While it isn’t specifically a genre award, sf/f/h tends to do very well (stories SciFiction and Clarkesworld have won), and once again, storySouth is taking nominations for its Million Writers Award, for fiction originally published on the internet (but not self-published) in 2008. Nominations are open until 31 March. Readers can nominate stories on this page, while this other page is for editor nominations.
In this sixth year of the award, Editor Jason Sanford writes that, “due to the economic downturn, the award no longer has a monetary sponsor.” In previous years, first prize had been $300. This year, Sanford announced he was putting up $50 for prize money, and it was matched by storySouth‘s new publisher, Spring Garden Press. Sanford asked for donations to help increase the prize pool. Before we even got this article to press, donations swelled the first prize to $500, while second prize is still $200.
Sponsor storySouth is “a journal of literature from the New South.”