The writing contest by the Eurocon 2015 with the topic “Fantastic St. Petersburg” has been decided ! Submissions were accepted in English and Russian language. The result will be a bilingual anthology with twenty Russian stories (and three of them also translated into English) and three English texts (that will also be translated into Russian).
The English winners are:
Nick Adigu-Burke: City of Dreams (UK, Manchester)
Nina Horvath: Inside Saint Petersburg, Light Years Away (Austria, Linz)
Andrii Zakrevckyi: Catchers of Misfortune (Ukraine, Ternopil)
The Russian winners are:
Natalia Aniskova – Saigon
Dmitry Bogutskyi – Plot’ ot ploti
Vasilyeva – Sycheva
Yekaterina A. – Petro et Petra
Anna Gorelysheva – Sredi zhivyh (Among the Living)
Ivan Zvyagin – Platforma Svjatopetrovskoe (Platform Svyatopetrovskoe)
Yuriy Kuznetsov – I u kamnya yest’ dusha (And the Stone has a Soul)
Timur Maksiutov –Veter s zaliva (Wind from the Gulf )
Arkadiy Margulis
Vitaliy Kaplan – Martirolog “Sploshnoj fasady” (Martyrology “Solid facades”)
Konstantin Pimeshkov – Chudovishhe kanala Griboedova ( The Beast from the Griboyedov Canal )
Aleksey Smirnov – Chizhik-Pyzhik
Svetlana Tulina – Nesmeyan
Sergey Udalin – Iskra nadezhdy (Spark of Hope)
Sergey Utkin – Prohodnye (Globe)
Aleksandr Shchegolev – L’vy i grifony (Lions and Griffins )
Elena Shchetinina – Gorod za stenoj (The City Behind the Wall)
Yulia Anya Eff – Gorod i tarakany (The City and the Cockroaches)
Marina Yasinskaya – Hudozhnik v dushe (Artist at Heart)
The jury will also decide for a first place out of these submissions. He or she will receive a reward of 5.000 rubles (72,14 euros/80,81 US dollars/52,52 british pound sterlings).
The 2015 EUROCON, April 23 to April 26, 2015 in Saint-Petersburg, Russia.
