Writing Contest Finalists!
We wrangled and we read and we processed over 300 entries. It was hard, but we got the list down to ten finalists, and here they are!
- S Rain Lawrence – Minnesota
- Douglas Wu – Connecticut
- Steven Berger – Texas
- Jamie Adams – Minnesota
- Sam Tovey, United Kingdom
- Tiffany Smith – Texas
- Andrew J. Savage – Japan
- Rose Wachowski – Virginia
- Samantha Lynne Sargent – Canada
- Claire Whitmore, Madison – Wisconsin
Stay tuned for the finalists from the art contests. Winners of both will be announced on November 15.
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Jessica Eanes
Jessica Eanes, also known as Anaea Lay, lives in Chicago, Illinois, where she engages in a numinous love affair with the city. She’s the fiction podcast editor for Strange Horizons, and has had her short fiction published in a variety of venues including Lightspeed, Apex, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and Pod Castle. Her CYOA interactive game, "Gilded Rails" was released by Choice of Games in 2018. It features a demonic cat, an implausibly efficient accountant, and far too many potential romantic interests. For fun she reads, cooks, eats, plays board games, interrogates people about the logistics of their chosen field, and forms intricate business plans over brunch.