We are using Easy Chair to handle the submissions to the contest. It’s a web application for handling submissions to academic conferences. Clearly, there are features that are not relevant to a short story contest, but it’s a pretty good software, especially when there are multiple judges who are not geographically located.

Easy Chair provides a platform for authors to submit papers (in this case short stories), for referees to download the papers, write their reviews, and discuss reviews, and for conference chairs to send out notifications. It even handles anonymous submissions and conflicts of interest, and hides information from referees and others who shouldn’t see.

If you are submitting to the contest, please do register. This is how we will contacting the winners. It’s free and we won’t be selling your information. There are fields that won’t make sense, such as your organization or university. Go ahead and skip any that don’t apply.

I’m looking forward to seeing your submissions!