Introducing the Eugie Foster Memorial Award for Short Fiction (or Eugie Award). Celebrating the best in innovative fiction, this annual award will be presented for the first time in 2016—for works published in 2015—atDragon Con, the nation’s largest fan-run convention.
The Eugie Award honors stories that are irreplaceable, that inspire, enlighten, and entertain. We will be looking for stories that are beautiful, thoughtful, and passionate, and change us and the field. The recipient is a story that is unique and will become essential to speculative fiction readers.
Eligibility: Original speculative short fiction of 20,000 words or fewer, published—including in print, ebook, or online, individually, or in a magazine, collection, or anthology—for the first time in the English language in the previous year (2015).
This is a juried award, with the long list nominations coming from editors, reviewers, and select readers. In the future, the nominations will be gathered in the first three months of the year, but for our first year, we will be running a bit late. The names of the five finalists will be released before the award recipient is selected.
For more information, contact EugieAward@EugieFoster.com.
Eugie Foster was a Nebula Award-winning author and the long-time editor of the Dragon Con’s Daily Dragon. She died on September 27th, 2014 of respiratory failure related to Lymphoma at Emory University in Atlanta.
