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April 05, 2006
ICFA 2006 - Lord Ruthven Assembly Awards
At the awards banquet at ICFA 2006, the LRA announced the following awards:
Fiction: The Historian, by Elizabeth Kostova; Honorable Mention: Fledgling, by Octavia Butler
Nonfiction: Blood Obsession: Vampires, Serial Murder, and the Popular Imagination, by Jorg Waltje
Other Media: Revival of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet production of Dracula, choreographed by Mark Godden to the music of Gustav Mahler
- Stephanie Moss, Division Head: Horror Division
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ICFA 2006 - Dell Magazines Award
The International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts and Asimov's Science Fiction magazine have named Meghan Sinoff the winner of the 2006 Dell Magazines Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing for her short story "Shift." Sinoff is an undergraduate at the University of Florida.
First Runner-up for the 2006 award is Eliza Blair from Swarthmore College for her short story, “Silver Eyes.” Blair was also First Runner-up for the Award in 2005.
Second Runner-up for the 2006 award is Catherine Krahe from Illinois Wesleyan University for her story, “Running After the Twilight Sirens.” Krahe was an Honorable Mention for the award in 2005.
Honorable Mention for 2006 is Eliza Blair from Swarthmore College for her story, “Beast.” Blair is the sole double-finalist for the 2006 award.
Sinoff received $500 for the Asimov award and an expense-paid trip to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, for the annual International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, March 15-19, where she received the award from Sheila Williams, Editor of Asimov’s Science Fiction magazine, during the conference awards banquet. Blair and Krahe also attended the conference and received their awards from Williams during the awards banquet.
The deadline for submissions for the 2007 Dell Magazines Award is postmarked by January 4, 2007. Submissions should be sent to: Dell Magazines Award, School of Mass Communications, University of South Florida, 4202 E. Fowler, Tampa, Fla. 33620. For more information or submission guidelines contact Award Administrator Dr. Rick Wilber at the School of Mass Communications, University of South Florida, 4202 E. Fowler, Tampa, Fla. 33620 at RWilber@cas.usf.edu or see the magazine's website at www.Asimovs.com.
The International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts is a worldwide network of scholars, educators, writers, artists, filmmakers, critics, editors, publishers, and performers who share an interest in studying and celebrating the fantastic in all artforms, disciplines and media: literature, art, film, drama, music, philosophy, religion, the sciences, popular culture, and interdisciplinary areas. IAFA publishes an interdisciplinary quarterly, Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts and also sponsors and organizes the annual International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, (ICFA) which hosts the world's broadest and largest selection of scholarly papers on the fantastic and has become the major forum for the exchange of ideas and dissemination of scholarship on the fantastic.
The Dell Magazines Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing is co-sponsored by Asimov's Science Fiction magazine and the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, and supported by the School of Mass Communications, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.
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