We all have our favorite superheroes. Who do superheroes look up to? Is it someone braver, stronger, or is it the most unlikely person you could ever imagine? Write a story around this permise. Remember: Challenges are supposed to be fun, but don’t forget to stretch yourself and take risks. If you normally write fantasy, […]
Author: Jaime Moyer
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Tor’s Nightfire imprint is opening to unagented submissions of novels and novellas June 15-June 22. They are looking for novels and novellas across the breadth of the horror genre. Full information and details are here.
Editor’s Choice Award June 2020, Short Story
The Editors’ Choices are chosen from the submissions from the previous month that show the most potential or otherwise earn the admiration of our Resident Editors. Submissions in four categories — science fiction chapters, fantasy chapters, horror, and short stories — receive a detailed review, meant to be educational for others as well as the […]
On The Shelves
My Calamity Jane by Jodi Meadows, Brodi Ashton and Cythnia Hand Welcome to 1876 America, a place bursting with gunslingers, outlaws, and garou—better known as werewolves. And where there are garou, there’re hunters: the one and only Calamity Jane, to be precise, along with her fellow stars of Wild Bill’s Traveling Show, Annie Oakley and […]
Member News Of Note
All of us at OWW are thrilled to announce that Fran Wilde’s novel Riverland is the winner of this year’s Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction. Major congratulations from all of us. Yay, Fran!
Member News Of Note
The finalists for the 2020 Locus awards have been announced. OWW alumni continue to be recognized for excellence and as some of the best in the field of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Huge congratulations to all of you and good luck! Best Science Fiction Novel Ancestral Night by Elizabeth Bear Best Novella A Time To […]
Editor’s Choice Award May 2020, Fantasy
The Editors’ Choices are chosen from the submissions from the previous month that show the most potential or otherwise earn the admiration of our Resident Editors. Submissions in four categories — science fiction chapters, fantasy chapters, horror, and short stories — receive a detailed review, meant to be educational for others as well as the […]
Editor’s Choice Award May 2020, Science Fiction
The Editors’ Choices are chosen from the submissions from the previous month that show the most potential or otherwise earn the admiration of our Resident Editors. Submissions in four categories — science fiction chapters, fantasy chapters, horror, and short stories — receive a detailed review, meant to be educational for others as well as the […]
Editor’s Choice Award May 2020, Horror
The Editors’ Choices are chosen from the submissions from the previous month that show the most potential or otherwise earn the admiration of our Resident Editors. Submissions in four categories — science fiction chapters, fantasy chapters, horror, and short stories — receive a detailed review, meant to be educational for others as well as the […]
Publication News
Karen L. Kobylarz has great news to share: “My story “As Day Follows Night,” an Editor’s Choice in June 2018, was published in the March 2020 issue of Eldritch Science. It also won first place in the 2019 N3F Short Story Contest. Thank you to everyone who reviewed this story in its many incarnations.”