The James White Award is pleased to be able to reveal the names of the six stories that have been shortlisted for this year’s award.

They are:

• A Traveller from an Antique Land
• Chrysanthemum
• Circle
• Invocation of the Lurker
• Solvers
• Train in Vain

At present the anonymous judging process is still taking place and so we are not able to offer the names of the shortlisted authors. We will make those names public closer to the date of the Award ceremony – which we can now confirm will take place on the evening of Saturday, 7 April Sunday 8 April at Olympus, the 2012 Eastercon, Radisson Edwardian Hotel, Heathrow.

Entrants whose stories are not named above should consider their stories released by the competition and feel free to submit them to alternative markets.

The James White Award received a record 246 valid entries this year and the process of whittling the stories down to the final six was very difficult. The competition would like to thank all those who took part and to wish you well in your future writing.

The James White Award 2011 is now closed to entries.

We will announce the shortlist as soon as possible – by the end of February at the latest, but we hope to be able to make an announcement before then.

The competition will reopen on 1 June 2012.

The James White Award is pleased to announce the judges for this year’s competition:

Jon Courtenay Grimwood
Jon Courtenay Grimwood has published 11 novels and is a widely published journalist. His novels End of the World Blues and Felaheen won the BSFA Award for Best Novel. The Fallen Blade, the first of three novels set in an alternate 15th-century Venice was published earlier this year by Orbit. He has finished The Outcast Blade, his second book in the sequence, and started work on the third. He is also vice-president of the BSFA.

Juliet E McKenna
Juliet E McKenna is a writer of fantasy novels and short stories, with the occasional foray into science-fiction and dark fantasy.  Her first novel, The Thief’s Gamble, was published in 1999. The Lescari Revolution trilogy, Irons in the Fire, Blood in the Water and Banners in the Wind, was published in the UK and the US by Solaris. Dangerous Waters, the first book of her new fantasy trilogy, The Hadrumal Crisis, is available now from Solaris.

Andy Cox
Andy Cox runs TTA Press, publisher of two of the UK’s longest running and most prestigious speculative fiction magazines: Black Static and Interzone. Interzone has been a long-term supporter of the James White Award, publishing the winning story each year and providing publicity for the competition.

The James White Award is currently open to submissions until 31 January 2012. The winner will be announced at the BSFA Award Ceremony at Eastercon 2012. Visit www.jameswhiteaward.com

The James White Award Short Story Competition 2011 is now accepting submissions. Please read the rules carefully before submitting your story. The closing date for entries is January 31, 2012 and the awards will be presented at Eastercon 2012.

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