Contest Information
Winners are in: 2011
OddContest winners announced |
The OddContest is an annual competition for speculative (science fiction, fantasy, or horror) stories or prose poems no longer than 500 words. The contest has been sponsored since 2008 by OdysseyCon, a science-fiction convention held each April in Madison, Wisconsin. The contest offers cash prizes of $500 for the Adult winner and $50 for the Youth winner, convention memberships, and books in both Adult and Youth divisions.
Marion
Boyer
is a professor emeritus of Communication courses at Kalamazoo Valley Community
College. Her poetry book The Clock of the Long Now (Mayapple
Press, 2009) has
been nominated for the Pushcart Award and the Lenore Marshall Award. Green, Boyer's 2003 poetry collection, was published by Finishing Line Press. Boyer's
poem "She Seemed So Quiet" won first place in the 2008
international poetry competition sponsored by the Science
Fiction Poetry Association. Her work has appeared in numerous literary
journals and anthologies.
An awards ceremony and reading of the 2011 winning entries will be held at OdysseyCon April 8–10, 2011, at the Radisson Hotel in Madison; they will also be published in the OddCon program.
The entry deadline is January 15 each year and results are announced by March 1. See the contest guidelines and our helpful definitions for more information.