition
COMPETITION - Albedo - Aeon Award 2008
2008 DITMAR NOMINATIONS
CLOSURES
Shadowed Realms
Is closed to all submissions until further notice
Wyr{e}d
has not been heard of since it's first edition. The second edition was due out last February, and they are not answering enquiry emails. This does not necessarily mean they're a dead market, but enquiries before submitting may save a bit of time, and heartache.
Dark Animus
Is accepting submissions from SUBSCRIBERS only.