Baen Announces 2014 Fantasy Adventure Award

Baen Announces 2014 Fantasy Adventure Award

Baen Books logoAll right, all you aspiring fantasy writers. Here’s your chance to make a splash.

Baen Books has announced a new short story contest for the best original fantasy adventure tale under 8,000 words. They’re accepting entries in all categories of fantasy, including sword and sorcery, epic fantasy, heroic fantasy, urban fantasy, etc. Here’s the official announcement:

Baen Books is proud to announce the inaugural Baen Fantasy Adventure Award, to be given at this year’s Gen Con to the best piece of original short fiction that captures the spirit and tradition of such great storytellers as Larry Correia, Robert E. Howard, Mercedes Lackey, Elizabeth Moon, Andre Norton, J.R.R. Tolkien, David Weber and Marion Zimmer Bradley.

There’s no entry fee, but you’re limited to one entry per person. The story has to be original and not a reprint.

Only entries in English will be considered. Poetry or licensed fiction set in some else’s sandbox (such as Pathfinder, Star Wars, Doctor Who, or Twilight fanfic) will not be considered.

All submissions must be by e-mail. The contest is now open and entries must be submitted by June 30, 2014. A single winner will be announced at this year’s Gen Con.

Complete submission instructions are at the Baen website. Read them carefully, as they include very specific instructions.

Good luck!

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Interesting. And the bottom of the contest page now includes prizes, specifically:

“The GRAND PRIZE winner will be published as the featured story on the Baen Books main website and paid at industry-standard rates for professional story submittals. The author will also receive an handsome engraved award and a prize package containing various Baen Books.”

Marc Tassin

I’m extremely excited about this. I’ve wanted to host a short fiction contest as part of the Symposium from the day I took over, but it’s a BIG undertaking. I was thrilled when Baen asked about making their contest part of the program this year! It’s a great opportunity for folks.

TW

I loved the minor twitter hullabaloo when Weisskopf announced this last week.

Larry “International Lord of Hate” Correia being the final judge set some twittertwits off.


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