Rogue Blades Entertainment Announces Winners of Challenge! Discovery 2010 Contest
Back in May Rogue Blades Entertainment, publishers of Rage of the Behemoth, Demons, Return of the Sword and other excellent fantasy anthologies, announced the first annual Challenge! writing contest. Open to fiction in a wide variety of genres (“Sword & Sorcery, Sword & Planet, Soul & Sandal, Western, Mystery, Dark Fantasy” and others), the Challenge! Discovery contest invited authors to submit works directly inspired by a single piece of art by V Shane, pictured at right.
The winners of the Challenge! Discovery 2010 writinng contest are (in no particular order):
“A Fire in Shandria” ~ Frederic S. Durbin
“In the Ruins of the Panther People” ~ Daniel R. Robichaud
“The Serpent’s Root” ~ David J. West
“Fire Eye Gem” ~ Richard Berrigan Jr.
2nd PLACE: “Cat’s in the Cradle” ~ Nicholas Ozment
“Some Place Cool and Dark” ~ Frederic S. Durbin
“The Ash-Wood of Celestial Flame” ~ Gabe Dybing
“Witch with Bronze Teeth” ~ Keith J. Taylor
“Inner Nature” ~ John Kilian
1st PLACE: “Attabeira” ~ Henrik Ramsager
Honorable mentions go to Eric Magliozzi for “Songs of the Dead,” and Michael Navarro for “The Golden Maiden.”
The winning entries will be collected in the Challenge! Discovery anthology, to be published by Rogue Blades Entertainment around Christmas this year. More information on the contest results and the upcoming book is here.
Congratulations to all the winners! I’m looking forward to reading the stories.
Well thank YOU for the shout-out Mr. O’Neill!
And don’t forget Ryan Harvey’s spectacular review of Return of the Sword back in 2008 http://www.blackgate.com/fiction-review-the-return-of-the-sword/…though it could use an updated cover image (from right here http://www.roguebladesentertainment.com/products/rb-presents/rb-presents-anthologies/return-of-the-sword/)
Seems like an interesting anthology. 🙂
Could someone please offer me a definition of Soul & Sandal? I can’t seem to find it anywhere. Unless it’s a typographical error and meant be Sword and Sandal.
Thanks Jason! I added a link to Ryan’s RETURN OF THE SWORD review. I’m having trouble updating the cover image, though.
Hi Mandrake,
I should let Jason respond, since it’s his term, but I’ve always assumed it to mean “Biblical Era” fantasy. Like “Ben Hur.” 🙂
Oh! I see, that makes sense 😀 Thank you!
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