The IAFA Imagining Indigenous Futurisms Award recognizes emerging authors who use science fiction to address issues of Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination.
To be considered for the award, submit the following:
- 200-word statement with background & goals in writing SF
- 4,000-word maximum writing sample addressing Indigenous perspectives
Deadline: December 1st
Send your materials as attachments to Professor Grace L. Dillon (dillong@pdx.edu)
- Use Word Document or PDF format
- Name and Page numbers on story and bio
- Double space the story and use 12-point font
- Proof the work for typos and other errors.
The contest winner will be announced at the ICFA Awards Banquet and on the Imagining Indigenous Futurisms Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/groups/349927541693986. Not a member? Think about joining!
This year’s judge: acclaimed author Andrea Hairston
The Master of Poisons https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250260543
Other Novels:
Will Do Magic for Small Change and Redwood and Wildfire
Published by Aqueduct Press at http://www.aqueductpress.com/
Website: http://www.andreahairston.com
Past Winners of the Imagining Indigenous Futurisms Award
| Year | Awardee |
|---|---|
| 2023 | Alina Pete (they/them/theirs) (Little Pine First Nation) "Telling the Soul of Mars" |
| 2021 | Gina McGuire (ʻŌiwi, Polish) "Over and Away Again" |
| 2020 | Lennixx-Nickolai Treat Bad Moccasin (Dakota and Mnicoujou Lakota, Cheyenne River Sioux) "The Box" |
| 2019 | Julia A. Thompson (Osage-Cherokee-Quapaw) "White Tide" |
| 2017 | Co-winners Weyodi (Comanche) "Red Lessons" and Li Boyd (Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe) "Everyday Strays" |
| 2016 | Co-winners Cleo Keahna (Ojibwe) "Transmission" and Cathy Smith (First Nations) "Liquid Courage" |
| 2015 | Cara Mumford (Metis / Chippewa Cree) "The Whale Danced" |
| 2014 | Zeera Nemo (Bodewadmi) "There Were Three Sisters" |
| 2013 | Marek Tupy "SE’QUAM LANDING" |
| 2012 | Lucas Rawley (Inupiag/Scottish) "Catch and Release" |
| 2011 | Jeanette Weaskus (Nez Perce Idaho) "Children of the Basalt" |
| 2010 | Isaac Mayo (Wappo) "No Signal" |