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    Brent Knowles – Writer of the Future!

    Win! Well the news is (finally!) out and I am ecstatic. I’ve placed first in the Writers of the Future Contest for the third quarter. I’ve known for a couple weeks, but have had to wait until Joni Labaqui (the contest director) had posted the results. During the wait I’ve been scouring the Writers of the Future website (watching the podcast of the last awards ceremony, et cetera), and reading blogs of past contest winners. (I’ve also been writing a new story but to be honest this whole ‘excited over winning’ thing has been a bit distracting) First, I want to congratulate the other third quarter winners Adam Colston (2nd…

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    Nebula Season

    The nomination period for the Nebula Awards has opened up and several writer blogs that I follow are now listing eligible works. Here are a couple of so far: Mike Allen, who had a nomination last year for the “The Button Bin” has a couple of new stories, including “The Blessed Days” in Tales of the Talisman, which I read and really enjoyed. There is also “Stone Flowers”, which I have not read yet but will be doing so shortly. He also lists the contributors to Clockwork Phoenix 2, which I have not read yet but the previous volume had some truly excellent stories. Dr. Phillip Edward Kaldon has written…