The Neukom Institute for Computational Science at Dartmouth College is accepting book and play submissions for the 2020 Neukom Institute Literary Arts Awards. The Neukom Awards, now in its third year, offers prizes in three categories of speculative fiction. Each category will receive an honorarium of $5,000 at a Dartmouth-sponsored event related to speculative fiction.
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14th November 2019 – The Crown of Chaos – Aaron Hodges The Knights of Alana Book Three Amazon Link If you’re an author, agent or publisher (or just a fan) that would like to add an upcoming release to our Out This Week feature then get in touch with our editor on Pete@ZealotGroup.co.uk with the details.
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5th November 2019 – The Starless Sea – Erin Morgenstern Are you lost or are you exploring? When Zachary Rawlins stumbles across a strange book hidden in his university library it leads him on a quest unlike any other. Its pages entrance him with their tales of lovelorn prisoners, lost cities and nameless acolytes, but they also contain something impossible:
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Akwaeke Emezi’s fantastic debut novel Freshwater has taken the plaudits, and the top prize at this year’s Nommo Awards being declared the Best Novel. Freshwater centers around a young Nigerian woman, Ada, who develops separate selves within her as a result of being born “with one foot on the other side.” The best novella award went to Nerine Dorman for
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28th October 2019 – Devil’s Dream – Shayne Silvers The greatest trick the First Vampire ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn’t exist. Before the now-infamous Count Dracula ever tasted his first drop of blood, Sorin Ambrogio owned the night…and now he’s back. Fleeing Europe and starting a new chapter in his diary of death–one not written in
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Jen Williams continued her recent dominance of the British Fantasy Society Awards with a win for The Bitter Twins in the top category of Best Fantasy Novel. The Bitter Twins is the second of Williams’ Winnowing Flame Trilogy and follows in the footsteps of it’s predecessor, The Ninth Rain, which scooped the top prize at last year’s award ceremony. With
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23rd October 2019 – The Stolen Throne – Adam Alexander Haviaras At the peak of Rome’s might, a dragon is born among eagles, an heir to a line both blessed and cursed by the Gods for ages. What happened to Lucius Metellus Anguis in the wilds of Dumnonia? The Gods have finally granted Lucius and his family what appears to
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Press Release Our goal is to raise $3000 in two weeks! But why a sales drive? Well, in years past we have done magazine subscription drives to help fund the upcoming year of Apex Magazine. Those were always fun, fast-paced, and pretty successful. In May, the magazine went on hiatus, so no need for a subscription drive. As a company, we
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15th October 2019 – The Rosewater Redemption – Tade Thompson Life in the newly independent city state of Rosewater isn’t everything its citizens were expecting . . . Mayor Jacques finds that debts incurred during the insurrection are coming back to haunt him.Nigeria isn’t willing to let Rosewater go without a fight . . .And among the city’s alien inhabitants,
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Author Michael C. Sahd announced today that on August 28, 2019, he released his first full-length fantasy novel, The Unfettered Child. He describes this story as “a psychological thriller in a fantasy setting.” At the end of August 2019, The BookLife Prize published its Critic’s Report of The Unfettered Child, assigning the novel a ranking of 8 out of 10.
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