I must have been living under a rock for the past week and a half, because Students for Liberty published the special issue of their Ama-Gi magazine on May 9th, featuring the winners and runners-up from the short story contest we held earlier this year.
Once again, here are the 10 stories we selected out of 169 submissions. Head over to the Students for Liberty website or scroll down to read them in the digital magazine.
Even in our supreme confidence (or was it naive optimism?), we didn’t expect to receive 169 submissions for the libertarian short story contest we held with Students for Liberty. But we managed to read through all of the stories and zero in on the best ones in time for our scheduled announcement today. You can read SFL’s official announcement on their website. I’m going to reproduce some of that information here and add a few words of my own.
Without further ado, here are the contest winners and runners-up:
Yesterday was the day the Internet fought back against NSA surveillance.
We took part by adding an interactive banner to LibertarianFictionAuthors.com.
Charter member Mark Tullius also decided to give away his new novella 5 More Perfect Days, companion to his dystopian novel 25 Perfect Days. Like its predecessor, the novella is a series of linked short stories.
Mark is giving away one story from the book each week via Smashwords until March 11th, when he’ll put the whole novella up for sale.
The first, “29-US89N4X,” was made available yesterday. Follow Mark’s blog to get updates when he releases the others.
Charter member Mark Tullius is doing two sales on his books. You’ll have to act quickly to take advantage of the first one.
His novel 25 Perfect Days is a dystopian nightmare that warns of what could happen if we don’t change our ways.
It is on sale right now (1/25/14–1/28/14) on Kindle for $0.99. Get it at this bargain price while you can, because the normal price is $5.99.
After the sale on 25 Perfect Days ends, the sale on dystopian novel Brightside begins.
Brightside is a science-fiction thriller about a group of telepaths the government imprisons in a beautiful mountain town.
It is our pleasure to announce that we have teamed up with Students For Liberty to hold a contest to find the best libertarian short stories.
There is no fee to enter the contest, and you stand to win a number of prizes, including up to $300, a full year of supporting membership in the association for free (a $60 value), and publication in SFL’s creative arts magazine Ama-Gi and an anthology.
Follow the link below for the contest rules and entry submission form:
We believe that dramatizing our values in fiction is one of the most important ways we can spread the message of liberty. So send us your visions of liberty, but make sure you don’t forget to craft a work of art while putting that vision into words.
I give you, in alphabetical order, the 19 charter members of the Libertarian Fiction Authors Association:
There will never be a 20th.
A few years ago I launched Prometheus Unbound, a webzine providing news and reviews of speculative fiction from a libertarian perspective, in part to help other libertarians find good stories that reflect their values and in part to promote libertarian fiction.
I want to see more libertarians creating high-quality works of fiction. Prometheus Unbound is still a valuable project with a role to play, but today it is my pleasure to announce a new project aimed at cultivating libertarian authors and improving discoverability of their work: the Libertarian Fiction Authors Association.
The Libertarian Fiction Authors Association began as a simple mastermind and writing group on a Google Groups email list, a place for libertarians (broadly defined) who are aspiring or already published fiction authors (of any genre) to lend each other support and encouragement, share tips, critique each others’ works-in-progress, and more.
That email list still exists and is our main mode of communication with each other, but it quickly became a much more ambitious project.
And so, the association and this website were born.
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