International Aeon Award Short Fiction Contest, 2013

deadline: The submission deadline for the first round is March 31st

prizes: Grand Prize: €1000

Second Prize: €200

Third Prize: €100

Plus guaranteed publication in Albedo One for the top three stories

as chosen by our esteemed Grand Judges

Ian Watson, Mike Resnick, Todd McCaffrey and Michael Carroll.

The First Place winner will also have the option of publication in the Storywire section of the excellent Authorlink.com.

Welcome! Scroll down to find the full set of rules and guidelines for entering your short story in the International Aeon Award Short Fiction Contest, 2013. The Aeon Award is a prestigious fiction writing competition for short stories in any speculative fiction genre, i.e. fantasy, science fiction, horror or anything in-between or unclassifiable. The Aeon Award short fiction contest has been running since 2004 and has a Grand Prize of €1000 and publication in Albedo One! Second and third place contest prizes are €200 and €100 as well as guaranteed publication in Albedo One, the leading Irish magazine of science fiction, fantasy and horror. This year the contest ends on November 30th.

Entering the Contest is Simple!

(1) Make sure to read the conditions and guidelines further down this page, and if your story is science fiction, fantasy or horror, is less than 10,000 words in length and has not been previously published, simply paste it into the body of an email with your contact details and send it to fraslaw@yahoo.co.uk with “Aeon Award Submission” as the Subject of the email.

(2) Pay the €7.50 entry fee, which we have kept as low as is feasible, by simply clicking on this link, which brings you to a page where you can add the fee to your shopping cart. Once that’s done, click on the Cart button on the menu at the top right of the webpage, and then choose Checkout. From here, you’ll be able to use your credit or debit cards to pay the fee through PayPal, which is fast and secure. Try it, it’s easier than you think!

We understand that rules in fiction contests and writing competitions can be confusing, so we’ve created a Frequently Asked Questions page for the Aeon Award Contest. We also welcome queries and questions, no matter how small, by email, to Frank Ludlow, at fraslaw@yahoo.co.uk

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