Contests & Awards
June Contest
A Bonanaza of Short Stories
This month we’ve got two great anthologies hitting bookstore shelves, Grantville Gazette VIII and The Year’s Best Military and Adventure SF, Volume 4. Now, we love sinking our teeth into a big ol’ novel as much as the next person, but we also like short stories that pack a punch—and we know our readers do too. So, to make it easy, we’re conducting a random drawing. Simply email contest@baen.com with your name for a chance to win both anthologies, signed by their respective editors.
Send your entry to contest@baen.com no later than June 20th. Put “June Contest” in the subject field and please remember to include your name! One entry per person, please. Winner will be selected at random by the Baen editorial staff.
Baen Fantasy Adventure Award
Baen Books is excited to announce the fourth annual Baen Fantasy Adventure Award. The award recognizes the best original adventure fantasy short story in the style of fantasy greats like Larry Correia, Mercedes Lackey, Elizabeth Moon, Andre Norton, J.R.R. Tolkien, and David Weber.
Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award
Since its early days, science fiction has played a unique role in human civilization. It removes the limits of what "is" and shows us a boundless vista of what "might be." Its fearless heroes, spectacular technologies and wondrous futures have inspired many people to make science, technology and space flight a real part of their lives and in doing so, have often transformed these fictions into reality. The National Space Society and Baen Books applaud the role that science fiction plays in advancing real science and have teamed up to sponsor this short fiction contest in memory of Jim Baen
The Year's Best Military and Adventure Science Fiction
Other anthologies tell you which stories were the year’s best—we’re letting you decide which of these you liked best. Baen Books is pleased to announce the third annual Year's Best Military and Adventure SF Readers’ Choice Award. The award honors the best of the best in this grand storytelling tradition, and its winner will receive an inscribed plaque and a $500 prize. Reward your favorite story, and its author, for excellence!