Sheila Williams, Rich Larson, Jameyanne Fuller, Rick Wilber, Gwendolyn Karpierz, and Kayla Chronister. Photo by Bill Clemente.
Sheila Williams and Rick Wilber presented awards to the winner and runners-up in the yearly Dell Magazines Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing. This year’s winners were:
Winner: Rich Larson, University of Alberta, for “Nostalgia Calculator”
First Runner-up: Noam Altman-Kurosaki, Princeton University, for “The Sons”
Second Runner-up: Rich Larson, University of Alberta, for “The King in the Cathedral”
Third Runner-up: Jameyanne Fuller, Kenyon College, “The Year of Salted Skies”
Honorable Mention: Taimur Ahmad, Princeton University, for “Canyonlands”
Honorable Mention: Jessica May Lin, UC Berkeley, for “Lolita in the Light of Nitroglycerin”
Honorable Mention: Alexandra Gurel, Princeton University, for “The Fire in the Sky”
Honorable Mention: Gwendolyn Karpierz, Colorado State University, for “Autumn Drowning”
Honorable Mention: Kayla Chronister, Seattle Pacific University, for “Swans and Ravens”