Helix has been awarded Honorable Mention for best new online magazine of 2006 in the Million Writers Award competition, sponsored by storySouth magazine.

Four Helix stories have made the "Notable Short Stories of 2006" list, which is the long list for the Million Writers Award: "City of Chimeras" by Richard Bowes (Helix #1), "Mahmoud's Wives" by Janis Ian (Helix #1), "Put Up Your Hands" by Terry Bisson (Helix #2) and "Tonino and the Incubus" by Peg Robinson (Helix #2). Finalists will be named on May 23.

05/09/2007

HELIX is proud to announce that of the eight poems we published in 2006, fully half have been honored with a Rhysling nomination. Our nominees are Mike Allen for "Manifest Density," William Sanders for "The Last Madman" (both from HELIX 2), JoSelle Vanderhooft for "Pluto Contemplates His Next Career" and Lawrence Schimel for "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Hole" (both from HELIX 3).

The Rhysling Award is given annually by the Science Fiction Poetry Association in two categories, long and short, and has been won in the past by Gene Wolfe, Ursula K. LeGuin, Michael Bishop and Joe Haldeman.

HELIX congratulates our nominated poets and wishes them the very best of luck.

03/15/2007

Lawrence Watt-Evans pioneered the idea of the reader-supported online serial novel in 2005 with The Spriggan Mirror, which was published in trade paperback by Wildside Press in January 2007. He has not abandoned traditional publishing, by any means; Tor released the first volume of The Annals of the Chosen, The Wizard Lord, in March 2006, and Volume Two, The Ninth Talisman, will be out in May 2007. Other attempts to pry your money away from you are detailed on his website, The Misenchanted Page.

02/17/2007