James White Award

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The James White Award is an annual short story competition open to writers from around the world. It was established in 2000 to commemorate the life and work of the Irish science fiction author James White. The competition was created to encourage new writers and is not open to professional authors. "Professional author" is defined as one who is eligible for active membership of the Science Fiction Writers of America – that is, a writer with three short story sales to qualifying markets or one novel sale to a qualifying market. Entries must be 6,000 words or less and written in English. The winning story receives a cash prize and publication in Interzone magazine. The award is sponsored by Interzone and the British Science Fiction Association, which took over the administration of the award in 2010.

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Award history

The winners and judges of the award, from 2001 until 2019. [1] Bold is winner, others are shortlisted entries.

2001

Judging panel: Morgan Llywelyn, Dave Langford, Michael Scott, David Pringle and Michael Carroll.
The award ceremony took place at the Dublin Writers’ Museum.

2002

Judging panel: Ian McDonald, Mike Resnick, Kim Newman, Michael Carroll and David Pringle.
The award ceremony took place in Queen's University Belfast.

2003

Judging panel drawn from the science fiction field in the USA and Europe: Michael Carroll, David Pringle, Orson Scott Card, Christopher Fowler and Graham Joyce.
The award was presented at a ceremony at the Quality Inn in Walsall immediately following the Novacon 32 Science Fiction Convention.

2004

Judging panel drawn from the science fiction field in the USA and Europe: Lois McMaster Bujold, Michael Carroll, Peter F. Hamilton, Christopher Priest and David Pringle.
The award was presented at a ceremony at Winter Gardens, in Blackpool, on Sunday 11 April 2004. This was the venue for Concourse, the National British Convention, also known as Eastercon.

2005

Judging panel: Andy Cox, Jasper Fforde, Michael Carroll, Teresa Nielsen Hayden and the late Robert Sheckley.
The award was presented at Interaction, The World Science Fiction Convention 2005, during the Hugo Award ceremony in the Scottish Exhibition Centre on Sunday 7 August 2005.

2006

Judging panel drawn from the science fiction field in Europe: Kelly Link, Alastair Reynolds, Andy Cox and Michael Carroll.
The award was presented at Octocon, the National Science Fiction Convention in Ireland on Saturday 14 October 2006.

2007

The judges made the decision not to make an award.

2008-9

No competition.

2010

The award was presented at the British Science Fiction Association AGM in June 2010 and the judges included the novelist Ian Whates and the Interzone editor Andy Cox. The winning story was printed in Interzone 232.

2011

Judging panel: the novelists Jon Courtenay Grimwood and Juliet E. McKenna, and the Interzone editor Andrew Cox.
The award was presented at Olympus 2012 on 7 April.

2012/13

Judging panel: Hugo award winner Ian McDonald, Nebula award winner Aliette de Bodard and the Interzone editors Andrew Cox and Andrew Hedgecox.
The award was presented at EightSquaredCon (2013’s Eastercon) in Bradford.

The winning story was published in Interzone issue 246.

A runner up prize was awarded to Philip Suggars for his story Automatic Diamanté. This story was published in Interzone issue 247.

The James White Award changed the date given to the competition in this year - future dates reflect the year the award was presented rather than the date on which the competition opened for entries.

2014

Judging panel: authors Sophia McDougall, Emma Newman and BSFA Award winner Adam Roberts.
The judges awarded a special commendation to Vina Jie-Min Prasad’s Flesh and Bone.

The award was presented at Satellite4 (the 2014 Eastercon) in Glasgow).

The winning story was published in Interzone 253 and in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Second Annual Collection (2015) edited by Gardner Dozois.

2015

Judging panel:f the authors Dave Hutchinson, Stephanie Saulter and Gareth L Powell.
The award was presented at Dysprosium (the 2015 Eastercon) in London).

2016

Judging panel: the authors Neil Williamson, RJ Booth and Ian Sales.
The award was presented at the 2016 Eastercon (Mancunicon) in Manchester.

2017

Judging panel: Lorna Gibbs, David Gullen and Konrad Walewski.
The judges also awarded a special commendation to May the Pain Guide You Home by Daniel Roy.

2018

Judging panel: Anne Charnock, RJ Barker and Una McCormack.
The judges also awarded a special commendation to A Sip of Pombé by Gustavo Bondoni.

2019

Judging panel: Justina Robson, Chris Beckett, and Donna Scott.
The judges also awarded a special commendation to runner up Property Crime by Michael Donoghue – who missed out by the narrowest margin in the award's history.

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References

  1. ↑ "History of the James White Award", James White Award Archived 25 April 2017 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ↑ "Paget Wins 2011 James White Award". Locus . 9 April 2012. Retrieved 23 September 2012.
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