Announcing the winner of the Frontier Essay Contest

Congratulations to Casey Aimer!

Hello all,

You may remember that back in March, I announced a new writing contest hosted by Soft Star: The Frontier Essay Contest. The contest was open to a wide range of nonfiction submissions, from essays to reviews to narrative nonfiction.

I am pleased to announce that the winner of the Frontier Essay Contest is Casey Aimer!

Casey’s winning essay, “The Necessity of Anarchistic Transhumanism,” was published in Soft Star online back in April, and will also appear in the upcoming print edition of Issue Five: Frontier. If you missed it, you can read it here:

The essay really resonated with the Soft Star staff, and was even picked up as a discussion topic by the Electric Sheep Speculative Fiction Discussion Group!

Casey holds master’s degrees in both poetry and publishing. He works for a non-profit in D.C. publishing science research articles and is co-founder of Radon Journal, an anarchist science fiction semiprozine. His work has been featured in Apparition Lit, Star*Line, Worlds of IF, and nominated for both the Rhysling Award and Pushcart Prize. An SFPA and SFWA member, find him on Bluesky @caseyaimer.bsky.social and on Chill Subs at thecaseyaimer.

Congratulations again to Casey, and a big thank you to all of the contest participants. The staff and I had a blast reading more nonfiction submissions this time around, and I hope to host similar essay contests in the future.

Until next time,

Miranda