Deadline: 1 November 2011
Contact: dillong@pdx.edu
Imagining Indigenous Futurisms Science Fiction Writing Contest - $1000 Award
Open to Native, First Nations, Indigenous, and Aboriginal students currently enrolled part-time or full-time in any accredited university, college, or high school.
This year's Judge: Acclaimed SF, experimental fiction, and horror writer Stephen Graham Jones (Blackfeet), author of The Fast Red Road: A Plainsong, The Bird Is Gone: A Manifesto, Ledfeather, and much more.
Entrants should submit a personal statement (one paragraph) containing affiliation or descent, student status (the where, the when, the why, and the how much more), and goals for their sf writing, along with the previously unpublished writing sample of approximately 4,000 words.
Contest Deadline: November 1, 2011
Winner announced in December
Send personal statement and previously unpublished sf story (up to 4,000 words) to Professor Grace L. Dillon (Anishinaabe) as attachments to dillong@pdx.edu
Or mail to Professor Grace L. Dillon, Indigenous Nations Studies Program, Portland State University, POB 751, Portland, OR 97207-0751.
Sponsored by the Indigenous Nations Studies Program, Portland State University
More information here.