(Story list updated 08/01/13)
Nominations are open for the 2013 storySouth Million Writers Award, a great award that recognizes online fiction of all genres.
BCS has had stories named to the Million Writers list in past years, and we were runner-up for their Best New Magazine award back in 2008.
Any reader can nominate one story, any story that appeared first online and in 2012. Every story that was in BCS in 2012 is eligible; see below for a list and links to them.
The deadline to nominate is Aug. 3. So if you want to nominate, make sure you do it soon. We thank you for your interest in BCS and our stories.
All Eligible Stories from BCS
Here is the full list of all BCS stories that are eligible for the 2013 Million Writers Award (any story that appeared in 2012).
“Calibrated Allies,” by Marissa Lingen
“The Lady of the Lake,” by E. Catherine Tobler
“The Last Gorgon,” by Rajan Khanna
“The Proof of Bravery,” by David Milstein
“A Place to Stand,” by Grace Seybold
“Shadows Under Hexmouth Street,” by Justin Howe (already nominated)
“The Mote-Dancer and the Firelife,” by Chris Willrich
“The Book of Locked Doors,” by Yoon Ha Lee (already nominated)
“Bearslayer and the Black Knight,” by Tom Crosshill
“The Ivy-Smothered Palisade,” by Mike Allen
“Pridecraft,” by Christian K. Martinez
“To Go Home to Leal,” by Susan Forest
“A Marble for the Drowning River,” by Ann Chatham
“Shades of Amber,” by Marie Croke
“The Magic of Dark and Hollow Places,” by Adam Callaway
“One Ear Back,” by Tina Connolly
“Lady Marmalade,” by E. Catherine Tobler
“How the Wicker Knight Would Not Move,” by Chris Willrich
“Fox Bones. Many Uses.,” by Alex Dally MacFarlane
“The Three Feats of Agani,” by Christie Yant (already nominated)
“Virtue’s Ghosts,” by Amanda M. Olson
“The Heart of the Rail,” by Mark Teppo
“The Tale of the Aggrieved Astrologer,” by Jack Nicholls
“The Angel Azrael Delivers Small Mercies,” by Peter Darbyshire
“Beyond the Shrinking World,” by Nathaniel Katz
“When Averly Fell from the Sky,” by Dean Wells
“Bandit and the Seventy Raccoon War,” by Don Allmon
“The Ascent of Unreason,” by Marie Brennan
“Worth of Crows,” by Seth Dickinson (already nominated)
“Three Little Foxes,” by Richard Parks
“Cursed Motives,” by Marissa Lingen
“Luck Fish,” by Peta Freestone
“A Song of Blackness,” by Nancy Fulda
“They Make of You a Monster,” by Damien Walters Grintalis
“Seeking The Great Raymundo,” by Jamie Lackey
“The Scorn of the Peregrinator,” by John E.O. Stevens
“The Storms in Arisbat,” by Therese Arkenberg
“Casualties,” by Alec Austin
“The Giants of Galtares,” by Sue Burke
“The Castle That Jack Built,” by Emily Gilman (already nominated)
“The Empire of Nothingness,” by Geoffrey Maloney
“Scry,” by Anne Ivy (already nominated)
“Juggernaut,” by Megan Arkenberg
“Sinking Among Lilies,” by Cory Skerry (already nominated)
“The Governess and the Lobster,” Margaret Ronald (selected for Year’s Best SF&F)
“Serkers and Sleep,” by Kenneth Schneyer (already nominated)
“In the Palace of the Jade Lion,” by Richard Parks (named to Locus Recommended Reading List)
“Ratcatcher,” by Garth Upshaw
“Unsilenced,” by Karalynn Lee (already nominated)
“Hold a Candle to The Devil,” by Nicole M. Taylor
“After Compline, Silence Falls,” by M. Bennardo
“Liaisons Galantes: A Scientific Romance,” by David D. Levine
“The Telling,” by Gregory Norman Bossert (already nominated)
“‘His Crowning Glory’: a new tale of the Antique Lands,” by Noreen Doyle
“Death and the Thunderbird,” by Michael J. DeLuca
Thanks very much for considering us and our stories!