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PHP 2012 Stories That Tickled Me – 1/5

As a little encore, I’m going to go out on a limb this week and mention some of the other stories* in the Paul Harland Prize 2012 that I especially enjoyed**. All they have in common is that they went on to be finalists in the Paul Harland Prize 2012 (and as such judged by […]

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And The Winner Is…

The deed is done. After days and days of writing, editing, compiling, collating, formatting, cross-referencing, indexing, cussing and swearing, the 107-page Judging Report on the Paul Harland Prize 2008 is complete. Had I known what I was getting into, I might not have answered in the positive when 2008’s prize organizer Wim Stolk asked me […]

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, Ed.

The bullet is through the church, as they say in Holland. Mynx will indeed be publishing an anthology of the best entries in the 2008 Paul Harland Prize (which I covered in an earlier post, as well as raving about one of the most talented entrants in another). And together with tireless PHP organizer and […]

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The Future Of Horror

It is rumored that after music critic and producer Jon Landau saw Bruce Springsteen play for the first time, he stated that he’d “seen rock and roll future and his name is Bruce Springsteen”. Had I anything like Landau’s authority, I would use my platform to paraphrase him and say the same about horror, and […]

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Has The Jury Reached A Verdict?

It’s great to be on the other side. Winning the Writers of the Future a few years back lead, by a convoluted path through the space-time-continuum, to me being invited to judge the Paul Harland Prize this year. Which in turn has lead to a feeling of embarassment at having ignored the Dutch speculative fiction […]

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