Three science fiction/fantasy short stories about Mars have been nominated for the 2009 storySouth Million Writers Award for Fiction. The award is sponsored by the online literary journal storySouth and is presented to the“best online fiction of the year.” Both the award and the journal are the brainchild of SF&F writer and editor Jason Sanford. Here are the three Mars stories:
• "Is There Life on Mars?" (2008), by Kyle Hemmings, published online at Juked.com in April 2008
• "The Film-makers of Mars" (2008), by Geoff Ryman, published online at Tor.com in December 2008
• “Willpower” (2008), by Jason Stoddard, published online at Futurismic.com in January 2008
More than 300 other online short stories have been nominated for the 2009 storySouth Million Writers Award for Fiction. Preliminary judges are in the process of reading the nominated stories and sending their selections to Jason Sanford, who will post the list of notable stories by April 15th. Then, Sanford will post the top ten selections around May 1st, at which time fan voting for the best story begins!
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