Competition: The Aeon Award Run By: Albedo One Genre: short story Prize: up to €1000 Deadlines: 31st March, 30th June, 30th September, 30th November

Albedo One is Ireland's longest-running and foremost magazine of the Fantastic. Since 1993, we have published
stories of both Irish and international authors which push at the boundaries of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror.

The contest opens 1st January, and runs for four rounds throughout the year. The submission deadline for the first round is March 31st , the second round June 30th, the third round September 30th and the final round November 30th. The final round is of two months duration, the rest of three months. Each round begins immediately after the end of the previous round (i.e. you may submit at any time from 1st Jan to 30th Nov).

At the end of each round, the best story submissions received within each round will be chosen by a panel of judges and shortlisted for the Award. The stories chosen for short listing in each round will be announced here on the Albedo One website (www.albedo1.com) shortly after the end of each round, as the contest proceeds. Shortlists and final results will also be printed in Albedo One magazine.

The top three winning stories will be chosen from the six highest-ranking stories on the shortlist by renowned science fiction, fantasy and horror author Ian Watson. The decisions of the judging panel, and thereafter of grand judge Ian Watson, are final. No correspondence will be entered into in this regard.

Submission Format & Addresses
Entries should be no more than 8,000 words and must be typed, double spaced on one side of A4 (or equivalent) paper, and submitted by post to:

Aeon Award
8 Bachelor's Walk
Dublin 1
Republic of Ireland

Alternatively, entrants may submit their work by e-mail to fraslaw@yahoo.co.uk Submissions must be pasted within the body of the email, attachments can not be opened for security reasons. Submissions must also clearly have the words “Aeon Award Submission” in their subject lines to prevent mislabelling as spam.

Receipt of email submissions will be acknowledged. If you have not received an acknowledgement one week after submitting by email, please send a query to THIS email address.

Multiple entries are allowed throughout the period of the contest. Submissions are judged anonymously by our judges. You may submit any number of stories, and have any number of stories on the shortlist. No prejudice is held against authors with more than one submission, or with more than one shortlisted story.

Entries are allowed from ALL nationalities, though entries must be in the English language.

There is no minimum word limit for submissions to the Award, though a maximum of 8000 words applies.

Further details here.

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