Stephen Leech of the University of South Florida won this year’s Dell Magazines Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing, for his short story “Blank, White and Blue.” The award, sponsored by Dell Magazines, was presented Asimov’s Science Fiction Editor Sheila Williams at the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts‘s Conference on the Fantastic. Leech received the $500 prize and an expense-paid trip to the Orlando conference.
Runners up this year were: Seth Dickinson of the University of Chicago, for “Hypocrite” (first runner up); Jeremy Figgins of North Carolina State University for “An Acre in the Woods” (second runner up); Rebekah White of The University of Auckland for “Girl Wonder” (third runner up).
In addition, there were three honorable mentions: Kasey Orrell of North Carolina State University for “Fly True”; Sarah Miller of Bard College at Simon’s Rock for “Clockwork Angels”; and Emily Tersoff of Bard College for “Stay With Me.”
The deadline for submissions for the 2009 Dell Magazines Award is postmarked or submitted by e-mail by 12 January 2009. Submissions should be sent to: Dell Magazines Award, School of Mass Communications, University of South Florida, 4202 E. Fowler, Tampa, FL 33620, or by e-mail to Rick Wilber at RWilber at cas dot usf dot edu or Rickwilber at Roadrunner dot com. For more information or submission guidelines, Wilber, or see either Wilber’s web site.
The Dell Magazines Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing is co-sponsored by Asimov’s Science Fiction magazine and the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, and supported by the School of Mass Communications, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, and the Humanities Institute at the University of South Florida.