Welcome to the Self-Published Science Fiction Competition (SPSFC), a contest that takes place over a year to pick a winner from hundreds of novels submitted by authors who have taken publishing into their own hands.
The fourth SPSFC is underway. One hundred and eighty eight books are being read by six teams with 39 judges. Each team gets 31 or 32 books and must decide which ones advance as their semifinalists.
View the books received for SPSFC 4
The full competition calendar stretches from September 2024 to August 6, 2025.
You can follow our progress in these places:
- Our blog at spsfc.space
- Mastodon
- RSS feed
Each of the judging teams is also posting updates as they go through their books:
- Team 1: Tar Vol On
- Team 2: Red Stars
- Team 3: Ground Control to Major Tom
- Team 4: Peripheral Prospectors
- Team 5: The Space Girls
- Team 6: SFF Insiders
Good luck to our authors and good reading to everybody else!