Sapiens Plurum Short Fiction Contest 2022

Sapiens Plurum sponsors a short-fiction contest to encourage positive visions for the future. To increase contest accessibility, there is no entry fee

We’re excited to announce the eighth annual short fiction writing contest “Inventing Beautiful Futures”. The winner will receive $1000 for first prize. Second prize is $500 and third is $300. The contest opens on Earth Day each year, and this year it will run through June 1, 2022.   

About Sapiens Plurum Short Fiction Contest 2022

Each year, Sapiens Plurum sponsors a short-fiction contest to encourage positive visions for the future. To increase contest accessibility, there is no entry fee. The prizes range from $1000 for first prize to $300 for third prize.  Each year, we select a different sustainability theme. This year's theme is inventing beautiful futures.

SUBMISSIONS OPEN: APRIL 22 – JUNE 1, 2022

Even within the harmful elements of nature and society there is an innate potential that can be harnessed into something beneficial or even beautiful. Technology can be the tool or catalyst for that transformation. Tell us a story about how you see this story unfold.

Your story should be consonant with the Sapiens Plurum mission: to inspire us — the first species that can intentionally impact its own evolution — to aspire beyond what was humanly possible.

Write a story that uses technology to transform something harmful into something beneficial or even beautiful. From crisis through chaos to social good. Let the reader see this future world through your eyes. Show us how your characters develop and use technology to bring our world to a better place. But most of all, tell a good story, with characters we care about, setting, conflict, and resolution.

Prizes For The Sapiens Plurum Short Fiction Contest 2022

1ST – $1,000 

2ND – $500 

3RD – $300

Submission Rules For The Sapiens Plurum Short Fiction Contest 2022

There is no entry fee.

Authors must be 18 or older to win.

Submissions open Earth Day, April 22 and close midnight anywhere June 1, 2022.

Submissions must be the original work of the submitter, 1500-3000 words, in English.

Decisions of the judges are final.

HOW TO ENTER

• Follow these steps to submit a story. Only one story may be submitted per person.
• Save your story, without your name, as a .pdf file. In order to provide an unbiased, anonymous review, please do not include your name on the story itself. You will be required to enter your name and contact details when you submit.
• Visit our Easy Chair submission page for SPSFC 2022 Sapiens Plurum/FLI Short-Fiction Contest, after the contest opening date.
• You will be asked to log in or to register as a new user at Easy Chair.
• Once you have logged in, click “Add submission”. Fill in your name and address and title of the story.
• Authors must agree to the Terms and Conditions in order to submit your story.
• Upload the .pdf file containing your story.
• Press SUBMIT to complete your entry.
• Judging will take about 6-8 weeks, depending upon the number of entries. Entrants will be informed by email when winners are posted. 

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