Thursday, January 27, 2011

Free contest, Imagining Indigenous Futurisms Science Fiction Writing Contest, prize: $1,000

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status (the where, the when, the why, and the how much more), and goals for their sf writing, along with the previously unpublished writing sample of approximately 4,000 words.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Send personal statement and previously unpublished sf story (up to 4,000 words) to Professor Grace L. Dillon (Anishinaabe) as attachments to dillong@pdx.edu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.