Last year, a colleague of mine noticed this contest involving a near-future timeline, program source code, and a Vinge-ian flavor, and said ‘you really ought to enter something here. The end result: I did, and my story took the top prize. It will appear later this year as the final chapter in the book Finding [...]
I’m delighted to announce: my story Ritchie Boss: Private Investigator Manager took first place in the Singular Source contest and will be published as the final chapter in the book Finding Source Code on the Web for Remix and Reuse due out later in 2012. The story will be released under a Creative Commons license and will [...]
Found this interesting: writing contest from one of the Random House family companies. The winning novel manuscript gets an in-depth edit, and consideration for publishing. In a similar vein, Angry Robot is accepting unsolicited novel subs during March 2011. Less contest, closer to publishing-as-usual. I don’t know if this is a trend or something that’s [...]