PanGaia magazine and Llewellyn Publications are pleased to announce the finalists from the Pagan Fiction Award contest. These thirteen stories, listed alphabetically by title, earned the top scores:

"The Bitter Herbs of Camelot" by A.C. Fisher Aldag
"Black Doe" by Vylar Kaftan
"Dead and (Mostly) Gone" by Deborah Blake
"Draw Down" by Alex Bledsoe
"From Our Minds to Yours" by C.S. MacCath
"A Nose for Magic" by Eugie Foster
"The Rune Hag's Daughter" by Linda Steele
"Seabird" by Paula R. Stiles
"Selk River" by Melodie Bolt
"Silkie's Diary" by A.C. Fisher Aldag
"Under a Double Rainbow" by Sophie Mouette
"A Valkyrie Among Jews" by April
"We Have Come Home" by A.L. Waldron

First, second, and third prize winners chosen from this list of finalists will be announced at PantheaCon, taking place in San Jose, California February 15-18, 2008. (See http://www.pantheacon.com for more details on the convention.) We encourage authors of finalist stories to attend the award ceremony. Certificates will be issued to honor all of the finalists, including the three winners. We congratulate these authors for their exemplary contributions to Pagan literature! We also thank all the other entrants for participating in the contest; we received many wonderful stories and we appreciate your enthusiasm. The stories will appear in a book titled The Pagan Fiction Anthology of Short Fiction: 13 Prize Winning Tales to be published by Llewellyn in October 2008. Watch for further updates on the Pagan Fiction Award and the anthology as we continue to promote the exciting field of Pagan literature.

Llewellyn is the oldest and largest independent New Age publisher in the United States, celebrating over a century of publishing books on such subjects as mysticism, alternative health, self-help, divination, astrology, tarot, the paranormal, paganism, goddess lore, Wicca and magick. Llewellyn is proud to support new Pagan literature. Media contact: Alison Aten, Publicity Manager, alisona@llewellyn.com.

BBI Media is the leading publisher of Pagan and Goddess-affirming magazines in North America, with three quarterly titles -- newWitch, PanGaia, and SageWoman -- reaching over 200,000 readers each year. BBI is proud to provide the cash prizes to the Pagan fiction award winners, and to support Pagan short fiction through both this contest and by publishing Pagan short fiction in PanGaia and newWitch. Media contact: Anne Newkirk Niven, Editor-in-Chief, ads@bbimedia.com.