We have amazing judges for the contest again this year. They will choose a winner and runner up in each category. There's one panel to review entries to the Open category and another for the Youth category.
Here's an at-a-glance listing of the judges. Click through to learn more about them.
Open Category
- Mark Alpert, Author, most recently of novel The Six
- Mariette DiChristina, Editor in Chief of Scientific American
- Artur Ekert, Director of the Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore
- Pawel Frelik, Associate Professor at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University and Immediate Past President of the Science Fiction Research Association
- Michael Mrak, Design Director of Scientific American
- Colin Sullivan, Editor, Nature Futures
- Eleanor Wong, Playwright, former writer-in-residence at the Centre for Quantum Technologies
Youth Category
- Greg Dick, Director of Educational Outreach at Canada’s Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
- Otto Fong, cartoonist & former Outreach Fellow, Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore
- Tania Hershman, Author of short story collection My Mother Was An Upright Piano: Fictions among others
- Clara Moskowitz, Associate Editor covering space and physics, Scientific American
- Chad Orzel, Associate Professor at Union College in Schenectady, NY, blogger and author
- Vlatko Vedral, Principal Investigator at the Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore
- Yeow Kai Chai, Poet and Director of the Singapore Writers Festival 2015
The judges will be reviewing a shortlist of up to ten stories in each category. You can read about members of the shortlisting panel here.