Contests
| Albedo One's International Aeon Award 2010 Contest | |||
| News > Contests | January 27, 2010 | ||
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Irish sf magazine Albedo One's International Aeon Award writing contest begins once again with the new year...
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| PARSEC's writing contest on the theme "The Color of Silence" | |||
| News > Contests | January 20, 2010 | ||
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PARSEC's annual writing contest this year is offering prizes of $200, $100, and $50, for short stories on the theme "The Color of Silence"...
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| Vote in Fantasy Magazine's reader poll, and win an Amazon gift certificate | |||
| News > Contests | January 4, 2010 | ||
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Fantasy Magazine's annual readers poll will result in a prize for the winning story's author, and an Amazon.com gift certificate for one voter...
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| Fourth annual Jim Baen Memorial Writing Contest | |||
| News > Contests | December 29, 2009 | ||
Baen Books and the National Space Society are sponsoring the fourth annual Jim Baen Memorial Writing Contest, looking for stories up to 8,000 words...
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| Pill Hill Press's dark fantasy "Flesh & Bone: Rise of the Necromancers" contest | |||
| News > Contests | December 29, 2009 | ||
Small press dark fantasy publisher Pill Hill Press is running its second short story writing contest, with cash prizes...
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| Baen's Lyric Writing Contest | |||
| News > Contests | December 22, 2009 | ||
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Baen Books want you to cheer up their holiday season by rewriting a traditional holiday tune with Baen-centric lyrics...
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| Book View Cafe's second anthology, The Shadow Conspiracy, is now available | |||
| News > Books | December 16, 2009 | ||
Book View Cafe has published its second in-house anthology, The Shadow Conspiracy, which revolves around the other strange happenings at the gathering which produced Frankenstein...
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| Albedo One's International Aeon Award, 4Q 2009 finalists | |||
| News > Contests | December 16, 2009 | ||
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Irish sf magazine Albedo One's International Aeon Award writing contest continues, with the announcement of the final quarterly shortlist, and moving on to the final judging...
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| Win Lost Symbol books, cook books, and Quirk-y mash-ups | |||
| News > Contests | December 8, 2009 | ||
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Book marketer FSB Associates is giving away three days worth of prize packs, including two books related to Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol, chef Mary Ann Esposito's Italian cookbook, and three sets of Sense & Sensibility and Sea Monsters and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies...
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| DayBreak Magazine's first competition | |||
| News > Contests | December 2, 2009 | ||
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DayBreak Magazine's first competition is now running: figure out the next line of sixteen story fragments, along with the authors' names, and win some remarkable prizes...
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| Win Bill Willingham's new Fables novel, Peter & Max, or the whole series | |||
| News > Contests | November 17, 2009 | ||
Publisher Vertigo Comics and Library Journal are giving away prize packs including Bill Willingham's newest Fables novel, and complete sets of all of them...
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| Win Cat Rambo's collection Eyes Like Sky and Coal and Moonlight | |||
| News > Contests | November 17, 2009 | ||
Paper Golem, which published the collection, and Clarkesworld Magazine, online publisher of three of her stories, are giving away two copies of Cat Rambo's collection Eyes Like Sky and Coal and Moonlight...
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| Book View Cafe launches Book View Press with Rocket Boy and the Geek Girls | |||
| News > Books | November 3, 2009 | ||
Book View Cafe is launching Book View Press, and their first e-book publication is Rocket Boy and the Geek Girls, an anthology featuring the work of 15 members...
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| Guess the WFA winners; win JJA's new vampire anthology | |||
| News > Contests | October 28, 2009 | ||
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Genreville is asking readers to guess four of this year's World Fantasy Award winners, and offering an advance copy of John Joseph Adams's new By Blood We Live anthology...
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| Albedo One's International Aeon Award, 3Q 2009 finalists | |||
| News > Contests | October 27, 2009 | ||
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Irish sf magazine Albedo One's International Aeon Award writing contest continues, with the announcement of the third quarterly shortlist...
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| Rachel Caine is celebrating by giving away a PC, Kindle, and more | |||
| News > Contests | October 26, 2009 | ||
Author Rachel Caine is celebrating the publication of her seventh Morganvilla Vampires novel and a full-page publisher ad in People with wonderful goodies for her readers...
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| Dark Desserts seeks delicious logo | |
| News > Contests | October 23, 2009 |
| Help design the logo for Dark Desserts, and win a prize package of, well, dark desserts... | |
| Dorchester giving away a DVD copy of Jack Ketchum's Offspring | |||
| News > Contests | October 22, 2009 | ||
Dorchester Publications is giving away a copy of the new DVD release of Jack Ketchum's Offspring for new subscribers to their Horror Newsletter (those already subscribing can also enter)...
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| Forget LOLcats, Baen wants your best LOL-Kzin | |||
| News > Contests | October 13, 2009 | ||
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Baen Books' newest contest is going LOLcats a little nastier: they're looking for LOL-Kzin, based on the covers illustrating Larry Niven's novels...
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| Update your Amazon wish list to see Twilight: New Moon | |||
| News > Contests | October 5, 2009 | ||
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Amazon.com is offering ten weeks of big prizes to celebrate ten years of their wish list feature. This week's prizes focus on The Twilight Saga: New Moon film premiere...
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| Ellen Kaye-Cheveldayoff Names Baen Books' Vampire Anthology | |||
| News > Contests | October 1, 2009 | ||
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Baen Books announced the winning "vile pun" in their "Name That Vampire Anthology" contest. The winning title will headline Esther Friesner's third humorous suburban dark fantasy anthology...
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| Tor's "Fantasy Firsts" giveaway, and a chance to meet Brandon Sanderson | |||
| News > Contests | September 25, 2009 | ||
![]() Tor is giving away 1,000 copies of both Mistborn and The Eye of the World to introduce new readers to their big fantasy series. Sanderson has also announced the titles of the final two Wheel of Time books, and a chance to meet him personally on his signing tour (deadline is this weekend)...
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| Massive British short story contest | |
| News > Contests | September 15, 2009 |
| The Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award is valued at £25,000 (plus for runners up), and looking for the best short story (less than 7,000 words) by an already published UK/Irish author... | |
| Robert J. Sawyer's Rollback being podcast, FlashForward featured on CBC | |||
| News > Books | September 10, 2009 | ||
![]() Robert J. Sawyer's novel FlashForward is featured on CBC Radio's Book Club, as the tv series based on it is set to debut. Meanwhile, his Rollback is offered as a serialized free podcast narrated by Alessandro Juliani...
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| Winners of the Robert A. Heinlein Centennial Short Story Contest finally announced | |||
| News > Contests | September 3, 2009 | ||
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The Heinlein Society's RAH Centennial Short Story Contest was first announced in 2007, and the winners expected to be announced coincident with the centennial of Robert A. Heinlein's birth. A little late, the winners of the $5,000, $2,000, and $1,000 prizes have been announced...
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Baen Books and the National Space Society are sponsoring the fourth annual Jim Baen Memorial Writing Contest, looking for stories up to 8,000 words...
Small press dark fantasy publisher Pill Hill Press is running its second short story writing contest, with cash prizes...
Book View Cafe has published its second in-house anthology, The Shadow Conspiracy, which revolves around the other strange happenings at the gathering which produced Frankenstein...
Publisher Vertigo Comics and Library Journal are giving away prize packs including Bill Willingham's newest Fables novel, and complete sets of all of them...
Paper Golem, which published the collection, and Clarkesworld Magazine, online publisher of three of her stories, are giving away two copies of Cat Rambo's collection Eyes Like Sky and Coal and Moonlight...
Book View Cafe is launching Book View Press, and their first e-book publication is Rocket Boy and the Geek Girls, an anthology featuring the work of 15 members...
Author Rachel Caine is celebrating the publication of her seventh Morganvilla Vampires novel and a full-page publisher ad in People with wonderful goodies for her readers...
Dorchester Publications is giving away a copy of the new DVD release of Jack Ketchum's Offspring for new subscribers to their Horror Newsletter (those already subscribing can also enter)...

Tor is giving away 1,000 copies of both Mistborn and The Eye of the World to introduce new readers to their big fantasy series. Sanderson has also announced the titles of the final two Wheel of Time books, and a chance to meet him personally on his signing tour (deadline is this weekend)...

Robert J. Sawyer's novel FlashForward is featured on CBC Radio's Book Club, as the tv series based on it is set to debut. Meanwhile, his Rollback is offered as a serialized free podcast narrated by Alessandro Juliani...




