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 1, 2023
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" |