ASU announces announce the 10 winners of the 2018 Cli-Fi short story contest
ASU received a huge response to this year’s annual contest — the 2nd in as many years -- with more than 500 submissions from over 60 countries — and the judges said they were incredibly impressed by all the stories sent in from around the world. See below for more information about the contest, the judging process, and the forthcoming free digital anthology of the 2018 winning stories.
Grand Prize Winner — US$1,000 prize
Barbara Litkowski, “Monarch Blue,” from Butler College in the USA
Finalists — US$50 prize
Sandra Barnidge, “The Last Grand Tour of Albertine’s Watch,” from Alabama in the USA
TWEETED:
''Holy moly, I'm super thrilled to be a finalist in the .@imaginationASU Everything Change #clifi contest! Appreciate the personal feedback from Kim Stanley Robinson and looking forward to the free digital anthology later in the fall. KSR's personal comment to her about her story: "authentically sad."''
Vajra Chandrasekera, “Half-Eaten Cities,” from Sri Lanka
''My story “Half-Eaten Cities” was a finalist in Arizona State University’s cli-fi fiction contest. Kim Stanley Robinson in a personal comment to me called it a “prose poem of a story.” It will be published in a free-to-download anthology later in the year! ''
Anthony Dietz, “Darkness Full of Light,” from USA
tonydietz.com - Anthony is an Aussie, recently from New Hampshire, who is now living, running, and writing in the Sonoran Desert in the USA. Anthony is 53 years old and was born on 9/30/1964. Currently, he lives in Phoenix, AZ; and previously lived in Hanover, NH, West Yarmouth, MA and San Mateo, CA. Sometimes Tony goes by various nicknames including Anthony J Dietz and Anthony JDeitz.
David Hudson, “Luna,” from Malta in Europe
TWEETED:
''So happy to announce that my story, 'Luna' is a finalist in the #EverythingChange Cli-Fi Fiction contest and will be published in an anthology soon. Luna, the orca, is an ambassador for love for our planet. Thank you @ASU for the opportunity. Let's keep talking about Climate Change.''
Jean McNeil, “The Most Beautiful Voyage in the World,” UK
TWEETS AT @jeanmcneilwrite
Jean McNeil, born 1968, is a Canadian fiction and travel author. She is a Reader in Creative Writing and co-convenor of the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) at the University of East Anglia.
She grew up on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia. She presently lives in London.
Jean writes: "I am the author of 13 books, including 6 novels and a collection of short fiction, a collection of poetry, a travel guide and literary essays. In 2016 Ice Diaries: an Antarctic Memoir, won the Grand Prize at the Banff Mountain Film Festival Book Competition. A novel, The Dhow House, was published by Legend Press in the UK in September 2016 and by ECW Press in Canada and the US in 2017. A new novel, Fire on the Mountain, was published in the UK with Legend in February 2018.''
Leah Newsom, “Orphan Bird,” Arizona
Leah Newsom Retweeted
TWEETED:
Announcing the winners of our 2nd climate fiction contest, cohosted with @piper_center! With entries ..., this collection features cli-fi short stories across a wide variety of styles.
Mitch Sullivan, “The Office of Climate Facts,” Australia
Jean-Louis Trudel, “Losing What We Can’t Live Without,” from Canada
ASU congratulates these 10 writers and wants to express its gratitude to all of the authors who participated in the 2018 contest and shared their visions of the future with the university.
About the Contest
In the wake of Earth’s hottest year on record, the effects of climate change are more apparent than ever. But how do we come to grips with the consequences on the ground, for actual people in specific places? If our political responses and our empathy for people besieged by the consequences of climate change fall short, perhaps we need new cli-fi stories to help us imagine possible futures shaped by climate change and our reactions to it.
In 2016, the first year of the contest, ASU hosted the inaugural Cli-Fi Short Story Contest, inviting writers from around the world to submit stories exploring climate change, narrating a world in flux. ASU was thrilled then to receive submissions from over 60 countries, and to publish 12 finalists in a free digital anthology, titled, after Margaret Atwood's famous phrase, Everything Change.
For this 3rd edition ASU broadened the scope, inviting submissions in all genres of short fiction, including cli-fi, speculative fiction, realistic, literary fiction, experimental fiction, hybrid forms, and more. Climate change and man made global warming as hyperobjects are so massive and sometimes so ineffable that we need all of the tools of narrative to adequately understand it and share stories and experiences about it.
About the Judging Process
All submissions were subject to multiple rounds of blind review by an editorial board that included ASU experts on sustainability, environmental science, environmental history, climate fiction, and creative writing. The final round of judging was conducted by award-winning climate fiction novelist Kim Stanley Robinson. -- (author of the recent cli-fi novel "New York 2140".)
Coming Soon at the end of this year: a free downloadable 2018 Cli-Fi Short story Anthology
The grand prize winner and finalists will appear an online anthology, published in late 2018, which will be free to download, read, and share.
The grand prize winner and finalists will appear an online anthology, published in late 2018, which will be free to download, read, and share.
ASU in Arizona announces the 10 winners of the 2018 ''Cli-Fi'' short story contest, with judging and comments by ''cli-fi'' novelist Kim Stanley Robinson
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