Hadley Rille Books and the National Space Society (NSS) are co-sponsoring “Return to Luna: A Short Story Science Fiction Contest.” Winning stories will be featured in an anthology to be published by Hadley Rille later this year, and winning authors will receive one-year memberships in the NSS.
The contest administrators are looking for “science fiction stories that show the adventure of lunar settlement. We want to feel the romance of life there, the wonder of the lunar frontier, of its magnificent desolation. We prefer near future (50 to 150 years from now), realistic stories about human lunar settlement. We want good characterization and well-written, tight prose. We want to feel what it’s like to live on the Moon.” Entry deadline, for stories 2,000-6,000 words long, is 15 June 2008. This page has full guidelines and some ideas.
Winning stories will be selected by a jury of authors and editors, including Michael A. Burstein, Tom Dupree, Jude-Marie Green, Jay Lake, Geoffrey A. Landis, Christopher McKitterick, Eric T. Reynolds, Lawrence M. Schoen, Allen Steele, and SFScope editor Ian Randal Strock.