Congratulations to all of our winners and contributors for our July 2022 Worldbuilding Short Fiction Contest!
We were thrilled with the pool of talent we were swimming in this go round, which made our job both extremely satisfying but also extremely difficult in choosing our winners. The stories you created transported us to worlds of pure chaos, and we loved every minute of it!
Thanks to our authors for submitting and trusting us with their amazing work; thanks to all of our readers who took time to promote, read, and vote on stories; and a shoutout to our Fictionate.Me literary team, who have worked so hard bringing all of these loose threads together: H.R. Parker, Jillian Karger, K Arce, and Anton Remizov.
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Winners and contributing authors: Our editors will get your manuscript from the site, so you don’t have to submit them again. Just send an email to heather@fictionate.me with a short author bio (4 sentences max) and an author photo.
Once again, congratulations to all our winners and contributors! This will be an incredible collection, and we can’t wait to get it out into the world!
Grand Prize:
1st Place: Radio Silence by Tracy Pitts
2nd Place: The Way the Stars Glow by Hannah Greer
3rd Place: From Jineria by J.P. Raison
4th Place: The Lunar Hunt by Kate Seger
People’s Choice:
1st Place: The World of Ather by Vrisan Shah
2nd Place: Bridge of Questions by Katie Jordan
3rd Place: With Eyes Wide Open by Lore Nicole and The Lunar Hunt by Kate Seger
Best DIY Book Cover:
1st Place: Joyride to Planet Terror by Kim Riot
2nd Place: The Lunar Hunt by Kate Seger
3rd Place: The Upload Cycle by J.C. Lovero
Young Author Grand Prize: (Authors under 18 years of age)
1st Place: The Hell of Hashvan by Shadonovic
2nd Place: Heart of Ash by Sabrina Li
3rd Place: The World of Ather by Vrisan Shah
Contributing Authors:
The Watcher from Above by Jon Besanko
Continent Alpha by Amy Bush
Heretic by Daniel D’Agustino
Infection by DoubleBlind
Bridge of Questions by Katie Jordan
The Upload Cycle by J.C. Lovero
When Once They Radiated by Stephen Malone
Erato’s Song by Casey Melnrick
With Eyes Wide Open by Lore Nicole
Final Hour by Enriko Pratt
Petals in the Snow by Rachel Rackers
Metal Tongue by RatTheBrave
Joyride to Planet Terror by Kim Riot
The Moon Witch’s Brew by Chandra Snicker
A Son, A Gift by Jonathan Sud
Afflicted by Auctor Trevel
Congratulations again to all the winners and contributing authors, as well as to everyone who joined the Unmoored: Worlds of Pure Chaos Worldbuilding Short Fiction Contest!
To winners and contributing authors: Our editors will get your manuscript from the site, so you don’t have to submit them again. Just send an email to heather@fictionate.me with a short author bio (4 sentences max) and an author photo.
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