The Neoverse Short Story Writing Competition received several thousand original entries!

We are humbled and excited about getting the Competition off to such a strong start. Such a broad and diverse set of entries gives us an opportunity to acknowledge truly fantastic short stories and their creators—building the foundation for an impactful, long-term award system.

This Year's Costa Short Story Award

Congratulations to the winner and two runners-up who were announced at the Costa Book Awards ceremony on Tuesday 26th January! They are:

Winner: Danny Murphy for Rogey
Second place: Erin Soros for Fallen
Third place: Annalisa Crawford for Watching the Storms Roll In

http://www.costa.co.uk/costa-book-awards/welcome/

About Finch Books:

Finch Books delivers enlightening, influential and refreshing storylines that are designed to inspire the Young Adult audience of today. The Young Adult genre has become instrumental in shaping the minds and impacting the aspirations of our future generations. Finch Books are honoured to be contributing to this significant wave of literature by providing a dedicated platform for authors and readers.

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Book submissions for the 2016 Wordstock: Portland’s Book Festival will be accepted from January 4 to July 31, 2016.

Dear Literary Arts Insider,
Earlier this month, we announced the 2016 Oregon Book Awards finalists and fellowship recipients. Winners will be named at the 29th annual Oregon Book Awards Ceremony on April 11, hosted by the award-winning author Heidi Durrow.
Oregon Book Awards Ceremony
Monday, April 11 at 7:30 p.m.
Gerding Theater at the Armory
Tickets start at $10, available at
BrownPaperTickets.com.

By the time you read this, Novelspot will have already started celebrating the grand opening of its official domain, novelspot.net. It's been a long, long time in coming, but I'm happy, even thrilled, to say that the site looks terrific. More than that, it's functional (emphasis on fun).

Until now, Novelspot has mostly been involved in the review of romance and erotica books, but that ends with our grand opening, because I'm in charge of the speculative fiction section of the site, which means you're in good hands (or tentacles, when I'm not in my human form).