Neukom Institute Literary Arts Awards Launched

Oct 26, 2017

The Neukom Institute for Computational Science at Dartmouth College has established the Neukom Institute Literary Arts Awards, a program to honor creative works around speculative fiction. While speculative fiction can take various forms related to science fiction and fantasy, the Neukom Institute Literary Arts Awards focuses on near-future creative writing featuring themes relevant to computational work or computing.

The inaugural awards will be announced in spring of 2018 in three categories honoring playwriting and established and first-time authors for literary fiction. Topics related to the societal effects of artificial intelligence, big data, and other digital technologies are examples of themes that are relevant for consideration. Entries will be judged by panels of writers and scientists to be named in the early part of next year. Each award comes with a $5,000 honorarium.

The winning novelists will receive their awards during a Dartmouth-hosted panel to discuss the genre and their work. The award-winning play will be performed in summer 2018 as a reading in Dartmouth’s Department of Theater VoxFest, followed by an additional reading in the New Works Now festival at Northern Stage in White River Junction, Vermont. Additional support will be provided by Dartmouth’s Office of the Associate Dean for the Arts and Humanities.

All works published from June 1, 2015 are eligible for consideration. The deadline for submissions is December 31, 2017.

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