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