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April 05, 2007
Bokenkamp from Stanford Named 2007 Dell Magazines Award Winner
The International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (IAFA) and Asimov's Science Fiction magazine have named Natty Bokenkamp the winner of the 2007 Dell Magazines Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing for his short story "The Uncanny Valley." Bokenkamp is an undergraduate at Stanford University.
First Runner-up for the 2007 award is Rahul Kanakia, also of Stanford, for his short story, “Money is the Best Damn Thing There Is.”
Second Runner-up for the 2007 award is Natty Bokenkamp of Stanford for the short story, “Cargo.”
Third Runner-up for 2007 is Rahul Kanakia from Stanford for “The Silent Horde.”
Honorable Mention for the 2007 award goes to Stephen Leech of the University of South Florida for his short story, “The Whale-Zeppelin Canard,” and to Eliza Blair of Swarthmore College for her short story, “Tangle,” and to Seth Dickinson of the University of Chicago for his short story, “Claymore Three-Zulu.” Blair was first runner-up for the award in both 2005 and 2006.
Bokenkamp received $500 for the award and an expense-paid trip to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, for the annual Conference on the Fantastic, March 14-18, where he received the award from Sheila Williams, Editor of Asimov's Science Fiction magazine, during the conference awards banquet. Kanakia and Leech also attended the conference and received their awards from Williams during the awards banquet.
The deadline for submissions for the 2008 Dell Magazines Award is postmarked by January 8, 2008. 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 (813) 974-6792 or RWilber@cas.usf.edu or see the magazine's website at www.Asimovs.com, or Wilber’s website at http://www.rickwilber.com/dell%20award.htm
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, the IAFA Newsletter, and an annual IAFA Membership Directory. IAFA 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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