Simply submit your original science fiction writings at ScifiMedHum to get a chance to win £300!
Prizes
- First prize £300
- Second prize £200
- Third prize £150
- Runners-up: £50
How to Win
Simply visit the site on the link below and submit your writing. They invite science-fiction short stories (and also self-contained novel excerpts) of up to 3000 words that address themes of medicine, health, and illness. Some possible ideas for work might be:
- Future/alien medicine and doctors
- Computerized/robotic healthcare
- Engineered diseases and alien plagues
- Future/alien conceptions of health and illness, including mental health and illness
- Utopian/dystopian visions of health, illness, and medicine
- Cosmetic and/or elective surgery/transplantation/modification
- Present and future disabilities, and their social/cultural (de)construction
- Public health and population health, at a global or galactic level
- Alternate medical history (what if a medical pioneer had died young, and/or a particular discovery/advance never been made?)
Entries should be no more than 3000 words, and no entrant may submit more than two entries.
Contest Duration
Contest ends: 29 February 2016
More details at scifimedhums.glasgow.ac.uk