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After months of waiting, we can at last reveal who are the ten runners-up in this year's SFX Pulp Idol fiction writing competition! SFX readers were challenged to write SF or fantasy stories of between 1000 and 2000 words. The closing date was 3 June and the stories were sifted and sorted by the ...
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Pulp Idol runners-up announced
Pulp Idol runners-up announced
blog.fph.co.uk — After months of waiting, we can at last reveal who the ten runners-up in this year's SFX Pulp Idol fiction writing competition! SFX readers were challenged to write SF or fantasy stories of between 1000 and 2000 words. The closing date was 3 June ... (more) Pulp Idol runners-up announced
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SFX — ... and the 10 runners-up here on the site. But here are the 39 other writers whose stories made it through the early stages of the competition to be in our top 50 long-list. The first 14 listed here made it through to a short, short-list of top 25 stories, so they can feel especially proud:“A New Dawn” by Ian McCaig “A Year in the Garden” by Alistair Baxter “An Infusion of Culture” by Peter Irving “Change” by Brian Feltham “Cracks” by Karen Cripps “Look What They’ve Done to my Brains, Ma” by Stuart Moses “Not Other People” by Gruff Jones “Retired Dad vs The World” by Anthony ...

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