Winners Announced in Pagan Fiction Award contest

BBI Media and Llewellyn Publications are pleased to announce the winners of the 2008 Pagan Fiction Award contest.  They are:

Grand Prize, a Cash Award of $500, and
publication in PanGaia magazine, to
"A Valkyrie Among Jews" by April

Second Prize, a Cash Award of $250, to
"Black Doe" by Vylar Kaftan

 
Third Prize, a Cash Award of $100, to
"Dead and (Mostly) Gone" by Deborah Blake

The winners were announced at a ceremony on February 17 at PantheaCon in San Jose, California.

All thirteen finalist stories will appear in The Pagan Anthology of Short Fiction: 13 Prize-Winning Tales, published by Llewellyn late in 2008.  Details for the 2009 Second-Annual Pagan Fiction Award contest will be announced in the spring issue of PanGaia, #49, out in May. We thank the hundreds of participants, thirteen finalists, and three judges for making this contest possible.

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. Media contact: Anne Newkirk Niven, Editor-in-Chief, anne1@bbimedia.com.