Introducing your authors - round A!

The other day Sorin asked me why on earth we have author announcements 'round one' and 'round a'.  I explained it's because both groups are equally awesome!

With no further ado, here are the other authors participating in the 'In Memory' anthology:

• Anna Mattaar, Netherlands, www.annamattaar.nl.  Writer for computer games and soon-to-be novelist.
• Charlotte Slocombe, UK, student and future writing superhero
• Steven McKinnon, UK, independent author
• R McK, UK, freelance writer
• P E, UK, pioneer of the dramatic arts

Plus three more who are remaining a mystery for the time being.

Meet your authors (round one!)

Now that acceptances have been sent out, we're happy to let you know who our authors are.  Round one is below (round 'A' will be following shortly!).  We judged submissions based on their quality, not on whether the writer had been published before.  As such, we have a fantastic mix of published and unpublished authors, who are all coming together for this fantastic cause.

• Michael Schaefer, Germany (new author)
• Mike Reeves-McMillan, New Zealand (prolific novelist, website: http://csidemedia.com/gryphonclerks/)
• J E Nice, UK (fantasy and paranormal writer)
• Caroline Friedel, Germany (scientifically prolific)
• Chris Drew, UK (new author)
• Peter Knighton, UK (new author)
• Jay Vee Choong, Malaysia (published in Esquire Malaysia and KL Noir Yellow)
• DK Mok, Australia (novels include The Other Tree and Hunt for Valamon, website: http://www.dkmok.com/)
• Luke Kemp, UK (writer for criticalgamer.co.uk)
• Faiz Kermani, France (award-winning children's author, website: http://www.faizkermani.com/)
• Cristian Englert, Netherlands (novelist, previously published in Romanian)

Many of our writers will be doing guest blog posts over the upcoming months, so keep an eye out!

All authors have been notified!

All authors who responded to the call for submissions have now been emailed, and all rejections and acceptances sent out.  In the end we had hundreds of submissions, 43 short-listed authors, and 19 selected.  We saw an amazing variety of texts, from people in all kinds of positions and all over the world.  We had to make some very difficult choices due to the high quality of submissions received, and we look forward to producing a truly excellent anthology.

Submission are closed!

Thanks to everybody who submitted their ideas and writing samples.  Further correspondence will be going out in the next few days, so don't panic if you haven't heard from us yet.

In the interim, this is where our several hundred submissions came from:

Final day for submissions!

It's the final day for submissions for the anthology, so if you want to take part, get in quick!  We must receive your submission by midnight on May 31st (check the current time here).

We've received a huge number of fantastic submissions so far, and look forward to producing a truly excellent collection.  We have been using a short-listing process for likely candidates (barring those who have submitted in the last few days), and final selections will be made by June 7.  We are also trying to give feedback to all unsuccessful submissions, so bear with us—it may take us a little time to get to you.

- Laura