TIME TRAVEL
Entries accepted Jan. 1 – May 15, 2025

Gregory Frost

Gregory Frost is a writer of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. His latest novel is the second historical “Rhymer” adventure, RHYMER: HOODE, blending the Scottish ballad character Thomas the Rhymer with that of Robin Hood, from Baen Books. The third volume, RHYMER: HEL, will be out this summer, as will a horror novel, THE SECRET HOUSE, from JournalStone. Frost’s latest story collection, BEYOND HERE BE MONSTERS, is available from Fairwood Press (fairwoodpress.com). His previous work, the Shadowbridge duology (DelRey) was an American Library Association Best Fantasy Novel pick. His works have been World Fantasy, Bram Stoker, Nebula, Hugo, International Horror Guild and Theodore Sturgeon award finalists. He taught fiction writing at Swarthmore College for 18 years.

Brenda Peynado

Brenda Peynado is a Dominican American writer of fiction, nonfiction, and screenplays. She often writes about Latina girlhood, class, race, and commodity culture through literary realism, magical realism and near-future science fiction.

Her short story collection, THE ROCK EATERS, was published by Penguin Books in March 2021, and listed as one of NPR.org and the New York Public Libraries best books of 2021. Over forty short stories have appeared in journals such as Tor.com, The Georgia Review, The Sun, Threepenny Review, Epoch, Kenyon Review online, Pleiades, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. Her stories have won a Nelson Algren Award from the Chicago Tribune; an O. Henry Prize; a Pushcart Prize; inclusion in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, Best Small Fiction, and Best Microfiction anthologies; two Vermont Studio Center Fellowships; and other awards.

Rick Wilber

Rick Wilber is an award-winning writer, editor and teacher who has published more than fifty short stories, several novels and short-story collections, three edited anthologies, a memoir, and a half-dozen college textbooks on writing and the mass media.

His most recent novel is Alien Day, the second of a trilogy based on his long-running S’hudonni Empire series of stories. The first book in the trilogy, Alien Morning, was a finalist for the 2016 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction novel of 2016.

Other recent publications include The Wandering Warriors (New Word City, 2020) co-authored with Alan Smale; the short-story collection Rambunctious: Nine Tales of Determination (WordFire Press 2020); Making History: Classic Alternate History Stories (Ed.) (New Word City, 2019); and the collection The Moe Berg Episodes (New Word City, 2018).

He is a Visiting Professor in the low-residency MFA in Creative Writing at Western Colorado University, and he is the co-founder and co-judge with Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine Editor Sheila Williams of the Dell Magazines Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing, awarded annually at the International Conference on the Fantastic in Orlando, Florida.