Free Story – Call of the Sea
Call of the Sea – Free Story
Call of the Sea has been nominated for the 2017 Sir Julius Vogel awards, however, to get on the shortlist, a story must be nominated multiple times. Call of the Sea, published in At the Edge (Paper Road Press 2016), is a dark story exploring grief, loss and hope.
If you have read Call of the Sea and enjoyed it, please feel free to nominate it before 8pm Friday 31 March, on the SJV Awards nomination form. (Nomination info & background to the story are at the bottom of this post).
This is the last year I am eligible for the Sir Julius Vogel New Talent award (for authors in their first 4 years after initial publication.) If you like my work, feel free to nominate me for New Talent too. Just fill out the form and tell them, in a few sentences, what you like about my stories and books.
You can nominate any science fiction, fantasy or horror work published in New Zealand 2016, including films. Anyone can nominate worldwide. Voting for the shortlisted entries takes place at Lexicon, the National Science Fiction and Fantasy convention in Taupo in June, by members of SFFANZ or Lexicon. Guidelines are here.
Thank you for reading Call of the Sea. SJV Awards nomination form
Nomination Information:
- Title: Call of the Sea,
- Author: Eileen Mueller.
- Work: Short Story.
- Category: Best Short Story.
- Genre: Fantasy.
- Publisher: Paper Road Press, 2016. At the Edge anthology.
Just in case you’re wondering where this dark story came from, the background for Call of the Sea is here.
