Sunday 13 June 2010

Nominated for the British Fantasy Award for Best Magazine!

Theaker's Quarterly Fiction #28Theaker's Quarterly Fiction has somehow sneaked on to the shortlist for the British Fantasy Awards. Since I'm currently the administrator of those awards it's a little embarrassing, so a pox on everyone who voted for us!

I'm won't pretend there aren't magazines out there who might have been expected to earn the slot ahead of us. For example the longlist featured brilliant publications like Weird Tales, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Clarkesworld Magazine, Dodgem Logic, Estronomicon and Fantasy Magazine.

So there's a bit of luck in it, and perhaps a bit of gratitude for the work I've done for the BFS, but I'll take it! We did publish some marvellous material last year. The other nominees are Black Static, Cemetery Dance, Interzone, Midnight Street and Murky Depths. Postscripts won the 2009 award, but competed this year as an anthology instead, so it's wide open. Good luck to everyone! Especially us!

3 comments:

  1. Many moons ago at TTA we ran the Zene or Zine Awards (can't remember which), and I was the administrator. Nobody thought it in the least bit suspicious that I won in the Best Writer of Non-Fiction category :-)

    Good luck!

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